Dr. Aaron Thierry
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Graduate student at @CUSocSci - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.
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🚨“Actions speak louder than words”
I’m thrilled to announce
@TristramWyatt
,
@CharlieJGardner
& my new paper in
@RSocPublishing
'Open Science'
In this paper we set out our case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency.
A short🧵
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🚨Stop Scrolling!
Let's pause & reflect a minute about what this shocking picture of
@GretaThunberg
's arrest tells us about the current state of
#climate
politics.
A short 🧵on some key lessons we can take from this image
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One thing I wished more people understood about climate change is that we have not yet experienced any where near the full consequences of the warming we've already caused.
Here's a 🧵 explaining why...
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It is increasingly clear that there's now a concerted effort under way in parts of the British press to derail action on the
#ClimateEmergency
.
This🧵highlights key examples & shows how the main arguments are textbook
#ClimateDelay
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The home secretary is confused, can you point out for her which of the following images is not 'serious disruption' ?
#ClimateEmergency
#EndFossilFuels
These unacceptable protests at Wimbledon were intended to ruin the day for the paying public.
Today I chaired talks
@10DowningStreet
with sporting, police & government teams to help tackle serious disruption of this kind
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The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the
#ClimateCrisis
is 'but what can we do?'
So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free to adapt them.
Buckle up - here's a LONG thread🧵about how we can fight back!
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1/ Here's a🧵on why the record shattering extremes in Europe are so unsettling for climate scientists.
It's increasingly looking that we've underestimated the impacts of
#ClimateBreakdown
...
BREAKING: Rome, Italy just experienced its highest temperature in recorded history with 42.9°C (109.2°F). This beats the previous record from 2022 by 2 full degrees Celsius.
That is a huge margin.
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1/ The most common question I get asked when I give talks about the
#ClimateCrisis
is "but what can I do as an individual?"
Here's my answer... 🧵
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1/ This is the UK's Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.
He's bullshitting you.
Let's debunk his nonsense line by line...🧵
Here's why Labour's Just Stop Oil approach to banning oil & gas licences is totally disingenuous...
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What a difference 6 years makes!
In many ways climate politics is in a very different place to how it was when
@GretaThunberg
first started her strikes outside the Swedish parliament in the summer of 2018 to try and put the
#ClimateCrisis
on the agenda
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15/ I've made my choice to stand by
@GretaThunberg
& all those who have listened to the science & are fighting for
#ClimateJustice
If you are looking for a way to be involved check out:
Saturday's actions were just the start of a new wave of activism💚✊
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4/ Large majorities of people around the world are now deeply concerned and want to see action by governments...
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“Our study found that this type of civic engagement through collective action can have a direct effect on society, confirming that such action is warranted”
#climateac
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3/ Largely as a result of protest movements
#climate
has now entered mainstream debate.
And the stakes are clearer than ever.
Following the latest
@IPCC_CH
report in 2022
@UN
Secretary General
@antonioguterres
made clear we are faced with a 🚨"Code Red for humanity"
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10/ That such a reasonable and evidence based demand by peaceful protestors is met by such police brutality, should make clear to us all the lengths that governments will go to to try to cling to business as usual and to protect fossil fuel interests.
Gisteren heeft de politie Den Haag de elleboog van een van onze demonstranten gebroken.
Wij veroordelen dit extreem gewelddadige optreden met klem. Is dit hoe de Nederlandse staat omgaat met vreedzaam protest?
#StopFossieleSubsidies
#Klimaatrechtvaardigheid
#Demonstratierecht
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5/ The extent of the failure to address this threat by the current political elites is becoming ever more apparent.
The
@IPCC_CH
W3 report made clear that the majority of fossil fuel reserves must be left unburned :
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The forests and fields cannot be air conditioned.
#ClimateCrisis
Monkeys are dropping dead from the trees in Mexico as extreme heat is due to surpass 113°F (45C).
85 dead mantled howler monkeys (alouatta palliata) have been reported, but many more may have died.
