Dave Vetter
@davidrvetter
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Climate writer @ Forbes & The Climate Laundry. No longer using this site. Find me @ davidrvetter on Bluesky. Leads to vitruvius.09 on Signal.
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Joined September 2018
A key driver of the climate crisis is that we've made environmental terrorism a social aspiration.
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@Cobratate @GretaThunberg You must reveal how you, a small pile of ashes, are still communicating in our realm.
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@joseletemuniz Which of these two people do you think is trans? Because Gabi Garcia isn't trans.
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I can state with confidence that not a single one of the scientists I work with at Oxford has any idea what this means.
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Any move to ban solar from farms will involve govt telling farmers what they can and cannot do with their land, which is a weird thing for an avowedly libertarian cabinet to push for. Also:
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Thinking about how the UK's new Prime Minister helped engineer the 2008 financial crisis and got rich doing it.
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Media pundits: the problem with climate change is it's too slow moving and remote for people to feel it's impacting their lives. Climate change:
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Today, climate deniers are hooting about something called the World Climate Declaration, an anti-science screed that claims to have 1,200 "scientists" declaring that there is no climate emergency. A couple of notes on that. 1/
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Graham Linehan has, for reasons known only to himself, begun publicly defaming me.
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I wrote about the bizarre critical response to #DontLookUp: "If 'Don’t Look Up' is infuriating to watch, it is because it does a pitch-perfect job of channeling climate experts’ weary frustration at being ignored." .
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I'm still staring at this graph showing UK wage collapse since 2010 vs peer nations. It's absolutely staggering.
And of course the impacts of a conscious erosion of state capacity extend well beyond health. Real wages are below where they were 18 years ago. There has not been a single year since austerity began when the average wage has matched the peak under the last Labour government.
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@Cobratate @GretaThunberg Thank you for confirming you're not mad. These are certainly the actions of a guy who isn't mad.
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On fracking in the UK, here's Prof Stuart Haszeldine, from the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh: “An inconvenient fact – like it or not, the UK has not discovered any good shale for onshore gas production." 1/.
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@lndian_Bronson Yes: the larger the landmass, the more important it is to invest in high-speed rail. I'm glad you understand and endorse this basic principle.
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This person is a major media personality in Britain. Her opinions, wholly unencumbered by fact, are regularly broadcast to an audience of millions.
@Saffiya_Khan1 More of our planet will become habitable thanks to global warming. Human beings thrive in warm climates.
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With Hurricane Milton threatening to swamp Tampa, it's a great opportunity to enjoy one of the greatest responses to climate science denial of our age. From @Hbomberguy
Hurricane Milton is expected to bring a destructive storm surge to Florida's west coast. @StephanieAbrams uses our FloodFX simulation technology to show you what that could look like ⬇️
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Estranged from your child? That's because of communism. Wife divorced you? Communism. Slipping on a banana peel and falling three storeys into a containerload of mousetraps? You better believe that's communism.
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I'm live at the pro-traffic rally in Oxford city centre. Ostensibly a protest against LTNs, or low-traffic neighborhoods, it's an intoxicating mix of far-right conspiracy slogans, antisemitism and really terrible hip-hop.
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👀 Watch Aotearoa New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick deliver the most formidably cogent summary of the 20th century economic order - and how it ruined everything.
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🚨The US Congress just made it much harder to track the climate-wrecking flights of the super rich, including major offenders like Taylor Swift. A reminder that, under neoliberalism, the state is coerced to serve only the interests of extreme wealth.
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@MattBinder He really doesn't understand that the only reason the checkmark was useful was that it indicated authenticity. Twitter Blue doesn't confer authenticity - quite the reverse. It is of no value to those with legacy checkmarks.
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Yesterday we said goodbye to our boy. I won't dwell on it here, as this site has turned into a place unworthy of him. But here he is, in his glory, for the people who knew him and knew of him.
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@EndWokeness The message I take from this is that ending wokeness requires having a US Army comprised of 100% Chinese men.
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@benshapiro I was absolutely incensed to learn that, whenever my mom plays peek-a-boo with me, she doesn't actually disappear - she's just putting her hands in front of her face.
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@Culture_Crit The funniest thing about these low effort Culture Grift accounts is that they have essentially no interest in the subject they're supposed to be all about.
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THIS is climate action.
France has been given the green light to ban short haul domestic flights. They can do this because the trains are so good. Also, they aim to get 9% of the population on bicycles by 2024 (up from 3%; the Netherlands is at 27%).
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Twitter has begun suspending journalists that have been critical of Elon Musk. So far these include Aaron Rupar, Donnie O’Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Matt Binder of Mashable, Micah Lee of the Intercept, and Keith Olbermann
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Montana just banned state departments from taking climate impacts into consideration in environmental assessments. This is like passing a law that bans motorists from opening their eyes whilst driving.
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A great genre of content is "rich people believing they'd be way better at being poor than poor people"
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To be clear, this is a lie. British anti-vax MP Andrew Bridgen is claiming Covid vaccines are "gene therapy", which they are not. mRNA vaccines do not interact with the patient's DNA at all.
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When I see a field full of solar panels, I think "wow that's awesome, we're actually doing something about the crisis we're all facing.".
"I think one of the most depressing sights when you're driving through England is seeing fields that should be full of crops or livestock, full of solar panels," says Liz Truss.
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As you'd expect, CLINTEL is deeply intertwined with fossil fuel money and many of its ambassadors are involved with US fossil fuel lobbyists the Heartland Institute and the Cato Institute. 3/.
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The six climate change myths listed are all dealt with comprehensively on Skeptical Science's Argument page (below). Not one of them holds up to even casual scrutiny. 6/.
