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Dr. Aaron Thierry

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Graduate student at @CUSocSci - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.

Joined October 2020

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

7 months

🚨“No research on a dead planet” I’m thrilled to announce @LauraLoHorn , @PHellermann , @CharlieJGardner & my new paper in @FrontEducation . Why, despite acknowledging the urgency of climate emergency, have universities yet to respond adequately to the crisis? A short🧵

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🚨Stop Scrolling! Let's pause & reflect a minute about what this shocking picture of @GretaThunberg 's arrest tells us about the current state of #climate politics. A short 🧵on some key lessons we can take from this image

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1 year

The activists' dilemma #TheBigOne

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It is increasingly clear that there's now a concerted effort under way in parts of the British press to derail action on the #ClimateEmergency . This🧵highlights key examples & shows how the main arguments are textbook #ClimateDelay 1/n

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10 months

The home secretary is confused, can you point out for her which of the following images is not 'serious disruption' ? #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels

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Suella Braverman MP

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These unacceptable protests at Wimbledon were intended to ruin the day for the paying public. Today I chaired talks @10DowningStreet with sporting, police & government teams to help tackle serious disruption of this kind

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1 year

The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?' So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free to adapt them. Buckle up - here's a LONG thread🧵about how we can fight back!

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10 months

1/ Here's a🧵on why the record shattering extremes in Europe are so unsettling for climate scientists. It's increasingly looking that we've underestimated the impacts of #ClimateBreakdown ...

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Nahel Belgherze

10 months

BREAKING: Rome, Italy just experienced its highest temperature in recorded history with 42.9°C (109.2°F). This beats the previous record from 2022 by 2 full degrees Celsius. That is a huge margin.

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1/ The most common question I get asked when I give talks about the #ClimateCrisis is "but what can I do as an individual?" Here's my answer... 🧵

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10 months

1/ This is the UK's Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. He's bullshitting you. Let's debunk his nonsense line by line...🧵

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Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

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Here's why Labour's Just Stop Oil approach to banning oil & gas licences is totally disingenuous...

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2/ What a difference 6 years makes! In many ways climate politics is in a very different place to how it was when @GretaThunberg first started her strikes outside the Swedish parliament in the summer of 2018 to try and put the #ClimateCrisis on the agenda

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15/ I've made my choice to stand by @GretaThunberg & all those who have listened to the science & are fighting for #ClimateJustice If you are looking for a way to be involved check out: Saturday's actions were just the start of a new wave of activism💚✊

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4/ Large majorities of people around the world are now deeply concerned and want to see action by governments...

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“Our study found that this type of civic engagement through collective action can have a direct effect on society, confirming that such action is warranted” #climateac

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Greta’s school strikes led 30% of Swiss citizens to change habits

'Collective action can have a direct effect on society’, study on climate strikes shows.

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3/ Largely as a result of protest movements #climate has now entered mainstream debate. And the stakes are clearer than ever. Following the latest @IPCC_CH report in 2022 @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres made clear we are faced with a 🚨"Code Red for humanity"

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10/ That such a reasonable and evidence based demand by peaceful protestors is met by such police brutality, should make clear to us all the lengths that governments will go to to try to cling to business as usual and to protect fossil fuel interests.

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Gisteren heeft de politie Den Haag de elleboog van een van onze demonstranten gebroken. Wij veroordelen dit extreem gewelddadige optreden met klem. Is dit hoe de Nederlandse staat omgaat met vreedzaam protest? #StopFossieleSubsidies #Klimaatrechtvaardigheid #Demonstratierecht

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5/ The extent of the failure to address this threat by the current political elites is becoming ever more apparent. The @IPCC_CH W3 report made clear that the majority of fossil fuel reserves must be left unburned :

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2 years

So this happened... #ClimateActionNow

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Damien Gayle

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“The government’s insane, and I don’t know what to do, other than to do this, to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up.” Ecologist Dr Aaron Thierry ( @ThierryAaron ), who has his hand superglued to the window at @beisgovuk with @ScientistsX

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On Saturday I was one of 21 scientists arrested at #COP26 taking part in a peaceful protest with @ScientistRebel1 Here's a clip of a very wet ☔️ me explaining the reason I chose to take part in the action & why I hope other scientists will take to the streets with @ExtinctionR 💚

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11/ Leading experts warn that “It has become abundantly clear that governments don’t act on #Climate without pressure from civil society: threatening and silencing activists thus seems to be a new form of anti-democratic refusal to act on climate”

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Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts

More than 400 climate scientists sign letter that says activists are being targeted at pivotal time in fight against global heating

www.theguardian.com

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7/ Preposterously, governments around the globe are continuing to actively subsidise fossil fuels to the tune of hundreds of billions of $ a year!

