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Throwing soup at a painting that was in a protective glass frame: 2 years.
This is the #1 climatologist in the world: James Hansen.
He’s spent 50 years studying what humans are doing to the climate.
He's gone out on a limb time and time again - and been proven right.
His message? It’s far worse than they’re telling you. 🧵
Hansen grew up poor on a small farm in Iowa.
He saved up enough to attend university, studied physics and - by chance - came under the wing of space scientist James Van Allen.
That’s how he ended up in astrophysics.
Hansen earned a NASA scholarship.
At first, he studied the atmosphere of Venus. What he found was a warning to us Earthlings: Venus is a hellscape because of a runaway greenhouse effect.
The battle for the future of humanity is being fought within one family.
On one side: a government minister.
On the other: his cousin, an XR activist.
They survived Norway's worst recent trauma together.
Now they’re on opposite sides of the country's oil war.🧵
Andreas Bjelland Eriksen and his younger cousin Vebjørn Bjelland Berg survived Anders Breivik's massacre together on Utoya Island. That bond forged in grief binds them.
But now Norway's rapacious appetite for fossil fuels is killing far more people than Breivik did.
Today, Eriksen serves as Norway’s environment minister in a supposedly centre‑left government that continues the "moral and economic madness" of expanding oil drilling in the Arctic.
Still reeling from @EvanHD's remarks on @BBCPM yesterday.
It looks like the BBC are going to gaslight us all the way to extinction.
But first, some history. 🧵
In 2015, the BBC reported scientists saying that most of the world's fossil fuel reserves needed to stay in the ground if dangerous global heating was to be avoided (and of course there should have been no new sources of oil, gas or coal).
In 2021, the BBC reported that most oil & gas reserves and almost all coal had to remain in the ground to keep global heating below the (actually very unsafe) limit of 1.5C - and of course no new oil, gas or coal.
WHAT YOU'RE NOT BEING TOLD ABOUT HEATHROW EXPANSION 🧵
Keir Starmer wrote the tweet below two months after Ella Kissi-Debrah, pictured above, became the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death by the coroner.
In fact, air pollution is a factor in many deaths.
🚫 Air pollution particles from jet engines are so tiny that they infiltrate lungs, brains, and other organs, causing heart disease, strokes, asthma like Ella had, and even dementia.
Heathrow expansion will increase these pollutants, harming many people living near the airport.
One man - @JonFullerGreen - has performed an invaluable but soul-destroying service for more than 5 years by monitoring the climate and nature coverage in the billionaire press.
As he hands this work over to others, here are his reflections. 🧵
“These newspapers will never report on the greatest human suffering caused by climate breakdown - the over 1,000 infants killed every day by the increased spread of disease in our rapidly heating world.
"Data from the WHO, the Lancet and others shows that the most vulnerable children on the planet are killed slowly - typically over 3 to 5 days. Such is the scale of depravity of editors and owners, they never call for dynamic action to reduce the number of children killed...