Let’s get something straight about fossil fuel phase-out: renewables needn’t replace all the coal, oil and gas we use today bc most of it is just used to produce and move those fossil fuels around!

We only need to replace the useful energy: 37% of what we currently produce 🫨🧵 Just want to emphasize this. Fossil fuels are only 37% efficient.

In other words, 63% of the oil, gas, and coal we extract goes to waste in the production, refinement, and transportation process

🧵 What we have been seeing in the #cop28 negotiations can be summarized as the good, the bad, and the ugly. 1/6 The good: many countries have had strong statements in support of a phase out of fossil fuels in line with science and the 1.5ºC target, and a full phase out of fossil fuel subsidies. 2/6

🚨💀Lethal heat, heat extremes beyond human experience just some of the terrifying terms and definitions in new research just out by scientists at Penn State & Perdue.🧑‍🔬

Climate change will expose billions to heat & humidity so extreme their bodies simply cannot cope.

🧵 1/19 They took new “survivability limit” measurements for heat and humidity, and combined those with climate models.

The results are profoundly disturbing. Humanity is *much* more vulnerable than we previously thought.

2/19

No a carbon tax won’t stop wildfires but it helps. Let me spell out the connection for you. Close to 90% of the emissions trapped in our atmosphere causing climate change are from oil, gas and coal. 🧵#cdnpoli These pollutants trapped in our atmosphere creating a blanket that smothers the earth. This in turn heats up the earth causing extreme weather, flooding, droughts and yes more extreme and frequent wildfires. 2/

Debunked!

Exxon Mobile claims carbon capture tech can wipe its excessive emissions clean. But that's a dirty ploy to keep expanding fossil fuels in a world on fire (and get even more subsidisies to do it.) 🧵 See for yourself. Even the oil giant's own sustainability report indicates how inflated and fantastical these claims are. Carbon capture (in red) nowhere near compensates for rising ad reckless fossil fuel emissions.

Let me get this straight.

Oil companies are raking in billions in profits that they're using to lobby govs into funding more oil projects that will make higher profits (and kill us all) and we’re still inviting them to climate negotiations to be *checks notes* ...realistic??? 🧵 In my reality, here on Earth, the planet is rapidly warming because of fossil fuel emissions and we’re running out of time to fix it. We need strong action to transition to 100% renewables.

The oil companies themselves won’t get us there. Just look at their track record.

Debt forgiveness is instrumental to halting construction in the Amazon.

It MUST be understood as a leading driver of deforestation & degradation. Latin America is the most indebted emerging region on the planet. 🧵 According to data from ECLAC, the gross debt of governments averages 78% of regional GDP. Total debt service alone represents 59% of its exports of goods and services.

This puts pressure on governments to approve those oil, mining, and agriculture ventures that fuel destruction.

So embarrassing ⁦@Canada_Pavilion⁩ #cop27 planning event to showcase oilsands companies. Canada’s lobby record shows oil & gas company’s had 11,000 meetings with government in seven years. That’s roughly 6 meetings every work day. Guess it worked🧵
globeseries.com/event-evenemen… I spent 4 yrs meeting w oilsands companies trying to reach agreement on climate policy. They lied about supporting carbon pricing & demand reduction , they undermined, weakened methane regs. They haven’t come through on a decade of promises for “dry tailings” or CCS. 2/

Fossil fuel funded “NGO” @ClearSeasOrg released a dangerous report this month implying scrubbers are safe for our waters.

It’s the most sophisticated greenwashing I’ve seen in a while. Let’s debunk it. 🧵
@Transport_gc #BanScrubbers #OceanPollution #cruiseship First of all, Clear Seas is funded by Alberta Energy and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), & other industry. They have a vested interest in the shipping industry’s use of high-sulphur fuel oils and scrubbers. /2

Noticing a dangerous trend in UN fora & by countries of adding the words “unabated” in front of fossil fuels and “inefficient” in front of subsidies. Let me be as clear as possible, this is bullshit language designed to add loopholes to any climate agreement or climate policy 🧵 First of all what are the definitions? There are no clear agreed definitions but the words are still already being used ex. Opening text Glasgow Agreement from COP26 “unabated coal” “inefficient subsidies” 2/

Historic. And insufficient. That is the dilemma of climate era. We are so stuck in our current systems & so heavily influenced by incumbents who stand to benefit from status quo that even the qualified acknowledgement in text of #COP26 of one fossil fuel, coal feels historic. 🧵 Yet 86% emissions trapped in our atmosphere come from three products coal, oil & gas. Ten years ago 80% of global energy consumption came from those fossil fuels & today? 80%. That’s not because of lack of cheap renewables at scale. It’s because lack of political courage #cop26

A couple thoughts on today's "CleanBC" roadmap release and @jjhorgan press conference #bcpoli #cdnpoli 🧵 First of all,horrified @jjhorgan referred to LNG as bridge fuel & said he has been talking Carnival about LNG bunkering. I met with Chairman of Board of Maersk last week who was clear that science does not support LNG & gas as being part of decarbonization pathway for shipping.

