Thread by @SteB777

It looks like @Keir_Starmer is a climate crisis denier.

This is the term I use for people i.e. politicians, who claim to accept the science, but who refuse to treat it as the crisis and emergency, it is. All this stuff about "finger-wagging Net Zero extremists" is dangerous.
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https://twitter.com/davidrvetter/status/1842206248676339998

Net Zero policy, as framed by politicians, is completely inadequate, and @KevinClimate calls it Not Zero.

So if @Keir_Starmer thinks Net Zero policy, is extremist, then he is seriously in denial about what the science actually says is necessary.
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This is very worrying, because in 2023, it was reported, that after a presentation by @Ed_Miliband, that @Keir_Starmer exploded in anger, and in an outburst, said “I hate tree huggers”. This would indicate that Starmer is seriously in denial.

3/independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

The reason this is so serious, is we're entering a serious phase, where there could be serious problems, within @Keir_Starmer premiership, and he is completely unfit to handle it, if he is that deeply in denial.
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@Sir_David_King, the former Government Chief Scientist under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, says "Humanity’s survival is still within our grasp – just. But only if we take these radical steps"

5/theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Self-evidently, @Keir_Starmer is not listening to the science, and it makes me seriously worried as to who he is listening to, and who is advising him. You get the impression, he has never taken a briefing on the science, by an expert, or only cherry-picks, who he listens to,
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The UN Secretary General @antonioguterres has made it very clear how serious the problem is, and we need urgent and radical action now, to prevent future catastrophe.

7/news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

The world's leading climate scientists are terrified. Yet @Keir_Starmer, a man with no apparent qualifications, in relevant science, believes he can reject all these concerns. This is a man detached from reality. An ignorant man, who seems to think, he knows better.
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I have said before, that I believe that this type of climate crisis denier, is a much bigger threat, than an out and out climate change denier like Donald Trump. Because they claim to accept the science, when clearly they don't.
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We have a right to know, what is the basis of @Keir_Starmer's denial. Is he a rational man, who simply does not understand the science yet, or is he a dyed in the wool, deeply entrenched ideologue, who refuses to accept the science?
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Really, we shouldn't be in this position, because if the media were doing their job properly, @Keir_Starmer would have been asked tough questions, about why his apparent position on climate change, is at odds with the science.
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It is urgent, with as much haste as possible, that we find out, why @Keir_Starmer appears to be in denial of the science, and whether he is open to listening to the best science, because if he isn't, the Labour Party, needs a new leader.
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All the world's governments, are signatories of the 2015 Paris, Climate Agreement, of holding warming below 1.5C. This includes @Keir_Starmer's government.
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Yet the @IPCC_CH SR15, says to be within a 50:50 chance of staying below 1.5C, we need to halve emissions, by 2030, on 5 years and 4 months away. It would take the most incredibly radical policy to do this.

14/ipcc.ch/sr15/

In this presentation Professor Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate , says we're on course for 3-4C of warming with current policy. Even the most optimistic, eco-optimist, think that our civilization would struggle to survive more than 3C of warming.

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This is how deeply @Keir_Starmer is in denial. He needs to be urgently challenged to explain his position, and to be challenged to listen to a full scientific presentation on the climate and ecological crisis.
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If @Keir_Starmer still rejects the need for radical action, at the very least he needs to explain himself, so we can at least know the reason for his entrenched science denial.
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Finally, I have only really dealt with the climate crisis, and the evidence is we have a whole system ecological polycrisis, which is far more serious than the climate crisis on its own.

18/theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

It is not those who are concerned about the climate crisis, who are extremists, the climate activists. But the politicians in denial of the seriousness of the climate crisis. It's not me that says this.

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https://x.com/antonioguterres/status/1511294073474367488?lang=en

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