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Some recent articles which should be read together:

1) Greenhouse Gases are still increasing and are now at record levels. The last time they were this high, sea levels “were around 75ft (22 metres) higher than they are today”

2) Rain forests equal to an area nearly the size of Switzerland were cleared from previously undisturbed states last year, according to figures compiled by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the University of Maryland. This almost certainly lowers the amounts of CO2 being removed from the atmosphere.

3) We have just had the 10th consecutive monthly average record temperature. This has shattered all previous records, and unless there is some weird climate thing going on that we don’t know about, indicates a clear and severe warming phase. Over the past 12 months, average global temperatures have been 1.58C above pre-industrial levels. This makes it look like we have already broken the 1.5C barrier.

4) Some Antarctic temperatures have been over 35 degrees C warmer than usual. There appears to be an “abrupt critical transition” in the continent’s climate, and not surprisingly ice sheets are melting, and the record GHG levels are almost certainly pushing temperatures up.

5) Just 57 companies are linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. Just a few of the polluter elites are promoting and profiting from potential destruction of world civilisation.

We need to reduce fossil fuel burning and deforestation. However, we appear to be doing the exact opposite. For example,

6) Just 2% of the EU’s gas capacity has planned retirement date despite pledges to decarbonise and new projects will increase the continent’s gas generation capacity by 27%

And

7) The world’s fossil-fuel producers will be nearly quadrupling the amount of oil and gas being extracted from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way.

Governments and business are basically boosting the crisis to support polluter elites.

We have to act locally now.

Tags: climate change, neoliberalism

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