We have just a few years to develop a necessary base for the coming struggles over who and what will be secured on this planet.
Why the time frame? The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that we must pursue aggressive, planetary climate action - including halving global emissions - by 2030 simply to have coin flip odds (a 50/50 chance) of limiting climate change to 1.5°C, the level that avoids the worst impacts.
Why climate change at all? What does that have to do with racial capitalism or global justice? Simple: when crisis strikes, elites will scramble to organise the institutions they have captured, to secure themselves. What happens to the rest of us depends on our ability to challenge the aspects of our social system that secure them at our expense, and to win selfdetermination over the ability to secure ourselves and those around us.
Sea-level rise from climate change could exceed the high-end projections, scientists warn By Jeff Berardelli Sea levels could rise even more rapidly
Of the many threats from climate change, sea-level rise will most certainly be among the most impactful, making hundreds of thousands of square miles of coastline uninhabitable and potentially displacing over 100 million people worldwide by the end of the century. This threat is a top concern for national security experts because forced migration poses significant risks to international security and stability.
The magnitude of this threat depends heavily on how much the oceans rise in the coming decades. But because of the complex dynamics of massive ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, exact estimates remain elusive, ranging from just over a foot to several feet above current levels. That disparity is the difference between tens of millions of people forced from their homes or a much more unmanageable hundr
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Researchers have identified cracks growing across Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf and are warning that it will soon release an iceberg with an area twice the size of New York. It is not yet clear how the remaining ice shelf will respond following the break, posing an uncertain future for scientific infrastructure and human presence on the shelf. The growing cracks of this anomaly have prompted safety concerns for people working on it, particularly researchers at the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Halley Station.
An online service emulates its bigger social media rivals. Thu Dec 17, 2020 If you think that the Microsoft-owned social media platform LinkedIn is just about professional and business connections with no politics, you would be wrong. The online service appears now to be emulating its bigger social media rivals at Facebook, Google and Twitter in censoring views with which it disagrees. My second run-in with LinkedIn censors in as many months occurred recently, when they removed a post linking to a new CO2 Coalition paper on global temperatures. According to LinkedIn, the post was removed because it “goes against our Professional Community Policies.”