Bob Berwyn
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Journalist with @insideclimate . Water, forests, wildlife. Dad, skier, traveler, muffin-maker, gardener. Past bylines: @dw_environment , @hakaimagazine @PacificSt
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I said it back in the beginning of summer and I'll say it again now. Multiple extremes of different kinds happening at the same time are clear warnings of climate tipping points:
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2023 may go down in history as the year we realized that we've broken the climate once and for all ...
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Scary. We don't do personal loyalty pledges in the U.S. We're loyal to the republic and the constitution.
.
@nytmike
scoop: Trump demanded Comey loyalty pledge at private dinner -- FBI director refused
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If you ponder the potential impacts of an
#AMOC
breakdown it becomes pretty clear we should try and do everything possible to prevent it.
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“We call it ‘flickering’ when a complex system starts to briefly sample a new regime before tipping into it.
"Let’s hope I’m wrong on that," said University of Exeter climate researcher Tim Lenton.
I said it back in the beginning of summer and I'll say it again now. Multiple extremes of different kinds happening at the same time are clear warnings of climate tipping points:
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Sometimes when I see the Twitter prompt I just wanna scream THE POLAR ICE CAPS ARE MELTING REALLY FAST AND IT'S GOING TO REALLY SUCK FOR BILLIONS OF COASTAL PEOPLE and I hope decision makers can fund some more research to learn how fast it will happen.
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Earliest ever 35C reading in France.
🌡️35.4°C à Cambo-les-Bains (64) par effet de foehn sur le relief basque (maximale provisoire à 15h) !
Il s'agit des 35°C les plus précoces jamais mesurés de manière fiable en France et un record national pour une 1re décade de mai (35.1, St-Martin-de-Hinx (40), 10/05/2012)
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Some of the world's best climate researchers have issued another grim warning about interacting climate feedbacks that could accelerate global warming beyond current projections.
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“The warming rate in protected boreal
#forests
is up to 20% lower than in their surroundings ..."
#globalhealing
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A new study shows that protecting forests can slow the rate of warming near the ground by 20 percent.
#forests
#restorenature
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Research IDs "micro-cracks" and and atmospheric river "rapids" as growing threats to Greenland Ice Sheet.
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In September, near the end of the melt season, you can see how Greenland's glaciers are fraying, shrinking and retreating, easing the way for the massive ice sheet to sag toward the ocean.
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If we don't protect the trees we have, planting new ones isn't going to all that much good.
#trilliontrees
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This probably doesn't qualify as good news.
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THIS is what to pay attention to as we become a petrostate
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When we FINALLY figure out that carbon capture isn't going to save us, the next big pitch from the tech bros is going to be solar geoengineering because "it's too late for anything else."
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Hey
@Trivago
- supporting Breitbart is NOT good for global
#travel
. Please opt out. cc:
@slpng_giants_eu
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@PrisonPlanet
Umm, dude, infowars is not a news organization. Hate to break it to you, but thought you should know. Have a nice day.
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Healthy natural ecosystems boost resilience.
Sailboats in
#KeyLargo
filling up the channels inside mangroves for protection against the extreme wind of
#HurricaneIrma
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2019 was the year of smart, strong women speaking louder than ever about
#GlobalWarming
. This is Helga Kromp-Kolb, one of Austria's leading climate scientists, saying why we should ALL be marching in the streets.
#FridaysForFuture
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So this happened on our bedroom windowsill this morning, within a few hours.
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The great danger of fascism lies in the faceless bureaucrats "just following orders."
It takes four paragraphs until the Department of Homeland Security says it will obey court orders:
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@laurimyllyvirta
This article says China only financed 13% of coal projects outside China between 2013 and 2019, with the rest from institutional investors like Vanguard, BlackRock and the Capital Group.
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I still don't think a lot of people realize just how fast sea level could rise in the next few decades.
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The world burns as climate negotiators dither ... Perhaps someone should tell them again that you can't negotiate with physics.
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@jasonhickel
Exactly. There are a lot of things that don’t HAVE to be made, bought and consumed. But, GDP …
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@RebeccaSolnit
For me, that far blue has always seemed to show that the sea and the sky are not nearly as separate as we tend to think they are.
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The observed increase in ocean stratification is "yet another climate science prediction come true," said climate scientist
@rahmstorf
, with
@PIK_Climate
, and is slowing the critical thermohaline circulation, which helps distribute heat energy globally.
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This guy is like the matryoshka doll of climate denial, packing multiple pieces of dis- and misinformation inside each other, and finally, when you get to the core, it's empty.
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Every time I walk by this ficus growing bravely inside an urban mall I stroke it and it whispers to me, “Get me outta here, Buddy, I can’t breathe!”
#thicktrunktuesday
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@_david_ho_
This shocks me every time I hear it. We've actually done the most damage since we really, really knew what we were doing.
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It still really crushes me sometimes that some people can live in a warming world where glaciers, coral reefs and forests are dying before our eyes, and still deny the reality of global warming and its causes and solutions.
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How can the U.S. speak credibly and try to assume climate leadership when it has no clear plan to phase out fossil fuels itself, and continues to ramp up production?
Serious question, looking for answers.