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6/ Yet, governments are licensing and financing new fossil fuel projects! With @UNEP warning that we are now on track to produce more than DOUBLE the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is compatible with the Paris agreement #climate targets

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The new @UNEP 2023 Production Gap Report reveals that governments plan to produce DOUBLE the fossil fuels in 2030 than the 1.5°C warming limit allows 🌡️ We need to tackle fossil fuel dependence now as the root cause of the #ClimateCrisis

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2030 is now 80 months away. Each remaining month is 1.25% of the time we have left to reduce global emissions to 45% below to 2010 levels -which the IPCC say is necessary to stay below 1.5C Currently, we're ~20% above 2010 levels & still headed in the wrong direction 😬

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14/ We all now face a stark choice - Either we can join and support the peaceful protestors to push for climate action and defend democracy. Or we can allow governments to continue their destructive policies. There is no neutral position. We have to pick a side.

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1/ The penny is finally starting to drop that economists have catastrophicly underestimated the risk from #ClimateBreakdown . Here's a🧵 of the latest reports that those working in finance urgently need to catch up on... Starting with @ChathamHouse :

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Climate change threatens to cause the next economic mega-shock

The stark disconnect between climate science and financial market sentiment will eventually end. It looks increasingly likely to be a sudden and painful adjustment.

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I'm outside @DefraGovUK with @ChrisGPackham & representatives of 30+ conservation NGOs & groups to express our alarm & dismay at the rapidly worsening #StateOfNature in the UK We urgently need to #RestoreNatureNow

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2 years

We were found not guilty! Press release:

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Court finds XR Scientists not guilty for action at BEIS - while charges are dropped against Shell...

Today five Scientists for Extinction Rebellion on trial for criminal damage have been acquitted by a magistrates’ court in London.

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9/ It was to highlight our governments utter failure and object to the moral bankruptcy of their continued support for the polluting fossil fuel industry, that @GretaThunberg joined the hundreds of @ExtinctionR activists in the Hague yesterday.

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A major international campaign against fossil subsidies has just been announced alongside the A12. 30 movements from 15 countries are now fighting for an end to European fossil subsidies under the name United for Climate Justice. [1/4]

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13/ This has led @UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders @ForstMichel to warn that: "The repression that environmental activists who use peaceful civil disobedience are currently facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights"

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No snow in winter, means no snowpack in spring, means no runoff in summer, means crop failure come harvest. #ConnectTheDots #ClimateEmergency

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Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season

World Cup skiers will race on artificial snow this Saturday as the Alps see record high temperatures.

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8/ Despite the @IPCC making plain in their reports that: "Removing fossil fuel subsidies would reduce emissions, improve public revenue and macroeconomic performance, and yield other environmental and sustainable development benefits"

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12/ And a huge effort, supported by fossil fuel interests, is now going into trying to vilify #climate protestors. As made clear for example in this investigation by @amywestervelt and @GeoffDembicki

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Meet the Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors

By Amy Westervelt, Drilled, and Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog, with additional reporting by Julianna Merullo and Lyndal Rowlands Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of...

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It's anecdotes like this that help me maintain my faith in humanity...

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1 year

I got the chills reading @GeorgeMonbiot 's latest column on the draconian police powers of the new ‘Public Order Bill’. But to understand how we got here we need to take a step back and look at the way these laws have been called into being. It's a wild story🤯 🧵

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We could call it "The Ministry for The Future"

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Earth needs a world climate crisis organisation, says eminent scientist

Such a body, which could be established through the UN, would help facilitate a united global effort against climate change.

