#SeaLevelRise #ForestFires #TippingPoints
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...seriousness and frequency of #ForestFires excercabate the likelihood of even more fires in the future, another #ViciousCircle.
Also, just looking at #Germany's forests, the vast majority consists of sick trees 2), prone to insects and fires.
Last but not least, some global regions sit on huge, unstoppable tinder boxes due to coal. 3)

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110123013587695020

3)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110013037485676421

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110033048450072572

HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image @stef0328@norden.social #CentraliaMineFire: 👉#Coal mine under landfill destined to burn 500 years:👈 "This was a world where no human could live, hotter than the planet #Mercury, its atmosphere as poisonous as #Saturn's.

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#SeaLevelRise #ForestFires #TippingPoints
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...system could, in turn, trigger damaging tipping points in societies,👈 things like food security crises, mass displacement [#ClimateRefugees]..." 1)

Another issue is that we probably are missing other trigger points.
I'm not sure if it's already listed as such, but in the last week, I read an article that the increasing...

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111541288612441502

#SeaLevelRise #ForestFires #TippingPoints
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Thank you, Ruth.
I will read it.

From all I have been reading, my aggregate "gut feeling" is that we still underestimate the rate of #ClimateChange, as well as the interconnectedness of #TriggerPoints:

“Triggering one tipping point 👉could trigger another in a kind of dangerous domino effect👈,” says #TimLenton at the #UniversityOfExeter in the #UK, the report’s lead author.
“But also 👉these tipping points in the Earth...

#SeaLevelRise #TippingPoints
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...points.

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Sources [TBA]:

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112477437708730763

#SeaLevelRise #TippingPoints
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Will the retirement age even matter? How many people of #Denmark would be affected by a 3m rise? Would the billions needed for flood "control" not wrack the #Dutch budget and thus the state pension system, among other things. What percentage of the population would become #ClimateRefugees?

Recently, I saw an article about how many additional meters of sea level rise are saved in ice 🧊 and that we still don't know enough about tipping...

#SeaLevelRise #TippingPoints
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Hm, 25 years...we all know that #ClimateChange is probably even accelerating. +1.5°C has really been a "pie in the sky, and "only" +2° are becoming less likely by the day.

A study by #YixiZheng, an oceanographer at the University of East Anglia about the #ThwaitesGlacier in #WestAntarcticanicknamed the “#DoomsdayGlacier”—has shown that it's collapse would lead to sea level rise of 10 ft/3m. 1)
I guess you are one of the best persons to ask: