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#history #disinformation #neoliberalism #science #climatecrisis #feminism #skiing Writing @SciAm Working w/ @ErikMConway @NCSE @climscidefense @protectwinters

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Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. Nothing was done.
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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..."
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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.
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4 years
Not to truck in gender stereotypes, but ... What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Reponses Have In Common? Women Leaders
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6 years
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
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9 months
Am I the only one who thinks the new logo feels faintly Nazi-ish?
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11 months
Yet another example of how scientists, rather than being alarmist, have actually under-predicted what has happened.
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Bill McKibben
11 months
The truly terrifying news this week is not what happened deep beneath the sea, it's what's going on at the surface
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Great piece, but let’s be clear: telling the truth about climate change isn’t “alarmism,” it’s telling the truth about climate change. In other words: realism. ⁦ @dwallacewells ⁩ ⁦ @ClimateOpp @MichaelEMann ⁩ ⁦ @climateone ⁩ via @NYTimes
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3 years
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?
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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
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3 years
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.
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Proud and excited to be part of The Climate Book, by @GretaThunberg @ClimateOpp @jrockstrom @NaomiAKlein @hausfath @hayhoe and so many other greats.
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2 years
Amen.
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5 years
Sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade: Climate change denial is evil, says Mary Robinson
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I'm proud to be among TIME magazine's top 100 climate leaders, along with the @JohnKerry , @anaunruhcohen , and others I have long admired. (For the record, I am not a "Titan" but I am a "leader.") @KHayhoe @MichaelEMann @billmckibben @pande_literary
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Church of England votes to withdraw funds from companies that contribute to climate change
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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.
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At this moment, California is generating 60% of its electricity from renewables. So don’t say this problem ( #ClimateCrisis ) can’t be solved. ⁦ @JeremyLeggett ⁩ ⁦ @mzjacobson ⁩ ⁦ @JimAntal ⁩ ⁦ @350
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This reminds me of something John Holdren said years ago : unless we act to stop climate change, adaptation will be a euphemism for suffering.
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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
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3 years
If we do nothing … we heat to 3.5 degrees by 2100
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4 years
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?
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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!
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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.)
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Individual choices can only fix about 4% of emissions. The elephant in the room is the energy sector. —IEA
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2 years
Super useful paper on factors blocking progress on #climate . Maybe the best summary I've seen on this complex issue.
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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...
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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)
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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.
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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...
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Prof Michael E. Mann
5 years
"Joe Biden Looks To Revive Obama’s Climate Plan. Scientists Say That’s Not Good Enough" by @AlexCKaufman and @C_M_DAngelo for @HuffPost :
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So excited (& exhausted & relieved...) to announce release of my magnum opus, Science on a Mission. Hope y'all like new twitter banner. Thanks to @ProfMattEngland for the endorsement. @MichaelEMann @hssonline @ColdWarScience @ErikMConway @HarvardHistSci @JimAntal @agent_ayesha
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Watched #DontLookup last night. Reminded me of the time, more than decade ago, when a famous journalist told me the trouble with #climatechange was that it wasn't funny or entertaining. Well, now it is (weirdly...) @GhostPanther @ClimateHuman @JohnKerry @MichaelEMann @bud_ward
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I guess the divestment movement wasn’t so naive after all. Clean energy group NextEra surpasses ExxonMobil in market cap
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I've long wondered why climate deniers promote #nuclearpower . Today I figured it out: nuclear is lousy & expensive & American people don't like it. Deniers want us to think there is no good alternative to fossil fuels. @amywestervelt @dwallacewells @billmckibben @NaomiAKlein
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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
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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.”
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Adam Tooze
3 years
"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
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“…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.
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You’ve heard of toxic masculinity. This is toxic individualism.
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Jemele Hill
3 years
An elected official, ladies and gentleman
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Important piece, especially given the narrative that is developing over Carbon dioxide removal as a climate solution.
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If you read one tweet from me this week, please read this. It’s not just #Exxon who knew, it’s #Mobil , too. ⁦ @BenFranta ⁩ ⁦ @billmckibben ⁩ ⁦ @Agent350 ⁩ ⁦ @jswatz ⁩ ⁦⁦ @CoralMDavenport @yvessciama ⁩ ⁦⁦ @ret_ward
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Today I was truly proud to be an @Harvard professor: FAS votes 179-20 in favor of both fossil fuel #divestment and portfolio #decarbonization @antal @HarvardHistSci @billmckibben @dan_kammen @GeoffreySupran
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#DropExxon
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We agree with the Harvard faculty! Climate change requires urgent action. We must divest from the fossil fuel industry ASAP. #divestment #fossilfree #dropexxon #ClimateStrike #ClimateAction #fridaysforfuture
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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
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Unreal. I guess the permafrost will need a new name... @billmckibben
@siberian_times
The Siberian Times
3 years
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
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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?)
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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
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“At this point in human evolution, burning coal for power is one of the stupidest things humans do. “
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“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
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“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.”
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Coronavirus has killed neoliberalism. Even Trump knows that
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3 years
Everyone needs to see and share this chart.
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Prof Michael E. Mann
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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):
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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?
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3 years
Portland to hit 115 today. Where are the headlines: “THIS is climate change.” Or, “Scientists predicted this. The predictions have come true.”
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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
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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!
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I can hardly bear to read this. When we were children, monarchs didn't even excite us, they were so common. Now they are vanishing...
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Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds
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Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change - Scientific American Blog Network ⁦ @ClimateOpp ⁩ ⁦ @luvintheanthrop ⁩ ⁦ @MichaelEMann ⁩ ⁦ @AndrewDessler ⁩ ⁦ @JustinHGillis ⁩ ⁦ @yvessciama
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Worth re-reading: How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
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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.
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2 years
This tragic. Back in 1990s, western fuels association— a coal industry trade group— targeted Bowling Green to test climate denial marketing.
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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
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NaomiOreskes
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So excited to post my new twitter banner & announce my new book with @erikmconway , THE BIG MYTH, on the construction of the myth of the "magic of the marketplace." Available this week from @BloomsburyPub and all normal booksellers. @billmckibben @GhoshAmitav @JohnKerry
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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
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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."
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Out today: new paper w/ @supran on how @exxonmobil shaped public discourse ab/t climate as "risk" rather than "reality" and blamed #climatechange on consumer "demand" rather than industrial production. @billmckibben @NaomiAKlein @MichaelEMann @Exxon_Knew
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