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2 years

I’m thrilled to announce @StuartBCapstick @EmilyCoxSussex @Berglund_oscar @Steviedubyu , @JKSteinberger & my new paper in @NatureClimate on why scientists should consider participating in civil disobedience to promote climate action. Here's a short🧵1/15

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Five books you might like to read when asking what you can do about the #ClimateEmergency 🧵 1. @ClimatePsych 's excellent guide for turning anxiety into action

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“I now consider it the ethically responsible thing to do” I stand with @ChrisGPackham it is now ethically justified to break the law in peaceful protest in the face of the betrayal of our governments inaction on the climate & ecological crises! #ChrisPackhamC4

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Here's what matters to the physics. Nature isnt fooled by denominators. 📈

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2 years

NOT GUILTY!!! New Oil 🛢and Gas 🔥 = Death☠ #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels #ScientistsOnTrial @ScientistsX

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"If we want to have a chance of limiting warming to 1.5C, we need to *half* global carbon emissions in just 8 years... We must make this the top of the political agenda!" says @rahmstorf #TippingPoints

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2/ NOTHING. We *cannot* address the #ClimateCrisis as individuals. The crisis is a symptom of a system of social relations, and therefore we must cooperate to *collectively* change that form of social organization.

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Unreal! Its 2022 & I'm still listening to #LauraKuenssberg framing today's debate as "can we afford to solve the #climate crisis?" It feels like we're stuck in groundhog day for the past 20yrs! Here's a Climate Economics 101🧵: @bbclaurak @BBCJustinR

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Prof. Lenton, Prof. Schellnhuber. Dr. Kalmus, Prof. Steinberger, Prof. Anderson, Prof. Steffen, Prof. Huq. All experts whose views I deeply respect. I look at their evidence & reach the same conclusion. Have we all lost the plot? Or is our society nuts?

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This coal mine is shutdown! I'm with @xr_cymru , we've blockaded Ffos-Y-Fran, which has been mining without a licence for months. If governments won't act, we will! @GeorgeMonbiot @GretaThunberg @billmckibben @ClimateHuman @NaomiAKlein @michaelsheen

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This stat is just mind-blowing 🤯 The impact of industrial agriculture on the planet is staggering and completely unsustainable. (H/T @GeorgeMonbiot ) Source:

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I met someone who flatly insisted to me earlier that their last flight didn't cause any warming because they had bought a carbon "offset". So, I made this...

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There's one core message we should all be uniting on right now... "Whether you agree with the protestors' actions or not, the science is absolutely clear that we need to stop all new fossil fuel developments" #JustStopOil #VanGogh #Soup

New oil and gas at odds with green goals - report

New licences for North Sea oil and gas are incompatible with reaching net zero by 2050, a report says.

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I'm in the UK & it's hot🥵🌡️ We typically talk of global average temp rise - but shifts in the mean can have big impacts on the distribution of extremes as this @NASAClimate video shows. Here's a short🧵on what this means for future extremes... 1/n

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I was recently invited to debate with a representative of @bp_plc about what the net-zero target means for UK energy policy. Here's a🧵based on my slides about why the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's letter is scientifically illiterate 1/n

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Kwasi Kwarteng

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The North Sea is vital to our energy security, so I will launch another licensing round later this year. In return, I want oil and gas companies to reinvest their profits into the UK so we all feel the benefit - jobs, growth, new clean energy technology. I think that’s fair.

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TFW both Alberta and Siberia are on fire🔥... in May 😵

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Is climate change going to be worse than expected? Have scientists been systematically underestimating the impacts? And if so how should we as science communicators convey this to the public & policy makers? I delve into this unsettling topic in this 🧵 1/n (Pic: L. Hogarth)

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I'm appearing in court today for protesting against @GOVUK commitment to new fossil fuels in their new energy strategy Massive thanks to you all for the support you've shown me & the other members of @scientistsx Whatever the verdict I'm proud of our actions #ScientistsOnTrial

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“The government’s insane, and I don’t know what to do, other than to do this, to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up.” Ecologist Dr Aaron Thierry ( @ThierryAaron ), who has his hand superglued to the window at @beisgovuk with @ScientistsX

