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Feb 25 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Poetic climate action: today 1pm, activists disrupt airport operations in Berlin/Frankfurt/Munich with 99 red balloons. Russia's war already shakes up European security & UK airline operations—what's coming is far worse. Support @Jana_Mest @AufstandLastGen letztegeneration.de/blog/2022/02/f…
Why 99 red balloons:
Russia banning UK airlines from using its airspace
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Feb 26
Ukraine may turn out to be the first climate-driven war in Europe. This IS climate statecraft. thread. 1/n
2/n The notion that it is only climate policy when 100+ nations sit in a circle and decide *by consensus* is profoundly strange. Always has been.

A serious failure of imagination in climate analysts and scientists.
3/ Rather, climate is at the heart of world affairs. Great thread on the climatization of security and the UNSC.
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Feb 23
What's ahead? Not everyone will want to know, but reality-based analysis helps if we want to change reality.

1/n Image
2/ Thought experiment, case 1: stabilize at 500 ppm CO2. Very optimistic, but not completely impossible (IMHO). Image
3/ Case 2: don't stabilize. Go to 800 ppm CO2, and feedbacks will carry you further. Less optimistic. Vital to know IF that's where we're heading so far.

There's a world of difference, wide enough for billions of lives, between cases #1&2.

Can we steer a path to #1? Image
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Feb 8
The Arctic is our ticking time bomb.

Peter Wadhams: "It may be too late to save the Arctic, but if it's too late to save the Arctic, it's too late to save anything. What the world needs now is engineers to do what is needed."

Funding needed now. Thread.

2/ We should be blunt because these questions decide our future. As Peter Wadhams says in his book and on @iconickevin's blog: we know that, institutionalized via the IPCC, it has become social convention to make certain indefensible assumptions in models. kevinhester.live/2017/11/10/ful…
3/ Hand waving online and asking scientists and analysts to take the time to read up on the relevant dynamics may help but won't address what is essentially a question of power and institutional architecture, so just to leave this here.
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Feb 7
Good paper @peteirvine 2011. Only: what "other" schemes? All climate geoengineering is illusory (DAC, CCS, re/afforestation). They exist in models, but can't physically reach global scales, given real-world energy & material constraints. SAI is contested.

Hence the predicament.
From Tim's research: renewables and efficiency, the workhorses of climate policy, increase economic production and GHG levels.

Hence the predicament.

Hypothesis 3:

MEER aids structural change to decouple economic production from global metabolic needs.
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
@nephologue's other counterintuitive finding: resilience (= the goal of MEER) increases global prosperity and CO2. Resilience prolongs the growth phase at the cost of delaying and deepening collapse.

We need to decide what we want - a question of ethics.

esd.copernicus.org/articles/3/1/2…
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Feb 7
Why scientists disagree on physical reality: Some have uncritically taken up the political symbolism of "carbon budgets" for "1.5/2°C," a (1) message to mobilize people; and, confusingly, (2) governance metric to permit more(!) business-as-usual. In reality, budgets are negative.
@ScientistRebel1 is correct. Julia is co-author of IPCC AR6 WG1 (physical science basis), ch.3 (mitigation), inspiring scientist-activist. But we need to know that the IPCC has always been about geopolitics. Some history, please read all three (Agrawala):
@ScientistRebel1 The IPCC is a stunning, unprecedented effort by scientists. But like the AGGG, we now artificially extend overcome structures. Climate is too fast-moving for the current climate regime (IPCC, UNFCCC, etc.). Policy innovation, again, is needed. Political scientists, where are you?
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Nov 28, 2021
Thanks for nothing
While humanity may not survive a doubling of CO2, economists assume that unsurvivable futures can be treated as essentially trivial costs, barely worth talking about.
Policy over the past 30 years acted as if this weren't insane. Now, the window of action is essentially closed. What else is there to say?
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