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HANSEN WARMING IN PIPE FINALLY PUBLISHED
1.5°C 2020s and 2°C by 2050 assuming no policy change
'Rapid phaseout of GHG emissions would prevent most equilibrium warming from occurring'. Does not call for termination fossil fuel subsidies. From fast feedback (only) climate sensitivity is 4.8°C not IPCC 3°C. Warming in pipe by atmospheric GHGs excluding slow feedbacks (permafrost GHG, deglaciation albedo) is 2.4°C. Confirms IPCC projections and mitigation calculations (adhe… See more |  | UAE COP28 CARBON CAPTURE CON TO KEEP BURNING
Exposed: United Arab Emirates say “carbon capture (CCS) of fossil fuel emissions allows countries to fight global warming while continuing to produce oil, gas and coal”
10.5.23, Alajazeera
IPCC AR6 said global emissions have to decline rapidly on immediate basis. CCS con is a fossil fuel industry planet killer ploy.
#carboncapture |  | JAMES HANSEN: NO 1.5°C LIMIT, ECS 4.8°C, EEI X2 10 YEARS
14.8.23 Global warming will be accelerating. 1.5°C impossible claim it is - is hogwash, Equilibrium climate sensitivity 4.8°C
Decline Antarctic sea ice large albedo amplifying feedback. Earth energy imbalance (EEI) doubled past 10 http://years.mailchi.mp/.../uh-oh-now-what-are-we... |  | GLOBAL SEA ICE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
Record decline of global sea ice (now Antarctic sea ice is declining) is a large increase in the sea ice albedo (loss) amplifying global warming feedback
Thanks to Zack Labe
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice/ |  | ANTARCTIC SEA ICE RECORD LOW - WARMING OVER SEA ICE
Antarctic sea ice record low- margin increasing
Warming over sea ice
Arctic sea ice 12 lowest but Siberian seas exposed where methane hydrate is emitting
Large ice albedo feedback - both poles
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NUMBER OF ENDANGERED SPECIES INCREASING FAST
More than doubled in the past 15 years
It's world-wide
Climate change is just starting to contribute and will increasingly boost the extinction rate- under all scenarios
Statistica 18.1.23
#species |  | RAPIDLY ACCELERATING OCEAN HEAT (IPCC AR6)
Over 90% of greenhouse gas heat goes straight to the oceans.
Increased Ocean heat from GHG emissions is reaching the ocean floor. As a single climate change indicator ocean heat
is much better than global warming.
https://www.ipcc.ch/.../figures/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Figure_3_26.png |  | CURRENT WARMING IS EXTREMELY LARGE & FAST
Most climate change graphs minimize the appearance of extremely large and fast changes.
These are IPCC AR6 WG1
#climatechange |  | EMISSIONS FROM PROTEIN PRODUCTION FOODS
GO VEGAN -- Obviously
5th National climate change assessment
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/11/#fig-11-8 |  | AMERICA LOSING ITS GROUNDWATER. CLIMATE CHANGE TRAP.
America’s life-giving water resource is being exhausted in much of the country, and in many cases it won’t come back.
Losing capacity to respond to drought increase
Climate Change is amplifying situation
New York Times investigation 28.8.23
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PALEO-CLIMATE COOLING = CLIMATE SENSITIVITY 3.4°C
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), best studied palaeoclimatic intervals, to investigate how the climate system responds to changes in greenhouse gases. This cooling translates to an equilibrium climate sensitivity of 3.4 degrees Celsius.
This confirms latest IPCC AR6 models giving 3.8°C, which IPCC arbitrarily down-graded to 3°C (same as 1990)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2617-x |  | HANSEN PAPER RADIATIVE FORCING 4.14 W.m2
Climate sensitivity (fast feedback) 4.8°C
Warming in the pipe from fast feed sensitivity 2.4°C
Adding slow feedbacks increases it to 10°C (millennia)
8°C including today's aerosol cooling
https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889... |  | HANSEN WARMING IN PIPE FINALLY PUBLISHED
1.5°C 2020s and 2°C by 2050 assuming no policy change
'Rapid phaseout of GHG emissions would prevent most equilibrium warming from occurring'. Does not call for termination fossil fuel subsidies. From fast feedback (only) climate sensitivity is 4.8°C not IPCC 3°C. Warming in pipe by atmospheric GHGs excluding slow feedbacks (permafrost GHG, deglaciation albedo) is 2.4°C. Confirms IPCC projections and mitigation calculations (adhe… See more | | IPCC CLIMATE SENSITIVITY REJECTS RISK
The AR6 science sensitivity was 3.8°C but IPCC dropped it to 3°C in the SPM (guide for governments) 3C same as 1990 IPCC only applies 3°C ignoring risk of upper range that AR6 says is very likely to 5°C. Built-in negligent very large source of error All IPCC AR6 projections and mitigation emissions erroneously low.
https://www.ipcc.ch/.../figures/chapter-7/faq-7-3-figure-1/ |  | HANSEN GLOBAL WARMING PIPELINE PAPER CRITICAL IPCC
Our paper may be read as being critical of IPCC. Reticence and gradualism reach a new level with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The prime example is IPCC’s history in evaluating climate sensitivity, the most basic measure of climate change. https://mailchi.mp/.../to-understand-and-protect-the-home... |  |
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RAPIDLY ACCELERATING OCEAN HEAT (IPCC AR6)
Over 90% of greenhouse gas heat goes straight to the oceans.
Increased Ocean heat from GHG emissions is reaching the ocean floor. As a single climate change indicator ocean heat
is much better than global warming.
https://www.ipcc.ch/.../figures/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Figure_3_26.png | | PAST 1.5°C BY RECORD WARMING & ENERGY IMBALANCE
1.5°C global warming ceiling has been passed for all practical purposes because of continued Greenhouse gas emissions and the large planetary Earth energy imbalance
Large decrease in cooling is from less air pollution aerosols.
The general denial by science only benefits the fossil fuel industry, but only worse is to come to an liveable future.
https://mailchi.mp/.../groundhog-day-another...
