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2/25 Sadly this took a long time to get published … perhaps appropriate for a paper called ‘attractions of delay’ which explains climate procrastination as a predictable outcome of multiple reasons for prevarication. Fortunately the findings are still topical …
Nov 14, 2021 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
Is there anything new to be said about #COP26? Perhaps not, but in this thread I hope to start putting the outcomes in context, rather than just focusing on whether the text got better or worse ... 1/23
2/23 So to start, remembering that climate is a chronic problem that cannot be solved, and must be managed, justice is central to progress. Climate justice is multidimensional - at COP26 it featured mainly in discussion of emissions pledges, climate finance and loss and damage...
Dec 5, 2020 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
1/15 Today a group of 23 climate researchers published a myth-busting article on net-zero and offsetting in Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter (Daily News). dn.se/debatt/vilsele…
In this thread I paraphrase our arguments in English ...
2/15 Reaching net-zero by 2050 is not enough to solve the climate crisis: carbon budgets will be exceeded before then at current emission rates, and we cannot rely on speculative and uncertain negative emissions technologies to compensate.
Dec 4, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1/7 Climate progress - why I'm celebrating news from the UK and DK today
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2/7 As an outspoken critic of aspirational #NetZero pledges, there are several big worries that motivate my concern. I'll focus on two here. First, they enable delay in emissions reductions, by potentially replacing accelerated mitigation with future speculative carbon removals.
Nov 18, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
That 10 point plan for the climate ... some cautionary notes from me ... (thread)
1/10 Quadruple offshore wind - great, a target, with a deadline, and building on past trends. But nothing about cheaper onshore wind - a huge missed opportunity.
Nov 14, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
In my chapter for “Has it Come to This: the promises and perils of geoengineering on the brink” rutgersuniversitypress.org/has-it-come-to… I seek to explain why promises of enhancing justice through #geoengineering are delusional in contemporary politics
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2/9 Right now, geoengineering techniques are being co-constructed with political regimes inside the dominant (neo)liberal social imaginary, as sustaining innovations for the political and cultural maintenance of elite privilege and Northern domination.
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Most climate scientists are so concerned about the risks of climate change that they typically support 'all of the above' ... in other words, behaviour change, energy efficiency, decarbonization, low-carbon technology and carbon removal (not unreasonable on the face of it) 2/15
