Tom Rand
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Moving CO2 needle (born 321 ppm). Managing Partner, @arcternVC ; Developer, green hotel; Author; Speaker. Brother/Son/Uncle/Dad/SOB/PhD/PEng #ClimateCapitalism
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Simply ... incredible.
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Nothing alarming about this feedback loop ...
“Carbon emissions from the global energy industry last year rose at the fastest rate in almost a decade after extreme weather and surprise swings in global temperatures stoked extra demand for fossil fuels.”
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Hi
@globeandmail
- more than a million kids, pleading for a future, up against the biggest industry in the world.
One might be forgiven to think this would be newsworthy.
#fridaysforthefuture
Over 1,4mn on
#SchoolStrike4Climate
yesterday according to latest update. 2083 places in 125 countries on all continents.
“Biggest day of global climate action ever”says
@350
And this isn’t even the beginning.
Because we have done our homework.
#FridayForFuture
Pic: Montreal, CAN
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It’s revenue neutral.
Please.
Stop.
Lying.
Never has been and never will be. Trudeau’s carbon tax is about one thing: Money. More for the government. Less for you.
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If we lose federal carbon pricing because someone wanted to cuddle
@SNCLavalin
my head will explode.
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“We have not taken to the streets for you to take selfies with us, and tell us you admire what we do. We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis”
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This is precisely why the “skeptic” community and their enablers (yes - the press alongside mountains of money) are acting in a way that harms the public .... It’s not just harmless opinions ...
See how easily we could have solved the climate crisis if we had started in 2000! Only 4% reduction per year. Now we need 18% per year. You can thank climate deniers, lobby groups and cowardly politicians for this delay. From Global Carbon Project,
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First year results from going to air-to-air heat-pumps in my house, from natural gas: I'm saving approximately 4 tonnes of CO2 annually.
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@elonmusk
@GerberKawasaki
@thirdrowtesla
Hmm. Looks like I’ll have to wait for a Rivian. Just cancelled my order for a Model 3.
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R&D is nice - but it is NOT a climate plan.
Exporting Canadian Cleantech is nice - but it is NOT a climate plan.
A climate plan aims to reduce emissions - directly, immediately, steeply.
The rest is (nice) fluff.
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A well-thought out piece by
@MichaelEMann
- bottom line, we cannot solve the
#climate
crisis without engaging and even co-opting market forces. Throwing it all out for utopian dreams is deeply mis-guided and a distraction from the work we need to do.
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RCMP: I'm not an "extremist anti-petroleum threat to national security". I'm a scientifically-literate citizen worried about climate.
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This is utter nonsense.
I have a plan to make pigs fly. I’ll tell you the details later ...
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Around 58% of oil is used to power vehicles today.
By 2050 almost all cars will be electric.
Fifty-year, high CAPEX bets on oil are dumb bets. Especially if that oil is the most expensive to produce and refine. Even more so if it’s the highest carbon.
Just markets at work.
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A must read by
@MichaelEMann
... While the IPCC is certainly the gold standard in
#climate
science they are highly conservative.
#climatebreakdown
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We interrupt today’s 🚨 to remind you of the Forever Emergency. 🚨
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I can’t find a single story on
@globeandmail
about
#Fridaysforfuture
... more than a MILLION kids on strike, pleading for sanity on
#climate
, up against a global status quo.
Newsworthy, surely ...!
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The degree of technical and business naïveté on display in this op-ed is breathtaking.
Sure - let’s pursue carbon capture and use. But let’s not pretend it’s either economic or scaleable - particularly without a huge price on carbon.
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Congrats to the feds. A strong and smart approach to
#cleantech
. Their consultations were for real.
@gmbutts
@MaRSDD
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please.
stop.
lying.
it’s revenue neutral.
most families will be better off.
Justin Trudeau’s Carbon Tax is going to cost you and your family. Tag a friend who needs to know how this tax grab is going to work, and why it’ll do nothing to help the environment.
