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New punchy video demanding a BBC Question Time Climate Special!
With an audience of 100 climate scientists, grilling Sunak and Starmer on the
#climatecrisis
.
Please share, and email the BBC here:
#bbcqt
#stonehenge
@ProfMarkMaslin
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Climate scientists are tearing their hair out, so why are millions not in the streets demanding
#ClimateActionNow
?
Watch and share
@MrNishKumar
helping
@FrediOtto
rouse the masses in the latest punchy "Climate Science Translated" video! 🔥🌎
#NoNewOil
#ClimateCrisis
#Language
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The state of California is suing five major fossil fuel companies over their contribution to the climate crisis.
Just listen to these unflinching words by governor
@GavinNewsom
.
History in the making….
#EndFossilFuel
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Politicians are failing us abysmally on the
#ClimateCrisis
. Can comedians step up and save the day?
Watch the heroic Jo Brand give it a proper shot with scientist
@ProfMarkMaslin
🔥
If this doesn't prompt revolution, what will? Please share far and wide!
#NoNewOil
#COP28
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"To the streets! Now!"
@JonathanPieNews
in full flow in unseen footage that will rouse anyone into rushing to
#TheBigOne
now...
#UniteToSurvive
@XRebellionUK
@GreenpeaceUK
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This is one of the most impactful and factual(!) pieces of climate communication we have seen for a while 💪👌👏💚😇
Over to you
@GavinNewsom
#ActOnClimate
#EndFossilFuels
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"If people like me have to get involved, you know we're in deep shit"
Watch and share Jo Brand explaining the
#ClimateCrisis
with the unrestrained swearing it demands 🔥
🚨NEW UNCUT (pretty frank) VERSION!🚨
#COP28
#ClimateActionNow
#Comedy
@ProfMarkMaslin
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Not quite sure why this article alone doesn't have everyone in the streets
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The mask is slipping
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels | Cop28 | The Guardian
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🌎 No need to thank us,
@IPCC_CH
!
We’ve translated climate science into everyday humanspeak with the
@jonathanpienews
& Prof Jo Haigh, so there's zero confusion what action we all need to take.
Full uncut video here:
#ClimateScienceTranslated
#IPCC
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Undecided about taking action on climate, about joining the peaceful protests from the 21-24th April;
Then watch this…
#UniteToSurvive
#TheBigOne
@XRebellionUK
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Why do we need science in our lives?
A reminder…
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Is the climate science somehow unclear? 🤔
Watch top comedian
@kiripritchardmc
translate top scientist
@ProfBillMcGuire
into no-brainer English to prompt many more to act!
Full uncut version here:
#ClimateScienceTranslated
#IPCC
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"Doing fuck-all is scientifically proven not to work": why everyone needs to turn up to
#TheBigOne
from tomorrow!
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And the clImate communication award goes to this conductor 👇
He stopped the concert and threatened to leave the stage, unless the audience listened to the protestors…
🤝Vladimir Jurowski zum Publikum des
@kklluzern
: "Hört auf! Lasst sie doch reden! Bitte. Und dann spielen wir unsere Symphonie, sonst gehe ich jetzt von der Bühne." Danke für Ihre Unterstützung, Vladimir Jurowski!
#ActNow
#A22
@PilatusToday
@key_SDA_news
@SRFnews
@watson_news
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Perhaps the laws of physics are going out of fashion too?
Ah yeah I thought it was a good idea to save the planet and the billions of people on it from the disastrous effects of climate breakdown. But Westminster groupthink has decided it’s “out of fashion” so it’s probably fine to forget it!
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“We're being gaslit out of existence. Literally and Proverbially”
@JonathanPieNews
on fine form once again…
#Sunakered
#JustStopSunak
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Anyone who is concerned about the
#ClimateCrisis
but hasn't yet acted:
#21April
at Westminster is your chance to show up and speak up! Let's all take it before it's too late 😬😉
#UniteToSurvive
#TimeToShowUp
@GreenpeaceUK
@friends_earth
@XRebellionUK
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NEW
#ClimateCrisis
SURVEY: 86% of climate scientists think governments are "not doing enough at all", compared to 32% of the UK public.
What do scientists know that most people don't? Ummm quite a lot, worryingly!
Full results:
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Did you catch our film earlier this year where
@JonathanPieNews
translates climate science into no-bollocks-speak?
