Two things the world is going to realise over the next 20 years:
1. Transitioning to renewables was actually much easier and cheaper than predicted.
2. The impacts of climate change are far far worse than anyone thought.
Realising these two together will be heartbreaking.
Climate denier Matthew Wielicki debunking himself again, by repeatedly posting a quote from a paper he thinks dismisses the link between wildfire severity and climate change.
In fact, the authors have clarified the paper does the opposite.
#climatebrawl
@GrogsGamut
It’s always about how they ask the question. If they asked:
“Do you want a small nuclear reactor built in your region, 15 years later, and 10 times more expensive than the renewables equivalent?”
They’d get a very different result.
Where Musk went wrong:
1. Removing a seperate colour tick for people notable and the best in their field of work.
2. Removing moderation and safety teams
3. Calling it X
4. Using it to amplify the worst nut jobs and his personal crusades
Meteorologist: It’s going to rain in an hour. Here’s the radar data tracking the storm. It’s flooded homes, heading this way and getting worse.
Wielicki: It’s not raining right now, you must be wrong. This is a conspiracy from big umbrella. Subscribe to my blog.
#ClimateBrawl
@BjornLomborg
Lomborg is lying again. Coral cover has increased only because of one type of coral. It doesn’t mean the entire ecosystem is healthy, and is still massively under threat from rising sea temps.
It specifically says this in the report, but he’s counting on people not reading it.
Wow, self-described “climate science expert”
@MatthewWielicki
apparently busted using ChatGPT to write his arguments, complete with 3 completely fake made-up scientific papers.
He’s now deleted his post.
#ClimateBrawl
I have a theory for why I couldn't find a single publication on this list.
@MatthewWielicki
, a self-proclaimed "earth science expert," used ChatGPT to write the entire tweet for him. He did not verify the sources before tweeting. That, or he completely made everything up.
@JunkScience
Steve Milloy is deliberately lying because that’s what he is paid to do.
It’s obvious from the chart he’s posted that the temperature does not increase evenly year to year and has some natural variation. The overall trend is the same. The earth is rapidly warming.
It’s not happening, and if it is we’re not causing it, and if we are then it’s not that bad.
I don’t care about the science, everyone knows it’s a conspiracy for money and power. Like and subscribe.
Says the ex-professor celebrating his new Twitter follower count
#climatebrawl
@JunkScience
Steve Milloy is paid to lie about climate change. Which is why he thinks his handrawn line outweighs the actual trend line also on this graph, 100 years of climate science, and the conclusions of every single scientific organisation on the planet.
@MrMatthewTodd
The insurance industry is definitely the canary in the coal mine. If anyone wants to make a profit where they can it’s them.
If they know it’s too risky and not worth taking people’s money then it must be bad!
@james_freeman__
Two huge gaps in this flawed analysis:
1: The methane released causes 100x the warming of CO2 for 12 years before it breaks down. Huge difference.
2: CO2 absorbing forests are increasingly being cleared for grazing land for more and more cows.
@BenFordhamLive
A good interviewer would have asked Mundine why he’s changed his position from previously wanting the date changed.
What even is the purpose of Ben Fordham? Just get an LNP spokeperson to host and stop the charade.
Wow, self-described “climate science expert”
@MatthewWielicki
apparently busted using ChatGPT to write his arguments, complete with 3 completely fake made-up scientific papers.
He’s now deleted his post.
#ClimateBrawl
@10NewsFirstPER
They’re not apocalyptic conditions. They are the standard, normal conditions we should expect from now on every summer (and spring).
Global warming is not going away, it will continue to get worse until we stop our emissions.
@RyanMaue
Yes, it’s just a coincidence that the jet stream is highly irregular. I wonder what could be causing the increasingly warm temperatures in the Arctic that leads to irregular jet streams..
@nick_coatsworth
Aside from the fact you’d barely notice them sitting on the horizon on a clear day. The real point is who actually gives a shit about the visual impact, compared to the horrendous ecological and economic impact climate change will have on the bay and on WA. Perth is heating up!
If anyone still has any doubt as to why the Liberal and National parties are getting wiped off the floor in Australia, it’s because they still keep wilfully ignorant, conspiracy nutters like Senator Rennick in the party.