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11/ Leading experts warn that “It has become abundantly clear that governments don’t act on
#Climate
without pressure from civil society: threatening and silencing activists thus seems to be a new form of anti-democratic refusal to act on climate”
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On Saturday I was one of 21 scientists arrested at
#COP26
taking part in a peaceful protest with
@ScientistRebel1
Here's a clip of a very wet ☔️ me explaining the reason I chose to take part in the action & why I hope other scientists will take to the streets with
@ExtinctionR
💚
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So this happened...
#ClimateActionNow
“The government’s insane, and I don’t know what to do, other than to do this, to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up.”
Ecologist Dr Aaron Thierry (
@ThierryAaron
), who has his hand superglued to the window at
@beisgovuk
with
@ScientistsX
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7/ Preposterously, governments around the globe are continuing to actively subsidise fossil fuels to the tune of hundreds of billions of $ a year!
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6/ Yet, governments are licensing and financing new fossil fuel projects!
With
@UNEP
warning that we are now on track to produce more than DOUBLE the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is compatible with the Paris agreement
#climate
targets
The new
@UNEP
2023 Production Gap Report reveals that governments plan to produce DOUBLE the fossil fuels in 2030 than the 1.5°C warming limit allows 🌡️ We need to tackle fossil fuel dependence now as the root cause of the
#ClimateCrisis
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2030 is now 80 months away.
Each remaining month is 1.25% of the time we have left to reduce global emissions to 45% below to 2010 levels -which the IPCC say is necessary to stay below 1.5C
Currently, we're ~20% above 2010 levels & still headed in the wrong direction 😬
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14/ We all now face a stark choice -
Either we can join and support the peaceful protestors to push for climate action and defend democracy.
Or we can allow governments to continue their destructive policies.
There is no neutral position. We have to pick a side.
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I'm outside
@DefraGovUK
with
@ChrisGPackham
& representatives of 30+ conservation NGOs & groups to express our alarm & dismay at the rapidly worsening
#StateOfNature
in the UK
We urgently need to
#RestoreNatureNow
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1/ The penny is finally starting to drop that economists have catastrophicly underestimated the risk from
#ClimateBreakdown
.
Here's a🧵 of the latest reports that those working in finance urgently need to catch up on...
Starting with
@ChathamHouse
:
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🚨“No research on a dead planet”
I’m thrilled to announce
@LauraLoHorn
,
@PHellermann
,
@CharlieJGardner
& my new paper in
@FrontEducation
.
Why, despite acknowledging the urgency of climate emergency, have universities yet to respond adequately to the crisis?
A short🧵
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We were found not guilty!
Press release:
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9/ It was to highlight our governments utter failure and object to the moral bankruptcy of their continued support for the polluting fossil fuel industry, that
@GretaThunberg
joined the hundreds of
@ExtinctionR
activists in the Hague yesterday.
A major international campaign against fossil subsidies has just been announced alongside the A12. 30 movements from 15 countries are now fighting for an end to European fossil subsidies under the name United for Climate Justice. [1/4]
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13/ This has led
@UN
Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders
@ForstMichel
to warn that:
"The repression that environmental activists who use peaceful civil disobedience are currently facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights"
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No snow in winter, means no snowpack in spring, means no runoff in summer, means crop failure come harvest.
#ConnectTheDots
#ClimateEmergency
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8/ Despite the
@IPCC
making plain in their reports that:
"Removing fossil fuel subsidies would reduce emissions, improve public revenue and macroeconomic performance, and yield other environmental and sustainable development benefits"
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12/ And a huge effort, supported by fossil fuel interests, is now going into trying to vilify
#climate
protestors.
As made clear for example in this investigation by
@amywestervelt
and
@GeoffDembicki
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I got the chills reading
@GeorgeMonbiot
's latest column on the draconian police powers of the new ‘Public Order Bill’.
But to understand how we got here we need to take a step back and look at the way these laws have been called into being. It's a wild story🤯
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It's anecdotes like this that help me maintain my faith in humanity...
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We could call it "The Ministry for The Future"
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I’m thrilled to announce
@StuartBCapstick
@EmilyCoxSussex
@Berglund_oscar
@Steviedubyu
,
@JKSteinberger
& my new paper in
@NatureClimate
on why scientists should consider participating in civil disobedience to promote climate action.
