Marcus Stewart
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Documentary TV producer. Science enthusiast. Passionate about evidence based debate. Always open to changing my mind with evidence. @marcusstewart.bsky.social
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined February 2015
@ianbremmer But negotiations with Russia only gives them time to re-arm and break future agreements to continue their expansion. Can't see any long term benefit to making agreements with Russia given their track record of breaking agreements.
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After 21years our @ecoeye series finally comes to an end. The last chapter is back to where we stated. Looking at why we still haven't cleaned up our rivers and lakes. Tonight at 8pm on @RTEOne.
Final episode up in 30 mins! Find out why, after 20 years of targets, with all the money we have spent on infrastructure, all the various agencies, all the volunteer work- why is our water supply getting more polluted year on year? “Troubled Waters” 8pm on @RTEone
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That wraps up our 20th (and maybe last) season of @ecoeye. Thanks for watching!. We'd love to have done more this year particularly on our energy challenges and what needs to be done to get Europe off Russian fossil fuels. Thoughts are with the free people of Ukraine.
30 minutes until the final episode of Eco Eye season 20!.Water is our most precious natural resource, without it life would not exist. What can we do to help conserve water and only use what we need? @RTEone 7pm
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@Robcass78 @CiaranCuffe @rtenews @EamonRyan @GeolSurvIE I'm just back from Stockholm. This is what they put under all their roads there. One big service pipe for everything. Fresh water, waste water, district heating, electricity, fiber internet. All accessible without ever digging up the roads again.
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@Dominic2306 @krishgm Do you really think that UK would have got a trade deal under those circumstances? Are you THAT detached from reality? Or is this just more populist posturing? Really hard to know tbh.
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@MikeMason_CO2 @IAPonomarenko @elonmusk The problem is. @elonmusk is promising to increase the amount of uncensored unscientific crap and hate speech at a time when he's asking to charge for something that was free.
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If Germany reinstate their six nuclear power plants, the price of their electricity would fall by 50%. It would save millions of tonnes of Co2 from permanently polluting our shared atmosphere too. It's blind ideological madness that they won't/ aren't doing this. @OlafScholz.
Some have wondered why I suggest that the price for electricity at the power exchange EEX will fall by 50-70% on the day the Germans decide to reinstate all six nuclear power plants, in contrast to the @ifo_Institut, who calculated the effect at 4% with three NPP. Here is why. 🧵.
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@DonnellyStephen So in three months you're aiming to do as much as Israel has done in just the last five days. Sorry not nearly good enough. Every day matters.
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@anders_aslund One here in Ireland too. Just been ordered to shut down. Thankfully. But how did we let this happen? .
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@JoshuaPotash I guess they've forgotten that Covid-19 affects people of colour disproportionately more. And these demonstrations are likely to reverse any gains made during an extremely difficult lockdown.
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Despite the difficulties. @EcoEye we have managed to get back for series 20!. Starting tonight we explore why our towns are in decline and what can be done about it.
Ireland's town centres often have unique character + stunning heritage buildings. Could a new initiative aimed at the regeneration of our historic town centres be the key to restoring our communities? Find out more tonight 7pm on RTE one @HeritageHubIRE
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@EngstrT But Ukraine doesn't have all that lovely oil, gas and coal. So we ignored you and sucked up to the dictator instead.
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@alc_anthro @KBAndersen Ireland wasn't a state in 1919 either. With a bit of recognition and help we got there.
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Ireland is in this mess because we've had decades of not caring about where we got our energy from. The ONLY party that has said and tried to do anything about that over those years is now getting flack from all the uninformed who have no answers to the problem at all.
Inflation is to hit 8.5%, and all Ryan can say is take shorter showers & turn down the thermostat?. How about he tackles the war profiteering by fossil fuel industry, & scraps the carbon tax? Or retrofit people's homes and invest in free public transport!.
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Mining in the developing world comes with a huge human cost (that we need to address). But cobalt is a very tiny fraction of that. And most Cobalt does not go to EVs. Yet some people 👇 get very interested in human rights when it's bashing the green transition.
Between 150,000 and 200,000 artisanal miners work cobalt deposits in Democratic Republic of Congo, including 80,000 children, with more than a million others economically dependent on their work. Each miner earns between $0.75 and $3 a day.