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Twitter has informed me that the following account "hasn't broken any of our safety policies". Neither has the account that retweets this stuff.
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This lie - that Musk has successfully rid Twitter of child sex abuse material - has received 134k favs. The truth is that the team responsible for removing the material has been reduced to one person.
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When you scroll down the list of signatories, you'll note that few come from climate-related disciplines. A notable number are from the oil and gas industry. Eight are either current or former Shell employees. 5/.
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Here's Toby Young attacking David Attenborough on the back of the lie that Arctic sea ice is increasing. Arctic sea ice is decreasing, as data from NOAA, NASA and NSIDC show.
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@JoshuaPotash My dad, a veteran epidemiologist, previously a cardiac surgeon and a medic with the WHO, will tell anyone who listens that health insurance is designed to not work.
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France withdraws from the Energy Charter Treaty: this is a colossal deal! The ECT can be used by fossil fuel companies to sue governments that want to restrict their activities.
Emmanuel Macron annonce que "la France a décidé de se retirer du traité de la charte sur l'énergie"
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The Declaration is in fact just a continuation of a project by something called the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL), a lobby group funded by two Dutch millionaires. @DeSmog has plenty of details here:.2/.
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Update: Pseudoscience blogger Toby Young and colleagues misrepresented the work of Japanese scientists in an attempt to claim that anthropogenic climate change is "fiction". Report author Dr Shinji Matsumura has emailed me, flatly rejecting Young and co's claim. 1/
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The Declaration can be found below. As you will see, the wording itself is extremely lazy, comprising a list of stale, debunked I-got-this-from-Facebook tropes. No research is cited. 4/.
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🚨 Reality check: four images, June 2024. No one wants to hear this, but we need to be dropping everything, right now, and mobilizing all people and resources to avert a global catastrophe.
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Toby Young wants to "debate me, bro" about climate change. Here are some thoughts on that. 1/.
@davidrvetter @boyler Why not debate instead of demanding that a point of view you disagree with be censored? If you want to write a reply, I’ll publish it.
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@EndWokeness If you're going to have a lot of humans - and the planet does have a lot of humans - dense urban environments are massively more sustainable and environmentally friendly than any other known solution.
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And soon, ladies & gentlemen, the coup de grâce.
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@ShotOn35mm The authorities genuinely believe that only property ownership confers personhood. Without property of your own, you are viewed as less than human.
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Jacob Rees Mogg announces that the UK government's new energy strategy will focus on the extraction of fossil fuels.
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@jordanbpeterson "Under no circumstances should communities consider other, potentially better ways of doing things".
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Time to take a big ol' slurp of coffee and check in on how The Invisible Hand of the Market is solving the climate emergenc-.
Brussels Airlines runs 3,000 empty flights to maintain take-off and landing slots.
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This torrent of Infowars-fuelled misinformation from a sitting British MP, being retweeted by thousands, is going to get people killed.
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Breaking: Guy who's wrong about everything continues incredible streak
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"My part of the country used to look like a monocultural wasteland. Now it looks like a monocultural wasteland that also produces clean electricity."
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@LadyDetectives1 @UKIP To be extra clear: can you confirm for the record that you believe that every major university in the world, every national meteorological office, and every national scientific academy, along with NASA and NOAA, are lying about anthropogenic climate change?.
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@Bren4Bassetlaw @WGUNews @LincsLive @nottslive @Daily_Express Phew, thank goodness this featureless plain of barren monoculture won't now be used to generate zero carbon electricity.
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Twitter Blue is now a vanguard for coordinated climate denial and disinformation attacks: Here, paid-for accounts are mobbing @UNFCCC with denialist spam. Under Musk, Twitter has become an engine for generating disinformation.
🔵 Time.⚪️ to.🟡 flatten.🟠 the.🔴 curve. Our 🌎 has already warmed by about 1.2°C. On today's #WorldMetDay, let's remember that every bit of additional global warming worsens climate impacts. The actions we take this decade will influence life on Earth for thousands of years.
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Two stories today show fossil fuel corporations making record profits, driving British people directly into poverty. Both of the UK's main political parties seem to be fine with that.
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When media organisations like GB News claim 15-minute cities are a plot to take away our freedoms, these are the people they're appealing to. It is a coordinated campaign to weaponize low-information paranoia and fear.
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These Australians have done a better job of summing up the state Britain is in than the entirety of our media.
The UK Government has made an ad about the spiralling cost of living crisis, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇬🇧 . 👉 @dontpayuk.👉 @eiecampaign. 👊 we're on patreon:
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The gas is hard to extract: "The total gas produced by Cuadrilla from Lancashire could be enough to provide heating and water to 508 3-bed semi-detached houses for 18 days. Not much to show after spending 8 years and tens of millions of pounds." 3/.
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Musk, Rogan and the entire Debate Me Bro community are just this cartoon.
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@JujuliaGrace A handful of billionaires in offshore tax havens bought up almost the entirety of the media.
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I'm speechless. Turns out, the lad who delivers my parents' newspaper is driven on his round by his dad in a diesel BMW SUV. They idle outside every house as the boy runs out and puts the paper through the door. We've structured our society to maximize the harm we do.
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Greta just obliterated creepy misogynist Andrew Tate in a single post.
yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com.
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@uberboyo The Nativity is literally a story about the importance of taking in and sheltering the poor and dispossessed. Perhaps you need to find a new religion?.
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@theserfstv I know it's at best problematic to brand all such hatred as latent yearning, and yet in so many cases it's so very obviously true.
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@AJentleson @kylietcheung What's wild is that it's considered remarkable for a politician to ask a finance guy such a question.
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