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10 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Today @exxonmobil is hit (and rightly so) for it's plans to expand emissions while @bp_plc and @Shell are moving beyond oil. But when I go to @Reuters world website, exactly half of all paid content is from Saudi @Aramco and it's the most blatant greenwashing I've ever seen.
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"For some, the idea of an oil and gas company positively contributing to the climate challenge is a contradiction. We don't think so."

So Saudi Aramco is keeping it in the ground?

Ah, no. They emit a few % less because their oil is easy to pump up.
aramco.com/en/making-a-di…
But no large new projects then surely?

On the contrary!

Their latest climate change causing project to pump up oil is "A triumph of engineering, nature and human spirit".

We are supposed to celebrate with them I think.
aramco.com/who-we-are/meg…
Cars will of course still drive on oil but with "innovative fuel formulations". Because "their research shows" that's really important.

And guess what: they manage to mention electric vehicles ZERO times in a piece on future transport technologies.
aramco.com/en/creating-va… Image
It just goes on and on and on.

Bottom line: they will pump up as much oil as possible for forever and they *love* it.

Oh and somehow they also "contribute positively to climate change".

Well, I'm indeed positive that they contribute to climate change. A lot.

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12 Jun
A new blogpost claiming it takes nonsensically long for an EV to negate its battery production by overestimating battery production and underestimating battery lifetime.
This time by @Go_Rozen.

Let me do a quick debunk. blog.gorozen.com/blog/exploring…
If you see this nonsense popping up in your timeline, please do your part of cleaning up the Internet by attaching this thread.

Special thanks to @shabbad for alerting me.
I've previously published about the usual errors in reports on emissions of electric vehicles (EVs) here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The blogpost by @Go_Rozen focuses on making the two most basic ones: 1) overestimating battery manufacturing, and 2) underestimating battery lifetime Image
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26 May
A new 'policy brief' for the Victorian Government in Australia has convinced them to create a road tax for EVs.

It wrongfully claims EVs emit more CO2.

If you follow me you know that's not true so I guess I have to do another debunk.
It's written by a group of architects and urban designers dreaming of a city with less cars who are apparently afraid that electric vehicles (EVs) will delay phasing out gas guzzlers.

My problem: they spread misinformation about EVs.
fionapatten.com.au/news/electric-…
They claim a full life cycle analysis (LCA) shows EVs emit more CO2 based on Hawkins et al from 2012 (!).

I know this study well. I'm even credited in the correction you find when you search for the article. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ji…
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25 May
Livetweeting the inaugural lecture of my pal @ReintJanRenes of the @HvA about "the climate split".

He's an expert in behavior and climate and important researcher in 'my' NEONresearch.nl.

He starts with a round table with the rector of the HvA, and @helgavanleur and...
Amsterdam councilor or sustainability @mvdoorninck explains her run in with NIMBY and windmills. Love that she says this is the biggest transition since the industrial revolution. Agree 100%. And of course the point that everybody must have a say in this enormous transition.
More information in the booklet that I will link to later

What he WILL tell:

Why climate is important?

Why behavior is important?

Why changing behavior is so hard?

What can we (and @ReintJanRenes and his group) and do about it.
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20 May
Yesterday there was another (Dutch) documentary about the abysmal situation of most miners in Congo (some of them children). I think drawing attention to this is good but the format and answers where misguided and counterproductive.
npostart.nl/waarde-van-de-…
The formula of the program is the usual:
1) Appeal to emotion and stoke revulsion at child labour to get people outraged
2) Interview experts who have 'dirt'
3) Appoint some super indirect random scapegoats that you can get on camera and have a 'brave' interviewer confront them
I know: it's the outrage that counts. Truth and solutions are of secondary interest. But let's look at those too.
The solution the programs seems to suggest is: never buy from people implicated in child labour or corruption.
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17 May
The @guardian made headlines Sunday by erroneously announding (while misquoting a confused John Kerry) that half of the technology we need to reduce emissions still needs to be invented.

In truth all the tech is there but some of it needs to mature.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
That is actually very good news because immature basically means it will get much cheaper as we scale up.

For example: solar cells have become >100x cheaper in the last 50 years.
So the way I would have put it:

"Over 50% of the reductions will come from young technology that will become massively cheaper as we scale it up.

This is important because most forecasters keep pretending the tech is already mature in the sense that costs reductions will stop."
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16 May
Question twitter. Does it also bother you that the formula for many superhero movies seems to be: moral characters kan kill anything that comes at them with a gun but never the psychopaths that keep sending them to their deaths.

Makes the 'moral' characters very immoral to me.
Case in point: most of the X-men movies (what the hell is wrong with all the people letting Stryker live?) but thank god for deadpool I guess.
Something else that never ceases to amaze me: showing a nippel or using a swear word being a bigger problem that thoughtlessly going into a scene where you kill many (expendable?) people with guns.

Call me uncivilized but I think killing is worse than making love.
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