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27 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The US elections are now climate elections, as Trump focuses on discrediting Biden's statement about transitioning from oil to renewable energy. It's the fossil fuel lobby versus sensible climate policy. The 20th Century pitched against the 21st. (1/🧵)
Stopping #GlobalWarming is only possible by getting beyond fossil fuels. All nations on this planet agreed in Paris to stop warming well below 2°C. Most of the fossil fuel resources must remain in the ground for that. 2/🧵
China plans to be climate neutral by 2060. Japan, Canada and the EU by 2050. The world is getting out of coal, oil and gas. Trying to scandalise this while the country burns and is ravaged by storms and rising seas, is about as smart as recommending to drink disinfectant. 3/🧵
Trying to delay the transition away from fossil energy only makes things worse. I sincerely hope US voters are clever enough to recognise that. Because we're all in this together. The fate of the world depends on US voters, more than ever before. 4/🧵

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News about the death of the Greenland Ice Sheet is greatly exaggerated. What the new paper shows is an observed increase in solid ice discharge into the ocean, which has been at a higher rate than before during the past 15 years. The authors basically say: if this continues, ...
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11 Aug
Gern, aber was genau ist der Fehler? In ihrem Artikel greifen Sie die Grafik ja nur mit zwei Falschbehauptungen an. @AxelBojanowski 1/🧵
Erstens, sie sei nicht in der Fachliteratur publiziert. Stimmt nicht. Sogar sehr prominent, seit vier Jahren, viel zitiert, und ich habe in der Zeit keine Kritik dazu gehört. Ein Fachjournalist sollte das nicht verpasst haben. 2/🧵
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Beim Herunterspielen der #Erderwärmung hat die "Welt" offenbar jedes Maß verloren. Sie bezichtigt in Trump-Manier das ZDF der “Desinformation“. Nur weil das ZDF es gewagt hat, eine völlig korrekte Klimadatengrafik zu zeigen. @welt 1/🧵
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How can you tell who is a real scientist in the public debate? Scientists do research to find out new things, and document results in peer-reviewed journals. Relevant results are cited in other research articles, and this gets documented in data bases like Web of Science. 1/🧵 Image
My example graph shows some climate scientists who are prominent in public debate, e.g. on Twitter. My point is not ranking or exact numbers, just the fact that the work of experienced climate scientists tends to have been cited thousands of times in other research articles. 2/🧵
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Without words.
One man has words for this:
"Slow the testing down, please!"
Spoken at what may well turn out to be a super-spreader event.
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