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@IPCC_CH 5/ One of the key problems we face is that neoliberalism's robbed us of the understanding of our *collective agency* It's why we have come to predominantly think of ourselves simply as isolated individuals This prevents our organizing an effective response to the #ClimateCrisis

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"The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks" - Prof. Wally Broecker #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels

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2 years

*Announcement* In light of their decision to invite two notorious climate deniers to speak at their conference, I have decided I must withdraw from participating in the CC Forum "Investment in Sustainable Development" event in London next week 🧵1/8

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"It has become abundantly clear that governments don’t act on climate without pressure from civil society: threatening and silencing activists thus seems to be a new form of anti-democratic refusal to act on climate "

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A welsh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 coal mine has just been approved to dig up 40 million more tonnes despite the @WelshGovernment saying it shouldn't go ahead Surely this should be getting more coverage? @alextomo @RHarrabin @AnnaJonesSky @GeorgeMonbiot @JournoChar @wblau

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Welsh mine full of 'hard coal' can dig up extra 40 million tonnes

The UK Government has accepted a license application - but the Welsh Government is not happy about it

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This is completely deranged!

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KLM

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We're taking steps to reduce our environmental impact on flights within Europe by recycling coffee cans and pads. Our coffee grounds are being processed in a digester, generating green energy. And that's not all! At the end of the process, we're left with nutrient-rich compost.…

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Err guys... yeah... you maybe wanna take a look at this... 👀

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Torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean ‘overturning’ –...

In a plot reminiscent of the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow?, Australian scientists are warning that the Southern Ocean’s deep “overturning” circulation is slowing and headed for collapse.

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The radical roots of the first #EarthDay in 1970 are often forgotten. Inspired by the anti-vietnam war student sit-ins 20 million Americans took part! It led to the: - Clean Air Act - Clean Water Act - Endangered species Act - & the EPA People power works ✊️🌍 #EarthDay2024

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Remember, whether you agree with their tactics or not, these activists are absolutely correct in their demands. Biden should declare a climate emergency and halt all new fossil fuel developments.

@washingtonpost

The Washington Post

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Protesters smeared paint on the case and pedestal of Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture in the National Gallery of Art in D.C. to bring attention to the climate crisis and demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency.

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I was on @BBCNews last night explaining why licencing new oil & gas will NOT: ❌Reduce Bills ❌Secure Supply ❌Come online for years But will: ⚠️Guarantee we miss our climate pledges ⚠️Continue to leave us exposed to price spikes

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This time last year I was one of 21 scientists arrested at #COP26 for a peaceful protest with @ScientistRebel1 Here's a clip of a very wet ☔️ me explaining the reason I took part in the action 💚 A year later & governments are still failing #COP27

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So, @BorisJohnson has warned that unless leaders at #COP26 address the #ClimateEmergency , we risk the collapse of civilization. Is this really a possibility? Unfortunately, yes, many leading climate scientists are indeed warning of collapse 1/n 🧵

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Climate change could cause collapse ‘like fall of Roman Empire’, warns PM

Humanity and society ‘can go backwards at extraordinary speed’

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2 years

An egregious example of #GreenhouseGaslighting by @bbcnickrobinson on @BBCr4today from yesterday morning. Here's a short thread on why the @JustStop_Oil protestor is entirely correct in her assertions 🧵

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Several people asked if I could share the slides from our #TippingPoints conference session. So I thought I'd put them up here too. Thanks to all who took part. I look forward to working together to grow our understanding of social movements can accelerate tipping points🧵1/n

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Once it's gone... it's gone. Along with your water supply!

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3/ Luckily for us this is what humans excel at! We all exist in thick social networks, as groups, communities, societies. Cooperation, collaborating, creating and innovating together. Humans have flourished because we are work in collectives and NOT as individuals

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🚨 When we fight, we win! I've put together a thread giving a quick run down of some of the #climate movement's hard won victories from 2023 to inspire us for the year ahead! 🥳🎉 🧵 1/x... #ClimateActionNow #EndFossilFuels

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Remember, this follows years of the same papers pedalling climate denial. Denial is no longer an option, we’ve entered a new phase of predatory delay as defined by @AlexSteffen ... 2/n

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Alex Steffen

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Predatory delay is the blocking or slowing of needed change, in order to make money off unsustainable, unjust systems in the meantime.