We're making more, with equally punchy comedians. Please be selfish and help - it's your home we're trying to save here! 👉
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"THIS AXIS... REPRESENTS TIME. AND THIS AXIS... REPRESENTS HOW FUCKED WE ARE!"
🎄Favourite line from our
#2023
film No2 with
@JonathanPieNews
and Prof Jo Haigh
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You don't have to agree with
@JustStop_Oil
's tactics to think getting 6 months in prison for marching in the street is utterly disproportionate.
This isn't justice, it's repression.
Extraordinary press release from
@JustStop_Oil
. For peacefully marching for 30 minutes on a road in North London to protest against the destruction of the planet - and having pleaded guilty - Stephen Gingell, a father of three, has been sentenced to six months in prison.
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#Christmas
is the season of goodwill but also of catching up with that climate-doubter uncle!
Here is the Xmas Box Set 🧵of quick vids we released with
@ProfMarkMaslin
throughout
#COP28
to help you argue back... Please share with anyone with relatives.
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All is not lost:
@ProfBillMcGuire
making the case for turning up to
#TheBigOne
this weekend
#UniteToSurvive
Share with anyone who needs a loving yet firm nudge to show up!
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The whole point of our Climate Science Translated films is to get the
#ClimateCrisis
discussed in stark terms in front of millions to inspire action.
Here it is on breakfast TV
#GMB
this morning, hopefully landing some strong points!
#NoNewOil
#COP28
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Climate science latest: the Antarctic ocean currents are heading for collapse...
Are people now immune to these warnings? Perhaps we need to communicate them in a more visceral way.
#ClimateScienceTranslated
#UniteToSurvive
#NoNewOilandGas
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We agree with Chris….
#TheOilPartyIsOver
!
Today I'll be joining scientists outside Parliament as they meet with MPs returning from summer recess to inform them of the danger of persuing fossil fuels . . .
We are in deep , deep trouble & our message is clear:
#TheOilPartyIsOver
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It's time to come together, tomorrow really is
#TheBigOne
Our
#ClimateScienceTranslated
films are designed to convince new people to show up and make themselves heard. Please retweet to help tip as many into coming as possible...
@XRebellionUK
@GreenpeaceUK
@friends_earth
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Ahead of the
#KingsSpeech
and
@RishiSunak
's cynical fossil fuel agenda, a revealing stat from our new survey:
An unambiguous 98% of UK climate scientists support a ban on new oil and gas...
Full results here:
#NoNewOil
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NON-SWEARY VERSION
Some of you have been asking for a non-sweary version of our overly frank
@MrNishKumar
x
@FrediOtto
film, so here it is (also features fun alternative jokes about Hitler, as well as apartheid and ladies getting the vote):
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Great to see scientists from across the county teaming up with
@ChrisGPackham
at Parliament to meet MP’s and explain the consequences of new oil and gas projects.
#NoNewOil
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For those who have asked, here’s a link to the complaint. ‘Attorney General Bonta Announces Lawsuit Against Oil and Gas’ 🙏💚🔥
—%20Joined%20by%20California%20Governor,for%20allegedly%20engaging%20in%20a
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Crucial work from
@CarolineLucas
I'm opening a debate in the Commons shortly demanding an end to the fossil fuel industry's influence on our politics. I'm calling for
- a firewall between the industry & policy making
- no fossil fuel money in politics
- no more public subsidies for fossil fuels
@friends_earth
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Gratitude to
@YorksBylines
for picking up todays action by UK scientists and
@ChrisGPackham
, to tell MP’s the oil party is over!
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@MrNishKumar
@FrediOtto
It's the latest in the series, following the stonking contributions of
@JonathanPieNews
and
@kiripritchardmc
which you can see below if you missed them. With more in the pipeline!
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Two of our favourite scientists with their weekend's research findings
@ThierryAaron
@CharlieJGardner
#TheBigOne
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Major climate comms fail in tonight's
#Panorama
on new oil and gas:
Why illustrate
#climatebreakdown
with remote melting glaciers, instead of food shortages, wars, heat deaths and societal collapse?
No wonder people don't act, they don't feel it affects them.
Why are we Still Searching for Fossil Fuels?
On BBC One and BBC iPlayer now
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CLIMATE SCIENTIST NEW SURVEY: To launch our latest film, we commissioned a survey by
@censuswide
to reveal how climate scientists feel as the
#ClimateCrisis
unfolds, vs how the public feels.
Full results here:
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Here is MP Chris Skidmore demonstrating that a) he has principles and b) it's completely reckless and dishonest to support new oil and gas licenses!
