@dpcarrington@guardianeco As @wim_carton et al say it's vital to see NETs such as DAC as a "continuity in the carbon removal discussion and calls for more engagement with existing social science scholarship on the subject."
@dpcarrington@guardianeco@wim_carton We must also be alert as @mclaren_erc et al warn of the tendency towards "exaggerating the expected future contribution of negative emissions in climate models, while also obscuring the extent & pace of the investment needed to deliver negative emissions"
As @JamesGDyke has explained recently in this excellent talk "techno-optimist" fantasies of DAC are another discourse of delay being deployed to kick climate action down the road.
It's vital that @guardianeco don't get sucked in and reproduce this!
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A couple of weeks ago @ChathamHouse, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, published a crucial new ‘Climate change Risk Assessment’, which barely made the papers let alone the front pages.
As stated on the cover of the report we have now reached a stage in the #climatecrisis where:
“The risks are compounding, and without immediate action the impacts will be devastating” 2/n
The report highlights that failure to act means that “cascading climate impacts can be expected to cause higher mortality rates, drive political instability and greater national insecurity, and fuel regional & international conflict” 3/n
It is increasingly clear that there's now a concerted effort under way in parts of the British press to derail action on the #ClimateEmergency.
This🧵highlights key examples & shows how the main arguments are textbook #ClimateDelay 1/n
Remember, this follows years of the same papers pedalling climate denial. Denial is no longer an option, we’ve entered a new phase of predatory delay as defined by @AlexSteffen... 2/n
I recently watched #BreakingBoundaries on @Netflix and have rather mixed views about it. Here is a short🧵on what I perceived were some of its pros and cons…
First the pros. It is one of the few environmental documentaries that sets out to cover the full breadth of the #EcologicalCrisis we are in. Climate is properly placed as just one of the many extremely serious threats we face from environmental degradation.
This film therefore makes it clear that the question of sustainability is far FAR larger than simply about how we can reduce carbon emissions to net-zero.
I’m thrilled to announce @CharlieJGardner@RowlandsonWill@JKSteinberger & my new paper in @FrontSustain on the role of universities in facilitating academic advocacy and activism in the climate and ecological emergency. Here's a short🧵on key points 1/n
Responding to decades of failure & inaction from governments despite ever starker warnings, academics are increasingly joining peaceful civil disobedience movements, the necessity which is set out by @CharlieJGardner & Dr. Claire Wordley 3/n
On face value this is a clear sign of progress, yet another part of UK print news media rejecting climate denial for climate action, but is this 'rehabilitation' really something to celebrate? 2/n
As @AlexSteffen has argued climate denial is facet of "predatory delay" by vested interests designed to undermine climate action. It was never intended to entirely halt climate action, but to slow it for as long as possible. 3/n