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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
We'll need to halve our use of electricity, cut levels of flying, shipping, cement, cows and sheep according to Julian Allwood of @Cambridge_Eng.

And that's for net zero 2050, which is way too late.

#COP26 may have taken place on a different planet to this one.
The original article including Julian's quote.

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
More scientists give their perspectives on #COP26 here.

@Cambridge_Eng @RHarrabin Technology will not save us. There isn't time. Julian Allwood explains why in here.

ft.com/content/207a87…

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18 Nov
There has long been a tension between incrementalists in the environmental movement, and people like us who demand radical change.

You can see it in the reactions to COP26 - some say "It's a start" while others say "It's an atrocity".
It would be great if we could stop the breakdown of climate and nature through existing power structures and incremental changes. System change is scary and hard to bring about.
But we have to accept that incrementalism has failed for the past 30 years, and it's too late now.

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17 Nov
Today saw the UK's first court case for @InsulateLove campaigners, who have been repeatedly sitting in roads including motorways to demand the government insulate homes.

This is not an XR campaign but some XR rebels have been participating and were in court today.
In cold countries like the UK, decarbonisation is not possible without home insulation. It simply needs to happen. The longer it's delayed, the more vulnerable people die in fuel poverty and the more people are killed in climate breakdown thanks to emissions from gas heating.
Italy provides an example of how governments can provide home insulation, create jobs and cut emissions at the same time.

itv.com/news/2021-10-2…
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17 Nov
Today is the day when @JoeBiden betrays the whole world.

theguardian.com/us-news/2021/n…
“No more subsidies for [the] fossil fuel industry. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period. Ends.”

@JoeBiden lied when running for president.

Many people will die as a result.
It's not just the Gulf of Mexico. It's not just the refusal to #StopLine3. Biden's government are doubling down on oil and gas while trying to deflect blame for climate breakdown onto India and China.

npr.org/2021/07/13/101…
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15 Nov
"Listen to the science" they say. So what are climate scientists saying about what was agreed at #COP26?

"World leaders collectively chose to sign a death warrant for many of our own children tomorrow and poorer communities today" - @KevinClimate

"#COP26's final agreement is a continuation of decades of climate failure" - @JamesGDyke
"The world's most vulnerable communities and countries left Glasgow feeling betrayed by the #COP26 Presidency" - @SaleemulHuq

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5 Oct
The Cassandra metaphor comes from Greek mythology and describes a person whose valid warnings or concerns are disbelieved by others.
In 1970, Syukuro Manabe made a global temperature prediction for the year 2000 which was only 0.03C out.

Here is Manabe in 1988 explaining why global heating would be most extreme at the North Pole.

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19 Sep
China's annual emissions are huge and their plans for coal-fired power stations are incompatible with a habitable planet.

Are you a leader of a Global North country, wondering how you can persuade them to do better?

IDEAS... 💡🧵 Chinese coal fired power stations
First up, make sure your per capita emissions are lower than theirs - looking at you, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and many others. Canadian tar sands
Also remember the Global North's historic emissions are off the scale, and almost all that carbon you burnt in the last 200 years is still in the atmosphere.

Not much you can do about that now except decarbonise as quickly as possible to atone for past sins. chart of historic global CO2 emissions from Our World In Dat
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