#auspol
#climatechange
@PGDynes
So many people don’t get what climate change is.
It’s not the weather gradually getting one degree warmer over a century, it’s the breakdown of entire climate systems and weather patterns.
Extreme weather events that used to happen infrequently will now become normal.
Didn’t take long for Wielicki to get up to his old tricks. Posting a scientific study & then lying about what its conclusions were.
At no point did it conclude the recent droughts were “not related to climate change” & yet he tricks his followers into thinking it.
#climatebrawl
@JustStop_Oil
Coca-Cola is the world's worst plastic polluter, and has a gigantic carbon footprint thanks to its manufacturing, transport and refrigeration emissions.
Having a float in the Pride parade is rainbow/pink washing at it's finest.
Well done JSO, there's no Pride on a dead planet.
@alisson_morgoth
@Timcast
That’s it. Sorry but you disqualified yourself by using these two climate deniers 101 arguments.
Don’t bother responding this conversation is over.
@RyanMaue
Yes, and we are heading back to those levels of heat on a permanent basis, not just a once off from natural variation. The chart above confirms it.
Thank you for a great example of why we are in a climate emergency.
@BrianGitt
Brian Gitt doesn’t understand what the word “fuel” means in “fossil fuels”.
We need to stop burning things for energy, not making useful things.
Stop listening to grifters on Twitter that don’t even understand the basics.
@simondonner
Far more people still don’t think it’s dangerous than people who think it’s more dangerous than it is.
And the first group are causing much more damage than the second group. I’d rethink your 2nd half career direction if you don’t want it to be a distraction from what’s needed.
@ISAACforEnergy
Why is Jason flat out lying? Does he always lie this blatantly and obviously?
That’s a flatbed truck with high pressure gas cylinders. The video is 10 years old.
…
@Martin_Durkin
Woe is me. Everyone’s out to get me. Nothing to do with my error-riddled amateur film. Must be those evil academics.
Your film is rightfully being shredded because it is conspiratorial nonsense. As is your above tweet.
@GrahamLKeegan
Here’s the global data that clearly shows July 2023 is the hottest month on record, and probably the hottest for the last 120,000 years based on temp proxies.
Doesn’t match with Graham’s attempts to mislead his followers though.
@MLiebreich
@toyoya
The sounds and smells of combustion engines are waste from an inefficient, deadly process. No one misses horseshit all over the streets. No one will miss petrol engines either.
Climate denial blog
@wattsupwiththat
has photoshopped a tweet in order to pretend Gavin has only criticised the author, and not the science.
More blatant lies to fool their followers. What a sad existence.
#ClimateBrawl
@Andy_May_Writer
Nope. It’s still junk psuedo science. It rehashes the same tired denier talking points that have been corrected over and over again. These “experts” don’t even agree with each other.
I’m a Dutch science journalist, and I watched
@climatethemovie
.
It’s full of crap. 😂
Here’s my step-by-step walkthrough, translated by popular request! 👍
Enjoy the ride! 🧵
What do those climate scientists know anyway.
Always predicting things that never happen.
It’s just weather. Record breaking and unprecedented weather. All at the same time, all over the world.
#ClimateCrisis
In which a climate denier tries to seem smart by saying chaos theory proves climate models can’t work.
He then links to an article on chaos theory, that specifically spells out how systems like climate can be predictable even with chaotic elements like weather 😂
#ClimateBrawl
@SkyNewsAust
So, the plant is still running at reduced capacity while repairs are carried out, there’s no risk of any chemical leak, and zero chance of some dispute with China while the grid is down.
Just another anti-renewables beat up from NewsCorp.
@Qantas
@GBRFoundation
@aims_gov_au
I think what Qantas is trying to say is that they will be *Destroying our reefs for generations to come.
There’s no point doing coral IVF if the oceans are too hot to support any corals. There’s nothing left to restore.
This is just greenwashing to cover up QANTAS emissions.
Nuclear bros: Nuclear power is safe! Everyone has been fooled into thinking they’re still dangerous!
Also nuclear bros: The only reason nuclear is so expensive is because of all the new safety regulations! If we got rid of them they would be much cheaper!
#climatebrawl
@MrMatthewTodd
It’s ridiculous that climate scientists are debating whether it’s as terrible as we thought, or even more terrible than we thought.
