When reseach shows global GDP will fall by 16% when we pass the 2° mark (on current trajectory in 16 years) then this is why.
Reminder the situation in #PortoAlegre is playing out in the context of +1.3°C (latest 5-year average) and +1.63°C 12-month running mean above preindustrial.
Climate alarm for Brazil. Extreme weather is getting worse, the current floods in Rio Grande do Sul have made millions homeless and killed 200 people. According to the UN, Brazil already has 750,000 internal climate refugees, a number set to rise sharply. https://nos.nl/l/2521499 #ClimateChange#extremeweather#floods#brazil
Point of view from a 🇧🇷 Brazilian volunteer (with Ukraine), fighting in Kreminna forest, #Luhansk region. Russian barbarians fires towards them but misses, they answer with a AT rocket. More Russian fertilizer.
A drone view shows Coca-Cola boxes and bottles floating in the water near trucks, amid flooding in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
In response to the disaster caused by the floods in Rio Grande do Sul, #Brazil 🇧🇷, we need the support of the #OSM community to continue mapping and validating our tasks in Encantado and Cruzeiro do Sul. → http://bit.ly/TM-BRRS