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I wish I had heard just one business leader speaking this way. Just one.
@GretaThunberg
is spot on, and uniquely eloquent on this issue.
Climate activist
@GretaThunberg
on the
#1
thing people can do to help mitigate climate change.
Extended interview:
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Documents leaked from Alberta Energy Regulator (2018): cleaning up AB oil patch could cost $260 billion. About half - $130 billion - relates to the oil sands industry—mostly tailings ponds. For context, combined market cap of five biggest oil sands corps is about $165 billion.
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hey,
@globeandmail
- reporting on the devastating Cali fires without once mentioning
#climate
is both uninformed and irresponsible. Smarten up - this risk is real, frightening and ongoing.
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“build a national high-speed rail system to replace short-haul flights with train trips; require half of cars sold to be electric by 2030; make it a priority to retrofit all Canada’s homes and buildings zero-emissions within the next quarter-century”
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What is your preferred climate solution?
Remember to fill it up tonight! Justin Trudeau’s Carbon Tax kicks in tomorrow, which will make everything from driving your kids to school, to heating your home, to your groceries more expensive.
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It's time Canada had a reasonable, clear sighted Conservative leader who gets
#climate
.
I support
@MichaelChongMP
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@JordanSteinAB
No. We. Do. Not. It’s more often than not a perfectly normal hand gesture. Stop playing into their trigger.
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wow. best review of a book reviewing trump voters reviewing liberal agenda
a must-read.
@NathanielRich
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Could someone sensible in the
#CPC
get their heads around the fact this is an urgent issue to be dealt with by grownups with a sense of seriousness?
You are embarassing yourselves.
So while we're negotiating through the night to land the rules for the
#ParisAgreement
so the world can tackle climate change, the Conservative Party leader is trolling with cartoons.
Is that the
#CPC
climate plan?
#229DaysAndCounting
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what, wait - you mean warmer waters mean badder storms?
if only there was some int'l group of scientists who could have predicted this ...
Update: Experts say Irma's strength is a result of unusually warm water for that part of the Atlantic.
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As today we watch politicians playing 'grownup', all over Ontario, bitch and moan about 4.5c/l on their gas prices.
Listen to this little girl and grow up for real, please.
“We live in a strange world, where children must sacrifice their education in order to protest against the destruction of their future.”
Here is a part of my speech from the
#goldenekamera
in Berlin. Full speech (without German dubbing) here:
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We cannot adapt if we do not mitigate.
As extreme weather batters Houston, what's the best way to prepare for the next storm?
@KennethPGreen
and
@tomrand
weigh in.
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Happy to announce second closing of
@ArcternVC
Fund II - some great new partners driving economic change!
#cleantech
#climate
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"acting on climate change is now a competitive advantage",
@cathmckenna
nails it at
@TorontoRBOT
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Yesterday, I tweeted
@ErinOTooleMP
is unfit to govern, predicated on his
#climate
policy - which caters to an ongoing lethargic reaction to an existential risk.
This is the new denial.
In this thread, I undo his platform plank-by-plank.
1/n
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We will not be able to adapt, at scale, to what is coming.
But sure. Let’s moan about a carbon price.
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🙄
@RexMurphy1
knows as much about
#climate
science as I know about 17th century French literature. Yet national papers don’t print my drivel about Jean Racine.
Leave it alone, Rex.
Shame
@nationalpost
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A lot of cleantech companies, spent capital (in advance of contractual reimbursement) in good faith - to find the province will not honour the contracts. It’s not a great way to build business confidence and trust.
The Ontario government's choice to claw back funding for initiatives that are helping to grow our economy and protect our environment is disappointing to see.
#HamOnt
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Great picture of why the past couple of decades of obfuscation and delay are deeply horrifying. Sorry, centrists, you had twenty years to get something done.