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@AgriAware @teagasc @Bordbia @IFAmedia @fbd_ie @farmersjournal @GHGGuru @ornua Yes, but it's over 200 times the warming in the ten year period than Co2. And it doesn't disappear then, it turns into Co2 where it lasts for 1000 of years in the atmosphere. Useful to make your members aware of ALL the facts.
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My best and probably my last documentary series finally done. Irish version next Wednesday 9:30pm @RTEOne . International version to follow.
Our new three part series with @boucherhayes starts next Wednesday at 9:30pm on @rte 1. A lot of blood, sweat and tears has gone into this one (literally). Please like, watch and share.
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Did this guy👇 demand that we expel the Russian Ambassador when it became clear their unprovoked assault on Ukraine was targeting civilians?.
Expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland now.
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@ShellenbergerMD wrote an opinion piece in .@Quillette with some very big claims on environment issues in order to push his new book sales. Here’s a thread on the accuracy of these claims. @EcoEye. #energytwitter #climatetwitter @gimenezbarbat @BlairKing_ca.
“On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.”
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@WilliamsJon Jon, it looks really bad for @rtenews that you're cherrypicking a quote from a 2007 synthesis report to justify more irresponsible editorial judgements in this space. It's really not hard to find where the science has moved on since then.
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in the 20 years we @ecoeye have been communicating climate change, we've seen the resistance turn from denial to lip service to false promises to real promises to climate law. Next step must be climate action, but we will see many more layers of resistance to change.
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Wow! 40% of shipping is moving fossil fuels around the world. Getting off fossil fuels will have benefits that most of us never realised. @EcoEye.
@MaxJerneck In 2017, 28.7% of ship tonnage was for oil . A portion of ‘dry bulk’ is coal and the rest mostly iron ore, bauxite (aluminum ore) and grains. Plus, a small percentage of world tonnage is for moving liquified natural gas (LNG). So, I estimated 40% total
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@GreenpeaceEU Sometimes I genuinely wonder if the anti-nuclear "green" movement in Germany is actually working for the fossil fuel industry. It's really hard to tell.
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@skdh Sabine, .I'm sorry to say this is really awful analysis. You really need to stick to subjects that you understand well. Check in with @AukeHoekstra for a fact check on your EV positions.
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@vonderleyen Why don't you just buy the patents for the vaccines and let India (the world's biggest vaccine producer) make vaccines for themselves and the world quickly? . Whatever this could cost is far less than not doing it.
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@RosinMurphy Awful! . There will be no clampdown until there is judicial + criminal justice reforms. Unfortunately. @gardainfo have virtually no powers to deal with these thugs. @HMcEntee + @LeoVaradkar don't get it unfortunately.
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@HeffnerCoach @nypost You've obviously never really cared for someone in this kind of terrible pain. If you had you'd understand better.
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It was a difficult year to produce a TV series. But proud of the dedication of our core team @EcoEye; Killian, Louise, Marc, Raja and presenters. @RoseOfTralee10 .@LaraDungan .@MiseAnja .The climate crisis is not going away so we hope we can continue to communicate solutions.
That's all for this season folks! Audience ratings and engagement have been better than ever this year, thanks so much for watching. Thanks to the @EPAIreland for supporting the series for 19 years and thanks to our contributors for taking part. We hope to be back again
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Getting this artist to paint all the grey out of our urban areas would be the best money ever spent.
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@fpleitgenCNN @sumlenny Worth remembering that Nazi sympathisers were all over the place, not just in Germany in the 1930's.
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Great to have @EamonRyan speaking the truth here 👇. Facts can be uncomfortable but we're funding Putin and his warmongering because we're addicted to his fossil fuels.
"Our reliance on fossil fuels is costing us dear. in what's happening with Russia today," says 🇮🇪 Energy Minister Eamon Ryan. "🇺🇸 is sending €350m of arms to 🇺🇦. But every day we 🇪🇺 spend €350m [on energy] which we give to 🇷🇺, which they invest in arms dropping on 🇺🇦."
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@eoinmauricedaly If meal prepping is how you identify neoliberalism then you're definitely spending way too much time down an internet rabbit hole.
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Imagine if even our publicly funded media behaved this way? . Would be cool to see @rtenews Do a story on this. @RTEClimateWatch.
