Dave Vetter @davidrvetter Twitter profile | Pikagi

Pikagi

Dave Vetter

@davidrvetter

16,767

Followers

5,748

Following

1,646

Media

16,704

Statuses

Climate writer @ Forbes & The Climate Laundry. @ davidrvetter on Bluesky + Threads. If you like my work, please consider supporting via

UK

https://t.co/2qXXiqNaA7

Joined September 2018

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

Pinned Tweet

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

On Monday, we [the MSEE cohort at @TheSmithSchool , @UniofOxford ] met visionary systems thinker @KateRaworth and spoke with her about reimagining what and who the economy is for. Yet you won't hear her thesis in a mainstream economics lecture. 🧵 1/16

Tweet media one

46

367

928

Last Seen Profiles

@ArabSexualXnxx

@leetrink

@NAL_MFY

@jadapsmith

@SuperfanLions

@MeedusAli

@fanspicy1

@fanspicy1

@pagetpaget

@xavier_torrens

@Austinmcneill66

@saaaya_cos

@yzhtcnrn

@sottogabor

@fanspicy1

@fanspicy1

@MzStrawberri26

@MarcinPetruszka

@joalhasani

@Quantectum_Euro

@AkkokHolding

@ChampsHill

@SVHSLacrosse

@omgitsleonardd

@RutamV

@RT_Dailey

@CoachKSchilling

@Valentinojman

@sisterinferior

@blymecon

@SusannaCamusso

@RhishiThakre

@warrenfitz3

@mfwmmd15

@oficialsincerao

@evangelionkarma

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@TasteAtlas This is a list you'd come up with if you'd never eaten food.

62

1K

28K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

9 months

A key driver of the climate crisis is that we've made environmental terrorism a social aspiration.

@Dexerto

Dexerto

9 months

Neymar flying from Paris to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on a private Boeing 747

2K

1K

12K

95

3K

26K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@teslaownersSV @boringcompany @elonmusk Trains.

39

155

23K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@Cobratate @GretaThunberg You must reveal how you, a small pile of ashes, are still communicating in our realm

182

315

23K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@joseletemuniz Which of these two people do you think is trans? Because Gabi Garcia isn't trans.

26

92

14K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

7 months

I can state with confidence that not a single one of the scientists I work with at Oxford has any idea what this means.

Tweet media one

399

2K

14K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Any move to ban solar from farms will involve govt telling farmers what they can and cannot do with their land, which is a weird thing for an avowedly libertarian cabinet to push for. Also:

Tweet media one

291

3K

13K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Thinking about how the UK's new Prime Minister helped engineer the 2008 financial crisis and got rich doing it.

Tweet media one

158

6K

12K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@EndWokeness He's happy now. It's ok that you're upset about that.

312

64

10K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Today, climate deniers are hooting about something called the World Climate Declaration, an anti-science screed that claims to have 1,200 "scientists" declaring that there is no climate emergency. A couple of notes on that. 1/

Tweet media one

517

3K

9K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

Graham Linehan has, for reasons known only to himself, begun publicly defaming me.

Tweet media one

374

319

8K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

I wrote about the bizarre critical response to #DontLookUp : "If 'Don’t Look Up' is infuriating to watch, it is because it does a pitch-perfect job of channeling climate experts’ weary frustration at being ignored."

257

2K

8K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@EndWokeness "Woke is when there are colors and/or patterns"

12

65

7K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

I'm still staring at this graph showing UK wage collapse since 2010 vs peer nations. It's absolutely staggering.

Tweet media one

@jburnmurdoch

John Burn-Murdoch

1 year

And of course the impacts of a conscious erosion of state capacity extend well beyond health. Real wages are below where they were 18 years ago. There has not been a single year since austerity began when the average wage has matched the peak under the last Labour government.

Tweet media one

27

1K

3K

140

3K

8K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@Cobratate @GretaThunberg Thank you for confirming you're not mad. These are certainly the actions of a guy who isn't mad.

21

52

7K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@Rowdy_Raccoon_ @EndWokeness That's not relevant to the argument being presented.

8

14

7K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@outofvalhalla @joseletemuniz Your envy is palpable.

7

35

6K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

On fracking in the UK, here's Prof Stuart Haszeldine, from the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh: “An inconvenient fact – like it or not, the UK has not discovered any good shale for onshore gas production." 1/

158

3K

6K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@lndian_Bronson Yes: the larger the landmass, the more important it is to invest in high-speed rail. I'm glad you understand and endorse this basic principle.