More information: https://mailchi.mp/caa/groundhog-day-another-gobsmacking... |  | ACCELERATING OCEAN HEAT ABOVE WORST-CASE SCENARIO
Two papers by L. Cheng, show ocean heat is accelerating and tracking above very worst-case scenario RCP8.5
Better climate change indicator than global warming
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aav7619 |  | 2023 RECORD GLOBAL WARMING WORST-CASE SCENARIO
WMO 2023 to October record 1.4°C
Copernicus projects 1.46°C
Berkeley Earth 1.5°C
Tracks above the very worst-case IPCC AR6 scenario SSP5-8.5
https://wmo.int/.../2023-shatters-climate-records-major... |  | RECORD ARCTIC TEMPERATURE ACCELERATING WARMING
Scientists are debating if global warming is accelerating
James Hansen (Global warming in the pipeline paper) and NOAA's Arctic Report Card provide evidence it is. EMERGENCY!
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GULF STREAM RAPID WARMING & SHIFT CLIMATE AFFECT
The Eastern US Gulf Stream is warming faster than the global average and has shifted towards the US coast.
This is a global warming effect that can affect global climate.
The Gulf Stream is part of global ocean circulation system that keeps the world’s oceans continually mixed and distributes heat and energy to all parts of the earth. This contributes to the climate we experience today. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558
More information: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01835-w |  | GULF STREAM DEFINITELY SLOWED 4% 40 YRS.
Observations show the Gulf stream off Florida has slowed 4% in past 40 years. A climate change effect that can affect climate
The Gulf Stream is a major ocean current off the US East Coast . It carries a tremendous amount of seawater along with heat, and carbon The Gulf Stream plays an important role in weather (Gulf & East coast) and climate.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../2023GL105170 |  | SLOWING OCEAN OVERTURNING MUCH WORSE EFFECTS
CATASTROPHIC TO OCEANS & PLANET
Both overturning circulations are slowing AMOC and South Ocean from ice sheet melt. https://today.tamu.edu/.../texas-am-experts-explain.../... |  | SLOWING ANTARCTIC OVERTURNING PLANET CATASTROPHE
Antarctic ice sheet melt massive fresh water is slowing the Southern Ocean overturning circulation- fast. The consequences are catastrophic the the World Ocean and planet- only decades away. The is happening to the Atlantic over turning (AMOC) and the two are connected as the Great Ocean Conveyer.
Situation today is Earth Systems Break-down
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2022 RADIATIVE FORCING TRACKING ABOVE WORST-CASE
Radiative (heat) forcing from NOAA is tracking above the very worst-case scenario (RCP8.5) Oct 2023 NOAA Power of Greenhouse Gases: 2022 RF 3.4 W m-2
The heat being added to the climate system. Most dire emergency heading fast to global climate catastrophe.
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/ghgpower/
More information: https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/Acceleratio... |  | 1.5°C ABSURDLY FALSE - TODAY IS FAR ABOVE
2°C
2°C equilibrium is 441 ppm CO2eq Radiative forcing 2.5 Wm-2
V. Ramanathan 2010
2022 Atmospheric CO2 equivalent 523 ppm
Radiative forcing is 3.398 Wm-2 (NOAA 2023)
1.5C still possible is a feel-good still more time fabrication
It only helps the fossil fuel industry- writes of the future
More information: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889575/ |  | NOAA, COMMITTING TO CLIMATE CHAOS 1000's YEARS
Oct. 2023 NOAA The Power of Greenhouse Gases
We are committing Earth, and ourselves, to climate chaos for thousands of years” 2022 Radiative forcing 3.40 Watt/m2
Rapid accelerating rate of forcing increase "explosive".
Total Climate Catastrophe Denial Insanity
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/ghgpower/ |  | ACCELERATING EXPLOSIVE OCEAN HEAT IPCC AR6
Over 90% of heat energy added to the climate system by GHG emissions has gone to ocean heat. Atmospheric GHG concentrations and radiative forcing are increasing at accelerating rates Atmospheric CO2 increasing at rate unprecedented in 10s millions years (IPCC AR6). Why ocean heat increase is accelerating. https://www.ipcc.ch/.../figures/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Figure_2_26.png |  | IPCC BETTER GUIDE THAN MAGICAL MODEL ZERO-EMISSIONS.
Instant Zero-emissions is a confusing distraction from what we need to know and need to do. We need to tell governments and public emissions have to be declining now. Today's commitment by government policy is climate catastrophe 3.2C. Atmospheric GHGs commits 1.5°C around 2030. IPCC Chair H. Lee 2021 said for 1.5 & 2°C emissions decline on immediate basis. AR6 has 2020-2025 no later. Radiative forcing 3W/m2 forcing is… See more |  |
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ACCELERATING SEA LEVEL RISE - 2023 BIG JUMP
WMO, 30 Nov. 2023, Provisional State of Global Climate 2023. Rate of sea level rise more than doubled. Heat expansion of water + ice sheet melt. El Nino contributed to 2023 jump. https://wmo.int/.../provisional-state-of-global-climate-2023 |  | SEA LEVEL RISE ACCELERATING TO WORST-CASE
Combined evidence shows sea level rise accelerating to worst-case scenario RCP 8.5.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/climate.../sea-level... |  | ICE SHEET MASS LOSS TRACKS WORST-CASE SCENARIO
Combined mass loss of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
"track closest to the AR5 upper range" which is RCP 8.5 the very worst-case scenario. The rapid loss of Greenland and Antarctica continues. Ice sheet inertia is enormous so this is a disastrously large sea level rise commitment already.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0893-y |  | WMO: ACCELERATING SEA LEVEL RISE RECENT RECORD RATE
Sea level rise is accelerating, now mainly due to ice sheet melting WMO, Provisional State of the Global Climate 2023 for COP28
file:///Users/admin/Downloads/WMO%20Provisional%20State%20of%20the%20Global%20Climate%202023%20(1).pdf
#climatechange |  | ATMOSPHERIC CO2 422 PPM INCREASE ACCELERATING RATE
Atmospheric CO2 concentration September 2023: 422.02 ppm (Scripps October) Accelerating increase to present Accelerating atmospheric CO2 is driving: accelerating global heat, accelerating sea level rise and accelerating ocean acidification
Fossil Fuelled drive to collapse
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MAXIMUM SUMMER TEMPERATURES AT
2°C
Severe heat stress to human populations and food crops
IPCC AR6 WG1 Atlas
#climatechange |  | MAXIMUM SUMMER TEMPERATURES AT
2°C
IPCC AR6 Atlas. Temperature stress world crops, urban populations
https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/ |  | RAPID RATE OF SURFACE HEATING MOST OF U.S.
