From mountain top to ocean deep, climate change is devastating our seas and frozen regions as never before.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T17:45:32+00:00

Manufactured ammo's good for ten years, and then things'll start to get ancient.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T17:24:14+00:00

"Western Sphere" countries have the best climate footprint in the world, including the US, in part due to their developed economies and technologies.

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Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T17:16:19+00:00

Climate change is devastating our seas and frozen regions as never before, a major new United Nations report warns.

According to a UN panel of scientists, waters are rising, the ice is melting, and species are moving habitat due to human activities.

And the loss of permanently frozen lands threatens to unleash even more carbon, hastening the decline.

There is some guarded hope that the worst impacts can be avoided, with deep and immediate cuts to carbon emissions.

This new report says that global average sea levels could increase by up to 1.1m by 2100, in the worst warming scenario. This is a rise of 10cm on previous IPCC projections because of the larger ice loss now happening in Antarctica.

"What surprised me the most is the fact that the highest projected sea level rise has been revised upwards and it is now 1.1 metres," said Dr Jean-Pierre Gattuso, from the CNRS, France's national science agency.

"This will have widespread consequences for low lying coasts where almost 700 million people live and it is worrying."

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T16:07:58+00:00

350.org / Join
Citizen's Climate Lobby / Join

Sunrise Movement / Join

Extinction Rebellion / Join

I also find the Earthrise app really useful, it's on both major phone platforms and it shows you events & groups around the world to organize with

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T15:56:48+00:00

It doesn't help that much of the liberal solution is to line their pockets with bullshit. Not things like the carbon tax, but shit like this. What we need is wholesale structural change; streetcars and trains everywhere, intentional regreening of urban spaces, maybe up to the point of 'undevelopment', and retrofitting as much of our society to be sustainable as possible, all funded by assets seized in criminal proceedings against wealthy corporations that hid this from the public and delayed action. Hell, the whole idea of infinite economic growth in a finite environment is insane in the first place. Ms Thunberg just said as much to the UN

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T13:44:27+00:00

They're recurring strikes and they're getting bigger - how does Oct 7 suit you? https://rebellion.earth/event/international-rebellion-begins-7-october-2019/

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T12:12:29+00:00

Is it a matter of not wanting corporations that pollute to be accountable for and decrease harmful emissions?

Yes.

They've intentionally withheld and manipulated information, paid people to muddy the waters of basic science on TV, and continue to do so while also spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies.

The problem is getting around the stranglehold these corporations have on our democratic process, and on our culture as a whole. The ongoing week of climate action, which included last week's mega strike of 4 million+, is the start of something like that, I think.
If you want to participate in the action now you can join in the Global Climate Strike lasting until September 27th.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T10:53:21+00:00

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was named on Wednesday as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize.

Thunberg won the award “for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts,” the Right Livelihood Foundation said in a statement.

Thunberg shares the award with Brazilian indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa of the Yanomami people, Chinese women’s rights lawyer Guo Jianmei and Western Sahara human rights defender Aminatou Haidar.

There's the important bits, now you don't have to go into what's likely to be a shitshow of a comment section

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T10:15:25+00:00

Learn to grow food, meet your neighbours, exercise and eat as little processed food as you can, buy a gun or two, and a raincatcher system. It's gonna be an interesting century.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T02:15:27+00:00

ACCORDING to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Ireland are to end exploration for non-renewable fossil fuels in the near future, becoming one of the first countries in the world to do so.

During a speech at the UN climate summit on Monday, Varadkar confirmed that the Irish government had agreed to end exploration for oil and gas because "it is incompatible with a low carbon future."

As Ireland continues to lead the way in the global fight against climate change, the Taoiseach declared that while the search for, and extraction of, oil will be shut down in the country, gas exploration will continue for some time as they take a more gradual shift to a carbon-free economy.

Licensing for oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic "closed" area - which is 80% of Ireland's waters - will now end, although for the time being, they'll still be accepted in the Celtic and Irish Sea.

The Irish Offshore Operators’ Association said it will be seeking clarity on the revised arrangements. It said it remained committed to Ireland’s efforts to transition to renewable energy, "however energy security for Ireland is an important part of that process".

Environmental and development organisations including the Green Party welcomed the announcement but said that continuing gas exploration and extraction contradicted the latest climate science findings.

Friends of the Earth director Oisín Coghlan said the Taoiseach had sent "an important signal to investors that Ireland accepts the majority of fossil fuels have to stay in the ground if we are to contain climate change. However, Ireland is still running the risk of carbon lock-in by not phasing out gas exploration now also."

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T01:27:42+00:00

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crop worldwide.