18

47

6K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

This person is a major media personality in Britain. Her opinions, wholly unencumbered by fact, are regularly broadcast to an audience of millions.

@JuliaHB1

Julia Hartley-Brewer

2 years

@Saffiya_Khan1 More of our planet will become habitable thanks to global warming. Human beings thrive in warm climates.

2K

20

121

401

729

6K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@WholeMarsBlog Looks great

Tweet media one

36

55

6K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@johnredwood British beaches are now sewers, Jonathan.

20

103

6K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Estranged from your child? That's because of communism. Wife divorced you? Communism. Slipping on a banana peel and falling three storeys into a containerload of mousetraps? You better believe that's communism.

Tweet media one

87

774

5K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

I'm live at the pro-traffic rally in Oxford city centre. Ostensibly a protest against LTNs, or low-traffic neighborhoods, it's an intoxicating mix of far-right conspiracy slogans, antisemitism and really terrible hip-hop.

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

Tweet media three

Tweet media four

723

910

5K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

4 months

👀 Watch Aotearoa New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick deliver the most formidably cogent summary of the 20th century economic order - and how it ruined everything.

125

2K

5K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@QuetzalPhoenix Why bother? They look like they're having a great time

9

43

5K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@MattBinder He really doesn't understand that the only reason the checkmark was useful was that it indicated authenticity. Twitter Blue doesn't confer authenticity - quite the reverse. It is of no value to those with legacy checkmarks.

90

287

4K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

9 months

Yesterday we said goodbye to our boy. I won't dwell on it here, as this site has turned into a place unworthy of him. But here he is, in his glory, for the people who knew him and knew of him.

Tweet media one

445

74

4K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@EndWokeness The message I take from this is that ending wokeness requires having a US Army comprised of 100% Chinese men.

38

63

4K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@benshapiro I was absolutely incensed to learn that, whenever my mom plays peek-a-boo with me, she doesn't actually disappear - she's just putting her hands in front of her face.

7

47

4K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@charliekirk11 This guy needs to seek professional help.

13

11

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@Culture_Crit The funniest thing about these low effort Culture Grift accounts is that they have essentially no interest in the subject they're supposed to be all about.

43

60

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@jmasseypoet

Tweet media one

6

157

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@masculinesoul @Culture_Crit Got it

Tweet media one

38

3

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

THIS is climate action.

@_david_ho_

David Ho

1 year

France has been given the green light to ban short haul domestic flights. They can do this because the trains are so good. Also, they aim to get 9% of the population on bicycles by 2024 (up from 3%; the Netherlands is at 27%).

65

576

3K

74

496

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

Twitter has begun suspending journalists that have been critical of Elon Musk. So far these include Aaron Rupar, Donnie O’Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Matt Binder of Mashable, Micah Lee of the Intercept, and Keith Olbermann

Tweet media one

635

2K

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

Montana just banned state departments from taking climate impacts into consideration in environmental assessments. This is like passing a law that bans motorists from opening their eyes whilst driving.

Tweet card media

Gianforte signs bill banning state agencies from analyzing climate impacts

House Bill 971 comes as Montana courts are poised to consider how “clean and healthful environment” protections intersect with energy regulations.

montanafreepress.org

224

1K

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@AllisterHeath "British Eurovision entrant is a rational human under the age of 40"

12

66

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

To be clear, this is a lie. British anti-vax MP Andrew Bridgen is claiming Covid vaccines are "gene therapy", which they are not. mRNA vaccines do not interact with the patient's DNA at all.

Tweet media one

406

880

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

A great genre of content is "rich people believing they'd be way better at being poor than poor people"

Tweet media one

107

756

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

When I see a field full of solar panels, I think "wow that's awesome, we're actually doing something about the crisis we're all facing."

@AdamBienkov

Adam Bienkov

2 years

"I think one of the most depressing sights when you're driving through England is seeing fields that should be full of crops or livestock, full of solar panels," says Liz Truss.

Tweet media one

2K

397

2K

86

192

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@EvasTeslaSPlaid @elonmusk Looks great

Tweet media one

6

3

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

As you'd expect, CLINTEL is deeply intertwined with fossil fuel money and many of its ambassadors are involved with US fossil fuel lobbyists the Heartland Institute and the Cato Institute. 3/

20

333

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

The six climate change myths listed are all dealt with comprehensively on Skeptical Science's Argument page (below). Not one of them holds up to even casual scrutiny. 6/

38

336

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

This lie - that Musk has successfully rid Twitter of child sex abuse material - has received 134k favs. The truth is that the team responsible for removing the material has been reduced to one person.