I am old enough to remember being naively excited when BP announced “Beyond Petroleum”. I am also from Canada & for years I thought we did need big oil to be inside to fight climate change 🧵axios.com/shell-ceo-clim… So here is why I think @Shell’s comments today are disingenuous at best & likely very dangerous: in national, subnatiinal & international fora oil companies have successfully argued to weaken climate policy. I watched it happen in Canada & it is well documented elsewhere

Every right wing think tank and government in Canada is out this weekend whipping up a fervour over the new climate plan and building their base against the Liberals and climate action. And the left is debating the policy details. Bold? Historic? Insufficient? Weak? 🧵#cdnpoli It strikes me that this is how they win. Drawing clear battle lines. Motivating through fear and anger. We keep replaying this same script - I see it and still struggle to stomach supporting climate policy at this moment in history that is so clearly insufficient 2/

Okay I have listened to the announcement and double checked previous promises, announcements and GHG numbers. Response to the @bcndp @jjhorgan @GeorgeHeyman climate promises made today THREAD/ #bcpoli #BCelxn2020 Committing to increase climate ambition net-zero by 2050 is important but there are announcements and targets and there are actions and budgets. Our emissions in BC are going up and fossil fuel subsidies to expand fracking and LNG in BC have increased 79% under this government

hmmm... a little context for todays climate announcement #BCelxn2020 #bcpoli B.C.’s emissions reach highest levels since 2001 Thread/ thenarwhal.ca/bc-ghg-emissio… To be fair, because the emissions data lags almost two years behind, its worth noting that the most significant increase in emissions happened under Christy Clark and the @bcliberals. That said, there is little evidence to support John Horgan and @bcndp meeting BC targets 2/

FOI docs reveal UK held private talks Oil & Gas companies to plan Glasgow #Cop26. So...oil, gas & coal are 80% of climate problem, these co's still planning expanding production. But sure lets plan climate negotiations with them?! THREAD/ theguardian.com/environment/20… When the world was negotiating the Montreal Protocol did we invite the chemical companies to design how we would ban their product? How about asbestos? Did the polluters help the world create the plan to stop killing people with that product? 2/

When CleanBC was announced we were told government would close 25% gap to meet our legislated emissions gap within two years. Then they dumped hundreds of millions into fracked gas & LNG expansion. In fact 79% more $ to Oil and gas than Christy Clark’s government. THREAD #bcpoli Honestly didn’t see that coming. I get that being the government to actually get LNG built feels good to the NDP because it’s a way to stick it to the Liberals and an easy way to look like they are creating economic opportunity. But, it ignores the market trends 2/

BC Government Old Growth Panel in new report: Despite commitments on old growth management: No review in 20 years, No monitoring, No system to track compliance, No evaluation, previous recommendations not implemented. #bcpoli "We also encourage you to consider our recommendations as a whole. Had previous old forest strategies and recommendations been fully implemented, we would likely not be facing the challenges around old growth to the extent we are today." pg 3 Amen to that. engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/si…

BC will make an announcement about old growth today. There’s only 415,000 hectares of ancient giants left. Deferring logging permits for those last stands is an immediate step the province could take today if they listen to the science & citizens.
THREAD 1/ #bcpoli Yes we must support BC’s working forest families and we can do that and protect the tiny amount of productive old growth left. Less than 1% of forests in BC are home to the big old trees that we know and love. That still leaves a huge amount of the landscape for forestry. 2/

“After all, the climate doesn’t care how much clean technology we deploy, it only cares how much carbon builds up in the atmosphere from the fossil fuels we burn.” Just one of gems in this analysis of Canada’s stimulus spending so far from @zerocarbon @bsaxifrage #cdnpoli THREAD

https://twitter.com/zerocarbon/status/1293593666502537216

Overall it’s embarrassing: Canada has committed nearly ten times the G20 average to fossil fuels per capita — for a total of $12 billion since the pandemic