5th National Assessment. Temperatures over the US have increased faster in Alaska (Permafrost), at high elevations, and in regions with significant seasonal snowpack (Water availability).
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/3/#fig-3-11
More information: https://www.designdeskinc.com/venus-atmospheric-repair-s... |  | AUSTRALIA HOTTEST SPOT ON EARTH - EXPANDING
Extreme heatwave conditions, temperatures to scorch northern Australia. NZ Herald 28 Dec. 2023. Since yesterday the extreme heat region has expanded
#heatwave |  | RECORD TEMPERATURES SOUTHERN B.C. CANADA
28 Dec. 2023, VANCOUVER — Unseasonably warm weather has broken temperature records in southern British Columbia, including century-old marks in the provincial capital.
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NINE CLIMATE CHANGE PLANET TIPPING POINTS ACTIVATED
9 tipping point systems are being changed/forced towards their tipping points. Above 2C they tip. By current polices that lead to 3.2°C they are all tipped- as well as others. Without rapid intervention 2C will not be avoided- by 2050.
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-climate-scientists.html |  | CATASTROPHES LOOM AS TIPPING POINTS NEARED
Arctic summer sea ice, permafrost thaw- emissions, Greenland ice sheet, West Antarctic ice sheet, Amazon forest collapse- emissions. These are all at extreme risk and may have passed tipping points at today's global warming
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03849-y |  | 2030 FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTION
PlANS 70% OVER 2°C
110% over 1.5°C & 69% over 2°C by 2030
This means planet catastrophic 2°C by 2050
Governments plan world of constant suffering. 2°C is the point of no return, triggers all large amplifying feedback sources and tipping points. We are in methane feedback already
https://productiongap.org/.../2023/11/PGR2023_web_rev.pdf |  | CLIMATE CHANGE TIPPING POINTS
OECD 2023, Climate Tipping Points...
Cascading and inter-reinforcing- especially N Hemisphere amplifying feedbacks. Time as well Temperature trigger tipping points.
#climatechange |  | CHANGE IN SNOWFALL BIG PROBLEM AFFECTED REGIONS
Snow tipping point Once a certain temperature threshold is reached we should expect the losses to accelerate.
There has already been a 2.7% decline in annual global snowfall since 1973. The downward trend is particularly notable in the Northern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes — where the US and much of the world’s population resides.
CNN 27 Nov 23
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ACCELERATING OCEAN ACIDIFICATION (WMO NOV. 2023)
Falling ocean pH here is rising acidification
WMO State of the Climate. 30 November 2023
Planetary emergency in its own right
https://wmo.int/.../provisional-state-of-global-climate-2023 |  | OCEAN ACIDIFICATION TRACKS WORST-CASE SCENARIO
Accelerating ocean acidification is tracking the worst-case scenario (SSP5-8.5). 2020 pH 8.05 (Copernicus)tracking below the worst-case scenario for pH. Acidity is inverse of pH.
From Fossil fuel CO2 emissions
https://catalogue.marine.copernicus.eu/.../GLOBAL_OMI... |  | HUGE IRREVERSIBLE OCEAN & CRYOSPHERE DEGRADATIONS
5th National Assessment Fig.3.9
Permafrost Thaw methane & CO2 feedback emissions
Ocean Heat ->deoxygenation & slowing circulations
CO2-> acidification Ocean carbon sink to weaken
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/3/#fig-3-9 |  | OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ACCELERATING UNPRECEDENTED RATE
Due to fossil fuel CO2 emissions that is absorbed at sea surface
Fossil fuels are destroying the life supporting biosphere
If not stopped most life will end. Fossil fuel Evil
WMO State Climate
file:///Users/admin/Downloads/WMO%20Provisional%20State%20of%20the%20Global%20Climate%202023%20(1).pdf
#ocean |  | OCEAN DEOXYGENATION ACCELERATING RATE
Little awareness.
Unseen but real Our greenhouse gases are wrecking the oceans
Heat + Acidification+Deoxygenation. Oceans determine climate Climate Collapse heading. https://ametsoc.net/sotc2022/SOTC2022_FullReport_final.pdf |  |
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BORN TO SUFFER INCREASING CLIMATE DISRUPTION
IPCC graphic shows today’s children are being left to suffer a terrible increasingly unliveable world.
Today's Unprecedented evil
IPCC AR6 Synthesis Fig SPM 1
#ClimateJustice |  | THE DRIVER OF GLOBAL CLIMATE DISRUPTION IS GLOBAL GDP
The all essential mitigation measure is correcting the consuming polluting economics (market failure).
#climatechange |  | U.S IS HEATING 60% FASTER THAN GLOBAL AVERAGE
Climate disruption is affecting the U.S. far more, with large extremes in hotter and cooler
2023 US climate assessment
https://www.globalchange.gov/.../fifth-national-climate... |  | TEMPERATE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE CLIMATE DISRUPTION
New York City 68°C/20°C
Northern hemisphere +2°C
Arctic +5.5°C
Humans are not evolved for the crazy climate that's coming soon https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.7142... |  | ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GASES RAPID INCREASE
5 Oct 2023 data from NOAA Recent atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, 2019 to 5th Oct. 2023. Large concentration increases in just this short time. Since 2020 atmospheric methane increased faster than ever boosted by wetland feedback methane emissions.
Rapid trend to climate disruption planet catastrophe
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INCREASED CLIMATE CHANGE DRIVEN DISASTERS
30 January 2023, World Disasters Report 2020, IFRC (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) The number of climate- and weather-related disasters has been increasing since the 1960s, and has risen almost 35% since the 1990s.
