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We've Done It! Entering "Hothouse Hell" as Global Temperatures Surpass 1.5 Limit [1]
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Date: 2023-06-09
Undoubtedly, breaching 1.5°C is a sign of political failure. Just eight years ago, almost every nation agreed to a binding treaty promising to hold the global temperature rise to a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Blowing past that threshold so soon will bring huge political fallout and unleash reactionary forces that could turbocharge – or cripple – the climate movement. “All hell will break loose,” says Jochem Marotzke at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany. “That is something I’m very sure of.” New Scientist
Highest-Ever Levels of Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Causing Unprecedented Increase in Global Warming
In an initiative being led by the University of Leeds, the scientists have developed an open data, open science platform - the Indicators of Global Climate Change and website (
https://igcc.earth/ ). It will update information on key climate indicators every year.
The authoritative source of scientific information on the state of the climate is the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) but the turnaround time for its major assessments is five or ten years, and that creates an "information gap", particularly when climate indicators are changing rapidly.
⚠️ We march again TOMORROW. The smoke may have cleared in NY, but the forests are still burning across Canada and the climate crisis is getting only worse. Let’s step out of our homes tomorrow to demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency while there is still time. pic.twitter.com/Rg8POERtcx
INCREDIBLE: Hundreds of people are braving the wildfire smoke to protest @POTUS approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and demand he declare a Climate Emergency. That’s @ThirdActOrg with the great rocking chairs! pic.twitter.com/P8KBTgVAsH
How extreme heat from climate change affects health
On the third day of the “heat dome” that enveloped the Pacific Northwest in the summer of 2021, Steven Mitchell, MD, FACEP, medical director of emergency services at the University of Washington (UW) Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, realized that he was witnessing a true disaster unfolding.
Three days of temperatures above 104 degrees, in a city where many residents had no air conditioning, was sending unprecedented numbers of patients to Harborview and its affiliated hospitals. The county’s emergency medical services responded to roughly 1,100 calls that day — more than twice the average and the busiest day on record. So many patients were coming into UW’s Valley Medical Center with severe, life-threatening heat stroke that the hospital was in danger of running out of ventilators.
“The people who were working that day at Valley Medical Center saw a career’s worth of heat stroke in a matter of a few hours,” says Mitchell, who also serves as medical director of the Washington Medical Coordination Center, which was established during the COVID-19 pandemic to assist in coordinating the state’s disaster preparedness activities. “It became overwhelming quickly for hospital systems in particular that had already been under a lot of stress and strain.”
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