And most people and the media still framing it as something that might be bad, a long way in the future and don’t worry we’ve got it under control.
Ex-scientist now reduced to trolling with denier-meme that has seen them rightfully ridiculed for many years.
Now actual scientist have even more evidence that this prediction was spot on:
#ClimateBrawl
#ClimateCrisis
@RogerPielkeJr
You have completely misrepresented what this graph is showing. Eastern Canada is ALREADY fire prone. So it shows up as green on this graph.
The same as California is already fire prone.
These are the deliberate lies that deniers have to constantly bring out to deny reality.
@MrMatthewTodd
@elonmusk
Not only that. There needs to be community notes on all big name accounts that repeatedly share climate misinformation and lies.
They should be corrected, and as Elon suggested, not have freedom of reach. Unable to be liked or retweeted.
@curryja
Judith Curry has been a “climate expert” for how many decades and she still doesn’t understand what fossil fuels means.
We need to stop burning oil, gas and coal. No one is arguing that we need to stop using oil to make things. Should we make a lot less useless things, of course
This is now the standard for climate deniers and fossil fuel shills.
1. Deny climate change.
2. Delay action to decarbonise.
3. Blame a lack of infrastructure to deal with the new extreme droughts and floods that result.
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateBrawl
@piersmitchem
Allowing polluters to keep polluting in exchange for not cutting something down that shouldn’t be cut down in the first place is madness.
Credits should only be granted by adding something new into the system that takes out additional CO2. And only when no alternative exists.
@FinanceTiger
@DaleVince
We don’t have time champ.
The Right Wing, Tories and Conservatives wasted it all by protecting the fossil fuel industry for decades.
Even now they are unnecessarily delaying. Protest is the only way and will keep increasing until governments take action.
@SkyNewsAust
Absolute rubbish. Sussan Ley is not a serious person.
This is a distraction to allow them to prop up fossil fuels for as long as possible.
Nuclear is the most expensive , slow to build, and problematic to operate to say the least.
Always funny when a climate denier jokes about NASA moon landing conspiracies, and then goes straight back to their blog about how NASA is lying to the world to help “global elites” get more money and power.
#ClimateBrawl
@RyanMaue
It must be hard being a climate change denying meteorologist.
Every day you have to look at new data showing the climate is changing and having a significant impact on the world. And you’re forced to try to pick on minor details like the colour of charts and the metaphors used.
It really is this simple. Scientists knew about it 100 years ago. The fossil fuel industry accurately predicted it 50 years ago. Satellites directly measured it 5 years ago.
Climate change is real. It’s because of us. And it’s going to get much, much worse.
#ClimateCrisis
Climate deniers and fossil fuel shills say the same thing every time about the worsening forest fires, and they are wrong every time.
- not unprecedented ❌
- not related to climate change ❌
- caused by arsonists ❌
NSW Bushfire Inquiry dismisses arson as a key factor in the catastrophic NSW bushfire season, debunking a popular media narrative during the 2020 coverage.
#MediaWatch
@curryja
You have zero evidence that natural variability is driving the current rapid warming. That’s why you failed to publish anything of the sort in a scientific paper.
Instead you’re on the fossil fuel media circuit on Fox News trying to sell a book.
@MatthewWielicki
That’s a flatbed truck with high pressure gas cylinders. The video is 10 years old.
You can always count on Wielicki to do no research and deceive and mislead his followers.
@PGDynes
Nope, not a toxic waste dump. Just an expensive repair that will be completed by the end of the year.
The latest panels will resist and rotate to avoid most hail damage. Nothing a bit of engineering can’t solve.
@LakesFirearmsTr
@justin4all2
@JunkScience
Going back a thousand years the trend is still obvious. Equally obvious is that Steve Milloy is paid to lie about climate change, and people who love conspiracies lap it up as entertainment.
@RyanMaue
Do I think 4% will die from climate change if we don’t take emergency action, absolutely.
Look at the direction your chart is going. We will have that heat & droughts every year, plus sea level rise
Just because it’s not happening this El Niño doesn’t mean it’s not an emergency
@kiteandkeymedia
This is a rubbish video seeking to minimise the scale of what we are facing and the need for immediate action.