The proportion of all disasters attributable to climate and extreme weather events has also increased significantly during this time, from 76% of all disasters during the 2000s to 83%… See more |  | INCREASE EXTREME WEATHER DISASTERS EUROPE 1923-2023
More than 1,500 weather events - including droughts, floods, extreme temperature events and storms - have occurred in Europe over the past 100 years, with two thirds of them having taken place since the turn of the century.
#extremeweather |  | ACCELERATING OCEAN HEAT INCREASE -ALL DEPTHS
Heat is getting all the way to the ocean floor now.
Leads to accelerating ocean deoxygenation
Also contributes to increase of extreme weather on land.
file:///Users/admin/Downloads/WMO%20Provisional%20State%20of%20the%20Global%20Climate%202023%20(1).pdf
#climatechange |  | COMMITTED INCREASE IN EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
However looked at,the fossil fuel Industry ad our governments have the world committed (condemned) to 1.5°C and 2°C. We are forced to face greatly increased extreme weather events.
That makes an unliveable future not far away
#climatechange
More information: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/figures/technical-sum... |  | BIG RECORD U.S. $1 BILLION WEATHER/CLIMATE DISASTERS
Fossil Fuelled increasing US disasters
NOAA 8 Nov. record 25 $1 billion events is 39% above average
By geography and global warming the U.S. is highly vulnerable to surface heat driven extreme weather. They will continue to increase and hurt American people and U.S. Economy. Fossil fuel damaging addiction will be the end of America.
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HUGE INCREASE WESTERN US WILDFIRES BY 2050
National 5th Assessment
Dangerous health impacts. Emit feedback CO2 and reduce the first carbon sink- both boosting atmospheric CO2
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/7/#fig-7-4 |  | CANADA FIRES 23% GLOBAL WILDFIRE CARBON EMISSIONS
The unprecedented Canada Far North fires
2023 Canada Boreal Forest Biodiversity Holocaust
Billions of birds migrate north from as far as the tip of South America to nest and raise young in Canada’s boreal forest.
71,429 square miles burned - size of Washington State
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/copernicus-canada... |  | RECORD OCT. AMAZON FIRES FROM RECORD OCT. DROUGHT
The record Amazon October drought is contributing to record wildfires. According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, in the first 15 days of October, more than 2,900 wildfires have broken out in Amazonas, more than any other October month (16.10.23, CNBC)
#amazonrainforest |  | CANADA RECORD 2023 FIRES
4th WORST IN HISTORY. .
184,000 sq. Km Size State of Washington
Prolonged severe Heat and Drought
Boreal forest largest land carbon sink
2 Billion tonnes CO2 Global warming feedback
3 of the 4 worst world wildfires have occurred since 2020
The 16 worst world wildfires have occurred since 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_largest_fires_of_the... |  | 10 OCT. ARGENTINA WILD-FIRES THREATEN CITY
Extreme S. American heat of past 2 months
Extreme heat > Extreme drought Country-wide
So Fires. Fossil fulled Hell
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FINAL UN SDG PLAN WRECK PLANET UNLIVEABLE FUTURE
Only acknowledges some adverse climate impacts. Not cod red emergency and no emergency response. Changes nothing, status quo continues. While yet again leaders commit to much, there are no specific actions let along immediate actions on climate. No climate solutions. No mention of fossil fuels, nor emissions, nor even the targets and limits, and the long-promised financing to vulnerable countries is unspecified. Nothing on carb… See more |  | REWILDING CLIMATE SOLUTION
Great thing- needs government regulation and real full cost economics. Governments do not regulate for Nature any longer
because corporations sue.
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BIG OIL RECORD PROFITS INVESTING IN MORE FOSSIL FUELS
The Record Evil Cost of oil business - Unliveable future
Putting an end to almost all life
The Guardian, Big five oil companies to reward shareholders with record payouts, 1st Jan. 2023
#climatechange |  | GOVERNMENT CANADA TAR SANDS PIPELINE SCANDAL
How the Government of Canada forced through a tar-sands oil pipeline- at any cost. The Kinder-Morgan Trans-Mountain
tar-sands pipeline incredible fossil fuel scandal.
Carbon planet smashing project.
Read on the image
#climatechange |  | 2.11.23 UNEP ADAPTATION GAP REPORT
Adaptation finance needs are 10–18 times greater than today's financing. Costs of adaptation for developing countries in this decade approximately US$215 billion per year (median)
Basis of loss and damage and obligation of rich polluting countries is all here-it's huge and increasing.
file:///Users/admin/Downloads/adaptation_gap_report_2023%20(1).pdf |  | U.S. COSTLY WATER EXTREME DISASTERS INCREASING
2023 National Assessment Number of water-related billion-dollar disasters are increasing in the United States. Largest increase is in severe storms and tropical cyclones (hurricanes).
https://www.globalchange.gov/.../fifth-national-climate... |  | NORTH ATLANTIC HURRICANE INTENSIFICATION INCREASING
Oct. 2023 research 'Observed increases in North Atlantic tropical cyclone (or hurricane) peak intensification rates'
The rate at which ocean surfaces have warmed has accelerated, which is driving increased N.Atlantic hurricane rapid intensification rates. These are most damaging and costly extreme events impacting the U.S. Their damaging rapid intensification will continue to increase with warming.
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RECORD AMAZON RAIN-FOREST DROUGHT SPEI
The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index
Planet catastrophe
https://gdis-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/pages/drought-monitoring |  | AMAZON CATASTROPHIC RECORD DROUGHT
Most severe extensive Amazon drought in history.
AlJazeera, 20 Dec. 2023, Everything is dead’: How record drought is wreaking havoc on the Amazon
Amazon is already net carbon source. Planet catastrophe
#amazonforest |  | CATASTROPHES LOOM AS TIPPING POINTS NEARED
Arctic summer sea ice, permafrost thaw- emissions, Greenland ice sheet, West Antarctic ice sheet, Amazon forest collapse- emissions. These are all at extreme risk and may have passed tipping points at today's global warming
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03849-y | | RECORD OCT. AMAZON FIRES FROM RECORD OCT. DROUGHT
The record Amazon October drought is contributing to record wildfires. According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, in the first 15 days of October, more than 2,900 wildfires have broken out in Amazonas, more than any other October month (16.10.23, CNBC)
#amazonrainforest | | AMAZON RAINFOREST TIPPING TO DRY SAVANNAH
In a 2021 assessment scientists say that the Amazon Rainforest is on the brink of collapse — in just 5 years destined to tip and degrade into a dry savannah.