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@IPCC_CH 7/ The role of the climate concerned activist then is to: 📗 Educate - others about how we can collectively respond to the #ClimateCrisis ⚠️Agitate - and support others to take collective action ✊Organise - Groups into larger more powerful communities pushing for change

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

2 years

I'd normally not bother wasting time on this nonsense from @benleo444 , theres simply more important work than repeatedly putting to bed zombie climate denial talking points, but in solidarity with @JustStop_Oil protesters risking their liberty, here goes🧵

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CLUELESS: Just Stop Oil continued their bid to leave Britain cold and skint today by sitting in puddles outside Buckingham Palace. I asked them some basic questions in hope they’d convince me that man is responsible for climate change 🤷🏼‍♂️ @GBNEWS

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Another NOT GUITY verdict! "...even when directed by the judge to find us guilty, they were able to understand that the unprecedented times in which we live calls for us all to step out of the box and make courageous decisions. Thank you jury.”

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@IPCC_CH 6/ It’s vital that we reject this view! Instead we must recognise that it’s only by taking action together that we can confront those political interests (e.g. fossil fuel industrialists & their financiers) that currently benefit from maintaining the catastrophic status quo.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

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I challenge you to hold these four charts in mind simultaneously & not conclude we need a revolution! #SystemChangeNotClimateChange

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

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I was on @BBCNews earlier discussing the fact that we've just had 10 record breaking months in a row. "What we're seeing is that these record breaking temperatures are causing huge devastation & extremes that are having catastrophic effects for peoples lives & livelihoods" 1/2🧵

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1 year

Come and say hi! 👋 I'm out with @ScientistsX at #TheBigOne . We're just outside Westminster Palace.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

1 year

This is completely at odd's with all scientific advice! "I don't see new oil & gas licences... as being against our net-zero commitments" - @grahamstuart , UK's Minister of State for Climate speaking to @CEN_HQ : A short debunking the Minister's greenwash🧵

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

3 months

"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy" - P. Picasso

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Arts Professional

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APNews: Arts Council England ( @ace_national ) has updated its policies, warning that "political statements" made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause "reputational risk", breaching funding agreements (1/5)

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

2 years

So, Jamie Dimon the CEO of @jpmorgan thinks "it is not against #climate [change] for America to boost more oil & gas". Which could not be more wrong! Here's a🧵on some science he (& his colleagues in the banking sector) may want to try to pass through their cranium... 1/20

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

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4/ As the latest @IPCC_CH WG3 report on mitigation is clear that we have *high confidence* that "collective action as part of social or lifestyle movements underpins system change"!

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

2 years

Monday: @IPCC_CH 'No new fossil fuels if we're to meet 1.5C!' Thursday: @GovUK Energy strategy 'We're approving more new oil & gas!' Sunday: Me and the rest of @ScientistsX - 'Extinction Rebellion!' #RebelForLife #StepUp #BeTheChange

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

1 year

Scientists say they're observing a 'mind boggling fast reduction' in the amount of sea ice in Antarctica, describing the decline as 'gobsmacking'.

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'Gobsmacking': Antarctic sea ice shrinks - ABC listen

Scientists say they're observing a 'mind boggling fast reduction' in the amount of sea ice in Antarctica, describing the decline as 'gobsmacking'.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

3 years

As the #NobelPrize goes to #climate scientists Manabe, Hasselmann & Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems” it's worth reflecting on this quote from past Nobel laureate Prof. F.S. Rowland who's work linked CFCs to the Ozone hole:

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

10 months

But governments around the world are ignoring these scientific warnings & continuing to licence NEW fossil fuel exploration! Faced with this no wonder citizens are collectively organising & taking civil disobedience with groups like @JustStop_Oil ! /End

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UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences

More than 100 licences are expected to be granted for new fossil fuel exploration in the North Sea.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

3 years

I'm sure I could write a whole paper on this speech by @mrjamesob . It's absolutely fascinating, and unlike almost anything else in the British media.

