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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mail
Carnivore influencer who only ate protein and dairy foods dies aged 66 - as tributes pour in from the wellness community
A fitness influencer who advocated eating a carnivore diet has died aged 66. Alex Cannon passed away on Sunday July 6, his family confirmed via social media on Thursday. The health enthusiast adopted the controversial lifestyle three years ago and said it helped him lose weight and improve his mental health. The diet involves only eating protein-rich foods such as meat, eggs, seafood, fish, some dairy products, and water and excludes any fruit or vegetables. In a statement on social media, his family said: 'It breaks our hearts to share that our Mum's soulmate and our wonderful Dad passed away peacefully in his sleep, on Sunday 6th July 'There are no words for the pain or the emptiness he's left behind. He was the one we all looked to, and losing him so unexpectedly has shaken our world in ways we still can't believe. 'Everyone who knew and loved him is welcome to come and join us in celebrating his life 'There will never be another like him. We miss him more than words can say Forever our Mum's rock. Forever our Dad. Forever our hero.' Tributes have poured for the retired civil servant underneath the touching tribute. Emma Flanagan said: 'He was such a wonderful person, the passion he always had on our event days was truly special! He was respected by so many within our swimming community. He will be so missed. 'I will be forever grateful for the times we shared on the road, poolside and revolutionising Swimming together. 'I'm sending you all my strength and love during this difficult time. Thinking of you, Soph and Alex.' While another called Alex 'a role model' and said: 'From being my Swim teacher, to my coach, to my colleague - but most importantly my friend. Dream team forever. 'Couldn't of asked for a better role model in so many ways, his impact on myself and others is one that will last forever. I am so sorry for your loss, there is no one quite like Alex xxx.' One of the most widely seen tributes was made by American carnivore influencer who goes by the name HomeSteadHow. In a video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, the vlogger said that Alex had passed away peacefully in his sleep. He added: 'At the request of his family I was honoured to put together a little video, a little tribute and some words for Alex to share the news with others.' He went on to add the family did not know what had caused Alex's sudden death and were awaiting a coroner's report. In the update, the YouTuber said: 'Alex's wife shared the coroner's report and update with me and we put together a statement that the family would like me to share so that's what I'm going to do here.' He went on to say: 'I wanted to share an important update especially for those who have been asking questions and expressing concern about the passing of Alex Cannon. According to the official coroner's report, Alex's death was related to a genetic heart condition. 'It was not linked to diet or lifestyle. The report indicated that his heart simply couldn't pump blood effectively due to a hereditary issue. He went on to say that 'many in the carnivore community looked up to Alex and were inspired by his incredible transformation and health journey.' 'This news may bring some peace of mind. His passing was not related to diet but something entirely out of his control.' The YouTuber added that the loss was 'beyond heartbreaking' and asked supporters to keep Alex's memory in their thoughts and prayers. Alex had been on the carnivore diet since 2022 and had attended and hosted talks on the controversial topic. In videos posted to his social media, the influencer revealed he had lost at least 47lbs and claimed he was 'the happiest I'd been for many many years'. In November 2023, he tried the 'lion diet challenge' which saw him drink water, take iodine, electrolytes and only eat meat. Since changing his diet he said he no longer had acid reflux or bloating and had stopped wearing size XL clothing, dropping down to a medium. Alex also claimed he had been on three blood pressure tablets before starting the diet but no longer needed them and said his sleep had improved and he didn't even snore anymore. He added: 'I've eliminated my mental health issues, my weight-loss issues and my physical health issues, I just feel like superman. The diet, which has been made popular by influencers including Joe Rogan, is not recommended by doctors who support a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables. Diets high in red meat have been linked to multiple health problems including heart disease and cancer and experts have also warned that carnivore diet proponents are at higher risk of conditions like scurvy and even cancer due to its lack of vitamin C and fibre.
