What to Know About the IPCC's 'Final' Climate Warning

The biggest climate report just dropped its ‘final warning’ — here’s what you should know

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[LeeMuayThai]

These climate system tipping points affect other systems around the world that exacerbate their effects. Example: Earth has only 36% of its original rainforest, 30% is in degradation, and 34% have been lost completely. This affects the carbon storage capacity that rainforest have, and the carbon that rainforests cannot capture is carbon that is absorbed by the ocean and atmosphere, warming them up. Warming oceans contribute to the loss of glaciers and ice sheets, most importantly the north pole glaciers, Antarctic West and East Ice Sheets and the Greenland Ice Sheet. We are losing arctic sea ice at a rate of almost 13% per decade for the last 30 years. Melting ice contributes to rising sea levels which detrimentally affects island nations and coastal communities. Fresh water is less dense than saltwater, and as glaciers and ice sheets melt, the oceanic currents and their natural way of mixing (called thermohaline circulation) are disturbed. The oceanic currents determine the entire climate of a region. So one offset in the balance of a single climate system can domino effect into other systems and just mess everything up for lack of a better term

[djinghiskhan]

The US military is believed to be the biggest emitting organisation in the world - and it has a special exception pass lol

[lyndafjellman]

considering that the legislators *won't* do anything about children dying in our schools, where it is really obvious, why would the existential threat of "someday" the world will be unliveable be anything to worry about? Good heavens we might have to give up our gas It's so much better to go after drag queens.

[firefool]

Yeah. Peaceful protest stopped being ethical a decade ago

[OldScientist]

Here are the real takeaways: 10% decline in natural disasters since 2000. Accumulated cyclone energy shows no increasing trend. Global hurricane landfalls shows no trend. Downward global trend for total hurricaine numbers. NOAA: "We conclude that the historical Atlantic hurricane data at this stage do not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase in: frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, or major hurricanes, or in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes." NOAA data 1851-2021 shows no trend in number of hurricaine landfalls with the record high being 1886. The trend for over 7 decades has been downwards in the Pacific as well.
Drought appears to be decreasing globally measured by SPI 1901-2017.
For every million people on earth, annual deaths from climate-related causes have declined 98%.
Deserts have shrunk considerably since the 1980's. The Sahara shrank by 12, 000km² per year 1984-2015.
The Earth has greened by 15% or more in a human lifetime.
The Great Barrier Reef's coral cover has reached the greatest extent ever recorded.
On extinction the rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years, so from observations there are an average of slightly less than 2 species lost every year.
Global temperatures maxed out in 2016 and have been lower ever since.
There is no climate crisis.

[gaspard]

should have mentioned animal agriculture which is one of the leading cause of environnemental destruction.

[meganasanwi]

People don't fear nature...
Nature power is not simple...
All of telling time.

[juskahusk]

Yes, we are totally F'd and I'm so glad because it's the only chance I have of experiencing F'ing. It's going to be so hot.

[Al-cynic]

Don't report the science, report the social, political and economic solution! Oh! wait! There is none!

[Spielmaldingens]

Oh YES we are totally F'd, literally nothing we CAN do