Author ('D', ‘The Dead See’, ‘The Peace Bomb’.) Painter. Poet. Climate campaigner. Information Systems. The meaning of life is the preservation of life.
@GhostPanther
@elabogadomalo
HUMANS: “Oh dear, how do we solve climate change?!”
LOGIC: “Easy. Stop burning fossil fuels.”
<LONG PAUSE>
HUMANS: “But how ELSE do we solve climate change?”
@smarkreilly
When we had our third child we bought a sea-based X-band radar.
We always had aircraft carriers or oil tankers before, which have no chance against a moving oil rig.
The lives of my children are too important to think about the air they breathe, or the planet they live on.
@business
There’s half a million wind turbines in the world and you have photos of 3 turbine failures, details on 2, and the admission you have no data. This isn’t journalism. It’s a letter to Santa Claus.
@GrayConnolly
Australia’s population is mostly concentrated in small areas, such that total distance driven per person per yr is similar to New Zealand (link), and av. daily commute is shorter in AU than NZ. Note: These EV numbers are old now. ⬇️ New Zealand now only has ~3.7 times as many EVs…
@DennisJensenMP
@simonahac
Once more for the folks up the back, New Zealand already has 8 times as many EVs per capita as Australia, despite similar usage patterns and car market. The difference in Australia? Taxes and tariffs.
Does anyone else find it odd how - for years - conservatives called environmentalists hair-shirt wearing communists… But now, how fast conservatives are to ignore the economics on renewable energy? 🤔
It's concerning
@elonmusk
on
@billmaher
thinks "there's plenty of water", desalination will fix everything. To replace river basin inflows from glacial loss we'll need ~50x more desal globally, and then in most cases have to pump it 1000+ miles inland:
It is deeply ungrateful of climate science deniers - after the good fortune of 3 million years with falling temperatures and CO2 levels allowed the neocortex to evolve - to leave it unused.
Our entire evolution has been governed by a long-running decline in both temperature and CO2. Thermoregulation of the neocortex depends on it. For a supposedly ‘intelligent’ species to intentionally unwind parameters fundamental to our own existence is pure madness.
The amount of additional energy we’ve trapped in the atmosphere to heat the entire planet by 1°C (about 5 joules with 28 zeroes after it) is enough to fly the moon out of orbit, and take it joyriding through space. In case you wondered.
@BenFordhamLive
There’s half a million wind turbines in the world and you found - what - 5 malfunctions? This isn’t journalism. It’s a letter to Santa Claus.
@micarrdc
Not just EVs. Also big batteries. The utility scale battery revolution - happening quietly right now, behind the scenes - was also largely due to Tesla.
@toadmeister
Read the paper. The ice sheets that grew in area (not mass) were inside the polar vortex. Outside, they shrank (pic 1) owing to weakening polar vortex (pic2). Also, total mass still declined (pic 3):
It’s saddening to watch climate deniers continue gorging themselves on the same intellectually lazy drivel year after year, rejecting centuries of diligent advancement, choosing instead the cognitive equivalent of cotton candy. Our ancestors, and our descendants, deserve better.
@CampbellNewman
@Bowenchris
You know - thanks to one of the worst emissions standards in the world - air pollution costs Australian taxpayers ~$20 billion in healthcare costs per year, right?
@RichieMerzian
@AngusTaylorMP
@RNBreakfast
On top of all the other errors being reported in the Coalition/Fisher/BAEconomics modelling, no one has mentioned they also left out ~$70bn in cumulative savings from a 45% improvement in air quality:
@ClimateHuman
Thanks for raising my awareness on this. I had no idea
@jpmorgan
@Chase
are the number one financier of the fossil fuel industry, and almost 50% worse than number 2.
@yarrowaxford
@rpancost
Thanks Yarrow. For taking the time to correct this guy. Must be annoying having to state the obvious to people who should know better.
Is it just the climate deniers who don't know about the 'carotid rete'? (the thing most land mammals have to keep their brains cool, but not modern humans because we never needed one - it's never been hotter than it is now with our 1400cc brain)
#carotidrete
@US_Stormwatch
Sure, that’s bad. But worse is the Himalayas >0°C. 1/3rd of the world’s population depends on rivers fed by meltwater from those glaciers.
Ep. 62 If fossil fuels come from fossils, why have scientists found them on one of Saturn’s moons? A lot of what you’ve heard about energy is false. Dr. Willie Soon explains.
TIMESTAMPS
(01:49) Fossil Fuels in Space
(14:27) Global Warming Throughout History
(25:31) Outside…
The main premise of
#AlexEpstein
's technophobic books/blog/'think-tank' are that fossil fuels were an economic miracle. But uptake of wind and solar has been >2x faster than oil/gas and >5x faster than coal. Wind and solar will crush fossil fuels.
The greatest co-benefit of advancing beyond fossil fuels and fixing the
#climatecrisis
is eliminating air pollution - saving millions of lives and cutting $2.6tn p/a in healthcare (OECD 2016).
Fossil fuel pollution has already cost us >200,000,000 lives:
@simonahac
Digital cameras will never take off. Too many fotomat operators, landfill workers, darkroom cleaners, chemical plant workers and jobby jobs depend on them. Plus jobs.
Jobs.
@billmckibben
Combined with the appalling air quality impacts of fossil fuel pollution, India 🇮🇳 is going to come out of this for sure realising more than ever what a bad idea fossil fuels are:
@DennisJensenMP
@simonahac
Once more for the folks up the back, New Zealand already has 8 times as many EVs per capita as Australia, despite similar usage patterns and car market. The difference in Australia? Taxes and tariffs.
