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Climate change, technology and society. Lecturer @GeographyUOM. Associate Fellow @InSIS. Fellow @RGS_IBG. Co-I @CO2REhub. Co-I Co-CREATE
Jul 17, 2023 12 tweets 5 min read
How do the public perceive climate tipping points? 🧵

Check out my new research in Public Understanding of Science @SciPublic

Public perceptions of climate tipping points

#climate #climatechange #environment #ClimateEmergency https://t.co/bG6YerW6omjournals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Image @SciPublic @GeographyUOM @UoMNews @UoM_MERI @QEGMan Climate tipping points – critical thresholds at which a small perturbation can abruptly and/or irreversibly alter the state or development of a system – are risks that can't be ruled out

There’s great background on this by @dvdmckay @wang_seaver @hausfath and others 2/11
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Jan 24, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
A short🧵on our public perceptions chapter in last week's #StateofCDR report... 1/n

Download the full report here: stateofcdr.org There are 3 broad lines of evidence for gauging perceptions: sampling large groups of people (e.g. surveys or experiments); individuals or small groups (e.g. interviews or deliberation); and big-data analysis of social media (e.g. sentiment analysis or stance detection) 2/n
Sep 9, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
A pleasure to speak to @adamvaughan_uk @newscientist about the launch of @Climeworks new #Orca direct air carbon capture and storage facility - capable of removing 4000 tCO2/yr - in this week's Fix the Planet newsletter. A short 🧵 on my reaction... We should absolutely welcome the Orca facility. Although still only small in the great scheme of things, it’s a significant step forward in showing to the world that DACCS *can* be scaled up, at least in a technical sense
Dec 9, 2019 16 tweets 26 min read
Unnatural climate solutions? Why the hype around ‘natural’ climate solutions threatens us all. New commentary by me and @shannonosaka in @NatureClimate nature.com/articles/s4155… @GeographyUOM @InSIS @SERG_Geog_UoM @UoM_MERI #Cop25Madrid2019 #COP25 #ClimateChange Image @shannonosaka @NatureClimate @GeographyUOM @InSIS @SERG_Geog_UoM @UoM_MERI Natural climate solutions are rapidly rising up the #ClimateAction agenda with promises of lower costs, greater readiness and fewer risks than emerging technologies for carbon removal like BECCS or @DKeithClimate’s direct air capture and storage Image