Paul Beckwith Profile Banner
Paul Beckwith Profile
Paul Beckwith

@PaulHBeckwith

29,133
Followers
28,313
Following
5,857
Media
80,108
Statuses

Climate System Science Expert, Educator, Physicist (M. Sc. Laser Optics, B.Eng. Engineering Physics), interested in climate solutions and chess

Ottawa, ON
Joined December 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Pinned Tweet
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
9 hours
My new video… Global Flooding and Eco-Anxiety When it rains, it pours… More and more folks around the planet are fleeing from torrential rains leading to severe flooding, and suffering spiritually, emotionally, and physically… What’s next??
1
8
15
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
3 years
This rare phenomenon ( #Baikal #Zen ) happens when rocks lying on the surface of frozen lakes are heated by sunlight and emit infrared rays, melting ice below. When the sun sets, the ice refreezes, creating these incredible frozen near-impossible structures. #weather #beautiful
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
21
780
4K
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 months
Ice not happening…
Tweet media one
164
827
3K
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 years
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien #COVID ー19 #COVID19Pandemic
33
453
1K
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
10 months
Ongoing desertification of southern Europe…
Tweet media one
372
518
1K
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 years
I have never seen anything like this before. An entire section of Norway complete with houses, roads, trees, fields just slid into the ocean and disappeared...ground must have been completely saturated with water?
@JanFredrikD
Jan Fredrik Drabløs
4 years
Just now in Alta, Norway: Huge mudslide dragging several houses into the sea.
3K
39K
86K
93
586
1K
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
2 months
Tweet media one
11
226
1K
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 years
Tweet media one
37
420
972
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
8 years
25
984
913
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
5 months
Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People That’s where we are rapidly heading. And #COP28 will accelerate this:)
600
368
851
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 months
Haha. I call total and utter BS. “Scientists have repeatedly said that Earth would need to average 1.5 degrees of warming over two or three decades to be a technical breach of the threshold.” Nobody has said this, ever. Until now. At 1.48C for 2023.
100
157
751
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
11 months
‘The fire equivalent of an ice age’: Humanity enters a new era of fire - The Washington Post
53
241
657
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
1 year
Tweet media one
26
209
640
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 months
Rising seas are inundating coastlines around the world. We are reaping what we have sowed. Gee, I wonder if this is due to global warming and record high atmospheric and sea surface temperatures around the planet?
@accuweather
AccuWeather
4 months
An emergency warning was issued at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, today following extremely high seas and significant flooding. Homes have been evacuated as floodwaters overtook streets. Ocean Boulevard is closed, and residents are advised to avoid the area. #NHwx
75
654
1K
322
220
578
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
7 months
My new video: #Acapulco Destroyed by Category 5 #Hurricane #Otis Utter devastation of a modern city of 1 million people. Essentially NO warning due to accelerated intensification of tropical storm… #climate #ClimateCatastrophe #weather
Tweet media one
44
258
540
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
10 months
Scientists sound alarm over ‘unheard of’ conditions off the coast of England: ‘We could see mass mortality’
101
210
481
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
2 years
'Impossible to work after 10 o’clock in the morning': India swelters in hottest March in 122 years - FORTUNE
12
261
468
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
1 year
I must remember to try this!!
Tweet media one
29
82
463
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 years
Aoccdrnig to a rseheearcr at Cmabrigde Uinerevtisy it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
62
99
448
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
6 months
Hansen is the REAL Man. The Mann is sadly mistaken. I wish he was right, but sadly, I think the probability of him being wrong is nearly 100%. Even more sadly, Mann is the media go-to boy and he endlessly promotes his books. #climate #climateemergency
70
110
453
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
7 months
He doesn’t realize that we are already passing 1.5C. What a sick joke. We’re not doomed yet’: climate scientist Michael Mann on our last chance to save human civilisation - The Guardian
95
115
447
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
3 months
Currently stable parts of East Antarctica may be closer to melting than anyone realized Stanford researchers have found large thawed or close-to-thawed areas under coastal portions of the ice sheet that holds back glaciers in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin.
66
255
439
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
7 months
It looks like #Israel will turn the entire northern area of #Gaza into ash and rubble. It will never be rebuilt. Western leaders continue to cheerlead this sickening slaughter of men, woman, and children. Why? For how long? We need a ceasefire.
44
107
421
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 months
The people paid to spot risks see high chance of ‘global catastrophe’ within 10 years - CNN