Here's a short🧵1/15
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Five books you might like to read when asking what you can do about the
#ClimateEmergency
🧵
1.
@ClimatePsych
's excellent guide for turning anxiety into action
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“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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Here's what matters to the physics.
Nature isnt fooled by denominators.
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From
@jeffgoodell
: "The notion that eight billion people are going to thrive on a hotter planet by simply cranking up the air-conditioning or seeking refuge under a pine tree is a profound misunderstanding of the future we are creating for ourselves"
#ClimateEmergency
This is the scene inside the UP's Mirzapur hospital where 7 homeguards deployed for election duty died due to heat stroke. At least 23 other security personnel are under medical observation with some in serious condition. As per official estimate, apart from seven home guards, 6
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NOT GUILTY!!!
New Oil 🛢and Gas 🔥 = Death☠
#ClimateEmergency
#EndFossilFuels
#ScientistsOnTrial
@ScientistsX
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"If we want to have a chance of limiting warming to 1.5C, we need to *half* global carbon emissions in just 8 years...
We must make this the top of the political agenda!" says
@rahmstorf
#TippingPoints
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2/
NOTHING.
We *cannot* address the
#ClimateCrisis
as individuals.
The crisis is a symptom of a system of social relations, and therefore we must cooperate to *collectively* change that form of social organization.
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Unreal! Its 2022 & I'm still listening to
#LauraKuenssberg
framing today's debate as "can we afford to solve the
#climate
crisis?"
It feels like we're stuck in groundhog day for the past 20yrs!
Here's a Climate Economics 101🧵:
@bbclaurak
@BBCJustinR
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Prof. Lenton, Prof. Schellnhuber. Dr. Kalmus, Prof. Steinberger, Prof. Anderson, Prof. Steffen, Prof. Huq.
All experts whose views I deeply respect. I look at their evidence & reach the same conclusion.
Have we all lost the plot? Or is our society nuts?
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Protest works! ✊️
@JustStop_Oil
📣
BREAKING: Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, has ordered an immediate ban on new drilling in the North Sea
More to follow
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This coal mine is shutdown!
I'm with
@xr_cymru
, we've blockaded Ffos-Y-Fran, which has been mining without a licence for months.
If governments won't act, we will!
@GeorgeMonbiot
@GretaThunberg
@billmckibben
@ClimateHuman
@NaomiAKlein
@michaelsheen
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This stat is just mind-blowing 🤯
The impact of industrial agriculture on the planet is staggering and completely unsustainable.
(H/T
@GeorgeMonbiot
)
Source:
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I met someone who flatly insisted to me earlier that their last flight didn't cause any warming because they had bought a carbon "offset".
So, I made this...
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8/Its why ecologists now speak of 'Ghost Species'
As
@RobGMacfarlane
writes in this haunting essay "A ‘ghost’ is a species that has been out-evolved by its environment, such that, while it continues to exist, it has little prospect of avoiding extinction"
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There's one core message we should all be uniting on right now...
"Whether you agree with the protestors' actions or not, the science is absolutely clear that we need to stop all new fossil fuel developments"
#JustStopOil
#VanGogh
#Soup
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I'm in the UK & it's hot🥵🌡️
We typically talk of global average temp rise - but shifts in the mean can have big impacts on the distribution of extremes as this
@NASAClimate
video shows.
Here's a short🧵on what this means for future extremes... 1/n
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I was recently invited to debate with a representative of
@bp_plc
about what the net-zero target means for UK energy policy.
Here's a🧵based on my slides about why the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's letter is scientifically illiterate 1/n
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TFW both Alberta and Siberia are on fire🔥... in May 😵
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Is climate change going to be worse than expected?
Have scientists been systematically underestimating the impacts?
And if so how should we as science communicators convey this to the public & policy makers?
I delve into this unsettling topic in this 🧵 1/n
(Pic: L. Hogarth)
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I'm appearing in court today for protesting against
@GOVUK
commitment to new fossil fuels in their new energy strategy
Massive thanks to you all for the support you've shown me & the other members of
@scientistsx
Whatever the verdict I'm proud of our actions
#ScientistsOnTrial
“The government’s insane, and I don’t know what to do, other than to do this, to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up.”