🙏
@CSkidmoreUK
#FossilFuels
#oilandgas
#netzero
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@MarinaPurkiss
Also announced when Parliament not sitting, as they know it won't stand up to even the most basic scrutiny
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"WE'RE ALL GOING TO NEED TO LEARN HOW TO GROW OUR OWN VEGETABLES, AND ALSO HOW TO MACHETE ANY NEIGHBOURS WHO TRY AND STEAL THEM."
🎄Favourite line from our
#2023
film No4 with Jo Brand and
@ProfMarkMaslin
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@ClaireCoutinho
Your government will go down in history as the quislings of the climate crisis, beholden to fossil fuel interests
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We think the
@DailyMailUK
might need to watch one of our films, they sound a little confused?
#TheBigOne
#UniteToSurvive
@XRebellionUK
@ChrisGPackham
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More than 1,000 climate scientists urge public to become activists | Environmental activism | The Guardian
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Another climate scientist agreeing with the
@ChrisGPackham
stance on peaceful protest 👇
#ChrisPackhamC4
“I now consider it the ethically responsible thing to do”
I stand with
@ChrisGPackham
it is now ethically justified to break the law in peaceful protest in the face of the betrayal of our governments inaction on the climate & ecological crises!
#ChrisPackhamC4
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"THERE'S STILL TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF OIL IN THE GROUND, AND THEY PLAN TO DIG IT ALL UP EVEN IF IT SCREWS UP PLANET EARTH FOR THE REST OF US. ZERO CORPORATE FUCKS GIVEN."
🎄Favourite line from our
#2023
film No1 with
@kiripritchardmc
and
@ProfBillMcGuire
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If
@JustStop_Oil
and
@GMB
agree on something, surely it's a sign that the tide of public opinion is shifting.
People are realising what we're up against - the
#cop28
shenanigans are also opening eyes.
📺 WATCH: Comedian Jo Brand and Professor Mark Maslin on Good Morning Britain
💬 "I'm sure in a society where people lose their s**t if their Deliveroo order is 5 minutes late, we will cope magnificently with global food shortages."
💸 Donate now —
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Can
@MichaelEMann
and
@JPvanYpersele
please get on a plane to
#cop28
to explain the science to Al Jaber in person?
Prepared to forgive the carbon emissions on this occasion!
🚨 Please read this letter from two renowned climate scientists to
#Cop28
President Sultan Al Jaber in light of his outrageous remarks
Science doesn’t lie - our planet needs a fossil fuel phase out desperately
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You cannot make this shit up
Confirmed this morning by the BBC.
Leaked documents reveal that UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals with nations (including the UK) at COP28.
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"It's not climate change it's just weather."
@ProfMarkMaslin
takes on twitter denial in our
#ClimateDenialDebunked
series (no7/12).
The point is to support climate advocates with concise answers.
And also to troll a few easily aggravated deniers, if we're honest!
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@MrNishKumar
@JonathanPieNews
@kiripritchardmc
Version with emergency-level swearing also in the works...
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This is why we felt it was so important to give climate scientists a platform so more people hear them.
Listen and engage, we need everyone...
#ClimateEmergency
#climatescience
Listen to this woman. She is a scientist. She is 4 months pregnant. She is in tears because as a scientist she understands what is coming. This is really real. YOU AND THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE REALLY ARE IN DANGER. Follow the scientists at
@ScientistRebel1
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Net zero propaganda antidote
Have a listen to someone who actually knows what they are talking about.....
#NetZero
#Sunak
Is reaching
#NetZero
actually expensive?
We asked
@UniofOxford
&
@INETOxford
's Prof Doyne Farmer, who answered based on his peer-reviewed, published and widely cited research.
More:
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"You never hear from the climate scientists who disagree". For much the same reason you don't hear from the physicists who believe the Earth is flat.
Last fun clip from
@ProfMarkMaslin
in our
#ClimateDenialDebunked
series (12/12).
Will do handy Xmas 🧵with them all next week!
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Hey
@GMB
!
Our new research shows that climate scientists aren't being listened to, so we've teamed up with
@MrNishKumar
and
@frediotto
to provide a creative way of explaining the
#climatecrisis
:
Why not invite them on air instead of listening to random
We've seen how far environmental protesters will go to draw attention to climate change but are their demands becoming anti-human?
Elon Musk said that the environmental movement has 'gone way too far' & could use AI to destroy humanity.
