more than 1 in 10 people on the planet are living through a heat wave made stronger and more likely by climate change and i can only find three news articles that mention fossil fuels
the deccan herald and times of india both quote @FrediOtto, a leading expert in extreme weather attribution, who specifies that burning coal and other fossil fuels has made every heat wave hotter
in american news site axios @afreedma cites research from the same research team that found a deadly heat wave in the us and canada last year was made 150 times more likely because of climate change
outlets like cnn and the bbc have linked global warming to stronger indian heat waves but failed to explain who or what has driven the changes to the climate that are causing it
i cannot see any coverage of the heat wave currently scorching india and pakistan in the guardian, bloomberg, financial times, new york times or wall street journal
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here is a quick thread for anybody who didn't read the 3 ipcc reports published in the last year (hello, politics, business and news editors) summarizing what hundreds of the world's top scientists concluded in their mega-review of the academic literature on climate change 1/
"it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land" 2/
"human-induced climate change, including more frequent and intense extreme events, has caused widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people, beyond natural climate variability" 3/
this morning the @IISD_ENB, the only media allowed into the approval session of the new un climate solutions report, published their account of how governments tried to influence the summary for policymakers that they ultimately signed off on 1/
there are several examples of governments successfully lobbying to water down language in a way that protects domestic industries or avoids them having to take more financial responsibility for having warped the climate but 2/
i feel like it's important to stress upfront that:
-this doesn't change any science in the report itself
-scientists reject additions to the summary that aren't supported by the underlying report
-some authors still report a degree of self-censorship when writing the summary
3/
germany's climate minister just said he will not tell anybody how long to shower for but will start a small information campaign with tips on how to save energy
this is very much a side-point to the plans announced today to accelerate the roll-out of renewable energy, and he made clear the campaign plans are in their early stages, but still surprising to see movement here
habeck: "ganz kleine sachen, die nicht bevormündend rüberkommen, sondern praktische, lebensnahe tipps für den alltag geben können - die werden wir noch mal aufbereiten und heute schon startet eine kleine energiekampagne meines ministeriums, das genau das tut"
the new un report on climate solutions does not identify industry lobbying as a problem in its summary for policymakers or technical summary but the full report documents it over and over again 1/
corporations and trade associations often lobby against measures they deem detrimental 2/
one factor limiting the ambition of climate policy has been the ability of incumbent industries to shape government action on climate change 3/
two of the most powerful sentences in the technical summary of the new ipcc report did not make it into the government-approved summary for policymakers
left: technical document written purely by scientists
right: the summary for policymakers that government officials approved
the technical summary of the new ipcc report explicitly identifies the global rich (reader, this includes you) as having the power to cut greenhouse gas pollution by living low carbon lifestyles and pushing for tougher climate policies
a few weeks ago I asked climate scientists whether any of germany's political parties, ahead of elections on sunday, were planning to cut carbon pollution fast enough to stop the planet warming 1.5 C by 2100
the answer is bad, but not for the reasons I expected (🧵)
5 of germany's 6 biggest parties have set dates for net-zero emissions and committed to meeting the 1.5 C target
market-liberal fdp: 2050
merkel's cdu/csu union: 2045
center-left spd: 2045
greens: 2040
left: 2035
far right afd: *wants to leave the paris agreement*
all of those dates are too late to keep warming to 1.5 C, according to a report published last month by @NeueOekonomie