Tweet media one

29

779

3K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

Twitter has informed me that the following account "hasn't broken any of our safety policies". Neither has the account that retweets this stuff.

Tweet media one

128

398

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@Victorshi2020

Tweet media one

3

21

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

When you scroll down the list of signatories, you'll note that few come from climate-related disciplines. A notable number are from the oil and gas industry. Eight are either current or former Shell employees. 5/

20

246

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Here's Toby Young attacking David Attenborough on the back of the lie that Arctic sea ice is increasing. Arctic sea ice is decreasing, as data from NOAA, NASA and NSIDC show.

Tweet media one

200

698

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

@JoshuaPotash My dad, a veteran epidemiologist, previously a cardiac surgeon and a medic with the WHO, will tell anyone who listens that health insurance is designed to not work.

9

108

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

France withdraws from the Energy Charter Treaty: this is a colossal deal! The ECT can be used by fossil fuel companies to sue governments that want to restrict their activities.

@BFMTV

BFMTV

2 years

Emmanuel Macron annonce que "la France a décidé de se retirer du traité de la charte sur l'énergie"

1K

1K

5K

26

594

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@jillreports @CityofVancouver These are great! More of this sort of thing please, @CityofVancouver .

5

12

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

The Declaration is in fact just a continuation of a project by something called the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL), a lobby group funded by two Dutch millionaires. @DeSmog has plenty of details here: 2/

Tweet card media

Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL)

Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) Main image: CLINTEL Background The Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) is a Netherlands-based climate science denial group founded in 2019 by retired...

30

361

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Update: Pseudoscience blogger Toby Young and colleagues misrepresented the work of Japanese scientists in an attempt to claim that anthropogenic climate change is "fiction". Report author Dr Shinji Matsumura has emailed me, flatly rejecting Young and co's claim. 1/

Tweet media one

65

741

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@JohnCleese The BBC doesn't currently own the rights and would be sued.

Tweet media one

37

39

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@jakethornton Snacks on a Plane

14

27

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

The Declaration can be found below. As you will see, the wording itself is extremely lazy, comprising a list of stale, debunked I-got-this-from-Facebook tropes. No research is cited. 4/

11

206

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Toby Young wants to "debate me, bro" about climate change. Here are some thoughts on that. 1/

@toadmeister

Toby Young

2 years

@davidrvetter @boyler Why not debate instead of demanding that a point of view you disagree with be censored? If you want to write a reply, I’ll publish it.

157

17

153

214

524

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@EndWokeness If you're going to have a lot of humans - and the planet does have a lot of humans - dense urban environments are massively more sustainable and environmentally friendly than any other known solution.

23

5

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

Tweet media one

@elonmusk

Elon Musk

1 year

And soon, ladies & gentlemen, the coup de grâce

29K

32K

322K

7

140

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@ShotOn35mm The authorities genuinely believe that only property ownership confers personhood. Without property of your own, you are viewed as less than human.

11

116

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@andreajenkyns This you?

Tweet media one

34

82

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@catturd2 Camera optics, how do they work

7

3

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Jacob Rees Mogg announces that the UK government's new energy strategy will focus on the extraction of fossil fuels.

504

923

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@TheFreds Honestly, this is spine-chilling.

Tweet media one

24

21

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@LivEchonews This guy should be getting govt subsidies, not cops in his house

3

10

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@jordanbpeterson "Under no circumstances should communities consider other, potentially better ways of doing things"

9

19

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Time to take a big ol' slurp of coffee and check in on how The Invisible Hand of the Market is solving the climate emergenc-

@_TheBulletin

The Bulletin

2 years

Brussels Airlines runs 3,000 empty flights to maintain take-off and landing slots

Tweet media one

535

1K

3K

16

449

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

This torrent of Infowars-fuelled misinformation from a sitting British MP, being retweeted by thousands, is going to get people killed.

Tweet media one

85

338

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

Breaking: Guy who's wrong about everything continues incredible streak

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

51

166

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

"My part of the country used to look like a monocultural wasteland. Now it looks like a monocultural wasteland that also produces clean electricity."

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

46

134

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@GovRonDeSantis

Tweet media one

11

23

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@LadyDetectives1 @UKIP To be extra clear: can you confirm for the record that you believe that every major university in the world, every national meteorological office, and every national scientific academy, along with NASA and NOAA, are lying about anthropogenic climate change?

80

164

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@tomhfh

Tweet media one

5

19

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

@Bren4Bassetlaw @WGUNews @LincsLive @nottslive @Daily_Express Phew, thank goodness this featureless plain of barren monoculture won't now be used to generate zero carbon electricity.

