Here's a startling fact: the first "global stocktake" on climate change just happened, and its conclusions are chilling.
Our planet? Off track. We're headed for a temperature rise of up to 2.6°C. A century's progress? Reversing. The age we're entering? Unimaginable to many. 1/7
Our planet? Off track. We're headed for a temperature rise of up to 2.6°C. A century's progress? Reversing. The age we're entering? Unimaginable to many. 1/7
Think 2.6°C isn't alarming? Brace yourself. As the planet warms beyond 1.5°C, massive parts will face lethal heatwaves. Healthy individuals could die within hours, leading to mass fatalities, especially where air conditioning is a luxury. 2/7
The world's temperature rose about 1.2°C in 2022. At times, it was 1.5°C. Now, picture this summer's catastrophes – coast-to-coast megafires, extreme floods, droughts, plummeting air quality. Now DOUBLE those calamities. Because 2.6°C is double our current rise. 3/7
Last summer? Half the world's population faced intense heat for at least a month. More than 3.8 billion were exposed to extreme, human-caused heat. If we're heading to 2.6°C, expect the unimaginable – impacts that are non-linear. Meaning? More than twice the current damage. 4/7
The UN's Secretary-General recently spoke of our planet undergoing its hottest summer. This climate catastrophe isn't just an arithmetic progression. It's exponential. Twice the heat doesn't mean twice the damage. It's MUCH more. 5/7
Climate tipping points-–those critical thresholds that drastically change our environment. At 2.6°C, almost all known tipping points are activated. Ice sheets melting, rainforests dying, weather patterns shifting. Essentially, our world won't stop at 2.6°C; it races beyond. 6/7
Bottom line? At 2°C, 25% of the world might become uninhabitable. Where living becomes a gamble with death. This isn't dystopian fiction. It's the reality we're hurtling toward. Read, understand, and let's change course while we can. 7/7. theissue.io
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