Luciana Gatti, Brazil senior climate change researcher, is one of many echoing this dire prediction. She asserts that the Amazon is just five years away from a total environmental disaster. https://www.newscientist.com/.../mg25233640-800-the.../...
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ICE SHEET MASS LOSS TRACKS WORST-CASE SCENARIO
Combined mass loss of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
"track closest to the AR5 upper range" which is RCP 8.5 the very worst-case scenario. The rapid loss of Greenland and Antarctica continues. Ice sheet inertia is enormous so this is a disastrously large sea level rise commitment already.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0893-y | | ATMOSPHERIC CO2 HIGHEST IN 15-20 MILLION YEARS
2009 research finding by Tripati UCLA
Confirmed 8.12.23
Was 5-10F warmer, the sea level was 75 to 120 feet higher, no Arctic sea ice, little ice on Antarctica & Greenland https://phys.org/.../2009-10-carbon-dioxide-high-million... |  | CATASTROPHES LOOM AS TIPPING POINTS NEARED
Arctic summer sea ice, permafrost thaw- emissions, Greenland ice sheet, West Antarctic ice sheet, Amazon forest collapse- emissions. These are all at extreme risk and may have passed tipping points at today's global warming
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03849-y | | OZONE HOLE BACK
Study: Re-emergence of large, long-lived ozone holes over Antarctica. The past three years (2020–2022)have witnessed the re-emergence of large long-lived ozone holes over Antarctica
The stratospheric ozone layer protects life on Earth (animals and plants) from deadly cell damaging UV-B radiating from space.
Trends in greenhouse gas emissions are expected to impact ozone recovery, and proposed climate change stratospheric aerosol injection would further impact… See more |  | 2023 RECORD TEMPERATURE: GLOBAL & SEA SURFACE
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE record low
DRYING Drought in southern USA and parts of Mexico.
Drying in regions of central and easternmost Asia, and most of the southern hemisphere, including S. America & Australia.
Copernicus
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ICE SHEET MASS LOSS TRACKS WORST-CASE SCENARIO
Combined mass loss of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
"track closest to the AR5 upper range" which is RCP 8.5 the very worst-case scenario. The rapid loss of Greenland and Antarctica continues. Ice sheet inertia is enormous so this is a disastrously large sea level rise commitment already.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0893-y | | VAST ARCTIC FEEDBACK SOURCES. ARCTIC CARBON BOMB
Permafrost alone has 2X atmospheric carbon
Arctic Warming is over 3X faster than global and is accelerating
- less sea ice means more Arctic warming
Wetlands Emitting more methane
Permafrost thaw Emitting methane, CO2 and nitrous oxide
Boreal forest Fires (Canada 2023)
Drying & fires leads to forest die-back… See more |  | RECORD ARCTIC TEMPERATURE ACCELERATING WARMING
Scientists are debating if global warming is accelerating
James Hansen (Global warming in the pipeline paper) and NOAA's Arctic Report Card provide evidence it is. EMERGENCY!
https://www.noaa.gov/.../warmest-arctic-summer-on-record... | | MACKENZIE RIVER ARCTIC CO2 FEEDBACK EMISSIONS
April 2023 Mackenzie River, carbon containing runoff, from warmed peatlands and thawing permafrost, is driving intense coastal CO2 outgassing. Region has switched from carbon sink to source.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/.../as-the-arctic-warms-its... |  | ARCTIC KARA SEA METHANE HYDRATE VENTING
With evidence from NOAA 2023 Arctic Report
Card. Seismic and water column records indicate extensive seafloor gas release
Kara Sea was venting methane earlier in the year
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ATMOSPHERIC CO2 HIGHEST IN 15-20 MILLION YEARS
2009 research finding by Tripati UCLA
Confirmed 8.12.23
Was 5-10F warmer, the sea level was 75 to 120 feet higher, no Arctic sea ice, little ice on Antarctica & Greenland https://phys.org/.../2009-10-carbon-dioxide-high-million... | | 2023 RECORD TEMPERATURE: GLOBAL & SEA SURFACE
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE record low
DRYING Drought in southern USA and parts of Mexico.
Drying in regions of central and easternmost Asia, and most of the southern hemisphere, including S. America & Australia.
Copernicus
https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-october-2023... | | RECORD ANTARCTIC SEA ICE LOW NOW IN SUMMER DECLINE
Antarctic sea ice big record low extent since start of July 2023 (SH winter) Continues with its summer decline. The difference is a million sq. km. This looks like an enormous new adverse change to the climate system. In which case, state of climate planetary emergency is much worse again.
https://nsidc.org/arcticsea.../antarctic-daily-image-update/ |  | ANTARCTIC BIG CHANGES: TEMPERATURE EXTENT SEA-ICE
Antarctic sea ice still tracking record low, sustained high warming
(5.8°C pre-industrial) Almost all continent warmed
Antarctic amplification by research. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=antarctic |  | NEW ANTARCTIC SEA ICE REGIME -SOUTH OCEAN WARMING
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state The subsurface Southern Ocean , which we suggest is linked to the current low sea ice state, and may have caused a regime shift in Antarctic sea ice. Southern Ocean warming since the mid 20th Century has been attributed primarily to increasing greenhouse gases with ozone depletion playing a secondary role…recent accelerated Southern Ocean warming
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VAST ARCTIC FEEDBACK SOURCES. ARCTIC CARBON BOMB
Permafrost alone has 2X atmospheric carbon
Arctic Warming is over 3X faster than global and is accelerating
- less sea ice means more Arctic warming
Wetlands Emitting more methane
Permafrost thaw Emitting methane, CO2 and nitrous oxide
Boreal forest Fires (Canada 2023)
Drying & fires leads to forest die-back… See more | | CANADA FIRES 23% GLOBAL WILDFIRE CARBON EMISSIONS
The unprecedented Canada Far North fires
2023 Canada Boreal Forest Biodiversity Holocaust
Billions of birds migrate north from as far as the tip of South America to nest and raise young in Canada’s boreal forest.
