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Five books you might like to read when asking what you can do about the #ClimateEmergency🧵

1. @ClimatePsych's excellent guide for turning anxiety into action Image
2. @swaziadam's awesome introductory textbook.

If I were teaching a course on the climate crisis I'd assign this as the core text. Image
3. For students wanting to deepen their understanding of society's response to the #ClimateCrisis then look no further than thus offering by Daniel Nyberg,@ChristopherWr11 & @VanessaMBowden Image
4. For thinking through why net-zero is not enough and what is required for a just-transition check out @hollyjeanbuck's powerful book. Image
5. For the days when it's all feeling a bit much, then treat yourself to an essay from this inspiring compendium edited by @RebeccaSolnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua Image

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Jul 17
🚨“Actions speak louder than words”

I’m thrilled to announce @TristramWyatt, @CharlieJGardner & my new paper in @RSocPublishing 'Open Science'

In this paper we set out our case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency.

A short🧵 Image
2/ We argue that scientists & scientific institutions can have the maximum amount of influence by lending their support to social movements pressing for action, joining as active participants & considering civil disobedience.

#Science #ClimateEmergency
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
3/ Einstein once said ‘Those with the privilege to know have a duty to act’.

But act how?

If scientists want to be more than chroniclers of a preventable tragedy, and to see science-informed policies enacted, we need to seriously reexamine our theories of change. Image
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Jun 20
This weeks #ClimateCrisis news:

Hundreds of #Hajj pilgrims have died from heat stress in Mecca as temperatures in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 soar.

Here's a short🧵putting this in context & asking what comes next…

2/ Temperatures measured at the Grand Mosque in #Mecca reached 51.8C in the shade, an all time record high for the city 🌡️🥵 Image
3/ Work by Kang et al. from 2019 demonstrated that temperatures are rising rapidly in the area- over 2C in the previous 30 years!

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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May 12
One thing I wished more people understood about climate change is that we have not yet experienced any where near the full consequences of the warming we've already caused.

Here's a 🧵 explaining why...
2/ As the planet warms we see extreme events become far more common, a heatwave that used to have a 1% chance of happening in any year, becomes a 10% chance.

That is the return period is reduced massively.
3/ These changes are very sudden and dramatic.

As this study by the @metoffice shows "we find that events that would occur twice a century in the early 2000s are now expected to occur twice a decade"

nature.com/articles/nclim…
Read 12 tweets
Apr 7
🚨Stop Scrolling!

Let's pause & reflect a minute about what this shocking picture of @GretaThunberg 's arrest tells us about the current state of #climate politics.

A short 🧵on some key lessons we can take from this image Image
2/
What a difference 6 years makes!

In many ways climate politics is in a very different place to how it was when @GretaThunberg first started her strikes outside the Swedish parliament in the summer of 2018 to try and put the #ClimateCrisis on the agenda Image
3/ Largely as a result of protest movements #climate has now entered mainstream debate.

And the stakes are clearer than ever.

Following the latest @IPCC_CH report in 2022 @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres made clear we are faced with a 🚨"Code Red for humanity" Image
Read 15 tweets
Mar 22
This weeks #ClimateCrisis news:

After months of low rainfall and record heat, Mexico City 🇲🇽, home to 22 million people, is rapidly running out of water! #DayZero

Here's a short🧵putting this in context & asking what comes next…

2/ Last year was both the warmest *and* driest year on record in Mexico 🇲🇽

3/ And the start of 2024 has seen more temperature records smashed 🌡️🔥🥵

Read 12 tweets
Feb 5
This weeks #ClimateCrisis news:

#Chile 🇨🇱 declares a state of #Emergency as devastating #wildfires currently sweep the center of the country.

Here's a short🧵 putting this in context & asking what comes next...

Over 100 people have been killed.

Hundreds more are missing.

Thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.

Tens of thousands of hectares burned.

2/n
It's the height of the austral summer in #Chile and its currently experiencing an extreme #heatwave with record breaking temperatures in many areas:

3/n
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