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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” – the geological ribbon of the Holocene in which human civilisation has been possible.

The graphic below 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