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Patrick Galey Profile picture
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Jun 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Are governments ready to undertake the kind of radical, rapid decarbonisation that every leading scientific body on earth says is needed for 1.5C?

No.

But are we at least reducing our emissions as zero-carbon technology becomes ever cheaper?

Also no.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
I can't beleive what I'm reading here. Our 1.5C carbon budget has HALVED from just a few years ago - ie, Post Paris

"Total global GHG emissions reached 55 ± 5.2 GtCO2e in 2021... driven primarily by increasing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel and industry"
essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/22…
Delegates at UN climate talks are duty bound to debate based on the "best available science"

So how can the #COP28 president run an oil company that doesn't accept the premise of "no new oil and gas for 1.5C"?

COP is fundamentally unfit for purpose
theguardian.com/environment/20…
"Here's the problem, here's the perpetrator, let's put him in charge of things"

We're doublethinking and outstupiding ourselves towards the collapse of civilization

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Patrick Galey Profile picture
Jun 9
The Big 5 alone (Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, TotalEnergies) have sent more than 400 lobbyists to UN #climate negotiations since the 2015 Paris Agreement, per @StopCorpAbuse and @corporateeurope kickbigpollutersout.org/articles/new-f… Image
Related: Global GHG emissions, the overwhelming majority of which comes from #FossilFuels, have risen significantly in the 8 years since the Paris deal was signed

They are now at their highest levels ever theguardian.com/environment/20…
Related: Oil and gas majors trousered $200 bn in profits in 2022 - more than double the previous year and also their highest ever energymonitor.ai/finance/big-oi… Image
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Patrick Galey Profile picture
Oct 5, 2022
I know I'm pretty downbeat in general (because science) but yesterday was one of those rare occasions where I spoke with a remarkable researcher who had a really cool story to tell
phys.org/news/2022-10-p…
This study showed how the saliva from the wax worm moth could was able to break down polyethylene at room temperature in just a few hours

The lead author was Federica Bertocchini, a researcher at the Madrid's Margarita Salas Center for Biological Studies, so I reached out
I wanted to know how she came upon this experiment, and assumed she'd worked on plastics for years

The reality was something quite different. Turns out she came up with the idea back in 2012 while... beekeeping 🐝
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Sep 20, 2022
Today we resume our normal coverage of the slow collapse of our food system and society’s disintegration

The people who caused it continue to rake in record profits, while those most blameless have their rights gradually stripped away

We will present this as a culture war
The act of governance will not be debated in terms of sound policy directly impacting the lives of millions of people, but instead as a he-said-she-said debate format that apparently is the law in all English-speaking media for every event except when a Queen dies
Denialist eggs, empowered by the new environment minister's distain for the environment, will whatabout every new shred of data confirming our worst fears, cherry picking context-free data points to fit their comfortable self-delusion

They will be invited to write editorials
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Nov 5, 2021
The headlines from #COP26 are problematic in that they tend to take on good faith prima facie claims from the British government

THREAD 🧵
1. British officials and #COP26 presidency have for weeks been saying 2 things, so consistently that the media have started (in my view erroneously) to report them as de facto goals of the conference

They are: "cars, coal, cash and trees"

And "Keep 1.5C in reach"
2. Taking the last one first, countries' national emissions plans made as of Wednesday, will see emissions rise by 13.7% by 2030, the UN says

They need to FALL 45% by then to keep us in line with 1.5C

The direction of travel with all these net-zero pledges is opposite to 1.5C
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Nov 4, 2021
I got the coal list

It's 46 countries, most of them already committed to coal phase out

Not 190 (as some people reported)

#COP26
Notable absentees:

China
India
Australia
Russia
US

Poland and Germany are big ones, but they had already promised coal phase outs #COP26
Am puzzled by South Africa, which analysts have (rightly) pointed out burns most of Africa's coal

Sharma had a whole skit today on their inclusion. But, they're not #COP26
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Nov 2, 2021
#COP26 participants list just dropped

IETA, which represents fossil fuel companies such as Chevron, Shell and BP has a delegation over 100-strong

There are dozens of fossil fuel representatives, either as themselves or part of trade group delegations unfccc.int/sites/default/… Image
IPIECA, another trade group, representing Chevron #COP26 Image
You may remember Shell's CEO last week saying that they weren't going to #COP26

That, readers, wasn't true ImageImageImageImage
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