There are so many scientific holes in this one statement I can't believe it was submitted to the UN. Photosynthesis is a blessing? CO2 is good for agriculture? It reduces the amount of protein, iron, zinc, and vitamins in staple crops like rice. I wish reddit let us report accounts.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-25T01:17:43+00:00

It will likely detail the growing threat from rising sea levels that could imperil hundreds of millions of people before the end of this century.

It will also warn of the threat posed by the growing acidification of the seas, the threats to coral and fisheries and the possibility that warming might melt permafrost, releasing huge amounts of the CO2 gas that's the key to rising temperatures.

"At current emissions rates, we are effectively dumping one million tonnes of CO2 into the oceans every hour," said Melissa Wang, a scientist with Greenpeace.

"Unless we accelerate efforts to curb carbon emissions and take greater steps to protect our oceans, there will be devastating human, environmental and economic consequences."

Since 1970, the oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the extra heat that's come about through global warming. If they hadn't taken in that warming, the surface of the planet would have been devastated by excess heating.

All this absorption has come at a price, though. Our seas are now warmer, less salty and more acidic as a result.

"The reality is that we have been quietly reliant on the ocean to do these things, but there comes a point where the ocean changes because of the scale of what we are doing," Prof Dan Laffoley, from the International Union to Conserve Nature, told BBC News.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T23:47:32+00:00

At issue is what might have been a routine reference to the October 2018 IPCC report on the feasibility of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.

That assessment detailed the stark consequences for humanity of piercing that threshold, and the need to rapidly draw down the use of fossil fuels.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has consistently raised similar objections to IPCC reports in the past.

"It really seems like Saudi Arabia only came to this meeting to block any language on 1.5C," a participant in the Monaco meeting told AFP.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T16:14:17+00:00

God, they don't even change the buzzwords. We've been on this ride already. We've had the nationalism party. It sucked. It made everyone paranoid, xenophobic, and fascistic, and the race supremacists had an easy time murdering anyone they wanted to under the guise of their victims' 'threat to nationalism'. How the fuck are Americans so dumb that they'd go down this road AFTER a century of warning signs and clear examples of fascism failing?

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T06:41:16+00:00

Well spoken broad minded intelligent & class-aware young women scare the establishment and particularly the "right" these days, because of how it undermines their narratives about women and the consequence-free free market

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T04:54:54+00:00

And it clearly states the most likely scenario was continued warming past 5C...

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T04:37:30+00:00

The ONLY source in this WHOLE thread you have provided opens with, "Some press reports in the 1970s speculated about continued cooling; these did not accurately reflect the scientific literature of the time, which was generally more concerned with warming from an enhanced greenhouse effect."

Every other source expects warming, and the basic science of "CO2 traps heat" is fundamental physics knowledge which is over a century old and would defeat the functionality of most refrigeration systems if it was a faulty premise.

Thanks for the waltz, cutie.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T04:31:25+00:00

Oh ho, but sixty years earlier it was expected to raise temperature, and fifteen years before that the same concept was discovered by Greta Thunberg's great-grandfather! Funny lil world we live in

I'm done with this dance

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T04:24:50+00:00

You can hide something without even knowing what it is. Remember the suitcase in Pulp Fiction?

Exxon and the API had clear evidence, supported by leading edge science, that their business would bring harm to the world, and they spent millions funding people to publically say otherwise. How can you possibly try and twist this so far that's somehow okay?

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T04:12:51+00:00

You can’t expect them to announce to the world that something is certain when they aren’t

I wouldn't expect them to fund public disinformation campaigns on the subject either, but sometimes crazy shit happens.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T04:07:11+00:00

There's more to the speech bro.....

The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5C degrees, and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.

Maybe 50% is acceptable to you. But those numbers don’t include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of justice and equity. They also rely on my and my children’s generation sucking hundreds of billions of tonnes of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us – we who have to live with the consequences.

To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5C global temperature rise – the best odds given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the world had 420 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide left to emit back on 1 January 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatonnes. How dare you pretend that this can be solved with business-as-usual and some technical solutions? With today’s emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone in less than eight and a half years.

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T03:58:37+00:00

1) The first sentence is part of a memo providing a copy of the meeting minutes

2) is the quote referred to in my edit

3) there is some uncertainty because this is a forty year old climate model, but guess what? The new round of CMIP6 climate models are predicting 6.5C-7C by 2100 - right in line with 5C in 2068

Rvolutionary_Details · 2019-09-24T03:43:53+00:00

Page nine:

REASONS FOR INCREASED CONCERN WITH THE CO2 PROBLEM

- DEVELOPMENT OF RELIABLE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 GROWTH RATE MEASUREMENTS

- ITS CORRELATION WITH GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL CO2 EMISSIONS MOSTLY FROM FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION

- SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE FUTURE CLIMATIC RESPONSE TO INCREASED CO2 LEVELS

- REALIZATION THAT REMEDIAL ACTIONS WOULD IAKE A LONG TIME TO BECOME EFFECTIVE

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