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If you do NOT want to be one of the many who remain blissfully uninformed — those who somehow can stay complacent amid increasing climate chaos — here is an excellent resource for learning what you need to know.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), an agency of the United Nations, provides an annual report on the state of the global climate. This year's effort includes a helpful explainer that covers all the basics with a few minutes reading.

SEE THE EXPLAINER ➡️ https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/43a9c636ab3345bfabcb11236c266153

I'm going to pick out several highlights and discuss them in a thread below. This post will serve as an introduction. 🧵 1/5

You can find a link to download the full report here ➡️ https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate-2024

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Image from the front cover of the linked report, showing a view of mountains with melting glaciers. Title is: "State of the Climate 2024."

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This graphic from the WMO report is one of the best visuals I have seen that clearly illustrates the connection between increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, rising temperatures, and reinforcing feedback loops that lead to devastating high-impact events with consequent risks to populations around the world.

It's not a pretty picture.

LEARN MORE HERE ➡️ https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/43a9c636ab3345bfabcb11236c266153

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Informative graphic designed as a flow chart, as summarized in post. (There is far too much data to provide a complete alt text description here.)

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@breadandcircuses It's missing some of the most insidious feedback loops: from the impacts on ecosystems & society back to rising GHG concentrations. Because war, inequality, food insecurity, collapsing ecosystems, etc, all present opportunities for the forces of globalised capital to gain more power (see Shock Doctrine) and use it to further jam open the closing window of profitability for extractivism. See: Trump regime.

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