Thread by @JeffAndDonkeys

This is a screenshot of the opening tweet in a thread of specific statements and charts from the #IPCC over the past few years.
I'll post a link to the thread in the next tweet, but in case I annoy its author and get blocked, I want the images to support my comments.

1a. Here's the link to his thread. I recommend reading it, if only to understand how profoundly our most respected scientific climate agency has failed us.
Not in their facts. They've got the facts. In their conclusions.

https://twitter.com/NiranjanAjit/status/1516791660344131589?t=FI7SKJwxcBW-5L2yAzFgpg&s=19

2. Here's the punch line:
"Rapid and deep and in most cases immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors."
See that word "immediate"?
That does not mean "in 2030." Or even "by 2030."
At no point does #IPCC advocate for any action which has this result. Immediate.

3. Here is their action menu.
Which of these items, as specified, is available to have immediate results?
We have the glorious, abstract "substantial reduction in overall fossil fuel use," with no mention that reducing fuel use might require reducing energy throughput.

Besides abstractly reducing fossil fuel use, without reference to any action which fossil fuel powers, we have the usual "transition" by "deployment of low- emission energy sources, switching to alternative energy carriers, (this means electricity) and energy efficiency."
OK. But

5. "Deployment" is a lovely euphemism for "build, transport, install, and interconnect to the grid."
I have entirely given up on convincing Americans that building and installing all this shit will take materials, fossil energy, and time.

6. After all, when the #IPCC says "immediate" and in the next breath says "deployment," who am I, an elderly, poorly educated person in Missouri, to argue?
The Interstate Highway Act was signed when I was 9.
The first Interstate open in Kansas City was shortly before me 21st bday

7. So, you know, 12 years, immediate - close enough for the world's foremost climate authority, right?

8. If we want rapid, deep, immediate greenhouse gas emission reductions, our options are:
1. Immediately reduce energy consumption activity.
2: see item 1.
That's it. Physics. Work requires energy. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. We have, available to us today,

9. Exactly zero carbon-free energy sources which are not already producing at their available peak outputs.
So today, during the time frame otherwise known as immediately, we have exactly one option:
Use less energy.
The way to do that is to reduce speed, weight, or distance,

10. Of any process.
All processes are driven by energy.
The faster we do them the more energy it requires.
The farther we move matter in our processes the more it requires.
The more material we transform - heat, smelt, ship, shape, alloy, crystallize - the more energy we use.

11. The faster we do any matter transformation process, the more energy it requires.
We can reduce the speed, the distance, or the mass of any process, and thereby reduce energy throughput and emissions.
Or we can go on lying about it.
The #IPCC has chosen door number two. 🚪