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In the lead up to COP, we believe it’s essential there be a coherent global plan for ending new fossil fuel financing. cop26climateactionplan.com Joined April 2021-
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The minimum corporate tax rate should be 50%, the prevailing rate prior to the imposition of neoliberalism. There is no valid reason that capitalists should take more than half of the surplus we collectively produce, with our labour and our planet’s shared resources. Of course,…
Nice one @XRWandsworth for highlighting the pollution spills in our local rivers & calling out the polluters
Nice one @XRWandsworth for highlighting the pollution spills in our local rivers & calling out the polluters
"Thirty years of #climate science has given us so much understanding, and what I see very clearly as a red thread during that entire journey is that the more we learn about the Earth system, the more reason for concern we have..." - @jrockstrom, @PIK_Climate
It's arrived! We've kept this book as short, compact and easy to read as possible. We believe everyone needs to understand exactly how we have been stitched up and what we can do about it.
🔥🌍🔥Hi @MarshadeCordova, the world's biggest tree burner, Drax, is seeking huge new subsidies. Will you sign the #StopBurningTrees pledge & tell @ClaireCoutinho to end subsidies for burning trees:tinyurl.com/ydyckhjb?🔥🌍🔥 #AxeDrax #StopDraxsMoneyTreeds
When people talk of the 'cost' of climate change they might ponder that it is an investment. This shows the cost. bbc.co.uk/news/resources…
How was Europe affected by climate extremes in 2023? itv.com/watch/news/how…
Yet another poll showing climate policies are popular, actually. businessgreen.com/news/4199396/p…
Solutions? Don't talk to me about solutions. @PlanetCritical_ open.substack.com/pub/platformen…
Absolutely spot on. We look forward to the day when politicians start differentiating between #Investment and #Cost
Absolutely spot on. We look forward to the day when politicians start differentiating between #Investment and #Cost
Everything that this civilisation has ever achieved is built on ecological fraud. It is built on stolen habitats, consumed resources, assassinated species. We paid for it all through a series of heists which bankrupted this planet. The Ponzi scheme is collapsing though. The…
The costs of inaction @lordstern1
A visual metaphor #KeepItInTheGround
A visual metaphor #KeepItInTheGround
The destruction of Earth is much like disassembling a car no one bothered to learn how to drive, and quickly selling off its parts to make a meagre profit. The biggest cognitive failure of human civilisation was seeing Earth as a collection of resources, raw materials and…
How does Climate breakdown affect countries? theguardian.com/environment/20…
What do scientists say about the ‘cold blob’? Precautionary principal? Yes and thrice yes!
In the U.K. this media outlet has science denying politicians spout disinformation. So far the outlet is reported to be making a £70m loss. The economic argument is based on dangerous nonsense. Read about it here: profstevekeen.substack.com/p/loading-the-… @ProfSteveKeen
In the U.K. this media outlet has science denying politicians spout disinformation. So far the outlet is reported to be making a £70m loss. The economic argument is based on dangerous nonsense. Read about it here: profstevekeen.substack.com/p/loading-the-… @ProfSteveKeen
@implausibleblog He’s obviously fallen for the drivel that economists have written on global warming. profstevekeen.substack.com/p/loading-the-…. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg
“The nature and gravity of the threat of #climate change – and the urgency to effectively respond to it – require that governments can and will have to be held accountable for their lack of adequate action” - @ch_blattner theguardian.com/environment/20…
The problem of Growth vs Degrowth is ever larger. Can economies can be 'decoupled' from the emissions causing climate breakdown? This has to be looked at in context and carefully. Thanks to @Duncan_BBR for the clarity provided:
The problem of Growth vs Degrowth is ever larger. Can economies can be 'decoupled' from the emissions causing climate breakdown? This has to be looked at in context and carefully. Thanks to @Duncan_BBR for the clarity provided:
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Nice one @XRWandsworth for highlighting the pollution spills in our local rivers & calling out the polluters
Outside Wandsworth's Southside Shopping Centre this morning. There were 326 sewage spills into the River Wandle in 2023. Who wants 💩in their water 💦 @thameswater @SteveBarclay @DefraGovUK ? #BoycottWaterBills #DontPay4DirtyWater #restorenaturenow #ClimateEmergency
"Thirty years of #climate science has given us so much understanding, and what I see very clearly as a red thread during that entire journey is that the more we learn about the Earth system, the more reason for concern we have..." - @jrockstrom, @PIK_Climate
It's arrived! We've kept this book as short, compact and easy to read as possible. We believe everyone needs to understand exactly how we have been stitched up and what we can do about it.
🔥🌍🔥Hi @MarshadeCordova, the world's biggest tree burner, Drax, is seeking huge new subsidies. Will you sign the #StopBurningTrees pledge & tell @ClaireCoutinho to end subsidies for burning trees:tinyurl.com/ydyckhjb?🔥🌍🔥 #AxeDrax #StopDraxsMoneyTreeds
Yet another poll showing climate policies are popular, actually. businessgreen.com/news/4199396/p…
Framing climate action as a cost is misleading A cost is when extreme weather causes damage and you have to repair it Spending money to avoid the damage in the first place, however, is an investment Climate action is an investment in a safer future, and cheap at any price
A lot of folks are sharing this harrowing estimate of the economic impacts of warming (19% reduction in global incomes by 2050, amounting to $38 trillion in annual damages) to say decarbonization would be cheaper. But that isn’t what the paper says (1/2) nature.com/articles/s4158…
The destruction of Earth is much like disassembling a car no one bothered to learn how to drive, and quickly selling off its parts to make a meagre profit. The biggest cognitive failure of human civilisation was seeing Earth as a collection of resources, raw materials and…
Short thread on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC, which brings a huge amount of heat to the northern Atlantic. If it slows, the region west of Britain cools. And the Gulf Stream moves closer to the US coast, causing warming there. Both are already happening,…
There is a very strong linear relationship between atmospheric CO2 (concentration) and cumulative CO2 emissions. In the last days, quite a few have been commenting there are feedbacks kicking in. A thread... 1/
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Breaking: *Ten month in a row of record breaking temperatures * Scientists ‘Alarmed and confounded * NASA: “If the anomaly does not stabilise by August.. then the world will be in uncharted territory. It could imply that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how…
Today marks 400 consecutive days of record-breaking ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic. Alarming is an understatement.
Was I right? Or should we first sit tight and assess (wait and see) some more?
If @LeonSimons8 is right, this is the beginning of #dontlookup
“The nature and gravity of the threat of #climate change – and the urgency to effectively respond to it – require that governments can and will have to be held accountable for their lack of adequate action” - @ch_blattner theguardian.com/environment/20…
The problem of Growth vs Degrowth is ever larger. Can economies can be 'decoupled' from the emissions causing climate breakdown? This has to be looked at in context and carefully. Thanks to @Duncan_BBR for the clarity provided:
I really wish the ubiquitous GHG #decoupling charts were better news than they are (as it would make things much easier) but unfortunately they fall foul of the 'fallacy of composition' and are fostering a dangerous complacency about climate change efforts. 🧵
"It is morally reprehensible for companies to continue expanding exploration and production of carbon fuels in the face of knowledge now for decades that their products are harmful"- Prof. @rickheede #EndFossilFuels #ClimateCrisis theguardian.com/environment/20…
This is so fucked up. The stats are wrong. Surprise, surprise. 30% of greenhouse emissions are not covered in the global reporting. So no wonder the temperatures are going up "more than they should". The incentive to cover up reality will become even more structural as the…
“We’re just not prepared. There’s very few, if any, places in the world that are resilient to this type of heat” theguardian.com/environment/20…