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Reporting on
#forests
,
#GlobalWarming
and bark beetles this week. Scary. It's 3 a.m. and I'm afraid to sleep. I know I'll be having
#climatedreams
tonight.
How it started How it's going
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How close are we to global climate tipping points? "We must admit that we have underestimated the risks of unleashing irreversible changes, where the planet self-amplifies global warming," says
@jrockstrom
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Greenland's glaciers are thinning, accelerating and driving ice sheet decline past a tipping point. If climate warming continues, the ice is doomed, says
@climate_ice
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Mass forest die-offs will proliferate and expand. The trend toward more extreme heat waves and droughts is lethal for forests.
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I started reporting on atmospheric river storms for
@insideclimate
in 2019 with a story explaining how ARs fuel much of the flood damage in the West and how global warming will intensify them.
And followed up with this 2021 story.
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Increased ocean layering is disrupting key ocean cycles, threatening fisheries and carbon uptake.
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@Shaun944
@islandabber
@JonLemire
@VP
Wow, full-on gaslighting by
@VP
. Disappointing. Not surprising
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@karaschlegl
Just for the record, I'm a white male in my 60s and and fully support the decolonization and de-patriarchization of everything :)
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The findings in the
#NCA4
are dire, but even now, some models still may be underestimating how
#GlobalWarming
will intensify dangerous climate extremes, said
@MichaelEMann
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How often have we heard, 'it won't happen, it won't happen" and then it happens, and it's like, 'oops, it happened sooner than expected.'
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Mancin isn't a bug in the system. He's a key feature of the petrocracy.
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Apparently we just lived through the warmest year on record in Austria, going back at least to the 1700s and probably a lot longer. I have a really interesting Twitter thread I want to tell about that
#AustriaWX
... ... 1/
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@jasonhickel
How many people are going to buy new cars in the next six months who don’t actually NEED them and are just buying them because they can?
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Along with pyrocene and anthropocene, we might need to add "hydrocene" to our climate vocabulary, or maybe we should find new words for a new world, right,
@seasonalight
?
Staggering scale of flooding in central Greece today.
Death toll rising
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Some clouds reflect heat, some trap it, but a new study says
#GlobalWarming
is changing clouds in ways that will amplify their heating effect and reduce their cooling.
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@tomkimmerer
@EricHolthaus
Here’s a cottonwood that’s been hollowed by fire and swamped by floods. Been watching it straighten skyward.
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It's been nearly a year since countries agreed on the High Seas Treaty, another big promise made by leaders to protect the planet's oceans.
So far, only 1 country, Palau, has ratified:
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The Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double What it Was In The Previous 50, a Renowned Climate Scientist Warns
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Appalling and terrifying that mainstream media still don’t understand what’s at stake.
I am just appalled by the media coverage of
@POTUS
's decision to approve the Willow oil drills in Alaska.
WHY is the framing "Biden vs the activists," when even the
@IEA
says that meeting the 1.5C target of the
#ParisAgreement
requires no new fossil energy development?
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@nexenrod
@anneapplebaum
Oh, yes, the poor, overburdened U.S. taxpayer is at the heart of every single issue.
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@DrewRPearce
@steviedubyu
Yes! I keep saying to people, "Hey, we created high-CO2 behavior in just one generation (mine, sadly); we should be able to "unlearn" it just as fast.
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@brianbeutler
@daveweigel
We have hardly any journalists in the U.S. with this type of attitude because most are too busy scheming about maintaining their access.
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These decaying glacier landscapes break my heart. So irreversible on any meaningful human timescale. When they're gone, they're GONE. And now they are starting to catastrophically collapse more frequently.
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The world watches as America votes, and it's not just climate policy at stake.
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Climate humor is gallows humor
Romans discussing Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79:
- it always shakes & rumbles like that
- SO2 cleanses the soul
- Emperor Trumpasius says there is no threat
- Pliny is just an alarmist
- It is so beautiful at night
- It is the will of Jupiter
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#climatechange
#climatecrisis
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Still a lot of work to be done, but this is a breakthrough and big step toward
#climatejustice
. Worth waiting around most of last night and today.
#COP27
#lossanddamage
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It needs to be said again, sorry/not sorry. Dubai is a polluted hellhole of toxic petro-masculinity and cancerous capitalism. Having a climate conference there is like having an AA meeting at Oktoberfest.
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@latifnasser
Fascinating! Paleo-politics. Thanks for posting this. One could probably make other matchups, with fossil fuel belts, for example, even on a global scale.
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Sorting through my fave 2020 pics. This was the 'cheeseburger' full moon in June, and noctilucent clouds the same night.
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@KHayhoe
@Tom_Swetnam
@GretaThunberg
Greta has more wisdom, compassion and grace than Mnuchin could ever hope to have. Plus, why did
@USATODAY
feel compelled to repeat every one of Tr**p's vile tweets about her? Completely superfluous for this story, a
#journalism
#fail
.
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Never thought I'd live in an age when so many people would b soe proud of being so willfully ignorant ...
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Facing the massive ice front of the Thwaites Glacier in the Antarctic gloom,
@JD_Kirkham
said he could feel the looming existential threat to coastal cities around the world ...
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@KarlMathiesen
Least credible people on the planet when it comes to climate. Mainstream media does a disservice to society by elevating their voices.
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