Sweden’s top daily national newspaper will no longer accept adverts for fossil fuel brands or high carbon products like flights and ICE cars, in recognition of the fact that the goal of these adverts runs directly counter to their editorial policy of support for climate action!.
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While I don't think I've ever read The Star. They asked me to write about my experiences in Chernobyl. Here is my honest reflections. @EcoEye
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@TaraConnollyEU It actually is progress. It's just probably not ideal. but let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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@ianbremmer Why is Swedish listed as the Second language in Sweden? . And Spanish for Norway and Finland? . I question the data used for this map.
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@Alan__Shatter Alan, have you written anything on the Zionist expansion and displacement and suppression of Palestinians? . And settler violence in the West Bank? .
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@LeonSimons8 Is there an argument that the sulfur might have been a net positive given the very large impacts we're expected to experience from warming? . Will we be asking ships in the future to INCREASE their sulfur pollution?.
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@sapinker Horseshit. Steven, please stick to the science you understand. Nordhaus also hasn't even read the latest IPCC report and has little understand of the scale of the challenge and the urgency of avoiding big tipping points. We need a plan bigger than The Apollo project @MichaelEMann.
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@nealerichmond You've lost the room by talking about growth rates which are not benefiting middle income households or those trying to get on the property ladder.
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@roisiningle I can't understand why this isn't getting much more media traction than Tubsgate.
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@alex_avoigt This is so stupid. The capital cost and Co2 is already embedded in the construction. Closing these down before all the coal is gone is plain ignorant.
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Thanks to all our excellent contributors to final episode of #RisingTides documentary series. International version will be announced in a few months.
#RisingTides episode 3 - many months was spent interviewing potential contributors around the world by zoom, till we got what we felt was the best mix. You may want to give them a follow … 🧵
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Full agreement with @davidmcw here. We used to think an advanced society is where everyone has a car, but now we know an advanced society is where nobody needs one. More on this in a coming episode of @EcoEye.
Here’s my article in @IrishTimes On why we need to start seriously building transport infrastructure and why there’s plenty of money around to do so. If we don’t, the economy will seize up and so too will the society!
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@biannagolodryga @gmopundit @ZushaElinson Might be an idea for @POTUS to buy them back for donation to #Ukraine freedom fighters?. American patriot types tend to like being associated with the idea of fighting for freedom so a well run campaign might get some traction.
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Very disappointing to see how completely clueless many politicians are on climate change policy 👇. Even after declaring a #ClimateEmergency . Do we have a competent media to challenge the bullshit? . #rte ?.
Offshore wind has the potential to “green” the country and fuel agriculture, industry and homes with green sustainable energy. We won’t need to worry about curtailing our agricultural sector, we’re good at farming and we should keep farming. People need good quality food and.
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@jordanbpeterson Does @jordanbpeterson know that he's tweeting out complete nonsense from a fossil fuel industry think tank who's sole goal it is to deny the scientific consensus of climate change ? I used to think Peterson respected real science.
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Bitcoin adds no value to society but has the carbon footprint of a medium sized country. Using up huge amounts of our limited renewable energy and 60% fossil fuels. Governments should outlaw it's use.
Day 869. It’s true #Bitcoin needs lot of energy for mining. But what about energy source?. 1. Crypto mining uses 40% renewable energy .2. Internet data centers use 20% renewable .3. Global renewable energy share is 27%. Crypto is ahead in clean energy usage!. #IndiaWantsCrypto.
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Great podcast this morning by @davidmcw + lucky timing. Tomorrow's @EcoEye looks at Reimagining Cities and unpacks some solutions to problems mentioned this morning. Limerick and Cork feature heavily @frankgcrowley @judesherry @cianflah @Brendan_OSull @frank_oconnor @AilishDrake.
Limerick has some of the most intact Georgian buildings in the world, look above the first floor and you'll see they're mostly empty. What makes these heritage buildings so special is holding back renovations. We look to Cian O’Flaherty CEO @safecility to find some solutions.
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@pdosullivan We were 5 kids and my mum has a Prius 7-seater. What's wrong with that instead of a bulky SUV?.
