When people accuse climate activists of being hysterical, it’s totally hypocritical. We’ve all had 40 years of gently urgent warnings from thousands of scientists and the likes of NASA, Dr James Hansen, Carl Sagan, Margaret Thatcher, James Lovelock, Stephen Hawking, David

AMAZON FIRES MAY BE LARGEST CO2 SOURCE TODAY Huge area of Amazon fires may be largest CO2 source today. Burned area Brazilian Amazon doubled first 7 months 2024 Copernicus: fires by heat, CO2, CO, biomass burning aerosol, particulates. #wildfire #CO2 #climatechange #globalwarming

🌍🌡📈 The 1991-2020 climate is ancient history. We already live on a different planet.

Dear Humanity, #ClimateChange threatens our existence. If we don't act soon there'll be catastrophic biodiversity loss & untold amounts of human misery. Time's running out. Yours, 15,000 concerned scientists Act, before action is no longer possible. #ClimateCrisis

Due to a dangerous combination caused by human activity, Brazil is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of fire outbreaks across most of its territory. We need urgent actions: punishing those responsible, prevention and combating deforestation. greenpeace.org/international/…

"The use of natural gas to generate electricity has dropped by almost a third in one year in the fifth largest economy in the world." Solar Power vs. The Darkness of Trump by Bill McKibben commondreams.org/opinion/donald… California ISO

The fortune cookie lesson. Source unkown.

UPDATE: we sowed chaos as climate con-man Vivek Ramaswamy tried to speak. Cartoonishly evil, grotesquely destructive, Vivek gone so far as to complain that Chevron produces **too little** oil. This man is a monster. He must never be allowed in public again. 🧵

Its important to understand the huge price America and the world will pay for this ignorance Every fraction of a rise of a degree matters We have already passed 1.5 C threshold for a whole year Trump plan to turn Arctic Refuge into new Saudi Arabia of oil will fuel even more

"INTOLERABLE SUFFERING" "In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on and we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close, with climate policy being increasingly framed in terms of overshoot. The resulting impacts on food and water security, poverty,

Your 'doom quote' for today: "We think of climate change as slow, but it is unnervingly fast. We think of the technological change necessary to avert it as fast-arriving, but unfortunately it is deceptively slow..." amazon.com/Uninhabitable-…

Please join us in calling for Ed Miliband to put an end the UK government's financing of burning trees for electricity. It's a disaster for our climate, for Nature and for health... funded by subsidies meant for genuinely sustainable alternatives.

This graphic puts our deforestation problem in long-term context. Is forest loss a symptom of ecological overshoot?

#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 250,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,400,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 2,420,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 3,110,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice…

Portugal shut down their last remaining coal fired power plant and is fostering a renewable energy revolution. They could be completely renewable by 2040 if not sooner. It can be done. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re

GLOBAL WARMING TRACKING ABOVE WORST-CASE By IPCC AR6 2023 temperature increase very worst-case scenario -8.5. 2024 higher above Why? July mean atmospheric CO2 425 ppm, increase rate jumped 2021. Land carbon sink effect less. SO4 cooling less #climatechange #globalwarming

SOUTH AMERICA BURNING: SMOKE FROM 1 MILLION MILES NASA smoke from intense widespread burning Brazil & Bolivia At a million miles away South America worst-level drought Pantanal largest wetlands burning since May earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153295/… #wildfire #climatechange #globalwarming

COPERNICUS RECORD AUGUST 2024 RE. PRE-INDUSTRIAL August 2024 pre-industrial. August 1.51°C. Last 12 months 1.64°C Clearly the world is at 1.5°C Atmospheric CO2 increase fastest ever Emissions increasing with no change climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-te… #climatechange. #globalwarming

RECORD AUGUST 2024 REGIONAL WARMING MAP High warming most land regions at 1.51°C global Including Southern Hemisphere end of its Winter Antarctic has heated the most In the north Barents Sea Global Superheating climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-te… #climatechange #globalwarming

Southern California fires Heat #heatwave #wildfire #climatechange #globalwarming