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Oct 2, 2020 8 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Okay I have listened to the announcement and double checked previous promises, announcements and GHG numbers. Response to the @bcndp @jjhorgan @GeorgeHeyman climate promises made today THREAD/ #bcpoli #BCelxn2020
Committing to increase climate ambition net-zero by 2050 is important but there are announcements and targets and there are actions and budgets. Our emissions in BC are going up and fossil fuel subsidies to expand fracking and LNG in BC have increased 79% under this government
.@jjhorgan emphasized new tech & offsets...really worrying. We need those technologies to reduce pollution already trapped in our atmosphere not to justify more pollution. Any leader serious about climate they will rule out the use of offsets & trading schemes to meet our targets
Canadian Energy Regulator data shows pollution from fracking & LNG in BC are going up. By 2050 if @lngcanada goes ahead those emissions – just from fracking & LNG production will exceed our 2050 targets by 160% - even if the rest of the economy goes net zero by 2050.
If the plan is to just buy offsets that means Billions in tax payers dollars will be spent to try & meet our targets & other sectors of economy will have to do more so that we allow oil & gas companies to pollute more & expand. That's not fair or smart when demand is declining
You just can't meet those 2050 targets & build fracked LNG projects that increase emissions.During COVID we have heard, "listen to the science, act early to bend the curve." if we do the same thing on climate all parties would table plans to reduce emissions now from all sectors
Data shows BC emissions have gone up, largely because @bcliberals policies. @bcndp is better plan & likely the best in the country but it needs a bigger budget, sectoral targets that make sure oil & gas does their fair share, no offsets or credits schemes & no fossil subsidies
This year the @bcndp @jjhorgan government spent about $1 Billion on subsidies to fracking & LNG. Thats twice as much as they spent on their plan to fight climate change and 4X what the oil & gas co's paid in royalties.stand.earth/latest/Canada-…

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Dec 11, 2023
🧵 What we have been seeing in the #cop28 negotiations can be summarized as the good, the bad, and the ugly. 1/6 Image
The good: many countries have had strong statements in support of a phase out of fossil fuels in line with science and the 1.5ºC target, and a full phase out of fossil fuel subsidies. 2/6
The bad: terms like 'phase down', 'unabated' and 'inefficient'. These are not just terms, it's a tactic being used by the fossil fuel industry to ensure that they can continue to grow production despite clear science on the need for *absolute* emissions & production decline. 3/6
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Oct 11, 2023
🚨💀Lethal heat, heat extremes beyond human experience just some of the terrifying terms and definitions in new research just out by scientists at Penn State & Perdue.🧑‍🔬

Climate change will expose billions to heat & humidity so extreme their bodies simply cannot cope.

🧵 1/19
They took new “survivability limit” measurements for heat and humidity, and combined those with climate models.

The results are profoundly disturbing. Humanity is *much* more vulnerable than we previously thought.

2/19
There’s a limit to what the human body can handle.

“Uncompensable heat stress” happens when it’s no longer possible to cool down. Core body temperature rises continuously.

This is already happening in some places but will increase dramatically as we breach 2°C or 3°C.

3/19
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Aug 19, 2023
No a carbon tax won’t stop wildfires but it helps. Let me spell out the connection for you. Close to 90% of the emissions trapped in our atmosphere causing climate change are from oil, gas and coal. 🧵#cdnpoli
These pollutants trapped in our atmosphere creating a blanket that smothers the earth. This in turn heats up the earth causing extreme weather, flooding, droughts and yes more extreme and frequent wildfires. 2/
Numerous scientific reports have warned of a surge in severity and frequency of wildfires due to climate change 3/ nytimes.com/2022/02/23/cli…
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May 29, 2023
Debunked!

Exxon Mobile claims carbon capture tech can wipe its excessive emissions clean. But that's a dirty ploy to keep expanding fossil fuels in a world on fire (and get even more subsidisies to do it.) 🧵 Image
See for yourself. Even the oil giant's own sustainability report indicates how inflated and fantastical these claims are. Carbon capture (in red) nowhere near compensates for rising ad reckless fossil fuel emissions. Image
CCS is a delay tactic used to ramp up production. It does nothing to reduce the 80-90% of emissions generated from a barrel of oil downstream at the customer end. It does nothing to capture other pollutants. nationalobserver.com/2022/09/27/opi…
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Feb 8, 2023
Let me get this straight.

Oil companies are raking in billions in profits that they're using to lobby govs into funding more oil projects that will make higher profits (and kill us all) and we’re still inviting them to climate negotiations to be *checks notes* ...realistic??? 🧵
In my reality, here on Earth, the planet is rapidly warming because of fossil fuel emissions and we’re running out of time to fix it. We need strong action to transition to 100% renewables.

The oil companies themselves won’t get us there. Just look at their track record.
Big Oil has raked in billions in the past year while the rest of us were weighed down by rising costs of food, energy, and housing. They’ve profited off an affordability crisis, proving the only thing that matters to them is their bottom line.
theguardian.com/business/2022/…
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Nov 7, 2022
Debt forgiveness is instrumental to halting construction in the Amazon.

It MUST be understood as a leading driver of deforestation & degradation. Latin America is the most indebted emerging region on the planet. 🧵
According to data from ECLAC, the gross debt of governments averages 78% of regional GDP. Total debt service alone represents 59% of its exports of goods and services.

This puts pressure on governments to approve those oil, mining, and agriculture ventures that fuel destruction.
The Amazonia is the midst of a tipping point crisis as deforestation and high degradation combined have already reached 26% of the region. This has generated violence with the assassinations of Indigenous leaders and environmental defenders.
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