This chart shows today's temperature rise sitting completely outside 2,000 years of natural variation — proof this isn't a cycle. And it's been 120,000 years since it's been this hot! Send it to any rep who still treats the warming itself as up for debate.

This image pins global warming's cause directly on fossil fuel emissions, leaving no room for the 'natural cycles' excuse. Send it to any rep still leaning on that line.

This chart is direct proof that our rising global temperatures result from burning fossil fuels, as predicted in 1896 by Svante Arrhenius. Send it to any rep who still treats the cause as up for debate.

It has become clear in the last 15 years that a fundamental change is underway: global heating is accelerating. Since the 1970s, the heating rate had been steady at about 0.2°C per decade. Over the last 10 years, it has doubled to about 0.4°C per decade. Emissions are the cause! We are now at 1.5°C above pre-industrial times, where the Paris Agreement set the goal; with this acceleration, we could hit 2.0°C by 2038 and 2.5+°C by mid-century if we don't stop fossil fuel emissions.

This image lays out the actual mechanism: greenhouse gases from emissions trap heat and are already driving the changes we're seeing. Send it to any rep who wants the 'how,' not just the 'that.'

This chart captures our assessment that, if we keep on our current emissions trajectory, major areas of the planet will likely become virtually uninhabitable this half of our century. Resources may be fought for and large populations displaced. Global stability is at greater risk from Global Heating.

This chart captures historic data and couples it with IPCC scenarios. We have added a direct extrapolation of actual emissions trends, and it doesn't look good. If we don't severely cut emissions, we are likely to endure devastating impacts by mid-century. And the likelihood of adequately cutting emissions through human behavioral changes, to achieve what is considered the upper limit of reasonable living (2°C), is assessed by us as not credible.

This chart shows actual emissions data and a reasonable extrapolation (our trajectory) into the future. Compare that with the IPCC scenarios which can hope to keep the global temperature rise to under 2C. Clearly, drastic emissions reductions are required: 45% by 2040! We need Leaders in Congress to educate the public and to make this happen immediately.

Global Heating drives intensifying and more erratic weather. Rapidly melting polar ice causes the poles to absorb more sunlight and heat faster. This uneven warming slows down global air currents, weakening the jet stream. In addition, warmer air holds more water. The Result: More erratic and intense weather patterns, droughts, and flooding. And the rate of heating from burning fossil fuels is now accelerating.

This chart presents two major impacts of climate change. Wacky weather including more powerful hurricanes together with sea level rise bring more extreme sea level events already. Also, looking to the future with our current trajectory, we may well endure enormous sea level rise directly from the heating of water and melting of ground-based ice, and indirectly from tipping points likely to occur this century.

This chart keys off the IPCC assessment that on our current trajectory large currently inhabited regions of the earth may not be livable this century. Our assessment is that global societal disruption is likely by mid-century without immediate drastic reductions of emissions.

It's easy to neglect that our behaviors (even beyond direct destruction of ecosystems) will lead to massive destruction of species, particularly in the lower-latitudes of our planet. In addition to human incompatibility from heat/humidity, plants and animals can't live there either, unless we change our trajectory.

On our current emissions trajectory, it will be harder and harder to survive in the low latitudes around the equator, both from direct health impacts from heat/humidity on humans and from species extinctions. Our assessment is that global migrations and disruptions will happen by mid-century unless we immediately and drastically cut emissions from the use of fossil fuels.

Humans have always thrived best in the "Human Climate Niches" depicted in Globaia. Those regions have already started to move with global heating. Billions will need to move away from the white regions this century, on our current trajectory.

The IPCC has captured the generational impacts in this graphic. Note that our current fossil emissions trajectory is already putting us in the high to very high range for temperatures and their impacts. Major disruptions can be expected for a child born today in their early decades of life, unless we drastically and immediately change course.

This chart shows the region of temperature increases (above 2C) judged as too high for global stability. We are on the road to major impacts unless we keep the temperature rise down, which requires immediate drastic cuts to fossil emissions.

Global heating takes a severe physical health toll on pregnancies, both on the fetus and the mother. Already high-risk days have increased by as much as 30 or more in places like Florida.

It's become increasingly obvious that our behaviors in many fronts are more than can be sustained by the planet. The Planetary Boundaries project is quantifying the impacts and climate change has put us far out into the danger zone. Fossil emissions are the reason.

We appear to have crossed our first major tipping point - the inevitable destruction of the planet's coral reefs because of global heating. The warming waters and acidification are causing widespread destruction already. Even urgent cuts in emissions likely won't recover these critical resources.

We rarely think about it but the biggest negative impacts on the planet are caused by the behaviors and investments of the most wealthy. We must bring this to their and society's awareness to influence behaviors and decisions.

Wake up and notice that the world has fundamentally changed since 1950 - and we have to find totally new ways to deal with our problems. This includes the realities of global heating and climate change. We can't go back and the problems are far harder than before.

Hurricanes are hitting harder and faster because of global heating, to the point that adding a Category 6 is under discussion. Disaster Preparedness is not just for this hurricane season!

For all their current and potential benefits, data centers are strongly and directly exacerbating climate change. Virtually all new data centers are powered with fossil fuels, including even coal - directly increasing emissions, resulting in additional global heating. POLICY LEADERS are desperately needed!