71,429 square miles burned - size of Washington State
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/copernicus-canada... | | BIG 2023 AUTUMN TEMPERATURE INCREASES
The boreal autumn Sept.–Nov. 2023 was the warmest on record globally at 15.30°C, 0.88°C above average.
The European-average temperature was 10.96°C, which at 1.43°C above average (Copernicus)
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature... |  | CANADA RECORD 2023 FIRES
4th WORST IN HISTORY. .
184,000 sq. Km Size State of Washington
Prolonged severe Heat and Drought
Boreal forest largest land carbon sink
2 Billion tonnes CO2 Global warming feedback
3 of the 4 worst world wildfires have occurred since 2020
The 16 worst world wildfires have occurred since 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_largest_fires_of_the... | | CANADA FIRES BURN STILL DROUGHT LAST THRO WINTER.
End-October Still persistent, severe widespread western drought
At last count 6 Oct. 71,429 square miles burned
Far less boreal fires- but not out
Northern fires may burn through the winter
British Columbia has many out-of-control fires burning
in the North-East.
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ECOSYSTEMS COLLAPSE DECADES SOONER THAN MODELS
Ecosystems Collapse under multiple stresses. If we add increase in climate-related extreme weather events (not accounted for), the date when these tipping points would be crossed could be advanced by 80%. This means that an ecosystem collapse that we could have hoped to avoid until the end of this century could occur as early as the next few decades. https://euro.dayfr.com/trends/435826.html |  |
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HUGE IRREVERSIBLE OCEAN & CRYOSPHERE DEGRADATIONS
5th National Assessment Fig.3.9
Permafrost Thaw methane & CO2 feedback emissions
Ocean Heat ->deoxygenation & slowing circulations
CO2-> acidification Ocean carbon sink to weaken
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/3/#fig-3-9 | | HUGE INCREASE WESTERN US WILDFIRES BY 2050
National 5th Assessment
Dangerous health impacts. Emit feedback CO2 and reduce the first carbon sink- both boosting atmospheric CO2
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/7/#fig-7-4 | | VAST ARCTIC FEEDBACK SOURCES. ARCTIC CARBON BOMB
Permafrost alone has 2X atmospheric carbon
Arctic Warming is over 3X faster than global and is accelerating
- less sea ice means more Arctic warming
Wetlands Emitting more methane
Permafrost thaw Emitting methane, CO2 and nitrous oxide
Boreal forest Fires (Canada 2023)
Drying & fires leads to forest die-back… See more | | VULNERABLE CARBON POOLS 2006 STILL IGNORED
UNESCO 2006 Land Carbon Estimate 2050 Gt C
2023 updated 2,750 Gt C Still Not in IPCC projections
There is (has been) no question under increasing warming over time they will emit feedback carbon-increasing
So ignoring this is grossest climate science malpractice
https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/.../UNESCO_Brief_A4.pdf |  | MACKENZIE RIVER ARCTIC CO2 FEEDBACK EMISSIONS
April 2023 Mackenzie River, carbon containing runoff, from warmed peatlands and thawing permafrost, is driving intense coastal CO2 outgassing. Region has switched from carbon sink to source.
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ICE SHEET MASS LOSS TRACKS WORST-CASE SCENARIO
Combined mass loss of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
"track closest to the AR5 upper range" which is RCP 8.5 the very worst-case scenario. The rapid loss of Greenland and Antarctica continues. Ice sheet inertia is enormous so this is a disastrously large sea level rise commitment already.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0893-y | | GULF STREAM SLOWING FROM GREENLAND MELTWATER
New York Times 2021 'In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers' (Illustrated article). 2023 Study offers first definitive proof that Gulf Stream has weakened. 25 Sept. 2023 C.Piecuch, L. Beal
More N. Hemisphere climate chaos
#ocean |  | ATMOSPHERIC CO2 HIGHEST IN 15-20 MILLION YEARS
2009 research finding by Tripati UCLA
Confirmed 8.12.23
Was 5-10F warmer, the sea level was 75 to 120 feet higher, no Arctic sea ice, little ice on Antarctica & Greenland https://phys.org/.../2009-10-carbon-dioxide-high-million... | | CATASTROPHES LOOM AS TIPPING POINTS NEARED
Arctic summer sea ice, permafrost thaw- emissions, Greenland ice sheet, West Antarctic ice sheet, Amazon forest collapse- emissions. These are all at extreme risk and may have passed tipping points at today's global warming
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03849-y | | GREENLAND EDGE EMITS TONS OF METHANE
2 papers 2019 & confirmed 2021 Post details 2019
Our results indicate that ice sheets overlie extensive, biologically active methanogenic wetlands and that high rates of methane export to the atmosphere can occur via efficient subglacial drainage pathways. (biogenic methane) As glaciers recede
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MACKENZIE RIVER ARCTIC CO2 FEEDBACK EMISSIONS
April 2023 Mackenzie River, carbon containing runoff, from warmed peatlands and thawing permafrost, is driving intense coastal CO2 outgassing. Region has switched from carbon sink to source.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/.../as-the-arctic-warms-its... | | IGNORED FEEDBACK EMISSIONS IS SCIENCE MALPRACTICE
This 2007 report shows the many enormous sources and carbon feedback emissions vulnerable to global surface warming. Today feedback methane is being emitted from peat rich wetlands. Thawing permafrost is emitting feedback methane and CO2.
These are still not included in IPCC projections. Ignored danger risk. Scientists have failed to warn governments or public of this.
https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/.../CarbonBalance...
More information: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/global/presentations... |  | WMO 2023 SHATTERS CLIMATE RECORDS
Warmest year on record - huge temperature increase
But even the WMO repeats the 1.5C feel good about it - do nothing drastic- deception
Shocking - only helps the fossil fuel industry
Writes off the future
https://wmo.int/.../2023-shatters-climate-records-major... |  | THE BEST ON ARCTIC CARBON FEEDBACK
Comprehensive on Arctic carbon feedback
This the very worst of all global warming (definite) effect - world destroying. Incredibly it is still sidelined by the IPCC.
Due to inaction, today we have wetland peat methane feedback emissions driving explosive atmospheric methane.