Ecologist Dr Aaron Thierry (
@ThierryAaron
), who has his hand superglued to the window at
@beisgovuk
with
@ScientistsX
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@IPCC_CH
5/ One of the key problems we face is that neoliberalism's robbed us of the understanding of our *collective agency*
It's why we have come to predominantly think of ourselves simply as isolated individuals
This prevents our organizing an effective response to the
#ClimateCrisis
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"The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks" - Prof. Wally Broecker
#ClimateEmergency
#EndFossilFuels
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*Announcement*
In light of their decision to invite two notorious climate deniers to speak at their conference, I have decided I must withdraw from participating in the CC Forum "Investment in Sustainable Development" event in London next week
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"It has become abundantly clear that governments don’t act on climate without pressure from civil society: threatening and silencing activists thus seems to be a new form of anti-democratic refusal to act on climate "
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A welsh🏴 coal mine has just been approved to dig up 40 million more tonnes despite the
@WelshGovernment
saying it shouldn't go ahead
Surely this should be getting more coverage?
@alextomo
@RHarrabin
@AnnaJonesSky
@GeorgeMonbiot
@JournoChar
@wblau
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The radical roots of the first
#EarthDay
in 1970 are often forgotten.
Inspired by the anti-vietnam war student sit-ins 20 million Americans took part!
It led to the:
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Endangered species Act
- & the EPA
People power works ✊️🌍
#EarthDay2024
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This is completely deranged!
We're taking steps to reduce our environmental impact on flights within Europe by recycling coffee cans and pads. Our coffee grounds are being processed in a digester, generating green energy. And that's not all! At the end of the process, we're left with nutrient-rich compost.
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Err guys... yeah... you maybe wanna take a look at this... 👀
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2/ As the planet warms we see extreme events become far more common, a heatwave that used to have a 1% chance of happening in any year, becomes a 10% chance.
That is the return period is reduced massively.
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I was on
@BBCNews
last night explaining why licencing new oil & gas will NOT:
❌Reduce Bills
❌Secure Supply
❌Come online for years
But will:
⚠️Guarantee we miss our climate pledges
⚠️Continue to leave us exposed to price spikes
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Remember, whether you agree with their tactics or not, these activists are absolutely correct in their demands.
Biden should declare a climate emergency and halt all new fossil fuel developments.
Protesters smeared paint on the case and pedestal of Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture in the National Gallery of Art in D.C. to bring attention to the climate crisis and demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency.
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This time last year I was one of 21 scientists arrested at
#COP26
for a peaceful protest with
@ScientistRebel1
Here's a clip of a very wet ☔️ me explaining the reason I took part in the action 💚
A year later & governments are still failing
#COP27
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Science is our best guide to the futures we're headed to.
Will we heed the warnings and demand our governments take action, whilst we still can? ⚠️
/End
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So,
@BorisJohnson
has warned that unless leaders at
#COP26
address the
#ClimateEmergency
, we risk the collapse of civilization. Is this really a possibility?
Unfortunately, yes, many leading climate scientists are indeed warning of collapse 1/n 🧵
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7/ The forest might still be standing today, it might even regenerate after the next fire, but the fire after that will happen before the forest is ready.
So the climatic changes that have already happened will have conquences for nature that will play out over generations.
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An egregious example of
#GreenhouseGaslighting
by
@bbcnickrobinson
on
@BBCr4today
from yesterday morning.
Here's a short thread on why the
@JustStop_Oil
protestor is entirely correct in her assertions 🧵
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Several people asked if I could share the slides from our
#TippingPoints
conference session. So I thought I'd put them up here too.
Thanks to all who took part. I look forward to working together to grow our understanding of social movements can accelerate tipping points🧵1/n
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Once it's gone... it's gone.
Along with your water supply!
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11/ A particularly dangerous possibility is the risk of multiple bread basket failure. Which is increasing rapidly.
Just because we've had no past experience of such a calamity it doesn't mean that it isnt now possible!