No surprises that a right wing think-tank would want people not to be concerned so the fossil fuel industry can keep doing what they're already doing
Ben Shapiro somehow absolutely nails climate denial in one video.
People who should know better, “just asking questions. We just want to have a debate. Why won’t they debate us.”
#ClimateBrawl
#auspol
Great summary from
@benshapiro
of how the "Just Asking Questions" approach is often dishonest and misleading.
I don't say this from a public perception POV - when you meet these people they aren't curious, they are EXTREMELY certain of what they believe - they're just fearful
@FairAusADV
Parked illegally, causing a sight obstruction and a danger to traffic.
Typical of a group funded by multi-millionaires to support big business.
@SkyNewsAust
SkyNews have completely distorted what the premier actually said. Most of the people commenting here didn’t bother watching the interview or even reading the tweet.
They’re going to be very disappointed when they realise the premier is still against expensive nuclear power in SA
@toadmeister
This article comically attempts to alarm people that Sheffield’s weather station is located right next to a bus lane. In fact it’s in an open park. And rated in the best class by the Met Office.
The article is riddled with mistakes.
@MatthewWielicki
The graphs on the left include grass fires and changes in land use, plus expected improvements in firefighting over 80 years. The graphs on the right show more intense fires that burn greater area despite less overall numbers.
Wielicki is lying to his followers again.
In 2024 we can’t waste time on trolls unwilling to accept reality.
The basics of climate change have been known for over 50 years. Humans are emitting greenhouse gases, causing the planet to warm and harmful changes to our climate.
Anyone denying these facts will be blocked.
And we didn’t have to wait long for Wielicki to prove he’s more interested in the social and cultural impacts of ‘wokeness’ than the actual science of climate change.
In which a grifting conspiracy theorist focussed on the social aspects of why wokeness is driving the climate hoax, actually makes a pretty good point.
Listen to the actual scientists working in their field. Not the social commentators.
Sometimes it’s nice when climate deniers use a metaphor to explain why climate change isn’t real, but actually provide the perfect example of why humans CO2 emissions are dangerous.
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateBrawl
#ClimateNinjas
They all knew. They all knew in the 60s and 70s. We could have designed our cities differently, our transport differently. Developed solar, wind and batteries decades earlier.
Instead these companies wanted to maximise profits. And everyone is worse off because of it.
In memory of Dr. Ruth Reck, who passed away yesterday, I'm sharing this article detailing her early (1960s) work as a pioneering climate scientist at General Motors Research Labs--including early warnings (then summarily dismissed) on CO2 & global warming.
@SenatorRennick
@MichaelPascoe01
You. You're still the flog.
Good politicians listen to scientists and make decisions based on evidence, they don't invent their own science to suit an agenda. Enjoy your last couple of years in office.
@HumanProbably2
@RogerHallamCS21
That graph stops 95 years before the year 2000, and only refers to Greenland temps.
Is that really where we are? 1905 in Greenland?
@CarbonCriminal
@ProfMarkMaslin
You’re a conspiracy theorist with no idea about science or physics.
Was Margaret Thatcher on the BBC payroll as well? Boris Johnson, Arnold Schwarzenegger?
How big is this conspiracy really? All the world’s scientific organisations & every country that accepts IPCC reports?
@MatthewWielicki
Meteorologist: It’s going to rain in an hour. Here’s the radar data tracking the storm. It’s flooded homes, heading this way and getting worse.
Wielicki: Well it’s not raining right now, therefore you must be wrong. This is a conspiracy from big umbrella. Subscribe to my blog.
Wielicki posted a bunch of racist tweets about people accused of plagerism, but turns out he’s more than happy to copy made up ChatGPT work, without even checking it.
Sloppy, unprofessional and hypocritical.
#ClimateBrawl
Wielicki blocked me and many others but look at him backtrack rapidly after he got caught. He claims that others, (including experts on Thwaites glacier which matthew is not) pointing out his attempt at deception using AI, is an attempt to "silence him" ? 🙄
Brilliant comment by
@pollyjhemming
. The gas industry doesn’t contribute much to Australia, but it sure does contribute a lot to Australian politicians and Australian media.