If we had started reducing emissions back in 2000, we'd only have to reduce them by 2% per year to limit warming to 2C by 2100. Today we'd have to reduce them by 5% per year. If we wait another decade, we'd have to reduce them by a massive 9% per year.
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I’m old enough to remember when conservatives weren’t scared of conserving a liveable planet.
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Now that’s a bike lane.
Making a left turn on a major arterial. No problem on a Dutch roundabout.
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I’ve gone 100% heat pumps in my house! 6 air-to-air. No more nat gas, near-zero ghg’s (given Ont grid).
Will report on net cost per tonne after one season of operation.
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"A market economy without a moral framework inevitably becomes a profound danger to itself"
@JeffDSachs
http://t.co/cGalcevya9
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Two more orders of magnitude and we’ll start to really move the carbon needle ... ;)
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Alberta's oil is a economic dead-end: "for the same capital outlay, wind & solar & EV's will produce 6-7x more useful energy than will oil at $60/bbl"
Technology is driving the long-term unviability - not pipelines nor climate policy.
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wow! Stunning photo from Lake Michigan: winter gales coated St. Joseph Lighthouse in ice (Image/John McCormick)
http://t.co/X37a9tn0Yd
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My latest:
"Incumbent industries hold our national narrative on energy in a headlock, defending yesterday’s success stories – not defining or shaping tomorrow’s. That dynamic doesn’t serve our long-term national interest."
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Dear fossil fuels:
Even your best friends are coming to our party.
Do join us!
Sincerely,
Cleantech
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🇨🇦 is utterly unprepared for this seismic shift. We continue to elevate the economic priority of incumbents hellbent on a high carbon path. That road leads to economic disaster.
Shell expects the U.K. can end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles in just a decade
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Make pollution free again!
“...Sask and Ont’s complaints are not really about the Constitution, but reflect a politically motivated, foot-stomping show of their unwillingness to do their part in the national and global effort to reduce GHG emissions.”
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“Iran’s hard-liners are savoring the reversal in their fortunes, after losing influence in the Obama years”
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Lowered ambition, token effort, voluntary reductions all add up to a very unserious
#climate
plan.
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"Growth that irreversibly alters the climate of our planet is not real growth. It’s false and it’s futile” Nicely put
@Kathleen_Wynne
#CSOTA
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This is simultaneously obvious and radical.
Indeed, why should one be a member of the WTO without being part of the Paris Accord?
More
@EmmanuelMacron
, please!
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Dude.
We have to point this out to an educated political leader?
The effect is measured against what WOULD have happened in its absence.
(The implications of your statement, btw, is the co2 price needs to be much higher)
Carbon tax is a cash grab. Here's the proof:
In BC (highest Cdn Ctax) emissions UP, car/truck fuel use at record high
Driving to work, getting kids to sports, hauling groceries NOT optional for families. Punitive carbon taxes don't help
Credit
@kris_sims
for 1st reporting this
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Precisely.
The mental stress felt by those who work in climate is becoming better recognized.
The huge weight of working on climate change is that once you know the science & how little time we have to act, u can't ever "un-know" it.
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As someone who has dedicated chapters to the virtues of a carbon price - and watched endless political capital spent on those efforts - I now tend to agree with
@MarkJaccard
.
We have no time left.
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A very graphic “canary” in our collective coal mine.
As
@GretaThunberg
said, it is time for us to panic. Now.
Not amorphous hope, but deep-seated panic.
The latent heat has decades of momentum. Think on that - and panic.
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Hi, I’m a cleantech investor. You may know me from my greatest hits “Yes, clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuels”, “Of course the sun doesn’t always shine, that’s what energy storage is for” and “Melting tar might not be a great long term economic bet for Canada”
Hi, I’m a climate scientist. You may know me from my greatest hits including, “No, it’s not a natural cycle,” “Yes, I know it’s been warmer before (and the only reason YOU know is because we scientists told you so),” and “Just because it’s on YouTube doesn’t mean it’s true.”
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