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6/ Likewise ecosystems respond slowly to the changes we've already caused.
Take a forest adapted to a long year fire return period. If the fires become too frequent the forest won't have time to reproduce.
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3/ Luckily for us this is what humans excel at!
We all exist in thick social networks, as groups, communities, societies.
Cooperation, collaborating, creating and innovating together.
Humans have flourished because we are work in collectives and NOT as individuals
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3/ These changes are very sudden and dramatic.
As this study by the
@metoffice
shows "we find that events that would occur twice a century in the early 2000s are now expected to occur twice a decade"
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10/ The danger with all of this is that we could be lulled into a very dangerous false sense of security.
We might fail to take sufficient action to get off fossil fuels not appreciating the full impacts we've already caused.
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🚨 When we fight, we win!
I've put together a thread giving a quick run down of some of the
#climate
movement's hard won victories from 2023 to inspire us for the year ahead! 🥳🎉
🧵 1/x...
#ClimateActionNow
#EndFossilFuels
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Remember, this follows years of the same papers pedalling climate denial. Denial is no longer an option, we’ve entered a new phase of predatory delay as defined by
@AlexSteffen
... 2/n
Predatory delay is the blocking or slowing of needed change, in order to make money off unsustainable, unjust systems in the meantime.
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@IPCC_CH
7/ The role of the climate concerned activist then is to:
📗 Educate
- others about how we can collectively respond to the
#ClimateCrisis
⚠️Agitate
- and support others to take collective action
✊Organise
- Groups into larger more powerful communities pushing for change
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I'd normally not bother wasting time on this nonsense from
@benleo444
, theres simply more important work than repeatedly putting to bed zombie climate denial talking points, but in solidarity with
@JustStop_Oil
protesters risking their liberty, here goes🧵
CLUELESS: Just Stop Oil continued their bid to leave Britain cold and skint today by sitting in puddles outside Buckingham Palace. I asked them some basic questions in hope they’d convince me that man is responsible for climate change 🤷🏼♂️
@GBNEWS
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5/ But the question we need to ask is what does an event with a 1% chance (i.e. 1 in 100 year) look like in today's climate? And are we prepared?
We've not experienced such an event. There's not been enough time for it to happen! But it is now part of our new climatology.
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Another NOT GUITY verdict!
"...even when directed by the judge to find us guilty, they were able to understand that the unprecedented times in which we live calls for us all to step out of the box and make courageous decisions. Thank you jury.”
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@IPCC_CH
6/ It’s vital that we reject this view!
Instead we must recognise that it’s only by taking action together that we can confront those political interests (e.g. fossil fuel industrialists & their financiers) that currently benefit from maintaining the catastrophic status quo.
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9/ e.g. Corals are bleaching more and more often from marine heatwaves, this means the return period is is increasingly exceeding the recovery time.
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I was on
@BBCNews
earlier discussing the fact that we've just had 10 record breaking months in a row.
"What we're seeing is that these record breaking temperatures are causing huge devastation & extremes that are having catastrophic effects for peoples lives & livelihoods" 1/2🧵
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I challenge you to hold these four charts in mind simultaneously & not conclude we need a revolution!
#SystemChangeNotClimateChange
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Come and say hi! 👋
I'm out with
@ScientistsX
at
#TheBigOne
.
We're just outside Westminster Palace.
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This is completely at odd's with all scientific advice!
"I don't see new oil & gas licences... as being against our net-zero commitments" -
@grahamstuart
, UK's Minister of State for Climate speaking to
@CEN_HQ
:
A short debunking the Minister's greenwash🧵
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"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy" - P. Picasso
APNews: Arts Council England (
@ace_national
) has updated its policies, warning that "political statements" made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause "reputational risk", breaching funding agreements (1/5)
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4/ As the latest
@IPCC_CH
WG3 report on mitigation is clear that we have *high confidence* that "collective action as part of social or lifestyle movements underpins system change"!
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As the
#NobelPrize
goes to
#climate
scientists Manabe, Hasselmann & Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems” it's worth reflecting on this quote from past Nobel laureate Prof. F.S. Rowland who's work linked CFCs to the Ozone hole:
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