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17 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
In the meantime in Oregon, NW-US. Massive wildfire already burned 1,080 km².
And in northern California, fears are that 'dry lightning' will ignite new fires tomorrow.
Smoke over North America.
Oregon's #BootlegFire still eating its way east. Now 1,210 km² burned, evacuations ongoing.

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18 Jul
If you want to attack the #EUGreenDeal and #Fitfor55, focus on the cost and leave out the benefits. Even better: only look at investment costs and leave out annual (fossil fuel) cost savings too. We can see this recipe being applied in many places now.
Then: all of a sudden, care a lot about poor people, and frame them as the victims, even though #Fitfor55 has specific proposals to prevent that. By some mental gymnastics, pretend that said poor people have SUVs and travel by plane.
And of course, nurture the myth of the EC as a huge bureaucracy (in reality, it's one of the leanest civil services around), and suggest it can force the package on us (while in real life this has to be approved both by a parliament we chose and by our national governments).
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14 Jul
Reading the EC's #Fitfor55 communication now. Thread.
Good to see biodiversity mentioned in line 1!
"We are at a pivotal moment in the world's response to the climate and biodiversity emergencies and we are the last generation that can still act in time."
.. and multiple benefits in paragraph 2:
"We all share in the benefits of more space for nature, cleaner air, cooler and greener towns and cities, healthier citizens, lower energy use and bills, as well as new jobs, technologies and industrial opportunities."
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14 Jul
EC press conference on its big Fit for 55 program (to meet the 2030 emissions reduction target) about to start. Follow it live here: audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/ebs/live/1 Image
EVP Frans @TimmermansEU leads the EU Green Deal development.
Commissioners speaking:
Kadri Simson, Energy
Paolo Gentiloni, Economy
Adina Valean, Transport
Virginijus Sinkevicius, Environment
Janusz Wojciechowski, Agriculture
"About to start" was a bit optimistic; EC's #Fitfor55 press conference now scheduled to start at 14:15 CET.
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12 Jul
This time it's London. Sloane Square tube station flooding after torrential rain hit the city.
Not a lot of data around, but Roehampton in SW-London received 31 mm of rain in an hour. Image
This from SW London today:
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24 Jun
The US (+14.2 GW) added 1/3 more new wind capacity than the EU (+10.5 GW) last year.
However, the US uses almost 50% more electricity than the EU (4,100 vs 2,800 TWh), so relative to its total consumption, the EU still added more wind capacity than the US.
Both need to grow capacity additions rapidly to meet their climate targets.
The 2020 wind capacity additions in the US and the EU were roughly enough to take over 1% of their electricity consumption. In the US, wind now provides 8% of all electricity; in the EU, its share is around 15%.
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22 Jun
First 100 tonnes of steel produced with hydrogen instead of fossil fuels: @ssab, @LKABgroup and @VattenfallGroup first in the world with hydrogen-reduced sponge iron.

lkab.com/en/news-room/p…
I don't think the iron ore cared a lot about the hydrogen's origin, but this is a great step towards renewables-based primary steel production!
For background: the first step in steel production is turning iron ore into iron. That involves removing the oxygen atoms from the iron oxides, aka 'reducing' those. That's the role of cokes (coal) in blast iron furnaces, now taken over by hydrogen. So it's not just a fuel here.
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