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May 8 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me…
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First things first: I approached every contactable senior author of IPCC reports since 2018, 843 in total. I got 383 survey responses - a very strong response rate.
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Dec 8, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
💥Opec oil cartel is *very* worried about the prospect of #COP28 deciding to back a fossil fuel phase out, according to leaked letters seen by the Guardian
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The letters show Opec warned its member countries with “utmost urgency” on 6 Dec that “pressure against fossil fuels may reach a tipping point with irreversible consequences” at #COP28
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Jun 15, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
The craziest thing about the #ClimateCrisis and nature crisis?
We’re massively subsidising the causes: fossil fuels and farming.
The subsidies run at $23m a minute, according to one estimate in a big new @WorldBank report
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“These are trillions that we are throwing away, trillions that are doing harm. And yet we need that money,” says Richard Damania, World Bank chief economist for sustainable development
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Mar 20, 2023 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
10 key quotes from the IPPC report
1. “There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all”
“Nothing is said about improving energy efficiency. The first line of any new energy policy in the UK should read ‘insulate, insulate, insulate’." Prof Jon Gluyas, Durham Energy Institute
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"This is not the holistic energy security strategy UK needs. It is half a strategy, focused on energy supply. Once again, government has missed an opportunity to provide more immediate relief to families facing very high energy bills" Prof @watsonjim2@ucl #EnergyStrategy
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Apr 4, 2022 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
Thirty months: that is the very short time the world now has for global emissions to finally start to fall.
If not, we miss the chance to avoid the worst impacts of the #ClimateCrisis
Analysis/summary by me theguardian.com/environment/20…
The implication for the biggest culprit, fossil fuels, is clear: it’s over. The IPCC states that existing and currently planned fossil fuel projects are already more than the climate can handle
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Polluting industries around the world are using the #coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in bailouts and to weaken and delay environmental protections
Here’s some examples I’ve collated… (all links in story below)
THREAD 1/n theguardian.com/environment/20…
FOSSIL FUELS
In China, as the worst impacts of the virus outbreak passed, there was a surge in permits for new coal-fired power plants. From 1 to 18 March, more coal-fired capacity was approved than in the whole of 2019.
Apr 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
THIS: 'Coronavirus profiteers' condemned as polluters gain bailout billions
- Moves by fossil fuel, motor, aviation, farming, plastic and timber sectors called dangerous and irresponsible
Story by me theguardian.com/environment/20…
The long list of polluter bailouts, lobbying and weakened protections during #COVID19 pandemic - plus the rare green action being taken
THREAD - How global heating is causing more extreme weather
Greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, forest destruction and other human activities are trapping heat and putting more energy into the climate system. (1/n)
Hotter air means heatwaves are much more likely. For example, scientists now say the unprecedented heat and wildfires across the northern hemisphere in 2018 “could not have occurred without human-induced climate change”. carbonbrief.org/northern-hemis… (2/n)
