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Ben See

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Ben See

@ClimateBen

Literature Teacher sharing info/news on Rapid Extinction & Earth Systems Collapse. Urging radical, systemic, political-economic change to try to limit the doom.

Paris, France

Joined January 2018

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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Mar 9, 2019
Remember: 1. The oceans are being killed. 2. Forests will soon be gone. 3. Fertile soil is disappearing. 4. Megafauna risk extermination. 5. Insects are vanishing. 6. Climate chaos is inevitable. 7. Extinction is now. 8. Plastic is in our blood. None of this is front page news.
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Aug 20, 2019
Remember: 1. The Amazon is burning 2. The Arctic's on fire 3. The Oceans are boiling 4. The Coral reefs are dying 5. Greenland is melting 6. Permafrost is collapsing 7. Antarctica is heating 8. Ecosystems are crashing 9. Earth is turning to desert 10. Emissions are accelerating
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Jul 4, 2020
Did you know that over 90% of climate scientists think global warming will be so severe by 2038 or so that we'll hit temperatures shown to be hot enough to wreck the basic crops humanity relies upon for decent survival, or do you get your information from ad-dependent newspapers?
Ben See
@ClimateBen
May 14, 2019
Remember: 1. Giraffes🦒 2. Elephants🐘 3. Tigers🐅 4. Gorillas🦍 5. Rhinos🦏 6. Koalas🐨 7. Sharks🦈 8. Bats 🦇 9. Lions🦁 10. Hedgehogs🦔 11. Eagles🦅 11. Camels🐫 12. Whales🐋 13. Butterflies🦋 14. Zebras🦓 15. Pandas 🐼 16. Bees🐝 17. Penguins🐧 are all endangered.💔
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Mar 19, 2022
BREAKING: simultaneous freakish heat in the Arctic and Antarctic described as 'impossible' and 'unthinkable' by scientists as abrupt climate change accelerates wildly 🧵
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Nov 17, 2024
BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Aug 28, 2024
The planet you think you're living on no longer exists.
Prof. Jason Box ⚡️
@climate_ice
Aug 27, 2024
south Greenland is where ice is retreating about as fast as anywhere
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Nov 1, 2019
Remember: 🇹🇭 Bangkok 🇵🇭 Manila 🇮🇳 Mumbai 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 🇮🇩 Jakarta 🇪🇬 Alexandria 🇫🇯 Fiji 🇧🇩 Chittagong 🇰🇮 Kiribati 🇮🇶 Basrah 🇲🇻 The Maldives 🇨🇦 Vancouver 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Skegness 🇸🇨 Seychelles 🇫🇷 La Rochelle 🇮🇩 Surabaya 🇬🇾 Georgetown 🇳🇱 Amsterdam 🇨🇳 Shanghai All underwater by 2035.
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Jul 2, 2024
BREAKING: scientists warn we're beginning to feel the effects of a geologically instantaneous 21st century shift into extreme and unsurvivable conditions 🧵
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
May 28, 2022
BREAKING: new UN report warns of total societal collapse due to ecosystem destruction without radical changes 🧵
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Aug 22, 2022
BREAKING: heatwave in China described as worst in world climatic history 🧵
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Dec 5, 2019
Remember: 1. hottest June ever: 2019 2. hottest July ever: 2019 3. hottest August ever: 2016 4. hottest September ever: 2019 5. hottest October ever: 2019 6. hottest November ever: 2019 7. world record hottest month: 2019 The planet you think you're living on no longer exists.
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Apr 24, 2021
Remember: 1. Global crop failures by 2°C. 2. Most humans dead by 4°C. 3. Earth uninhabitable by 6°C. 4. We risk 2°C by 2035. 5. We risk 4°C by 2065. 6. We risk 6°C by 2095. One tweet is worth a million newspaper front pages.
Ben See
@ClimateBen
Aug 1, 2025
The planet you think you're living on no longer exists.
Met4Cast - UK Weather
@Met4CastUK
Aug 1, 2025
This is absolutely astonishing & historic. Finland has recorded 20 consecutive days of temperatures >30°C. The previous record was 13 days in 1972.
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