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Nov 13 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
At an event held for “Global Early Warning System” efforts for extreme weather (droughts/cyclones) the night before last I had the great pleasure of meeting a delegation from Madagascar which experienced a series of 6 landfalling cyclones, several very damaging in 2021. #cop27
One of the worst was Cyclone #Batsirai seen in the quoted thread below.

One of the apparent trends for cyclones over the past few years has been to see patterns of storms following similar routes. Providing successive shocks to vulnerable communities like Madagascar.
The other intense landfalling Cyclone which hit Madagascar in 2021 was #Emnati,

(A Twitter search for “@althecat Madagascar” will find all my coverage of the series of cyclones. )
[Correction: 2021 not 2022]
[Correction: 2021 not 2022]
For those interested in what happened in Madagascar full coverage can be found here on Twitter.

Searching "@althecat Madagascar" >>
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Nov 13
The obstacle to an agreement on the GERD is solely due to unreasonable expectations and demands on the Egyptian side.

And an incorrect understanding of the impact that the dam will have on Egypt.
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The dam also improves lengthy drought management as Ethiopian water storage has far lower evaporation loss, and the construction of additional upstream storage will improve this further.
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Nov 13
The ever so dramatic picture used in this latest story from @MartinPlaut >> theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… is from 2021 and was staged.
This is the Mekelle alleged bombing of a tyre storage warehouse. Videos emerged from this event showing people throwing tyres on the fire.
I seriously doubt there ever was a airstrike, propaganda pictures of this fire taken in Mekelle and provided to news agencies have been used on countless stories during this conflict.
Nearly everything highlighted (particularly on the start of the war) paras 3&4 is simply untrue. I reported from the front lines last week. More reporters will follow me.

The war began on Nov 3, yes, but TPLF started it by traitourously murdering 1000s of their ENDF colleagues.
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Nov 11
Tonight at #cop27 I attended an event about global early warning systems for extreme weather forecasting.

After the event I spoke to several senior meteorologists about the unusual atmospheric phenomena over North and Central America during October 2022.
They all (five sources) confirmed the thesis in this data related thread that geo-engineering / weather modification by the US was indeed the cause of this unusual weather event. Very candidly.
And further they suggested that a text on this ought to be proposed to be added to the cover agreement for #cop27

One which mandated a work program to regulate how the “open secret” of large scale weather modification technology ought to be used & improve transparency.
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Nov 11
Nancy Pelosi House Delegation Press Conference at #cop27 now on. Pelosi is talking up the IRA (inflation reduction act) which includes significant funding and plans for climate change mitigation, for the first time. Image
She is accompanied on the panel today by Committee Chairs: Barbara Lee, Richard Neal, Cathy Castor, Gregory Meeks, Frank Pallone,

As well as a row of seats full of additional. Congressional representatives. Image
I get that Speaker Pelosi is very happy about her bill, but talking incessantly about us legislation strongly suggests that the audience they are most interested in is in the US not here, or elsewhere around the world.
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Nov 11
Ok. So things improved dramatically in terms of the issues I raised in this thread yesterday. Food price cut in half to something reasonable. All beverages free (except coffee) and seemingly a bit of a relaxation in Security. A petite one.
However issues remain which the @UNFCCC ought to bare in mind from for the next COP held by an authoritarian regime. Including next year in Dubai.
Specifically COP hosts - all including Western Nations - should be explicitly prevented from using the opportunity of having the world come to their country from collecting data to map networks of climate activists, diplomats and journalists.
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Sun rising this morning as seen from Aluha Bridge in North Wollo. The bridge is currently being rebuilt after being destroyed by retreating TPLF forces.
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We were told that during the “Battle of the Gorge” which ended with the liberation of Alamata two weeks ago the Tigray rebels deployed 300,000 soldiers on its southern front - including Arabic speaking Sudanese, Gumuz and Shene.
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