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Saying, "That’s cool... but what about AMOC collapse?" every day since December 2024. "Icy winds howl across a frozen Thames and crops fail across the UK". https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/atlantic-current-collapse
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Ruchir Sharma considers Taiwan a democratic capitalist economy worth looking up to. So it's nice to see it care about climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Climate scientists be like..

Happy New Year! Okay, so had a bit of a Xmas hiatus… but am now back for 2025 saying, “That’s cool… but what about AMOC collapse?”

When one of the scientists in this story starts talking about 'climate terminations,' it still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up ... insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

#ClimateCrisis crisis deepens with 2024 ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest year on record, says @CopernicusECMWF - It will also be the first to have an average temperature of more than 1.5C above preindustrial levels Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“As unfair as it might seem, the future is up to us.” Last line of Saving Ourselves:

the work as I see it now, whether resisting tyranny, climate action, ending genocides, #AI, etc., is figuring out how to get masses of burned out deeply depressed people to take action toward the roots of the things causing them to be burned out and deeply depressed it's quite a catch 22

We're going to pass 2 degrees of warming for the simple fact that food and agriculture alone will bring us there. Until climate activists, the labor movement and political parties take agriculture seriously we are just putting lipstick on a pig. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

June 2054…?

In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵

"Icy winds howl across a frozen Thames, ice floes block shipping in the Mersey docks, and crops fail across the UK". www.sciencefocus.com/comment/atla...

Great...

WHY IS NO ONE TAKING NOTICE OF AMOC ?? It's fucking physics - when/if AMOC goes, it ABSOLUTELY WILL be catastrophic. Resulting in permanent inability to grow food at scale and thus mass migration and/or starvation. My latest blog around resilience in action: https://buff.ly/3VgimPL

Today Norway... 20 years time, Norfolk...