the world's top scientists have written a landmark report about climate change and 195 countries just signed off on a summary that lays out surprisingly clearly what must happen to fossil fuels to keep us safe 1/
— Ajit Niranjan (@NiranjanAjit) March 20, 2023
Congratulations to all the scientists and others who have completed the AR6 Synthesis Report: https://t.co/WwfO3nbsjs
— Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) March 20, 2023
This is the final report of the 6th @IPCC_CH assessment cycle.
A few highlights in following tweets.
This IPCC report is likely the last to come out before the world passes the critical threshold of 1.5°C warming, several scientists told the authors of this story. “Scientists are rather alarmed.” https://t.co/KQDB4mMJgG via @BostonGlobe
— Sabrina Shankman (@shankman) March 20, 2023
This image from today's IPCC synthesis report is brutal. The existing policy trajectory represents a profound failure of our governments, and of our international political system. We need much more aggressive mitigation and much stronger international cooperation. pic.twitter.com/vQiSLzlI3g
— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) March 20, 2023
There's a 0.1% chance your house will burn down, & you have insurance in case this happens.
— Climate Dad (@ClimateDad77) March 20, 2023
There's a 50% chance we'll pass 1.5C in the next few years.
A 70% chance of 2C by mid century.
A 90% chance of societal collapse in decades.
Where's the insurance policy for our futures?
If you are thinking/feeling about today’s climate report, or failing to do so because facing it feels impossible and you want some company: here’s an essay I wrote about how worlds end all the time and my own struggle to reject apocalyptic thinking. https://t.co/eGmduISuId
— Alyssa Harad (@alyssaharad) March 20, 2023
They said it. The @IPCC_CH said it. They put fossil fuels front & center in their "Headline Statements," & said, flat out, that "projected CO2 emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructure without additional abatement would exceed the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C." 💥 pic.twitter.com/0vMGih8SHt
— Dr. Genevieve Guenther (@DoctorVive) March 20, 2023
Landmark day: the top IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report explicitly defines sufficiency in footnote 52.
— Prof Julia S. 🌍🌹🌱 #ClimateAction #FightFascism (@JKSteinberger) March 20, 2023
Sufficiency is a "A set of measures and daily practices that avoid demand for energy, materials, land, and water while delivering human well-being for all within planetary boundaries" pic.twitter.com/JlNbqJZuDk
"It's an absolute, worst-case scenario..."https://t.co/F4iNnWqbEy
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) March 20, 2023
Good morning! Ahead of the launch of the (delayed) @IPCC_CH AR6 synthesis report, here’s a massive graphic reimagining the impact of climate change on Southeast Asia at the current level of warming, but also what the region could look like if more is done to tackle climate change pic.twitter.com/8L1TrG0uXt
— Cheryl Tan (@cheryltans) March 20, 2023
Echos from the Permian mass extinction.
— David Ullrich (@DavidUllrich202) March 19, 2023
The current hot weather in the region is also exacerbating hypoxia, as warmer water holds less oxygen than cold water and fish have higher oxygen needs at warmer temperatures.
...mass marine die-offs are beginning.https://t.co/8PvqKCf79G
The IPCC report that we're at the threshold of permanent and dire shifts in the planet's climate system is currently the 4th story on the @nytimes home page.
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) March 20, 2023
One finding of today's IPCC report: "private finance flows for fossil fuels are still greater than those for climate adaptation and mitigation."
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) March 20, 2023
If you're scared by today's report, join us tomorrow as we protest the banks that make global warming possiblehttps://t.co/obFWy08c6T
Practically no one is talking about this in any concerted way except scientists and activists. Imagine being on a beach and seeing a tidal wave rise a mile out and doing nothing because it isn't 100 yards away.https://t.co/HdwEExmJib
— Jared Beloff (Order Who Will Cradle Your Head) (@Read_Instead) March 21, 2023
Survival Guide to Global Warming:
— Glen Peters (@Peters_Glen) March 21, 2023
Step 1: Stop putting CO₂ into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels & chopping down forests.
"Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all. The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years" @IPCC_CH
— Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙 (@ayanaeliza) March 21, 2023
BREAKING: extraordinary and terrifying new climate report confirms capitalists' current and planned projects must be cancelled for survival 🧵
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) March 21, 2023
Yesterday the IPCC 6th Assessment published its Synthesis Report (SYR) which included this graphic (SYR.1c) which has been a popular way to discuss future warming in the context of different generations.
— Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) March 21, 2023
What were the inspirations for this graphic?
A thread... 🧵 pic.twitter.com/TToDC7J9kn
This amazing figure from yesterday's #IPCC report shows the potential of different approaches to mitigate climate change
— Dr Charlie Gardner (@CharlieJGardner) March 21, 2023
It exposes two common misconceptions about 'natural climate solutions'
1/ pic.twitter.com/8jXbrK9QIJ
The part that's not depressing is that many climate solutions are already available today and we just need the political will to implement them. Ok, maybe that's depressing. pic.twitter.com/nR25lW8uP2
— David Ho (@_david_ho_) March 20, 2023
9 years in the making, yesterday's #IPCC 6th assessment report synthesises a 6000-page (?) summary of climate and related sciences, and is arranged around 18 'headline statements'
— Dr Charlie Gardner (@CharlieJGardner) March 21, 2023
I'm going to try and summarise it in 18 plain-language tweets 😬
IPCC emissions scenarios are projections, not predictions. This means the future has not been written, and we get to decide what the world will look like in 2100. pic.twitter.com/ziVDvMj7Cd
— David Ho (@_david_ho_) March 22, 2023
Scientists from around the world worked on the latest IPCC report for almost a decade.
— Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) March 23, 2023
But according to leaked documents, many of their recommendations were removed or altered significantly.
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BREAKING: fossil fuel companies have been killing members of the public at an accelerating rate and
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) March 23, 2023
can now be held criminally responsible for “climate homicide” according to a new legal theory 🧵
Fun fact: There were 1,280 gigawatts of clean power projects stuck waiting in queues to connect to the grid as of the end of 2022.
— JesseJenkins (@JesseJenkins) March 22, 2023
If 50% of those were built, that would be all the new capacity needed to cut US GHGs to 50% of peak levels by 2030 & be on path to net-zero by 2050.
THIS PAPER.
— Prof Lisa Schipper 🌎 ✊ (@schipper_lisa) March 22, 2023
A must read for everyone who asks 'WHY AREN'T GOVERNMENTS ACTING ON THE IPCC REPORTS?'
(although I have read the paper several times and I still ask that question every day..). https://t.co/r3tvk8GJ77
🔥 Interested in climate change, science communication, visual studies and comics?! 🔥 A thread on my new paper 'Communicating Climate change with Comics: Life beyond apocalyptic imaginaries' https://t.co/Bo8TYokJp1 @InstAustGeog @RGS_IBG @GeogResearch @UoMCreativeMCR @KHayhoe
— Gemma Sou (@gemmasou) March 24, 2023
Still. Every day. Idiots question whether current climate change is manmade despite NASA warning the world it was and is dangerous IN 1988. This should have been front page news, 15 years ago when JL said we had 20 years left. Let’s hope he was wrong. https://t.co/JHJxa6EFVU
— Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 (@MrMatthewTodd) March 19, 2023
Previously
In one sense it's a good sign that the IPCC is having trouble issuing its report.
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) April 4, 2022
It means that they're finally down to the basic, unavoidable, central issue: can we keep burning fossil fuel?https://t.co/t03DjISM4g
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