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More information: https://www.youtube.com/watch |  | ENORMOUS VULNERABLE CARBON POOLS
Goes back to 2006, but there is still nothing better
Peat rich wetlands (tropical and northern) are now emitting feedback methane, pushing atmospheric methane up faster//www.researchgate.net/figure/Vulnerability-of-the-carbon-pools-in-the-21ST-century-Shown-are-the-estimated_fig2_284573002
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HUGE IRREVERSIBLE OCEAN & CRYOSPHERE DEGRADATIONS
5th National Assessment Fig.3.9
Permafrost Thaw methane & CO2 feedback emissions
Ocean Heat ->deoxygenation & slowing circulations
CO2-> acidification Ocean carbon sink to weaken
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/3/#fig-3-9 | | RAPID RATE OF SURFACE HEATING MOST OF U.S.
5th National Assessment. Temperatures over the US have increased faster in Alaska (Permafrost), at high elevations, and in regions with significant seasonal snowpack (Water availability).
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/3/#fig-3-11
More information: https://www.designdeskinc.com/venus-atmospheric-repair-s... | | 2023 NATIONAL ASSESS PERMAFROST IRREVERSIBLE
Emissions from permafrost thaw irreversible & self-reinforcing
Collapse -abrupt thaw & more emissions Methane CO2 https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/8/#fig-8-5 |  | VAST ARCTIC FEEDBACK SOURCES. ARCTIC CARBON BOMB
Permafrost alone has 2X atmospheric carbon
Arctic Warming is over 3X faster than global and is accelerating
- less sea ice means more Arctic warming
Wetlands Emitting more methane
Permafrost thaw Emitting methane, CO2 and nitrous oxide
Boreal forest Fires (Canada 2023)
Drying & fires leads to forest die-back… See more | | MACKENZIE RIVER ARCTIC CO2 FEEDBACK EMISSIONS
April 2023 Mackenzie River, carbon containing runoff, from warmed peatlands and thawing permafrost, is driving intense coastal CO2 outgassing. Region has switched from carbon sink to source.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/.../as-the-arctic-warms-its... | |
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VAST ARCTIC FEEDBACK SOURCES. ARCTIC CARBON BOMB
Permafrost alone has 2X atmospheric carbon
Arctic Warming is over 3X faster than global and is accelerating
- less sea ice means more Arctic warming
Wetlands Emitting more methane
Permafrost thaw Emitting methane, CO2 and nitrous oxide
Boreal forest Fires (Canada 2023)
Drying & fires leads to forest die-back… See more | | ATMOSPHERIC CO2 HIGHEST IN 15-20 MILLION YEARS
2009 research finding by Tripati UCLA
Confirmed 8.12.23
Was 5-10F warmer, the sea level was 75 to 120 feet higher, no Arctic sea ice, little ice on Antarctica & Greenland https://phys.org/.../2009-10-carbon-dioxide-high-million... | | CATASTROPHES LOOM AS TIPPING POINTS NEARED
Arctic summer sea ice, permafrost thaw- emissions, Greenland ice sheet, West Antarctic ice sheet, Amazon forest collapse- emissions. These are all at extreme risk and may have passed tipping points at today's global warming
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03849-y | | 2023 RECORD TEMPERATURE: GLOBAL & SEA SURFACE
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE record low
DRYING Drought in southern USA and parts of Mexico.
Drying in regions of central and easternmost Asia, and most of the southern hemisphere, including S. America & Australia.
Copernicus
https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-october-2023... | | RECORD ANTARCTIC SEA ICE LOW NOW IN SUMMER DECLINE
Antarctic sea ice big record low extent since start of July 2023 (SH winter) Continues with its summer decline. The difference is a million sq. km. This looks like an enormous new adverse change to the climate system. In which case, state of climate planetary emergency is much worse again.
https://nsidc.org/arcticsea.../antarctic-daily-image-update/ | |
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NUMBER OF ENDANGERED SPECIES INCREASING FAST
More than doubled in the past 15 years
It's world-wide
Climate change is just starting to contribute and will increasingly boost the extinction rate- under all scenarios
Statistica 18.1.23
#species | | CLIMATE CATASTROPHIC IMPACTS MIGRATORY SPECIES
UN Report presented at COP28
Example: fish, sea turtles, marine mammals, birds and butterflies Long known to be inevitable. So terrible- and emissions keep
being increased An incredible evil happening before our eyes
https://jncc.gov.uk/.../climate-change-and-migratory.../ |  | EXTINCTION CATASTROPHIC- MUCH WORSE CLIMATE CHANGE
Extinction of species and wild population declines are at catastrophic rates Much much worse with climate change
More fossil fuels evil
IPCC AR6 Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-species-threatened |  | IPCC SYN: 1.5°C GLOBALLY DISASTROUS,
2°C GLOBAL & PLANET CATASTROPHE
They are not in isolation They compound
1.5°C 2032 , 2°C 2050. 1.5°C totally unavoidable So is 2°C without rapid emissions decline now.
Several IPCC Synthesis Reasons for Concern Figure SPM.4
#IPCC |  | 1.5°C SEVERE WIDESPREAD IMPACTS
2°C TOP RISK/IMPACT LEVEL. IPCC
The future is being wiped out-for fossil fuel corporation profits today Evil without equal
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HEIGHTENED ATMOSPHERIC CO2 INCREASE CONTINUES
CO2 record high 422.48 ppm (November)
December 2023 from Dec 2022 was 2.87 ppm
Many 2023 from May 2022 was 3 ppm
Last decade (2010-2020) was 2.4 ppm per year
El Niño boosts atmospheric CO2- but was not declared till June by NOAA. https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
More information: http://smashwords.com/books/view/528063 |  | OCEAN ACIDIFICATION TRACKS WORST-CASE SCENARIO
Accelerating ocean acidification is tracking the worst-case scenario (SSP5-8.5). 2020 pH 8.05 (Copernicus)tracking below the worst-case scenario for pH. Acidity is inverse of pH.
