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Sep 22 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"ExxonMobil has done more damage to the world than any other company" - Lord Deben speaking right now at the Oxford World Forum on Enterprise & the Environment #wfee
On net zero: "The private sector doesn't have the luxury of prevaricating on our commitments" - Abyd Karmali, Managing Director of Climate Finance for Bank of America speaking at World Forum on Enterprise & the Environment
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On renewable energy: Amory Lovins, Adjunct Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering @Stanford shows that choreographing renewable energy generation means "there is no need for bulk energy storage [batteries] lasting months." #wfee
Amory Lovins: for sustainability, energy markets need to be reoriented around demand services, not supply of electrons. #wfee @JKSteinberger I believe this is something you've written about!

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Sep 23
This is deeply concerning: the head of one of Britain's largest unions has branded climate action "bourgeois environmentalism". Here's what this tells me and what I think should be done. 🧵 1/
That a union official can wrongly portray efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change as some sort of middle class affectation indicates that we -climate communicators and researchers- have _absolutely failed_ to do the right work in the right places. 2/
Specifically, we have failed to highlight and promote the overwhelming evidence that decarbonisation of the economy provides more and better jobs, lower bills, warmer homes and cleaner, safer cities for _all people_. 3/
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Sep 11
Toby Young wants to "debate me, bro" about climate change. Here are some thoughts on that. 1/
In my view, the primary function of publishing the sort of lazy pseudoscience touted by climate science deniers is to attempt to grant it, via "debate," the same legitimacy as generations of painstakingly compiled evidence from the world's foremost research institutions. 2/
Such debates only ever benefit anti-science interests. By pitting say, a flat-earther armed with Facebook memes against a veteran NASA researcher, you have elevated the status of the flat-earther and demeaned the researcher. 3/
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Sep 8
On fracking in the UK, here's Prof Stuart Haszeldine, from the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh: “An inconvenient fact – like it or not, the UK has not discovered any good shale for onshore gas production." 1/
There isn’t much gas: "The most important new evidence to emerge since Cuadrilla gave up on its Lancashire boreholes has been to analyse gas production from real rock samples. This shows that the measured gas ... is 15 times less than the original theoretical estimates" 2/
The gas is hard to extract: "The total gas produced by Cuadrilla from Lancashire could be enough to provide heating and water to 508 3-bed semi-detached houses for 18 days. Not much to show after spending 8 years and tens of millions of pounds." 3/
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Aug 21
Once again, climate denier Toby Young is trumpeting fossil fuel industry propaganda. This time it's about forest fires. He links to his blog DailySceptic, a site where a handful of middle aged guys practice science illiteracy. 1/
In the article, former financial journalist Chris Morrison picks several studies that support his contention that there are fewer wildfires today than there were in the past. 2/
dailysceptic.org/2022/08/20/sor…
Morrison claims there are fewer wildfires today than in the early 20th century, and cites a 2016 paper from Stefan Doerr & Cristina Santín, who conclude "there is less fire in the global landscape than centuries ago". 3/
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Aug 19
Today, climate deniers are hooting about something called the World Climate Declaration, an anti-science screed that claims to have 1,200 "scientists" declaring that there is no climate emergency. A couple of notes on that. 1/
The Declaration is in fact just a continuation of a project by something called the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL), a lobby group funded by two Dutch millionaires. @DeSmog has plenty of details here:
desmog.com/climate-intell… 2/
As you'd expect, CLINTEL is deeply intertwined with fossil fuel money and many of its ambassadors are involved with US fossil fuel lobbyists the Heartland Institute and the Cato Institute. 3/
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Aug 18
Climate deniers use a range of tactics to spread disinformation. The account below uses the name recognition of David Bellamy, a prominent British botanist and climate sceptic who died in 2019, to misrepresent the work of actual scientists - in this case @NSIDC.
In this case, the account is trying to use @NSIDC research to imply that anthropogenic global warming is not taking place. A view that, needless to say, @NSIDC does not share: nsidc.org/learn/parts-cr…
Such obfuscation is a common tactic among denial groups, as this paper from @lamb_wf @giulio_mattioli
@JKSteinberger @efesce
@StuartBCapstick et al shows. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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