Banded Hairstreak (Satyrium calanus)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2022-07-24 _F2A4513aaa
Kevin Hester:
“Infinitely worse that sea level rise, is the loss of latent heat from this accelerating collapse of the cryosphere, that's the crux of Arctic Amplification.”
“Greenland is Worse Than Ever, Much Worse”
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“We need an anti growth coalition”
“Kicking our growth addiction is the way out of the climate crisis. This is how to do it”
“With the right global economic policies, we could fight poverty and global heating at the same time”
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“Our leaders had a final chance to halt climate breakdown. They failed each and every one of us | George Monbiot #COP27 #ClimateCrisis #EcologicalCrisis #auspol”
Forget about tipping points for a moment and realize we are already in an unsalvageable planetary situation.
Bringing temps back to +1.5C or for that matter pre industrial levels isn’t possible. You’d have to stop all new emissions (whether man made or from feedback) and remove airborne emissions (sufficient to offset emissions and warming from feedback (eg loss of reflection)).
It’s the feedback that's going to take us down. 85% of Green House Gas emission are from feedback and at one point there we’re currently som 65 different feedback mechanisms up and running (some involving the discharge of new emissions and some not immediately resulting in new emissions but causing warming based off fully expressed airborne emissions to date (eg loss of reflective ice) that will lead to new GHG emissions). That mess that to control alls feedbacks you’d have to offset warming from, say, loss of ice (both land and sea) and wildfires. We can't recreate all the Arctic sea ice we've lost. Then there is all the horrifying amount of methane existing feedback mechanism are currently discharging (and that could grow explosively even if we completely shut down the entire planet). We don't have the time to build the equivalent of a hood over the entire arctic to capture methane.
It's time to face the facts: If you do not currently have a cure to the situation up and operating today - no further research, invention, or construction required - that is delivering tangible, quantifiable reductions in air borne emissions on a daily basis, then billions of nonrich will die.
And I fully suspect Govt has known this for decades but are okay with it because they think they’re genetically superior or god is acting through them.
...Then there is the Mass Extinction. 100's of millions of years of evolution cast aside for short term gains.
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“Climate impacts are hitting us even faster than expected and we have very little time not to avert calamitous consequences. I urge all politicians to read this comprehensive report and act robustly and with urgency to secure a liveable future for all.”
Prof Joanna Haigh – Former President Royal Meteorological Society
Simon Oldridge:
“A printed copy of our Ambition Gap report has now been sent to every MP. Lords next.
It summarises the key scientific arguments as to why the UK’s Net Zero Strategy falls woefully short of what is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
The report has been reviewed or endorsed by an array of leading scientists including 2 IPCC lead authors. www.zerohour.uk/reports
It would be a great help if you could email your MP, referencing the report, and ask what they intend to do about it.
We believe the answer lies in supporting the Climate & Ecology Bill, for legally-binding action consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C, and restoring nature.”
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“Indigenous Activists Tom Goldtooth & Eriel Deranger on the Link Between Colonialism & Climate Crisis”
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“Greenwashing Governments and Oil Companies Turned COP27 Into a Climate Disaster”
“COP27 looked more like a fossil fuel trade show than a climate summit”
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