102
151
409
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
10 months
Scientists have made a white paint that can make surfaces as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit cooler than air temperatures at midday, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night, reducing inside temperatures and cutting air-conditioning needs by as much as 40%.
41
157
390
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
11 months
There is NO New Normal. We are on the cliff edge of a huge accelerating rise!! ‘Our new normal’: As climate change exacerbates wildfires, Canada faces a fiery future - Toronto Star
79
137
382
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
2 years
Globally, we just had the 5th warmest March on record, in spite of the cooling La Niña, and the Arctic was running a high fever, being 7 C warmer than normal. Not good. I fret about the next El Niño…
11
158
364
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
7 months
My guess is that #Israel will kill between 50,000 and 100,000 people in #Gaza over the next weeks. Is the world OK with this? Probably. Air pollution kills 10 million people per year; people are OK with that. Climate mayhem will kill billions soon and people are OK with that.
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
7 months
Range 3.75x to 242.75x So for say 1,000 dead Israeli’s this weekend they will kill between 3,750 to 243,000 in Gaza. Expect that over next few days. No food, water, medical supplies, electricity will kill many, apart from bombs. They say half Gaza is kids; anybody have data??
15
25
73
53
101
354
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
5 months
'Many will die': Climate scientists slam COP28… “It's like promising your doctor that you will 'transition away from donuts' after being diagnosed with diabetes. The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating." #COP28UAE #COP28
161
150
337
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
1 month
Did you know that as recent as 50,000 years ago there were 5 homo species walking around: 1) Homo sapiens (us) 2) Neanderthals (in Europe) 3) Denisovans (in Asia) 4) Homo Floreienis (island of Flores in Indonesia) 5) Homo Luzonensis (in the Philippines) Amazing, isn’t it…
49
58
312
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
9 months
My new video… Why we should expect Global Warming to Skyrocket during next 1.5 years: The Scary Science #ClimateAction #climatebreakdown #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCult #ClimateEmergency #ClimateScam
Tweet media one
39
96
293
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 months
Everybody got off the large plane because they followed rules and left the airplane without their carry-on bags. If it was a US airplane at a US airport, they would have grabbed their laptops and cabin bags, and only half the people would have survived…
31
55
288
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
2 years
This is a very tough one, but I think that I finally got it right… #Ukraine #Finland
Tweet media one
9
47
271
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
3 months
These 'pH stripes' show change in acidity of global ocean between 1982 and 2022 (pink and purples on the right being more acidic). Data shows 0.071 decrease in pH; which is an 18% increase in acidity. 🔗 Full story 👇 🔗
62
127
275
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
3 months
Barcelona declares drought emergency, with big fines for breaking water rules | Euronews
16
134
266
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
5 months
Governments are not doing what the people want. They are the problem…
Tweet media one
30
61
254
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
4 months
Albedo loss over the years. Albedo is the percentage of solar radiation that is reflected. Created by Eliot Jacobson with data from:
Tweet media one
16
60
251
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
2 months
My new video. This one is crucial to understand, since profound changes to our global Earth system are now underway… As Antarctic Blue Ocean Approaches, Global Ocean Circulation System Weakens #climate #ClimateEmergency #climatechange #ClimateChaos
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
37
117
247
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
7 months
I don’t think people realize that the buildings in #Gaza being pounded to rubble by #Israel will stay rubble for many years, maybe even forever. Rubble from the last wars is still rubble, since Israel controls the borders. Talk about ongoing war crimes.
34
73
246
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
7 months
James Hansen seems to understands it perfectly. See his monthly updates.
@rahmstorf
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣
7 months
We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted. But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now. And that worries me.
Tweet media one
4
3K
8K
30
62
245
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
7 months
Many years ago I forecast 7 meters is sea level rise by 2070. Everything is on track to my forecast:)
@BrianMcHugh2011
Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈
7 months
The ice sheet of west Antarctica would push up the oceans by 5 metres if lost completely. Rapid ice melt now inevitable in #Antarctica
9
80
185
41
44
236
@PaulHBeckwith
Paul Beckwith
5 months
1.5 C is in the rearview mirror already.
@rahmstorf
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣
5 months
The world must get onto the blue path: cut greenhouse gas emissions in half over the next seven years! That is what “keeping 1.5° alive” means. #IPCC And we must limit warming to 1.5° to avert a planetary scale disaster. All countries agreed to that 2015 in Paris. #COP28
Tweet media one
220
410
871
39
71
238