From Fossil fuel CO2 emissions
https://catalogue.marine.copernicus.eu/.../GLOBAL_OMI... | | IPCC AR6 ATMOSPHERIC CO2 WORST-CASE SCENARIO
2023 Atmospheric CO2 concentration is tracking
the very worst-case scenario SSP5-8.5
Expected as CO2 emissions are record high tracking RCP8.5
https://www.ipcc.ch/.../wg1/figures/chapter-4/figure-4-3/ |  | HUGE IRREVERSIBLE OCEAN & CRYOSPHERE DEGRADATIONS
5th National Assessment Fig.3.9
Permafrost Thaw methane & CO2 feedback emissions
Ocean Heat ->deoxygenation & slowing circulations
CO2-> acidification Ocean carbon sink to weaken
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/3/#fig-3-9 | | HUGE INCREASE WESTERN US WILDFIRES BY 2050
National 5th Assessment
Dangerous health impacts. Emit feedback CO2 and reduce the first carbon sink- both boosting atmospheric CO2
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EDGAR 2023: RECORD GLOBAL 2022 CO2 EMISSIONS
2022 Global CO2 emissions reached a record 38.5 Gt (excluding land use change) and 42.5 Gt with deforestation.
Increase rate 2010-2022 same 1980-2000
IPCC AR6 WG3 had global emissions in decline rapidly on immediate basis for 1.5°C and 2°C limits (by 2100).
Clear heading for global COLLAPSE
EDGAR - Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research
https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/country_profile |  | TROPICAL FORESTS NOT SINKING CARBON BOREAL MAIN SINK
Global carbon sink is now limited to temperate and Boreal forests. Tropical forests no longer sinking carbon- degradation deforestation. Confirms other research. Boreal forest main carbon sink so must be protected. Land Carbon sink effect has declined 15% (Global carbon Project)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01274-4 |  | 2022 TROPICAL DEFORESTATION INCREASE
World tropical deforestation 2022 increased, emitting CO2 and losing land carbon sink and losing biodiversity World Resources Institute 2023. https://research.wri.org/.../latest-analysis... |  | 2022 TROPICAL DEFORESTATION INCREASE
World tropical deforestation 2022 increased, emitting CO2 and losing land carbon sink and losing biodiversity World Resources Institute 2023. https://research.wri.org/.../latest-analysis... |  | AMAZON DEFORESTATION 2022:
2nd HIGHEST
Amazon deforestation 1.98 million hectares (7644.8 sq. miles)). 21% increase from 2021,
Second highest on record, behind only the peak in 2004.
Due to Deforestation and climate change the Amazon is no longer a large carbon sink
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PAST 1.5°C BY RECORD WARMING & ENERGY IMBALANCE
1.5°C global warming ceiling has been passed for all practical purposes because of continued Greenhouse gas emissions and the large planetary Earth energy imbalance
Large decrease in cooling is from less air pollution aerosols.
The general denial by science only benefits the fossil fuel industry, but only worse is to come to an liveable future.
https://mailchi.mp/.../groundhog-day-another...
More information: https://mailchi.mp/caa/groundhog-day-another-gobsmacking... | | GLOBAL WARMING ACCELERATION- EMISSIONS & AEROSOLS
Over the 2013–2022 period, warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.2 ?C per decade. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of over the last decade, as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling.
https://essd.copernicus.org/.../essd-15-2295-2023... |  | OZONE HOLE BACK
Study: Re-emergence of large, long-lived ozone holes over Antarctica. The past three years (2020–2022)have witnessed the re-emergence of large long-lived ozone holes over Antarctica
The stratospheric ozone layer protects life on Earth (animals and plants) from deadly cell damaging UV-B radiating from space.
Trends in greenhouse gas emissions are expected to impact ozone recovery, and proposed climate change stratospheric aerosol injection would further impact… See more | | 2022 RECORD HIGH GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS 1.2%
On Course Planet Catastrophe
Increased fossil fuel emissions account for 2/3 global increase
Methane (human) increased 1.8%
F-Gases Largest increase, include the most potent and long lasting of all GHGs.
Globally, top 10% income account for 48% emissions.
Bottom 50% only 12% of total emissions
UNEP GAP Report 2023. … See more |  | COMPELLING CLIMATE CHANGE CASE FOR VEGAN DIET
The powerful greenhouse gas Methane is emitted from the stomach of cattle and sheep, that are ruminants. The very powerful greenhouse gas Nitrous Oxideis emitted from excreta of grazing cattle and sheep. This is missed by global greenhouse gas emissions inventories. https://www.researchgate.net/.../Total-Number-of... |  |
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HUGE IRREVERSIBLE OCEAN & CRYOSPHERE DEGRADATIONS
5th National Assessment Fig.3.9
Permafrost Thaw methane & CO2 feedback emissions
Ocean Heat ->deoxygenation & slowing circulations
CO2-> acidification Ocean carbon sink to weaken
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/3/#fig-3-9 | | 2023 NATIONAL ASSESS PERMAFROST IRREVERSIBLE
Emissions from permafrost thaw irreversible & self-reinforcing
Collapse -abrupt thaw & more emissions Methane CO2 https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/8/#fig-8-5 | | 2023 METHANE LEVEL CLOSEST TO WORST-CASE SCENARIO
Atmospheric methane August 2023 is tracking closest to the worst-case scenario RCP8.5, by a wide margin
Adapted (update) from Global Carbon Project's Methane Budget 2020. https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/ |  | VAST ARCTIC FEEDBACK SOURCES. ARCTIC CARBON BOMB
Permafrost alone has 2X atmospheric carbon
Arctic Warming is over 3X faster than global and is accelerating
- less sea ice means more Arctic warming
Wetlands Emitting more methane
Permafrost thaw Emitting methane, CO2 and nitrous oxide
Boreal forest Fires (Canada 2023)
Drying & fires leads to forest die-back… See more | | IGNORED FEEDBACK EMISSIONS IS SCIENCE MALPRACTICE
This 2007 report shows the many enormous sources and carbon feedback emissions vulnerable to global surface warming. Today feedback methane is being emitted from peat rich wetlands. Thawing permafrost is emitting feedback methane and CO2.
These are still not included in IPCC projections. Ignored danger risk. Scientists have failed to warn governments or public of this.
https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/.../CarbonBalance...
More information: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/global/presentations... | |
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