If I were
@nytimes
, this would be the quote of day. If I were Times Square, I would run it as a banner: "The COVID-19 pandemic has... forced us to recognize how, similar to climate change, ignoring the science about an emerging crisis can result in suffering on a global scale..."
Total CEO: “There is no way to think that overnight we can just eliminate all that.”
Reality: It wouldn’t have been overnight if we’d started in 1992, with UNFCCC. But oil industry did everything they could to stop real action when we had time.
From
@NYTmag
"The alarmist tone of the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,..." Can I please point out the distinction between alarmist and alarming? It is alarming because the facts are alarming. It is not alarmist.
@STWorg
As a child, protesting the Vietnam War with my parents, I saw police tear gas peaceful protesters on the mall. Then, over six decades, I saw them beat and gas peaceful protestors again and again and again. Where are the police now?
I’ve just had my 4379th conversation with a scientist about using the word “activist.” Of course I am an activist. It’s irrational and immoral to be passive in the face of imminent danger.
@billmckibben
@GeoffreySupran
@franta
ExxonMobil spokesman says company’s statements about climate science have been "consistent with the broader mainstream scientific community at the time” and “evolved” as the science did."
I study the history of climate science; this is flat out false.
Exxon says it has invested more than $10bn (£7.25bn) over past 20 years ideveloping "lower-emission energy solutions". But company's latest annual report shows it invested $10.4bn in 2020 alone in developing new, unexplored oil and gas reserves. QED.
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey.
Plain language summary: children and young people are sad, worried, anxious and angry.
@ProtectWinters
It never fails to amaze me how the defenders of the free market suddenly show up hat in hand when THEY need a bail out. Where are their free market principles now?
The amazing
@GretaThunberg
makes me feel i just spent three years writing a book that maybe I didn't need to write. Why Trust Science? Because it's science, duh!
I'm often asked "What can I do to stop climate change." That's a hard question because so much of the change we need is structural, but this new study proves one thing: EAT LESS BEEF. (And now, drum roll, here come the beef industry trolls.)
Skeptics say
#climatechange
is neither crisis nor catastrophe. Well, Australia is is now a catastrophe. I was in Sydney last week, smoke was so thick one could hardly see the sun @ noon. Bushfires have burnt 20% of Blue Mountains World Heritage site...
82% of Democratic voters say climate change is “very important” priority, compared to 75% for universal health care and 65% for stricter gun control. So why so little time in tonight's debate? (I counted 6 minutes)
I would really like to be able to stop writing about this, but ExxonMobil keeps giving us more reasons to have to comment. Having misrepresented climate science, now they misrepresent my science.
Ok I am going a little bonkers over this, but
@biden
says ““What we learned from the Obama administration is unless we find middle ground on these issues, we risk not having any policies.” Excuse me, but we never got any meaningful policies. CO2 kept rising, is still rising...
Nearly every day some one asks me: well, is
@exxonmobil
still promoting disinformation? Here is one example, from their web site. Fossil fuels are fueling the world SAFELY??? When scientists have proven they are driving dangerous climate change? I don't think so...
@IPCC
@revkin
This is why it’s hard 4 climate scientists to “listen” to so-called moderate Republicans. It’s one thing not 2 embrace the Green New Deal. It’s another thing 2 advocate continuing to burn oil gas and coal. And in Utah no less, where they are losing the “greatest snow on earth.”
"I want to make sure that we conservatives keep on fighting to make sure we don't have a Green New Deal, we don't get rid of gas and coal and oil, that we don't have a Medicare For All plan …” … Romney
“…overemphasis on individual action shames people for their everyday activities, things they can barely avoid doing because of the fossil fuel-dependent system they were born into. “ Precisely. Which is why we must work to change the available choices.
Rep. Gosar says climate change isn't real because of photosynthesis, and he’s the son of a geologist. I’m a
#geologist
. Stop disgracing geologists.
@geosociety
Aerial view of one of the areas of Yakutia, Russia's coldest and largest territory, which by now has lost at least a million hectares of forests to wildfires. No estimate yet of how damaging the situation has been/is to wildlife
#wildfires2021Russia
Could this be just the right moment to let the oil industry die? And fund workers to retrain (esp now that nearly every American university is on line?)
Why has it taken a vivid threat to American democracy for journalists to reject false equivalence? Climate scientists have been saying this for a decade...
@MichaelEMann
“Nuclear energy costs in the US currently level out to an average of $373 a megawatt hour… significantly higher than solar or onshore wind at $60 and $50 a megawatt hour, respectively.” Significantly? How about breath-takingly?
@billmckibben
“According to Merriam-Webster, a drought is a temporary condition,” he said. What is happening, he suggested, is something more permanent and troubling. “This is aridification.”
2. The insistence that “today’s zero-carbon technologies are more expensive than their fossil-fuel counterparts”.
That’s false. See this report from Lazard (and associated graphic):
‘Really genuinely scary’: Torrential rain in Houston strands cars and leaves thousands without power... it’s amazing how realistic the climate hoax is ...
OMG. Paper asks: “The question then is how to keep mutation-carrying cells from being activated by environmental factors such as air pollution,” and says it’s too expensive to treat with drugs, so maybe diet. How about we decrease air pollution?
I'm actually really happy about this, esp. this part: "The COVID-19 pandemic ... has forced us to recognize how, similar to climate change, ignoring the science about an emerging crisis can result in suffering on a global scale..."
#AGreenerGoogle
Flag how
@exxonmobil
CEO keeps saying fossil fuels are "linked" 2
#climatechange
or "contribute," but carefully refuses to say "causes." Also keeps referring to "at that time." I am a historian of that time! I know what scientists knew at that time, & it was NOT what EXM said!
just in case anyone starts to say that "no one could have predicted this," actually scientists
@JohnsHopkinsSPH
did. September 2019 report on "Preparedness for high-impact respiratory pathogen pandemic." Yep. You read that right.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leased a plot of land to an oil and natural gas company while the judge was weakening the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency, report says via
@businessinsider
@RWPUSA
This is great summary of how industry distorts science
1) Rig studies outright
2) Fund academic institutions to create subtle biases in industry's favor.
3) selectively amplify favorable results.
Just what
#BigTobacco
did, too.
via
@slate
What Fans of ‘Herd Immunity’ Don’t Tell You: namely that herd immunity is a euphemism for up to a million more deaths. Reminds me of what former science advisor John Holdren used to say about climate change: "Adaptation is a euphemism for suffering."