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3 years

'They are doing what they are doing because they care about you.' James O'Brien gives his take on Insulate Britain protesters repeatedly targeting the M25 this week. @mrjamesob

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

3 months

This weeks #ClimateCrisis news: #Chile 🇨🇱 declares a state of #Emergency as devastating #wildfires currently sweep the center of the country. Here's a short🧵 putting this in context & asking what comes next...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

4 months

Cause -> Effect #Capitalocene #EndFossilFuels

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

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'Climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera went so far as to call it one of the most "extreme weather events the world has ever seen".'

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Mid-winter temperatures in South America rival those of the baking northern hemisphere summer

Winter temperatures have neared 40 degrees Celsius in parts of South America, which is up to 20C higher than normal for this time of year and the equivalent of Sydney hitting 35C in the first week of...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

2 years

Two days after the latest #IPCCReport , scientists around the world engage in a historic act of civil-disobedience in despair at continued government inaction on the climate and ecological emergency!

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Scientist Rebellion

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2 years

Over 1,000 scientists in over 25 countries worldwide took disruptive, non-violent actions and engaged in civil disobedience targeting governmental, scientific and corporate institutions to highlight the urgency and injustice of the climate and ecological crisis. 1/

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Judge Robinson remarked on acquittal “I was impressed by the integrity and rationality of their beliefs” and “their evidence was highly moving.” Thank you @DoctorsXr 🙏💚✊

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

1 year

The officer asked about the fish bones on our signs, so I explained how: Only 14% of English rivers are classed as heathy for wildlife🐟 6 of the 10 of the UKs most economically important fish species are overfished🎣 @GOVUK met only 4 of 15 targets in their Marine Strategy🦈

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

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Fossil fuel emissions 🛢⛽️🔥 ⬆️ set to reach record breaking highs in 2023 Which leads to... 🧵 1/4

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

9 months

"we did not want to go against the IPCC, but they have shown to be conservative in many aspects" - Prof. Susanne Ditlevsen

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Atlantic collapse: Q&A with scientists behind controversial study predicting a colder Europe

If proven correct, the Danish scientists’ scenario could mean the end of life in Europe as we know it.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

1 year

I'm forced to conclude that we are seeing is the *corporate capture* of our democracies. That governments are now acting for the benefit of vested interests in the fossil fuel industry and not to protect people & the planet - so what on earth do we do about that? 18/n

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

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The AMOC current is already on track towards an *abrupt shift* "We are moving towards it. That is kind of scary... We need to take climate change much more seriously.” - Dr. René van Westen, @UniUtrecht #ClimateEmergency #TippingPoints

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Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds

Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

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8/ I set out some examples of the kinds of ways you can take part in such collective action here:

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How to Defeat the Fossil Goliath?

Dr. Aaron Thierry | The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?' So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

1 year

Environmental lawyer finds himself forced to climb a tree in order to uphold the law and prevent illegal felling of protected trees!

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Paul Powlesland

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1 year

So, I find myself 30ft in the air up a tree in Wellingborough- surrounded by police, security & tree surgeons- trying to prevent an illegal tree felling. How did I end up here? Here’s an outrageous story of nature destruction & collusion between authorities & private developer 🧵

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

3 years

This is absolutely the correct decision from @BBCNews . It's excellent to see the climate crisis getting the prominence it deserves.

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Leo Hickman

3 years

Significant development... BBC News has just added "climate" to the category banner on its homepage - and second only to coronavirus (h/t @suburbanpirate )

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Dr. Aaron Thierry

7 months

My colleague @LauraLoHorn is today risking arrest to raise awareness of the harms from private jets. Each 4hr flight in a private jet emits as much as the average European does a year! Thank you Laura for your leadership 🙏 #StayGrounded #ClimateCrisis

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Scientist Rebellion Denmark

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@SRNordic @StayGroundedNet @ScientistRebel1 Here Associate Professor @LauraLoHorn explains the reasons why she's standing up to the ultra-rich today and demanding they #StayGrounded

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