#ClimateEmergency
Born ~@318ppm 🇨🇦#istayontheground #pnw #xr #meer
Nov 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
James Hansen 👇🏽
"Rate of ice melt would increase exponentially.. we don't know how fast that is but we KNOW that it's going to be EXPONENTIAL..
👉🏽BECAUSE we HAVE from #PaleoClimate history, evidence of how FAST ice sheets melt"
Interview with Paul Beck
👉🏽"AND in particular during the Emian which was about 1C warmer👀 than the Holocene 👀..
👉🏽Sea levels SUDDENLY went up by a FEW METERS which IS a clear indication that the Western Antarctic ice sheets collapsed AND this occurred in LESS than a century 👀"
Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why
wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…
“Almost irrespective of our emissions choices in the near term, we will probably reach 1.5C in the first half of the next decade,” said Irish climate scientist Peter Thorne, one of the lead authors on the UN report.
Jul 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
forests could become a major emitter of carbon by 2070
@sciam
wealthy countries such as Canada need to reach net zero even sooner — by 2040.
The UN just released a landmark Climate Crisis report thestar.com/news/canada/20…
"wealthy countries, re Canada, NEED to reach net zero even sooner by 2030 - 2040" #ClimateEmergency
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Simultaneous climate extremes a risk to global societies and systems:
"increasing global concurrent climate extremes pose large {er existential 🤔} risks to our society and ecosystems" #cdnpoli
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
6th synthesis report certain to be last such assessment while the world still has a chance of limiting #globalwarming rises to 1.5C (er ~3C🤔) above pre-industrial levels theguardian.com/environment/20…
"..executive with the utility company Florida Power & Light told me that his company had adopted nuclear power so that its leaders wouldn’t be embarrassed on the golf course by other C.E.O.s who had done so" @insideFPL#Florida#sealevel
Jul 31, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Who are these experts planning projects ignoring #RapidGlobalWarming#bizarre theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
What might not have been immediately obvious in the coverage of the government’s decision was that the Planning Inspectorate, tasked with assessing such projects, had recommended that permission be refused.
Jul 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped
Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are b4 we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist #Extinction Rebellion #bcpoli web.archive.org/web/2022073021…
"5 unexpected threats posed by the pumping of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere" 👉🏽Make that 6.. OVERLAPPING pandemics #monkeypox#covid
Jul 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Watch "At least 8 dead in historic flooding in Kentucky " #kentuckyFlooding
Tyre dust: the ‘stealth pollutant’ that’s becoming a huge threat to ocean life
Plastic in the depths: Scientists spent decades on the trail of a mystery toxin killing #Salmon en masse. Mystery of the mass deaths seemed to occur after heavy rains #pnw#yvr theguardian.com/environment/20…
first real breakthrough happened when they tested actual runoff collected from a nearby road and exposed test salmon to it. The fish died within hours
Jul 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Climate crisis ‘insufficient’ to halt oil and gas exploration, says New Zealand government
Despite declaring a climate emergency, govt is in court defending decision to issue fossil fuel prospecting permits in Taranaki #NewZealand#jacindaardern
Hydrogen '2x as powerful a greenhouse gas as thought before': UK govt study
Global Warming potential (GWP) of #hydrogen is between 6 & 16, 11 the ave — GWP of CO2 is 1. Previous 2001 study put GWP of hydrogen at 5.8 rechargenews.com/energy-transit…
“Any leakage of H2 will result in an indirect global warming, offsetting greenhouse gas emission reductions made as a result of a switch from fossil fuel to H2,”
"much smaller molecule than #methane.. much more easily leak from existing #naturalgas pipelines if used to carry H2"
Guess they're talking about Canada & @liberal_party re #BayduNord#TMX#LNGCanada #oldgrowrh#clearcut 👇
"Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure & clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet Paris goal"
Such cuts would be hard to achieve without without drastic, economy-wide measures, the panel acknowledged. It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C
#JustinTrudeau never had any INTENTION of meeting 2C much less 1.5C target
