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1/ Yet again @NickFerrariLBC shows he's extremely ill informed.

As anyone familiar with the facts knows, the activists' demands are entirely consistent with mainstream science, yet Nick is too lazy to inform himself.

So here's a🧵laying it out for him:
2/ Just last month hundreds of the UKs leading scientists made clear that:

"The UK should commit to preventing any new oil & gas field development."

Are they 'intellectually nuts" @NickFerrariLBC?

zero.cam.ac.uk/who-we-are/blo…
3/ This is so mainstream that even @fbirol, Executive Director of the @IEA, has said there "can be no new investment in oil, gas and coal"!

Is he "intellectually nuts" too @NickFerrariLBC?

theguardian.com/environment/20…
@fbirol @IEA @NickFerrariLBC 4/ @UNEP's Production Gap report makes plain that we will completely blow our carbon budget unless we restrict production.

You can find that report here: productiongap.org/2021report/

But don't worry you can ignore that because according to @NickFerrariLBC its "intellectually nuts"
5/ A team from @ucl looked at what this means for the UK's North Sea & found: “There is no need for new oil and gas fields in the UK" !

#IntellectuallyNuts right @NickFerrariLBC???

theguardian.com/environment/20…
6/ A separate team from @GlobalEnergyMon
found the same thing... "If the UK claims to be a climate leader, it cannot allow these new fields to start up, nor hold another licensing round"

But that can't be right can it @NickFerrariLBC? That would be 🧠🥜😜
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
@GlobalEnergyMon @NickFerrariLBC 7/ What's this... There is a “large consensus” across all published studies that developing new oil & gas fields is “incompatible” with the 1.5C target.

Didn't those scientists get the memo from @NickFerrariLBC??? - Intellectual Nutters the lot of 'em!
carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fue…
8/ @antonioguterres warns “investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral & economic madness” & that "The truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels."

Err @NickFerrariLBC what if you're... wrong?!?
9/ I'd gladly come on your show @NickFerrariLBC & walk you through the science, it’s not hard if you try to understand it.

In the meantime I urge anyone reading this to come to Parliament Sq. April 21st to demand an end to the fossil fuel era! #TheBigOne
extinctionrebellion.uk/the-big-one/

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carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fue…
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*Announcement*

In light of their decision to invite two notorious climate deniers to speak at their conference, I have decided I must withdraw from participating in the CC Forum "Investment in Sustainable Development" event in London next week london.cc-forum.com

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