@Quillette with some very big claims on environment issues in order to push his new book sales. Here’s a thread on the accuracy of these claims. @EcoEye
#energytwitter #climatetwitter @gimenezbarbat @BlairKing_ca
False (unfortunately) - this statement completely misrepresents the view of actual scientists in the field.
“Although biologists are still debating how much the current extinction rate exceeds the background rate,
In fact, some studies show that the interacting conditions experienced today, such as accelerated climate change, changing atmospheric composition caused
All these conditions together indicate that a sixth mass extinction is already well underway.” sciencealert.com/here-s-how-bio…
True - But this statement was never meant literally. Saying that without recognising that the Amazons health is critically important to biosphere health seems to suggest an agenda in how that statement is framed.
False - The Earth is over 1C (MST) warmer due to anthropogenic climate change, this has an attribution effect on all extreme weather situations. And the science is becoming clear that this is now measurable.
Extreme weather disasters are likely to get worse as the planet warms further.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Risin…
- Half true. At the global scale, burned area has decreased in recent decades, largely due to clearing of savannahs for agriculture and increased fire suppression.
sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/…
True - but this contraction is mostly in arid regions where scrubland was used for extensive low impact grazing. Some of the declines in these regions
- False it’s definitely both.
nature.com/articles/d4158…
- True, but only for direct emissions. Offshoring of emissions of manufacture to China etc is one of the biggest reasons for this decline.
- The Netherlands became rich for many reasons, mostly banking and monetary policy and over a long period of developing social structures. Ten of thousands have died in flooding events in The
bbc.com/news/science-e…
- Half true, food production will rise in some areas in the short and medium-term and decline in other areas in the short, medium and land term.
- Half true, habitat loss and hunting are societal problems that can mostly be solved today. AGW will go on for a long time, it’s unclear what is a bigger threat
-Mostly true, However, developed countries like Sweden forest thinning are used to heat homes instead of coal there are co-benefits with local employment, local produce and obvious Co2 savings over FF's
- Speculative, but mostly true. Industrial agriculture has little to do with eating bats but could indirectly be a part of the solution of reducing wildlife encroachment.