Thread by @ScientistsX

This time last week a group of desperate scientists stuck scientific papers (and themselves!!!) to the front of @beisgovuk. They had a simple and science led demand: Stop all NEW fossil fuel investment & development.

Here's a🧵on the science in the papers they pasted... 1/n

Welsby et al 2021: "to allow for a 50 per cent probability of limiting warming to 1.5 °C. By 2050, we find that nearly 60 per cent of oil and fossil methane gas, and 90 per cent of coal must remain unextracted to keep within a 1.5 °C carbon budget" 2/n

nature.com/articles/s4158…

You can read more about this paper's findings from co-author @st_pye in this thread: 3/n

https://twitter.com/st_pye/status/1435639342517587980

.@DanTong12 et al 2019: "little or no new CO2-emitting infrastructure can be commissioned, and that existing infrastructure may need to be retired early (or be retrofitted with CCS technology) in order to meet the Paris Agreement climate goals" 4/n
nature.com/articles/s4158…

@DanTong12 @ThierryAaron Science writer @mark_lynas unpacks the details... 5/n

https://twitter.com/mark_lynas/status/1145977972849033216

.@UNEP Production gap 2021:

"the world’s governments plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C"

6/n

productiongap.org/2021report/

Report author @climateploy has this great thread summarising the findings...

7/n

https://twitter.com/climateploy/status/1453097082714312709

.@TofMcGlade & Ekins 2015: "Our results show that policy makers’ instincts to exploit rapidly and completely their territorial fossil fuels are, in aggregate, inconsistent with their commitments to this temperature limit"

8/n
nature.com/articles/natur…

Here's that papers press release from @ucl 9/n

ucl.ac.uk/news/2015/jan/…

@ucl Hansen et al 2013: "Continuation of high fossil fuel emissions, given current knowledge of the consequences, would be an act of extraordinary witting intergenerational injustice."

10/n

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Here's @suzyji's write up for @guardian of that paper...

11/n
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Unfortunately, @beisgovuk minister @KwasiKwarteng's response shows just how badly he mangles the science as he tries to justify the unjustifiable...

https://twitter.com/KwasiKwarteng/status/1514236142106943493

So here is @fbirol, Director of the @IEA, summarising a report commissioned by @AlokSharma_RDG president of #COP26 -

“If governments are serious about the #ClimateCrisis, there can be no new investments in oil, gas and coal, from now”
theguardian.com/environment/20…

And the @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres:

"Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness... the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels"

un.org/press/en/2022/…

Think about that, *really think about it*, our governments are *dangerous radicals*, captured by corporate interests acting against the public good.

In such a ecocidal system, we feel there is but one honourable choice; to step up & #RebelForLife! /end

https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR/status/1514285998280171541