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@rahmstorf It's not cheap propaganda points. @mark_lynas and many many others warned this would happen if Germany continues with their irrational approach to nuclear. Such a shame that those who advocated for this crazy choice are still not admitting they were wrong.
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Guy with no plan and no clue how to tackle the twin climate and energy crisis, spends his days mocking those who are trying to help in this space. Tired, brainless, populist nonsense 👇.
In response to the cost of living crisis Eamon Ryan comes out with his big idea by telling us all: Travel less and shower less frequently. What planet is this guy living on? .– @PearseDoherty #CostOfLiving
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@BenjaminNorton She's obviously talking about Europeans alive today. Not past generations of people. "We" usually refers to alive people not dead ancestors.
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@galavpsychology @EPAIreland @EcoEye We spent the last year trying everything to get Eco Eye or a number of new versions of it off the ground. It seems that nobody in relevant decision-making positions want to see any versions of it returned.
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@IFAmedia If you own the carbon and want credit for sequestration. Then you also own the emissions and would want to be open to paying for that. Otherwise this is not a good-faith argument.
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@BrianLeddin That's not quite true. The remaining plants shut in April didn't yet show an increase in coal because they haven't gone through winter yet. It's clear that hard coal and lignite did increase since 2020 as there nuclear power plants were phased out.
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@paulmurphy_TD They're segregated on the basis of biological sex. Not gender identity. Yes, we should end segregation because it's unnatural. But if you're going to comment then try and be accurate.
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@IrishTimes Please can someone explain to Sabina about the Budapest Memorandum. This is a national embarrassment.
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@TheEconomist Now get Henry to do an honest appraisal on why America failed in Vietnam. @DrKissingerPhD.
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@dorfman_p This is a great idea. Using waste heat. Thermal power stations generate loads of heat that is usually wasted but should go to swimming pools and district heating etc.
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@FergalBowers If there are any healthcare works that need accomodation or isolation near UCD. We are happy to loan half our home which is perfect as a newly restored bedsit with own entrance.
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I've been cycling around Dublin since I was 10 years old and I love getting around my city by bike. However, I don't want either of my children to cycle, given the awful road infrastructure here that makes it so dangerous for cyclists. Very sad to see another good person killed.
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I absolutely love my burgers. But I'd like to live in a world where we pay the real cost of meat, for the industry to be heavily regulated and environmental impacts built in + minimised and farmers make most of that money (more than now). This world is possible.
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Many councillors who voted against public consultation on new walking and cycling infrastructure are now voting against new plans because of "lack of public consultation". You couldn't make this up!. @IrishCycle @EcoEye @dublincycling @DubCityCouncil.
Despite faster rollout of similar walking and cycling projects, Cllrs want slow approach with South Dublin Quietway
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@IrishRainforest @HannahEDaly shocking that not even our National Parks in Ireland are reasonably intact ecosystems.
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@RealCynicalFox The Commission on Human Rights have recognized the right of everyone to have conscientious objection to military service as a legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as laid down in article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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New Belgian "green" party government are turning off zero carbon nuclear power in place of dirty fossil fuels. Beware that greedy corporate interests are not the only enemy of climate action. Stupidity and ideology can be just as environmentally destructive. @TinneVdS.
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In the midst of a housing crisis, 180,000 homes lie vacant in Ireland. Many are leading to a blight of dereliction in our urban areas. In tonight's @EcoEye we investigate why, and explore what we can do about it. 7pm @RTEOne.
Look closely, these buildings are all derelict. Across Ireland, we noticed one way to tackle dereliction was to cover it up. But this does nothing to address the fact the building still lies empty. Why aren’t we doing anything to tackle vacancy in Ireland? Tonight @RTEone 7pm
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35 year anniversary of the #chernobyl accident today. I've spent a good deal of time there. These are my views. #energytwitter.
While I don't think I've ever read The Star. They asked me to write about my experiences in Chernobyl. Here is my honest reflections. @EcoEye
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@MarkAgitprop Sabina's letter was akin to shouting at a rape victim to negotiate peace with their rapist while they're being raped and not lifting a finger to help. It's not "pro-war" to point out how morally and factually detached it was.
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@Osinttechnical Wow, is that a Russian tank? What sort of weapon did that? . Whatever it was we need to get more of these to the Ukrainian army.