South China Morning Post
11-02-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
‘Virtually certain' Earth has already breached 1.5-degree warming threshold
The world may have already missed its chance to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to two new studies in Nature Climate Change. The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, with 196 countries agreeing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions to keep the global average temperature increase to 'well below' 2 degrees and ideally cap it at 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times. The new analyses showed the world would surpass the latter, underscoring the urgent need to cut carbon emissions. 'Every increment of warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius means worse extremes,' said Alex Cannon, a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, and author of one of the studies. 'If we continue warming the atmosphere, consequences will be greater.' Steam rises from the coal-fired power plant in Germany. File photo: AP In 2024, global temperatures reached 1.5 degrees for the entire year, the first time it has happened in recorded history.
Japan Times
11-02-2025
- Science
- Japan Times
It's ‘virtually certain' the world has already breached 1.5 C
The world may have already missed its chance to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to two new studies in Nature Climate Change. The Paris Agreement was inked in 2015, with 196 countries agreeing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions to keep the global average temperature increase to "well below' 2 C and ideally cap it at 1.5 C compared to preindustrial times. The new analyses show the world will surpass the latter, underscoring the urgent need to cut carbon emissions. "Every increment of warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius means worse extremes,' said Alex Cannon, a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, and author of one of the studies. "If we continue warming the atmosphere, consequences will be greater.' In 2024, global temperatures reached 1.5 C for the entire year, the first time it's happened in recorded history. It was a stark departure from previous projections: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published just a year earlier suggested that temperatures would reach 1.5 C in the early 2030s if emissions weren't cut. The breach left scientists wondering, "is this a sign? Are these short-term exceedances above that level indicative of us actually reaching that target sooner than we expected?' said Cannon. The reason for those questions is because the Paris Agreement's 1.5 C threshold isn't focused on daily or even yearly temperatures. Instead, it's based on a 20-year retrospective average, which means the world won't know it's hit 1.5 C until after the fact. The two new studies attempt to get around that by using climate models to look ahead based on current data to see if we've already entered a 20-year period above 1.5 C. Cannon's study, and a separate study led by Emanuele Bevacqua, a climate scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany, both suggest that's exactly what's happened. "I pronounce the 1.5 C target mostly dead," Kate Marvel, a research physicist with NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies who was not part of either study, said in an email. "Yes, a single year over 1.5 C doesn't necessarily mean the average temperature over the next 20-year period is going to be 1.5 C,' she said, "but these papers make a pretty compelling case that in models, the first single year above 1.5 C is likely to fall within that 20-year period.' The findings are part of a growing body of research warning the world that its climate targets are increasingly out of reach and that heating is accelerating. In fact, this January was the hottest on record despite the cooling influence of an emerging La Nina. The new studies put the odds of being in the midst of a 20-year period where the Earth breaches 1.5 C to be somewhere between "likely' and "virtually certain.' Despite that, both Cannon and Bevacqua agree that heating can be arrested by drastically reducing fossil fuel use. But the chance of that happening is shrinking given the Trump administration's assault on climate action. Since taking office, his administration has taken steps to increase fossil fuel production and withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. Other world leaders are reportedly considering following suit, creating headwinds for the deep emissions cuts needed. The 1.5 C threshold was included in the Paris Agreement largely at the behest of small island developing states, many of which would be wiped off the map by sea level rise should the planet heat beyond it. More recent research has found that even at 1.5 C, small island developing states risk flooding from sea level rise. "Even if we reach the 1.5-degree global warming level threshold in the future, we should still aim to not exceed this too much or even make sure that this is our temporary exceedance so that we can stabilize the temperature and at some point cool the temperature,' said Bevacqua. That's been a rallying cry for years. The world, though, has failed to heed it as carbon pollution has continued to climb to record highs. "Rapid near-term emissions cuts can limit peak warming and reduce climate risks,' said Marvel. "Whether or not that merits action is not (just) for scientists to decide.'
