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Graduate student at @CUSocSci - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.
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Jan 16 12 tweets 4 min read
"Current #climate policies risk catastrophic societal and economic impacts" The @actuarynews and climate scientists from @UniofExeter published a vital new report today.

Here's a thread with some key takeaways...🧵 Image 2/ We are part of the Earth system, which we depend on.

We need to recognise this dependence and manage our activity to be within planetary boundaries. Image
Jan 1 15 tweets 5 min read
🚨 When we fight, we win!

I've put together a thread giving a quick run down of some of the #climate movement's hard won victories from 2024 to inspire us for the year ahead! 🧵

#ClimateActionNow
#EndFossilFuels Image January:

After a hard fought campaign by climate activists to #StopLNG , President Biden to announce a pause on new exports.

Dec 6, 2024 14 tweets 5 min read
🚨There is so much #Climate news that it is often hard to zoom-out & see the bigger picture.

But every now & then you read a report that brings it all together & stops you in your tracks!

'Collision Course' by @djspratt is one such report. Here are its 10 key take aways: 🧵1/n Image Global warming was 1.5°C in 2023, and 2024 will be hotter. In practical terms, the world has reached the lower end of the Paris target of 1.5-2°C of warming, and an accelerated warming rate is likely to continue to mid-century. Image
Nov 22, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?

Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.

First up @DoctorVive's indispensable guide to talking climate action & fighting fossil fuel propaganda 🧵 Image @DoctorVive Next, if you need some inspiration then look no further than @mzjacobson's "No Miracles Needed" making the clear case that we have all the technology we need to fully decarbonise.

We can avoid catastrophe if we choose to! 🧵 Image
Nov 12, 2024 18 tweets 6 min read
Tonight's @CU_EARTH lecture is being delivered by @dvdmckaydbv on '#Climate Tipping Points'

How close are they? &
What can we do about them?

🧵 1/n Image The planet is heating rapidly due to burning fossil fuels

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Oct 30, 2024 62 tweets 25 min read
I was delighted to be invited to speak to @BristolBioSci earlier this week, where I made the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency.

I've decided to post my slides, so buckle up this is going to be a long thread🧵1/n Image 2/ Before I begin I would like to stress that these ideas have been developed with a great team of collaborators, who I'm extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to work alongside.
@berglund_oscar @StuartBCapstick @EmilyCoxSussex @traceyaelliott @JKSteinberger @steviedubyu Image
Oct 9, 2024 8 tweets 4 min read
"The urgency of mitigating climate change cannot change financial facts" - @thetimes

Oh and which financial facts are those?!😠

(Time for an angry thread🧵) 1/n Image 2/ The FACT that the review by @lordstern1 concluded almost 20 years ago that...

"climate change is a serious global threat, & it demands an urgent global response" &

"the benefits of strong and early action far outweigh the economic costs of not acting"
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cm…Image
Sep 28, 2024 16 tweets 6 min read
Hi @michaeljswalker & @AaronBastani thanks for the segment on the sentencing of @JustStop_Oil activists on @novaramedia y'day.

It was great this crucial topic was covered on your show, yet I couldn't help note some of your remarks lacked key context🧵1/n
2/You rightly highlight these remarkably long sentences are politically motivated &that protests by groups like JSO have been vital for driving forward UK climate policy

Thanks too for flagging the need to center climate politics on asymmetries in consumption of public resources
Aug 2, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
In the face of the unfolding #ClimateEmergency

Academics must move...

"From Publications to Public Actions"

1/4 🧵 Image We must always remember there's...

"No Research on a Dead Planet"

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Jul 17, 2024 15 tweets 6 min read
🚨“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…
Jun 20, 2024 10 tweets 5 min read
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
May 12, 2024 12 tweets 3 min read
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.
Apr 7, 2024 15 tweets 6 min read
🚨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
Mar 22, 2024 12 tweets 4 min read
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 🇲🇽

Feb 5, 2024 14 tweets 5 min read
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.

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Jan 1, 2024 18 tweets 6 min read
🚨 When we fight, we win!

I've put together a thread giving a quick run down of some of the #climate movement's hard won victories from 2023 to inspire us for the year ahead! 🥳🎉

🧵 1/x...

#ClimateActionNow
#EndFossilFuels Image January: After a persistent pressure from campaigners over many years the Royal Opera final cut its ties with BP!

Brilliant work by all those fighting for #FossilFreeCulture

Oct 17, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Fossil fuel emissions 🛢⛽️🔥

⬆️ set to reach record breaking highs in 2023

Which leads to...

🧵 1/4 Image ⬆️ Record breaking levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Which leads to...

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Oct 6, 2023 14 tweets 6 min read
🚨“No research on a dead planet”

I’m thrilled to announce @LauraLoHorn, @PHellermann, @CharlieJGardner & my new paper in @FrontEducation.

Why, despite acknowledging the urgency of climate emergency, have universities yet to respond adequately to the crisis?

A short🧵 Image 2/ Thousands of higher education institutions have made climate emergency declarations, however most academics are still operating as if nothing has changed.

Our paper asks - why does such a knowledge-action gap persist?

It's open access:
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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Aug 18, 2023 15 tweets 5 min read
1/ I'm horrified by the news of mass evacuations from #Yellowknife due to the #wildfires🔥

I used conduct research in the area & it was after a talk with a volunteer firefighter there that I decided to leave ecological science & focus on #climate action.

Here's why🧵 2/ The #Arctic is warming about 3X faster than the rest of the globe as a result of #GlobalWarming from burning fossil fuels.

As a result we're seeing major changes in Northern ecosystems - including a dramatic increase in #wildfire🔥 :
Aug 10, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read
1/ The most common question I get asked when I give talks about the #ClimateCrisis is "but what can I do as an individual?"

Here's my answer... 🧵 Image 2/

NOTHING.

We *cannot* address the #ClimateCrisis as individuals.

The crisis is a symptom of a system of social relations, and therefore we must cooperate to *collectively* change that form of social organization. Image
Aug 8, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
Its wild!

As the reality becomes starker the denial deepens ever further 🧵

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