A green band labelled ‘corridor of life’ with markers for degrees Celsius at -6, -2, -1.5, -1, -0.5, 0, +0.5, +1, +1.5, +2. Correlated with those markers is an illustration representing an ice age at -6 and something approaching hothouse Earth at +2. Trees and greenery span the space in between with the Holocene highlighted as a strip spanning -0.5 to +0.5.

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1. Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 22:07:21 JST Jonathan Schofield

   As Valencia prepares itself for more rain https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/113417885855937114

   the rest of us would do well to understand that we are *daily* pushing ourselves outside what Johan Rockström calls “the corridor of life”, especially the geological ribbon of the Holocene in which human civilisation has been possible.

   The graphic shows the 14°C average that climate scientists use as the ‘zero’ baseline of the last 3 million years. The Holocene has been within +/- 0.5°C of that.

   Until now, when we are +1.45°C