On the planetary timescale of evolution and human advancement, it is spectacularly good fortune (thanks to Arrhenius in 1896, Calendar in '38, Manabe & Wetherald in '67) that we figured out an inevitable problem of carbon-based civilization (ancestors as fuel) in time to fix it:
@Rainmaker1973
I wrote a short film ~25 yrs ago about people eating Leucochloridium infected snails in a French restaurant and the parasites taking them over too. 🤣
@mzjacobson
Congrats to California for being one of the first places in the world to figure out the real ROA on utility scale batteries. The learning curve here looks amazing:
@ShellenbergerMD
Another weak denier con. You picked 22 yrs with the lowest El Nino frequency/intensity (highlighted). Below is extended EM-DAT data you cherrypicked from, compared to ONI record:
The new risk with the latest ENSO forecast is not just that we'll exceed the long-running trend in severity, but that the fall in frequency of extreme
#ElNino
is also over, i.e.: the system has become more turbulent:
@simonahac
Imagine a society so evil that when it wakes on the only known world in the universe hospitable to life, after 3 billion years of struggle against the elements by its forebears, it burns everything to the ground out of simple refusal to admit its own mistakes.
@outertorch
@TheAcademy
Easy. One film tackles the most important issues facing humanity since we first crawled from our caves, and the other is about musical theatre.
Read the text first in pic 1. Then look at pic 2. For more than 80 yrs river basins around the world have been receiving additional fresh water from glacier mass loss. We've been in a fresh water boom. The bust comes when the glaciers are gone:
@_ClimateCraze
You mean the West Antarctica Rift System that scientists have known about for 37 yrs (Blankenship et al 1986), that's been there for millions of years, and which has a small fraction of the warming effect of greenhouse gases?
The
#CarbonParadox
: Earth had to go through CO2-induced mass extinctions to set up reserves of fossil fuels. Then we had to master fire to grow a brain capable of abstract thought, and start burning these fossils, to figure out we’d strolled into an evolutionary cul-de-sac.
@drvolts
Two other big drivers for renewables: (a) learning curves on floating offshore wind and big batteries are only just getting their shoes on (pics), (b) fossil fuels have an aging fleet with long build time and high replacement CAPEX. Rising input costs and falling returns mean the…
The evolution of land animals shows inverse correlation with CO2.
Low CO2 ≈ high biodiversity (pic 1).
All 'big 5' extinctions have been linked to volcanic burning of fossil carbon (pic 2).
We're burning fossil carbon ~5x faster than onset of the 'Great Dying' (pics 3, 4):
@TurnbullMalcolm
The other problem with nuclear (in addition to water use, waste, security, exclusion zones, legal framework, labour shortages…) is they’re the only energy technology that gets more expensive the more of them you build:
@tup400
@tomrozie
@theTiser
France built their nukes when they were 1/5th the cost (even after adjusting for inflation.) Nukes are a rare example of a tech with a negative learning curve: The more you construct, the more expensive they become, and the slower they are to finish. It’s well documented (e.g.:…
Am I reading this right? 😮 Up to a 30% two party pref. swing against the Morrison govt?! That’s almost double the biggest anti-government by-election swing in Australian history? (Canberra ‘95)
#WentworthVotes
#Auspol
@billmckibben
Humanity’s greatest failing - and possibly our undoing - is that, when presented with the challenge of the
#climatecrisis
we interpreted it as us vs each other, rather than all of us together vs fundamental laws of the universe.
So…
Higher temp = more fires = less ozone = more UVB radiation = more degradation of plant matter (pic) = equals more greenhouse gas, fires, and higher temps?
The negative feedbacks of adding CO2 to the atmosphere just keep coming:
@wideawake_media
Nope. The ~20 yr old papers he cited were quickly debunked. Calibration of long-term satellite data requires overlapping records, stabilisation for orbit. Also, urban heat island warming the oceans? LOL 🤣 Maybe don’t get a florist to fix your teeth.
@TriangleVillage
@jordanbpeterson
The bias toward elderly signatories - higher than mean age for PhDs/professors - could indicate several things: fear of obsolescence, outdated skills/knowledge, inability to reconcile a lifetime of destructive behaviour…
I wonder about the net effect on ocean chlorophyll. Down the track we’ll likely see an acceleration of poleward migration of some plankton (link) offset by local blooming of others species:
@DArcyOFarrell
@doom37455413
@TonyClimate
Dear god. This Van Wijngaarden/Happer 2023 preprint is a sh*tshow. It’s a model w/ a bunch of assumptions, no data, no refs. The only links that work are Wikipedia pages. 😂 If Van Wijngaarden is at
@YorkUniversity
can’t he at least get compute time and do some model runs?
@JamesLucasIT
What you cannot see in these images is the unmitigated arrogance of the British royalty, when they acquired these drawings, stamping many of them with their insignia (pic). It boggles the mind when you first see the collection.
@Race2Extinct
It will also be ‘fun’ to see the desal crowd realise our whole civilisation - irrigation and drainage - is built around water flowing towards the ocean… not away from it:
@EarthCells
@LucyCormack
@FortescueFuture
Even Elon doesn’t get it - yet (suggesting we de-ionise and pump trillions of litres uphill/inland to agricultural areas at an energy cost 2x desal cost per 100km ←→ and 2x per 100m ↑ to sustain farming BEFORE everyone leaves):
@crikey_news
Let’s be honest, Taylor and ScoMo’s obsession isn’t really with coal itself. Rather, it’s with dirty money and wedge politics. They’ll always sell out Oz for a buck from a dying industry postponing its own demise, or a good spruiking from a media mogul on the same gravy train.