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Jeff McFadden

3 Nov, 9 tweets, 3 min read

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I seriously wonder what the people participating in the COP event are thinking.
They're as full of shit as a Christmas goose. They're telling the same lies they've been telling all along.
Do they know they're not telling the truth?
I don't know

The reason I want to start here again is, theoretically we know - our leaders in government and academy, we - that climate change is already out of hand.
Didn't the IPCC tell us that a few months ago?
I mean, yeah, Donald Trump and all that shit, but -
The IPCC puts out reports.

3. And all the world leaders and their pet technocrats flew to Scotland to talk about it, and it's *all*...
Increasing emissions now.
Not by a little. By a lot.
Increasing fossil fuel use now. To make things which, we are assured, will reduce our emissions ☁️ 🌪️ someday 🌪️☁️

4. Vapor and hot air.
Some of these people are young. Trudeau. Marcon.
What would make a young person push for massive emissions increases?
Is it true you can run a modern nation and not know that making things requires energy?

5. Joe Biden talks all the time about his grandkids, and loving them.
They're going to live through Hell on Earth, unless they're lucky and die young.
What are those people doing?

All of this graph is during my personal life time.
At the very left hand edge of this graph, just before 1960 - that's when Congress passed the Interstate Highway act.
Just over 300 ppm CO2, against a historic base of 280.
We did all that in my life. Building and driving. All.

7. And all these motherfuckers in Scotland are talking about reducing some part of - never mind, I can't stand it.
If you want to reduce emissions, you burn less fuel. And every one of them knows that. And every one of them doesn't give a fuck.
1 gallon gasoline = 22 lbs CO2.

8. Why do I care?
Because I am kin to all of life.
These motherfuckers are killing my family.
And almost nobody, in the whole developed world, cares enough to slow down by 5 mph.
So we hold meetings.
And lie about it.
China makes solar panels to feed the lie.
And CO2 to feed ⚰️

4. Is it true you can run a modern nation and not know that making things requires energy?
All the hot air coming out of COP26 will never cut even as much CO2 as was emitted flying there. And back.
Never.
It's all lies.
And it's already pretty damn warm.
Oh well.

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I seriously wonder what the people participating in the COP event are thinking.
They're as full of shit as a Christmas goose. They're telling the same lies they've been telling all along.
Do they know they're not telling the truth?
I don't know.

2. I suspect that if every fueled activity on Earth stopped except the war machines & "Defense" departments of the US, Russia, and China, those three alone would continue to accelerate and increase atmospheric carbon numbers.

3. I bet if every car was parked forever, but we kept war and international trade, just those to machines would continue to accelerate climate change.
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I've taken the day, before now, off Twitter.
If I had a human community here I wouldn't "need" social media. Social media is only necessary in a dead society.
I wish I were Amish. They are the last surviving cohesive community in America, maybe in the developed world.

2. The Amish chose to not accept tractors and cars specifically because they had the wisdom to see that it would tear their community apart, the power to travel away, the power to not need your neighbors.
We shoot each other instead.
I massively do not belong in developed America

3. I'm tired, tireder than you could possibly imagine, of being the sole voice for reducing fuel use in the present and immediate future. Tired of hearing the pushback, tired of making my case, tired of speaking for physics and facts. It's not worth doing in techno America
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2. You don't need to tell me people won't this is impossible, I got all that.
This is only if we actually wanted to combat climate change, which we don't.
If we wanted to combat climate change we would take action to reduce emissions now.
Lots of obvious ways, but speed > all.

3. From here I could proceed several different ways.
My focus on speed is a giant yawner. Everyone is like, yeah, right, let's do something *big*. Slowing down isn't worth the effort.
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