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2022-12-12 at 12 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThe planets wildlife populations have declined ~70% in the last 50 years.
According to the most recent figures, wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% between 1970 and 2018. The abundance of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles is falling fast, as populations of sea lions, sharks, frogs and salmon collapse.
The declines have been particularly calamitous in Latin America and the Caribbean, which has seen a 94% drop in the average wildlife population size. Africa has had the second largest fall at 66%, followed by Asia and the Pacific with 55% and North America at 20%. Europe and Central Asia experienced an 18% fall. -
2022-12-11 at 7:51 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-11 at 4:50 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It was global cooling for decades.
About That 1970s Global Cooling...Today, climate scientists tell us the Earth is warming. Some people deny that, and point out that in the 1970s, climate scientists said the Earth was cooling, perhaps headed into another ice age. Today's scientists counter that it wasn't climate scientists who said that, it was the media.
… the fundamental observation that dominates today's climate science — that global warming is happening and is driven by manmade carbon dioxide emissions — was as real then as it is today.
Originally posted by Obbe
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2022-12-11 at 2:21 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sounds just like Chicken Little.
You sound just like the propaganda you grew up with:
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Anybody ever heard the story of Chicken Little?
A children’s fable about a young chicken who, in the traditional version, believes the sky is falling after an acorn hits her head. Also known by other names including The Sky is Falling.
1989 Presentation to Exxon Board of Directors on Greenhouse Gas EffectsThe presentation evidences Exxon’s shift from a leader in climate change research to an advocate against the dissemination of climate change information in the early 1990’s.
Instead of warning the public about global heating or taking action, fossil fuel companies stayed silent as long as they could. In the late 1980s, however, the world woke up to the climate crisis, marking what Exxon called a “critical event”. The fossil fuel industry’s PR apparatus swung into action, implementing a strategy straight out of big tobacco’s playbook: to weaponize science against itself.
A 1991 memo by Informed Citizens for the Environment made that strategy explicit: “Reposition global warming as theory (not fact).”In 1991, Informed Citizens for the Environment, a front group of coal and utility companies announced that “Doomsday is cancelled” and asked, “Who told you the earth was warming … Chicken Little?” They complained about “weak” evidence, “non-existent” proof, inaccurate climate models and asserted that the physics was “open to debate”.
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2022-12-11 at 2:53 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastTerrifying Proof of Climate Change From Every Corner of the World
“We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over. Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster.”
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2022-12-09 at 1:25 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-09 at 1:24 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-08 at 11:17 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-08 at 1:21 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThe Great Salt Lake is drying up and turning into toxic dust
Water levels in October fell to the lowest levels on record, exposing much of the lakebed and creating conditions for storms of dust — laden with toxic metals — that now threaten the 2 million people living nearby.
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2022-12-07 at 6:28 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastAlaska's northernmost city posts warmest winter temperature on record -- 40F/4C
The record-crushing high temperature was six degrees higher than the next warmest December reading ever measured there, in more than a century of records. It marked yet another exceptional extreme event in a region that is rapidly warming because of human-caused climate change.
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2022-12-07 at 5:12 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by aldra duh, everyone's shutting down nuclear power (the most efficient power source we have) in favour of gay shit like wind and solar
have you ever looked at how much power it takes to manufacture the steel, glass and other core components for wind turbines and photovoltaic panels vs. how much power they actually produce?
I agree we should be using nuclear more.
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2022-12-07 at 2:31 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Correct they can…but then it's still graph and not a set of records…and in your case it's a graph which you admitted it based on guesswork and NOT records.
I have only "admitted" that their educated estimate is 100% more accurate than your "pretty sure my grampy told me", your claim that the record I produced is inaccurate is a claim you have failed to produce any evidence of. -
2022-12-07 at 2:18 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-07 at 2:11 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson A guess is a guess girlfriend. Neither is more qualified that another…and as you failed to produce ANY evidence of actual RECORDS their guess is a "pretty sure" too
I have produced a record of coal consumption during the time period you requested, your claim that the record I produced is inaccurate is a claim you have failed to produce any evidence of. -
2022-12-07 at 1:56 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-07 at 1:48 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-07 at 1:41 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-07 at 1:38 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-07 at 1:35 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-12-07 at 1:31 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast'Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction'
The challenges are daunting: one million species are at risk of extinction; one-third of all land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost; while pollution and climate change are accelerating degradation of the oceans.
Chemicals, plastics and air pollution are choking land, water and air, while planetary heating brought about by burning fossil fuels are causing climate chaos – from heatwaves and forest fires to droughts and floods.
"We are treating nature like a toilet," Guterres said bluntly.
"And ultimately, we are committing suicide by proxy" he added – with the impacts felt on jobs, hunger, disease and death.
Economic losses from ecosystem degradation, meanwhile, are estimated to stand at $3 trillion annually from 2030.
