But do not rage against those who are advocating, like you are, for climate action. We are all in this together.
The saddest trend of 2021 for me was the exponential rise in attacks from those who are panicked about climate change and decide to turn on each other. It used to be that 100% of my online trolls were climate dismissives. Now, it's down to 90% and dropping fast.
Just this morning, in four hours, the ratio was 1 (dismissive) to 5 (panicked) who were spreading false information about climate action, attacking me for advocating for hope, character attacks on other climate scientists). 😰
To paraphrase the unsinkable @CFigueres: "we are only ever as doomed as we believe ourselves to be."

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @KHayhoe

9 Dec 21
This is great news, but once again: climate 👏 change 👏 is 👏not 👏a 👏religion. When we use the word "believe" we subconsciously perpetuate this misconception and the implication that people have to choose between the religion of global warming versus another.
Exhibit A.
Exhibit B.
Read 7 tweets
17 Nov 21
Devastating flooding across Vancouver & nearby areas that endured record heat & wildfires earlier this year. As climate change loads the weather dice against us, atmospheric rivers dump more rain, heatwaves are more intense, wildfires burn more area...and people suffer.
Climate change affects the safety of our homes, the air we breathe, the food we eat and everything we depend on for our health, and well-being, and life. That's why ...
And though we all suffer, we don't do so equally. Those who have contributed least to the problem, right here in North America as well as on the other side of the world, bear the brunt of the impacts. We see this in Texas ... texastribune.org/2021/02/19/Tex…
Read 8 tweets
5 Nov 21
There's a lot going on at #COP26 and much of it is being live-streamed! Here's where you can find live streams of all the hundreds of "side events" each day inside the Blue Zone: unfccc.int/COP26/schedule… and see below for some of the events I'm participating in.
I spoke at one of the @TEDCountdown events this evening
Saturday I'll be at the Climate Vigil along with @kmeyaardschaap, the @WEAnews and many more. You can register to watch online! eventbrite.com/e/climatevigil…
Read 6 tweets
21 Oct 21
Huge congrats to the amazing @ayanaeliza winner of the 2021 Stephen Schneider Climate Communication Award! climateone.org/events/dr-ayan…
Check out her TED talk here: ted.com/talks/ayana_el…
And @allwecansave, the book that features 60 women's voices on climate change that she co-edited with @DrKWilkinson here: allwecansave.earth
Read 6 tweets
10 Oct 21
Google flights will start showing people the carbon footprint of their flights. Talking with @lourdesgnavarro on @NPRWeekend, I offer 2 reasons why this is a good idea -- and 1 reason it's not! npr.org/2021/10/10/104…
Good reason #1 - simply making people aware of how many calories they're eating, kilowatts they're using ... or carbon they're burning ... causes many to reduce our consumption. Just knowing what we're doing can motivate change. Exhibit A: behavior.rare.org/wp-content/upl…
Good reason #2 - responsible consumers will be able to recognize and reward companies that are using waste-based biofuels or electric short haul flights as their carbon emissions will be much less than their competitors washingtonpost.com/news/energy-en…
Read 9 tweets
5 Oct 21
AMAZING NEWS: an atmospheric and an ocean modeller have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming"
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 (thread)
I first learned about Manabe & Wetherald's research as an undergraduate student in the class that I originally took as a breadth requirement while completing my degree in astrophysics .. but which ended up completely changing the trajectory of my life. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…
Using early computers (like these ones) they were able to turn the basic equations of non-linear fluid dynamics into code that was able to represent the general circulation of the atmosphere on a rotating sphere... the origin of "GCM" = general circulation model.
Read 14 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(