What gives me real climate anxiety:

Not that we're doomed to fail, but that the options for success are far more accessible, just and beneficial than we realise

And that we'll let it slip past anyway because it's easy for incumbents to spread lies and protecting profits. We began this journey being told by Very Serious and Very Smart economists that this is a "wicked problem" and that it makes more sense to go slow on action and rely on distant tech solutions. This was the first big lie, and we're living the damage done by these people right now.

I am vibrating with rage at this story. Australian gas company @JemenaLtd is **PAYING PEOPLE** to buy new fossil fuel appliances instead of electric ones.

What a psychotic scheme. And what a stunning illustration of how shallow and cynical they are.

theage.com.au/environment/cl… @JemenaLtd oh my god

A quick one for you all - I plugged the new Aus emissions data in my tracking spreadsheet. Historical land-use data has undergone what I think is the biggest revision for some time (if not ever) - makes recent emissions look much lower

This is bad. The data are unreliable The bundle on the left: total emissions including land-use , with the darkening colours being each new version of the report

On the right - the same, excluding land-use

You can see how land-use changes the narrative so significantly, and the revisions to the data intensify that

The COP28 president has been editing Wikipedia to remove references to a 2019 multi-billion dollar oil pipeline deal

Definitely do not retweet these screenshots of details about the deal

theguardian.com/environment/20… Just....lol.

"Instead, they suggested that the page note the company was using the revenues from this increased oil output to “invest in carbon capture and green fuel technologies"

"Australia is one of the least racist countries in the world"

https://twitter.com/misha_saul/status/1662388841083473921

It's sort of amusing that he's having a go at journalists here, when this is exactly the thinking of Quillette-brained centre-right smugness that Australia's white media loves more than any other group

https://twitter.com/misha_saul/status/1662391185087016962

One of the most consistent trends in Australian media, whenever the issues of diversity, systemic racism and racist media reporting bubble to the surface, is just a stunningly powerful inability to admit there's a problem.

They been warned, many times, for a long time. I have never encountered a group of people less capable of introspection, and of constructive peer criticism.

**and I work almost solely with the fossil fuel industry**

New @PriceofOil:

- @Equinor is the world's 8th worst oil/gas expander

- Company emissions 5x worse than Norway's domestic GHGs

- 28x (!!!) more spending on fossil fuels than renewables

- Net zero target designed to facilitate worsening climate impacts

priceofoil.org/content/upload… @PriceofOil @Equinor Meanwhile, @akerbpasa celebrates their massive new discovery of oil.

nrk.no/norge/aker-bp-…

Since 2015, Total has barely reduced their company's emissions at all. This is from their own report.

Yet to see evidence that any promise isn't empty.

totalenergies.com/sites/g/files/…

https://twitter.com/TotalEnergies/status/1662006957333442561

In 2021, @TotalEnergies generating more electricity using fossil fuels than it did with renewables.

It's not like wind and solar power have been a secret until 2020. They've had decades, and they haven't even started.

Why should we believe them now?

If you would like a pleasantly maddening picture of exactly how severely the fossil fuel industry has been lying to us, here's their total net income from 2015 to 2022, compared to how much they've spent on various non-fossil technologies:

https://twitter.com/fbirol/status/1661598276544524289

While the share of clean energy spending relative to upstream capital expenditure looks like it has increased, that's because of a huge shift towards bioenergy in 2022.

Total spending on wind and solar by fossil fuel companies fell by half, as their net income more than doubled

People already know that climate change is here (but they don't necessarily know the mechanics of why it keeps getting worse, or how to stop it getting worse)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… “An (incorrect) belief that others are not engaging in climate action may lead people to believe that their own actions will be futile, reducing their perceived collective efficacy and demotivating them to act.”

Hey! You forgot about the #IPCC report!

Don't worry - I'm going to do another thread here, this time with highlights from the 'longer report', which is longer than the summary of the synthesis, but shorter than the as-yet unreleased full synthesis (which are all summaries)

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https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1637817452007489536

The past is here, it's just not evenly (temporally and spatially)

Hello to North America and Europe, responsible for 39% of historical CO2 emissions

(some weird country groupings here....but that's because countries are weird concepts)

Every attempt to 'fix' the voluntary carbon market fails because everyone dances around the real purpose that it serves (a paid service to justify delaying emissions reductions using the fabrication of climate action)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… "the Integrity Council includes a requirement to disclose a credit’s end-user, whether it be a company or individual"

If that actually gets followed, that will be useful data

If there's one thing we've learnt from the past 14 months, it's that heavy reliance on gas is a fantastic and reliable pathway to peace and security Definitely one of those 'you can tell who wrote it before you click on it' articles

Noticed that pro-climate-action accounts were stagnating or shrinking, and that denier accounts seemed to be ballooning. So - I checked, with some help, and....yep.

Elon Musk has made Twitter into a safe space for pro-fossil fuel disinformation. A 🧵

ketanjoshi.co/2023/03/28/mus… There have already been a few qualitative and quantitative analyses of growing pro-fossil lying on Twitter, namely around COP27 and Musk's purchase of Twitter. @ISDglobal / @jkingy et al -->>>

https://twitter.com/jkingy/status/1639254543086112768

That the fossil fuel lobby has wheeled out Graham Lloyd to shake a sword at the Safeguard Mechanism deal suggests that there's at least some good in there APPEA mostly just seem deeply confused and vaguely anxious. They claim that mandating emissions reductions will lead to an increase in emissions. They're sort of just uttering a collection of random words at the moment in case they decide to fight it

web.archive.org/web/2023032703…

A lot of these have very general wording. What is a 'hard cap' and how does that diffee from Labor's carbon budget?

The net zero requirements for new projects....they'll just buy offsets?

https://twitter.com/JoshButler/status/1640146736462315520

Corporations will have no problem "justifying" 100% offsets. They'll classify everything as hard to abate. What sort of requirement is this? "we will ask them to make up some weak justifications". I bet they're quaking with fear.

I stand in complete solidarity with trans folks everywhere. It is no accident that putting out bigoted messages attracts neo-nazis like a fascist bat signal.

It is no accident white supremacist banners read exactly the same as the tweets of transphobes. As a side note - inclusivity isn't a fuzzy, nice-to-have, when it comes to climate spaces. Without everyone on board, and without the clear air to focus on massive challenges instead of dealing with the daily grind of bigotry and cruelty, we're done for.

One of the weirdest spectacles of AI hype is people being absolutely blown away by just the shittiest, bottom-of-the-barrel poetry/writing imaginable "I asked ChatGPT to explain thermodynamics in the language of Shakespeare...........wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[10 lines of total dogshit]

Undersupply warnings are a tradition for the AEMO gas forecast, horrifically called the "gas statement of opportunities"

Gas is a fossil fuel. The most consistently growing source of carbon emissions in Aus

The only "opportunity" here should be eliminating it

https://twitter.com/RNBreakfast/status/1636101530293243906

The thing is: for whatever reason, a massive chunk of energy industry, media, politics and biz refuse to admit that gas is a fossil fuel, or treat it like it's something that causes climate change when it's released or burned

You can tell by the responses to today's report

The Australian government is refusing to release its internal modelling which shows the share between real emissions reductions and carbon offset purchases to meet its Safeguard Mechanism emissions reductions by 2030....

HT @jj_tilley

aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_… This @pollyjhemming / @RDNS_TAI testimony at the Senate inquiry is a good listen; one point stands out: international emissions reporting doesn't care about accounting tricks.

So the projected role of offsets = an actual insight into real reductions