Donnachadh McCarthy & Mike Parry debate.
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Will someone please put
@antoniogutteres
in charge already? He's the only leader who seems to give the slightest flying fuck
#IPCC
#ClimateCrisis
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Not exactly the behaviour of someone who has fully absorbed the reality of the climate crisis...
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There certainly are many of us, and we are growing in numbers every day!
Lovely measured and empathetic performance here from
@ClareTotty
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On the same day, two vids launch to inspire
#ClimateActionNow
. One through song, one through comedy. Both seeking to rouse more people to action. We need to try all routes!
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As MPs ludicrously debate new oil and gas fields, here is a reminder of Jo Brand's call to fight back, with
@ProfMarkMaslin
.
"Protest doesn't work. Except for the suffragettes, civil rights, gay rights. Oh and the right to weekends!"
#NoNewOil
#StormIsha
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Is this extremely depressing or extremely galvanising?
Or both?
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@dpcarrington
@christiansarkar
@ben_stockton
If this is what he says in public, what does he say in private...
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If you're still not sure why the weather has gone mental, please watch our new film - out today !
🚨 This is absolutely insane!!! SERIOUS flooding now in Figline di Prato north of Florence in
#Italy
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Lots going on in this shot
#ClimateBreakdown
My mom just took this video from her apartment on the north shore of Boston.
I can’t imagine what the next 25 years are going to be like for those who live on the coast.
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"Immediate reductions". Meaning now, not later, asap, pronto, immediately. Pretty clear.
Current policies make it likely that
#globalwarming
will exceed 1.5°C during the 21st century & make it harder to limit warming below 2°C.
“This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action.” – Hoesung Lee,
#IPCC
Chair
👉
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Ever wonder how climate scientists feel, studying
#climatebreakdown
up close and personal?
Well, 92% of them are worried about the future of their kids on the planet...
Compared to an also substantial 71% of the public.
Full eye-opening survey:
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Xmas 🎄 Climate 🌎 Comedy 😂 Appreciation 👏
Just a few of the things that made us laugh this year (even as we screamed inside)
Thanks
@mrhenrymorris
A video I made with my good friend professor Steve Hydrocarbon, about our misunderstood friends in the petrochemical industry.
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@DeborahMeaden
@TheWholeShebang
Agree with you almost entirely except -it's not going to just hit our kids, it's hitting us too
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"What a crock!"
Climate deniers have an undeniable way with words.
Here
@ProfMarkMaslin
deals with "More CO2 is a good thing" in our snappy
#ClimateDenialDebunked
mini-series (clip 9/12)
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Xmas 🎄 Climate 🌎 Comedy 😂 Appreciation 👏
Just a few of the things that made us laugh this year (even as we screamed inside)
Thanks
@MMMoneyMatter
Ever wondered what your pension gets up to when you’re not looking?
Meet Oblivia Coalmine 🔥
#FrackingHell
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Thanks
@ChrisGPackham
Unbelievably, the new
#IPCC
report is already yesterday's news on TV, so we need to spread the science in other ways!
Another brilliant film from
@ClimateSciBreak
- this time with the very eloquent & straight talking
@kiripritchardmc
&
@ProfBillMcGuire
.
Watch to the end , give them a follow and RT widely !
#TheBigOne
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Here we go again
Azerbaijan have announced that Mukhtar Babayev will be the president of the Cop29 climate talks. Before becoming environment minister, he spent 26 years at Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company Socar.
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Please support Chris (and everyone you know and love) by supporting this!
If you’re still unsure how serious this is, then watch one of our videos, featuring top scientists being translated by comedians!
#NoNewOil
On Monday 4th scientists will be meeting with MPs outside Parliament as they return to work to inform them on why we must say NO to new oil and gas . . .
Please write to your MP and ask them to come out and listen to them – details here:
#NoNewOil
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Fun use of oily champagne in latest from
@MMMoneyMatter
Ever wondered what your pension gets up to when you’re not looking?
Meet Oblivia Coalmine 🔥
#FrackingHell
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Very clear-eyed as usual from
@GeorgeMonbiot
on the politics we must expose and overcome
A short film about why the dirtiest and most antisocial economic interests dominate our politics. I believe it's the key to understanding the terrible state we're in.