#auspol
#ClimateCrisis
@JuliaHB1
Greta: Listen to the scientists. Read the documented scientific evidence.
Julia: That’s verifiable nonsense. I have no evidence for anything I say, and when I do provide it, it contradicts what I say.
Hmm, who to believe…
@ChrisMartzWX
Chris is deliberately misleading people yet again. These are the RCP projections which are based on different emissions scenarios. You’ve omitted the rest of the chart that shows most “likely range”.
Climate model predictions have been overwhelmingly accurate.
@BjornLomborg
Lomborg repeatedly lying about this. He knows satellite data measures grass fires and forest fires.
It’s the forest fires the world is concerned about and that are being made worse by climate change.
Lomborg is a contrarian grifter, he’ll say anything for attention.
@TDlisle
Because they’re not removing whole mountain tops. That’s a very dishonest comparison.
Much smaller areas are cleared for construction, with some able to grow back.
Like everything humans do, it’s a balance between impact on nature and benefit.
Nuclear is not a good option.
@mattwridley
@ProfMarkMaslin
@curryja
No, climate denier is an accepted term that is defined in multiple dictionaries as someone who seeks to deny or downplay the impacts of human caused global warming.
It suits both you and Judith perfectly.
@GrahamLKeegan
Graham is lying to his followers again.
No one said July was the hottest month ever for the USA. Literally no one. So who told Graham? Why does he have to lie and make these things up?
Global temps have been reaching record highs. The USA is only a very small part of the world.
@ChrisMartzWX
Chris’s failure to understand the difference between climate and weather further cementing his unemployability before he’s even graduated.
@jordanbpeterson
Regardless of the ignition source, climate change is making forest fires worse.
Fire bugs wait for extreme weather conditions to light fires. Climate change gives them more opportunities.
Lightning causes many large fires, including the recent ones in Canada.
@BjornLomborg
Bjorn is deceptively and cynically misleading his followers here.
Global area burned is a measure of both forest fires AND grass fires. While forest fires have been getting worse, grass fires have been reduced mostly due to land use and farming changes.
The grift never stops.
Most Australians still don’t understand. The climate is changing and it’s not going to change back.
Everything we take for granted becomes more difficult, and more expensive.
#ClimateCrisis
#EndFossilFuels
#Auspol
Perth, Western Australia, just had its driest six months on record.
Our city’s major water source now gets up to 70% less rainfall recharge than it did 50 years ago.
This dry is devastating our farms, vineyards, wildlife & people caught in bushfires. We must act on climate
@MatthewWielicki
These graphs are cherry-picked and/or unrelated and don’t show the full picture.
Matthew is lying to his followers again, and won’t find a single scientist who’s studied wildfires or a fire fighter that fights these fires who agrees with him.
@99blackbaloons
Degrowth is not the end of capitalism or a drop in our living standards.
It’s just not having a new phone every two years, a new car every 5, new clothes every season, having an overseas holiday every year.
It’s shifting our spending from products to services.
This should be the biggest story in QLD right now. $5 billion worth of tourism is about to be wiped out and you’d barely even know it was happening. Tourists aren’t going to come if there’s no reef.
This is happening now, not in 50 years time.
#auspol
#climatecrisis
EVERY MAJOR REEF TOURIST DESTINATION HAS BEEN AFFECTED.
Which of course was entirely predictable if you do nothing about curbing fossil fuels.
(Picture from Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, last week)
@ChrisMartzWX
Here’s a much better analysis of how climate model predictions have held up.
Chris is confused about the RCP emissions scenarios and doesn’t understand (or is deceptively shifting the goal posts) which ones to review for accuracy.
I've seen many AGW "sceptics" posting this old graph & claiming it proves there is no correlation between CO2 & temperature in earth's geological history.
It's from an old blog by coal mining engineer Monte Heib who dishonestly misrepresents the work of the cited scientists.
1/6
When you argue with a climate denier, and painstakingly explain the basics of science to refute one of their claims. Only for them to immediately pivot to the next illogical argument..
#ClimateBrawl
#ClimateCrisis
@JunkScience
Look at these horizontal lines I’ve drawn on this graph!
They clearly disprove over 100 years of climate science, and show all scientific organisations to be fraudulent!!
Thank you, I will collect my Nobel prize now.