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@RosinMurphy @gardainfo @HMcEntee @LeoVaradkar Garda are completely disenfranchised. They have no power to deal with teenage thugs. Courts won't prosecute. Zero repercussions.
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Claim 7: "Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s".- True, but only for direct emissions. Offshoring of emissions of manufacture to China etc is one of the biggest reasons for this decline.
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@breakingnewsie Completely contradicting established science is not what I expected from @SimonHarrisTD.
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@EamonRyan This is great news. We need just need to get past the other issues: 1) port infrastructure .2) grid connections.3) deployment vessels .4) red tape planning permissions and judicial reviews.
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@DrJohnCannon Hey John, do you know any healthcare workers who need a place to stay near UCD? Or anyone that needs a place to isolate? Happy to help here if there are any healthcare people that need help.
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@PaulTreyvaud All the weather you experience on a daily basis is weather. Climate = weather averages over time. No single weather event is just climate change. But all weather now has an anthropogenic climate forcing.
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@killianwoods @Aidan_Regan Killian, thanks for sharing. However, you don't mention that most of the water used by data centres is returned back to the source downstream. It's diluted so as not to be too warm for the water source. It's generally not contaminated with sewage the way a small towns water is.
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Claim 2: "The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world” ".True - But this statement was never meant literally. Saying that without recognising that the Amazons health is critically important to biosphere health seems to suggest an agenda in how that statement is framed.
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@j_mcelroy Isn't it amazing that there are people that believe @BjornLomborg 's nonsense that climate change will only have a marginal effect on GDP so it's not worth taking action on. And sure if its too hot we can all just move to colder climates. Simple as that !.
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@EngstrT It's a very sad reality that the West has been complicit in all this. Too focused on ourselves and our own growth obsession that our societies forgot the core lessons of the 20th Century.
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@Alan__Shatter Although China is hostile towards Taiwan's independence. They haven't been starving Taiwanese civilians to death. So it hasn't been on most people's radars.
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Claim 1: “Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”.False (unfortunately) - this statement completely misrepresents the view of actual scientists in the field. “Although biologists are still debating how much the current extinction rate exceeds the background rate,.
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@Daleyfurter Fine for politicians, bankers and marketing execs. But what happens if teachers, doctors, nurses, builders and planners do this? . Would be disaster.
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We will be exploring this issue in an upcoming episode of @ecoeye. @davidmcw doing great job drawing attention to this issue. We've also explored some solutions that even he might not have thought of. Let's fix our towns and cities.
Dereliction is State-sanctioned vandalism! Cure is heavy dereliction tax combined with meaningful tax breaks for sensitive redevelopment. Incentives work.
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@codohertynews @DCUWater Yep. We covered this ten years ago on @ecoeye . Some of these endocrine disrupting chemicals are causing intersex in fish. Integrated Constructed Wetlands are the cheap solution that @IrishWater don't want to implement.
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@HannahEDaly @IrishTimes It's almost as if @IrishTimes are so reliant on motor vehicle advertising revenue that its affected their editorial independence. @KOSullivanIT any thoughts on this position? .Would @IrishTimes publish a rebuttal to these nonsense claims ?.
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the environmental problems of our time, we don’t need misinformed people making wild claims, or misleading cherry-picked data, in order to sell books to make readers feel better about doing nothing about the destruction of planet earth - our only home. /end.
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There is no scenario where mainstream use of SUV's is compatible with a sustainable planet. We need to drive much less and when we do, in smaller electric cars.
THREAD: Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs). Global car sales shrank by ~14% in 2020.* Sales of electric cars grew ~50% (from a very low level).* Sales of SUVs declined ~10%, but share of sales went from 39% to 42%. → What about emissions from SUVs?. 1/.
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@ClimateSt @WWFEU @EU_Commission @vonderleyen @TimmermansEU @McGuinnessEU It's bonkers that they've totally confused and mixed up nuclear with fossil gas. Who's the Irish guy in this video? I want to have a talk with him. Its essential that environmental advocacy is aligned with science. Otherwise it's in the same camp as climate deniers.
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Claim 3: “Climate change is not making natural disasters worse”.False - The Earth is over 1C (MST) warmer due to anthropogenic climate change, this has an attribution effect on all extreme weather situations. And the science is becoming clear that this is now measurable.
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