We visited this @bp_plc oil refinery in Rotterdam.🛢🔥🌎
It's hard to comprehend the scale at which oil is being refined here.
Capacity is 400,000 barrels/day!
A 🧵 on scale of the energy, and of the climate impact.
Let's stick to order of magnitudes here, to keep things relatively simple.
How much energy is in 400,000 barrels of oil per day? It's about 27 GW in refined energy, comparable to twice the average amount of electricity used in The Netherlands!
Down the street of BP another refinery, owned by Britsh @Shell.
These two refineries are the largest in Europe and refine about 1% of the 100 million barrels of oil that the world uses every day.
We need energy. But oil emits a lot of CO2 when burned.
-Rapid warming from decreasing sulfur emissions
-Strong El Niño
-Strong solar maximum
-Increasing greenhouse gases
-Extreme Earth Energy Imbalance
-Hunga Tonga WV
-Sea ice feedbacks
All coinciding into an extreme global warming event..