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"BAD WEATHER USED TO MEAN DON'T FORGET YOUR UMBRELLA. NOW IT MEANS POSSIBLE DEATH"
🎄Favourite line from our
#2023
film No3 with
@MrNishKumar
and
@FrediOtto
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Great and very welcome job by George Monbiot on UK
#bbcqt
however it feels like a climate scientist could shut down deniers like the ludicrous Peter Hitchens with full authority. What about it next week
@bbcquestiontime
? As
#COP28
ends, and at a critical juncture in our history?
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A favourite climate denialist trope is "renewables are unreliable".
Here is what
@ProfMarkMaslin
has to say in response in the 3rd out of 12 in our handy
#ClimateDenialDebunked
series.
Trigger warning: contains the words "unicorn farts" 🦄
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@supertanskiii
@MarinaPurkiss
@campbellclaret
@GoodLawProject
@fionaharvey
@RHarrabin
@StopCambo
@ClimateDad77
@HugoGye
@James_BG
@GreenJennyJones
@robpowellnews
If you missed it
@RishiSunak
, please watch
@ProfMarkMaslin
and Jo Brand translate Climate Science into language even the dimmest government minister can understand 🤡
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The
@sciencemuseum
has somehow dug itself into a fossil fuel hole with its sponsorship from
#Adani
, very disappointing. Even
@GretaThunberg
is on its case...
Here's the moment that
@GretaThunberg
challenged
@sciencemuseum
Science Director
@RogerHighfield
this evening. He ran rather than answer her question about the museum's acceptance of sponsorship from coal giant
#Adani
@ScientistsX
Full report tomorrow: .
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@Andy_Scollick
@MrNishKumar
@FrediOtto
Thanks! Hopefully it will solve the climate crisis by lunchtime
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Question Time question: have they had a climate scientist on the panel in recent memory? Can anyone recollect?
(If not, let's get one on there next week during
#COP28
...)
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We very much approve of this important Public Information Film!
Maybe you know someone who is suffering from the tragic brain condition known as CARWASH??
Watch now for diagnosis & treatment 👇
#SUVs
#pollution
#climate
#comms
#Paris
🚙🚿Have you or someone you know been affected by CARWASH?
Symptoms are easy to spot and treatments ARE available 🩺
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Climate scientists tell us we face an urgent, immediate, and irreversible threat! 🌎 🔥
So why are most of us not reacting?
#ClimateCrisis
#DontLookUp
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Absolutely extraordinary for
@bbcquestiontime
to say nothing this week about
#cop28
. Reveals how deeply - and incompetently - out of touch they are with the climate science...
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Top
#COP28
quote came from Samoa: “It's not enough to reference the science, then ignore what the science is telling us we need to do".
Everything springs from the science. Let's bring it to life to millions more, to build the unstoppable social pressure that forces change:
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🙏 everyone for the great reception to the new vid!
Particular 🙏 to those who helped make it happen behind the scenes including
@mallaby
@Miranda_N
, Houseband TV,
@samnarr
@rayhopkinson
@gralefrit
@davidschneider
@ThierryAaron
@CharlieJGardner
We need all hands on deck now,
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@idnapper
@MrNishKumar
@FrediOtto
Agree that there's not enough true understanding of the crisis, mere "concern" is not an adequate response!
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No-brainer.
Frequent flyers are rewarded for polluting. Let them pay the full price
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Feeble appearance from
@RishiSunak
at
#COP28
. He's such a laughing stock on climate now that even scientists are trolling him:
Watch
@ProfMarkMaslin
giving him a D minus grade and assigning remedial homework.
#COP28UAE
#NoNewOil
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@ChrisGPackham
Thanks Chris! Incredible that broadcasters are not spelling out the links between climate change and increasing storms, which incidentally is
@FrediOtto
's expertise...
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Very British call to protest from Jo Brand! We'll take it
'If someone said would you come on a march, I might do if I wasn't laying down.'
Jo Brand talks about partnering up with campaign group Climate Science Breakthrough to hilariously translate science-y messages about the negative impacts of climate change.
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Genuine question: are there any civilisations headed for collapse that managed to change course radically, and how?
#ClimateEmergency
#COP28
World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before
#COP28
- ‘We must start setting records on cutting emissions,’
@UNEP
boss says, after temperature records obliterated in 2023
#emissionsgap
Story by me
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Watch
@JonathanPieNews
discussing our new
#ClimateScienceTranslated
videos on the
#skynews
Climate Show this weekend.
Can humour help shift mindsets? Or at least stop people from switching the bloody channel? Full vids here:
#April21
#ClimateAction
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