The Independent
10-02-2025
- Science
- The Independent
Year above 1.5C suggests world is reaching long term warming threshold
A year with temperatures more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels mean it is likely the world is reaching the key long-term warming threshold, studies suggest. Under the global Paris climate treaty secured in 2015, countries agreed to limit global warming to 'well below' 2C and to pursue efforts to curb temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst impacts of extreme storms, floods, heatwaves, rising seas and the collapse of natural systems. But global datasets of temperatures have found a record hot 2024 saw temperatures exceed 1.5C over the year for the first time. Scientists caution that one year above 1.5C over pre-industrial levels does not mean the long-term threshold, measured over multiple decades, has been breached. But two studies published in the journal Nature Climate Change have found it is likely the year at 1.5C means the world is in the 20-year period where the long term threshold will be exceeded – or even that we have already crossed it. Scientists said the findings showed how urgently the world needed to act to cut the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, industrial processes and cutting down forests that are driving climate change. In his study, Alex Cannon, from the Climate Research Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada, said that a few months or couple of years warmer than 1.5C does not 'automatically mean the goal has been exceeded'. But analysis of climate model projections show that 12 consecutive months above 1.5C indicates the Paris Agreement threshold is likely to have already been crossed, he said. While an El Nino weather pattern in the tropical Pacific, which pushes up global temperatures, contributed to 2024's record heat, the analysis shows that 1.5C for 12 consecutive months – regardless of El Nino conditions – usually occurs after the long-term threshold has been reached in simulations, he said. The rate we have reached these levels is terrifying and shows, yet again, how urgently we need to act Vikki Thompson, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute He added that whether the findings signalled an earlier than expected crossing of the threshold in the real world depended on whether unaccounted-for factors, which are not considered in archived climate model simulations, played a large role in recent warming. In a second paper, scientists from Germany looked at real-world observations of already-reached warming levels and climate models, and showed that the first single year exceeding each threshold have consistently fallen with the first 20 year period which averaged the same level of warming. They found that 'unless ambitious emissions cuts are implemented', the world's first year at 1.5C warming is 'virtually certain' to fall within the 20-year period that reaches the 1.5C warming level. They said it was very unlikely for the temperature of a single year to largely exceed the long term average, and 2024's record heat signals that 'most probably' Earth has already entered a 20-year period at 1.5C warming, they said. Entering into the 20-year period in which temperatures averaged 1.5C did not mean that the world was already at long term warming of that level as that would fall in the mid point of the era, 10 years later, they added. And they said that by rapidly slowing down the warming rate, stringent near-term action to curb climate change has the potential to substantially reduce risks of exceeding 1.5C of warming soon after the first year of heat at that level has occurred. It does highlight that the headroom to stay below 1.5C is now wafer thin Professor Stephen Belcher, Met Office And rapid, urgent emissions action is needed to limit peak warming, which is also required to hold climate change below 2C if the 1.5 target is missed. 'A year above 1.5C is not the time for despair, but a call to action,' they said. Responding to the findings, Dr Alan Kennedy-Asser, senior research associate at the University of Bristol Cabot Institute for the Environment, described them as 'sadly unsurprising' which suggested 'we may be already living in the 1.5C world the Paris Agreement referred to'. 'However, even though the planet may be in a period that is at or exceeds 1.5C, there is great value in taking rapid action to slow further warming, as the rate of change matters and every tenth of a degree matters,' he said. Dr Vikki Thompson, scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, said: 'These studies use data from both observational sources and multiple climate models to show we should now expect to exceed the Paris Agreement within the next 20 years, much sooner than climate projections had suggested. 'The rate we have reached these levels is terrifying and shows, yet again, how urgently we need to act. 'Without adaptation and mitigation we will continue to feel the impacts of the accelerating warming with more and more extreme weather events,' she said. Professor Stephen Belcher, Met Office chief scientist, said a single year exceeding 1.5C 'does not break the guardrail of the Paris Agreement'. 'However, it does highlight that the headroom to stay below 1.5C is now wafer thin,' he said, warning that a recent paper by Met Office scientists calculated current global warming at 1.3C and its forecast for carbon dioxide for the coming year is now inconsistent with pathways keeping to 1.5C. 'This suggests that only rapid and strong measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions will keep us from passing the first line of defence within the Paris Agreement,' he said.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Year above 1.5C suggests world is reaching long term warming threshold
A year with temperatures more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels mean it is likely the world is reaching the key long-term warming threshold, studies suggest. Under the global Paris climate treaty secured in 2015, countries agreed to limit global warming to 'well below' 2C and to pursue efforts to curb temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst impacts of extreme storms, floods, heatwaves, rising seas and the collapse of natural systems. But global datasets of temperatures have found a record hot 2024 saw temperatures exceed 1.5C over the year for the first time. Scientists caution that one year above 1.5C over pre-industrial levels does not mean the long-term threshold, measured over multiple decades, has been breached. But two studies published in the journal Nature Climate Change have found it is likely the year at 1.5C means the world is in the 20-year period where the long term threshold will be exceeded – or even that we have already crossed it. Scientists said the findings showed how urgently the world needed to act to cut the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, industrial processes and cutting down forests that are driving climate change. In his study, Alex Cannon, from the Climate Research Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada, said that a few months or couple of years warmer than 1.5C does not 'automatically mean the goal has been exceeded'. But analysis of climate model projections show that 12 consecutive months above 1.5C indicates the Paris Agreement threshold is likely to have already been crossed, he said. While an El Nino weather pattern in the tropical Pacific, which pushes up global temperatures, contributed to 2024's record heat, the analysis shows that 1.5C for 12 consecutive months – regardless of El Nino conditions – usually occurs after the long-term threshold has been reached in simulations, he said. He added that whether the findings signalled an earlier than expected crossing of the threshold in the real world depended on whether unaccounted-for factors, which are not considered in archived climate model simulations, played a large role in recent warming. In a second paper, scientists from Germany looked at real-world observations of already-reached warming levels and climate models, and showed that the first single year exceeding each threshold have consistently fallen with the first 20 year period which averaged the same level of warming. They found that 'unless ambitious emissions cuts are implemented', the world's first year at 1.5C warming is 'virtually certain' to fall within the 20-year period that reaches the 1.5C warming level. They said it was very unlikely for the temperature of a single year to largely exceed the long term average, and 2024's record heat signals that 'most probably' Earth has already entered a 20-year period at 1.5C warming, they said. Entering into the 20-year period in which temperatures averaged 1.5C did not mean that the world was already at long term warming of that level as that would fall in the mid point of the era, 10 years later, they added. And they said that by rapidly slowing down the warming rate, stringent near-term action to curb climate change has the potential to substantially reduce risks of exceeding 1.5C of warming soon after the first year of heat at that level has occurred. And rapid, urgent emissions action is needed to limit peak warming, which is also required to hold climate change below 2C if the 1.5 target is missed. 'A year above 1.5C is not the time for despair, but a call to action,' they said. Responding to the findings, Dr Alan Kennedy-Asser, senior research associate at the University of Bristol Cabot Institute for the Environment, described them as 'sadly unsurprising' which suggested 'we may be already living in the 1.5C world the Paris Agreement referred to'. 'However, even though the planet may be in a period that is at or exceeds 1.5C, there is great value in taking rapid action to slow further warming, as the rate of change matters and every tenth of a degree matters,' he said. Dr Vikki Thompson, scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, said: 'These studies use data from both observational sources and multiple climate models to show we should now expect to exceed the Paris Agreement within the next 20 years, much sooner than climate projections had suggested. 'The rate we have reached these levels is terrifying and shows, yet again, how urgently we need to act. 'Without adaptation and mitigation we will continue to feel the impacts of the accelerating warming with more and more extreme weather events,' she said. Professor Stephen Belcher, Met Office chief scientist, said a single year exceeding 1.5C 'does not break the guardrail of the Paris Agreement'. 'However, it does highlight that the headroom to stay below 1.5C is now wafer thin,' he said, warning that a recent paper by Met Office scientists calculated current global warming at 1.3C and its forecast for carbon dioxide for the coming year is now inconsistent with pathways keeping to 1.5C. 'This suggests that only rapid and strong measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions will keep us from passing the first line of defence within the Paris Agreement,' he said.