11

57

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Two stories today show fossil fuel corporations making record profits, driving British people directly into poverty. Both of the UK's main political parties seem to be fine with that.

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

43

601

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

When media organisations like GB News claim 15-minute cities are a plot to take away our freedoms, these are the people they're appealing to. It is a coordinated campaign to weaponize low-information paranoia and fear.

85

202

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

Twitter Blue is now a vanguard for coordinated climate denial and disinformation attacks: Here, paid-for accounts are mobbing @UNFCCC with denialist spam. Under Musk, Twitter has become an engine for generating disinformation.

@UNFCCC

UN Climate Change

1 year

🔵 Time ⚪️ to 🟡 flatten 🟠 the 🔴 curve Our 🌎 has already warmed by about 1.2°C. On today's #WorldMetDay , let's remember that every bit of additional global warming worsens climate impacts. The actions we take this decade will influence life on Earth for thousands of years.

Tweet media one

1K

821

2K

254

597

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@BlackLabelAdvsr @teslaownersSV @boringcompany @elonmusk ?

0

1

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@SheldonStack @RiotPlatforms @nytimes NYT isn't claiming to have "zero carbon emissions"

36

4

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

These Australians have done a better job of summing up the state Britain is in than the entirety of our media.

@thejuicemedia

theJuiceMedia

2 years

The UK Government has made an ad about the spiralling cost of living crisis, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇬🇧 👉 @dontpayuk 👉 @eiecampaign 👊 we're on patreon:

608

14K

29K

31

317

2K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

The gas is hard to extract: "The total gas produced by Cuadrilla from Lancashire could be enough to provide heating and water to 508 3-bed semi-detached houses for 18 days. Not much to show after spending 8 years and tens of millions of pounds." 3/

20

538

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

11 months

Musk, Rogan and the entire Debate Me Bro community are just this cartoon.

Tweet media one

54

319

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

@Nigel_Farage Hmm, I see. Have you considered not being Nigel Farage?

16

41

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@AyoCaesar An excellent example of systematic injustice manifesting as individual blame.

5

21

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

I'm speechless. Turns out, the lad who delivers my parents' newspaper is driven on his round by his dad in a diesel BMW SUV. They idle outside every house as the boy runs out and puts the paper through the door. We've structured our society to maximize the harm we do.

89

133

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

@JujuliaGrace A handful of billionaires in offshore tax havens bought up almost the entirety of the media.

22

205

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

Greta just obliterated creepy misogynist Andrew Tate in a single post.

@GretaThunberg

Greta Thunberg

1 year

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy @getalife .com

77K

525K

4M

52

104

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@uberboyo The Nativity is literally a story about the importance of taking in and sheltering the poor and dispossessed. Perhaps you need to find a new religion?

15

15

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@JonSchweppe I, too, hate it when I have to explain what on earth I'm yelling about

0

18

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

@PastorAlexLove Atheists, if JESUS is not real then please explain this?

Tweet media one

62

43

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@theserfstv I know it's at best problematic to brand all such hatred as latent yearning, and yet in so many cases it's so very obviously true.

9

6

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@AJentleson @kylietcheung What's wild is that it's considered remarkable for a politician to ask a finance guy such a question.

4

20

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Here's a fun game of join the dots:

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

Tweet media three

Tweet media four

16

406

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

@yoboigucci2 @Cobratate @GretaThunberg You don't have to imagine it

14

2

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Oh heck yes: "The European Commission will propose that member countries tax the profits energy companies made from recent gas price spikes and invest the revenue in renewable energy and energy-saving renovation"

Tweet card media

EXCLUSIVE Tax energy firms' windfall profits to raise green cash, EU to tell countries - sources

The European Commission will propose that member countries tax the profits energy companies made from recent gas price spikes and invest the revenue in renewable energy and energy-saving renovations,...

www.reuters.com

24

416

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

Such debates only ever benefit anti-science interests. By pitting say, a flat-earther armed with Facebook memes against a veteran NASA researcher, you have elevated the status of the flat-earther and demeaned the researcher. 3/

24

99

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

2 years

@CarcosaLobbyist @GwynethPaltrow @BoredApeYC @moonpay Sorely underrated post

1

5

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

The rally is, at heart, a climate denial protest. This man says carbon is good because we're made of carbon. "When they talk about reducing carbon they mean they want to reduce you." #oxford #ltn

Tweet media one

109

199

1K

@davidrvetter

Dave Vetter

1 year

The owner of this site is now defending the racist cartoonist Scott Adams by claiming that the media are racist against white people.

Tweet media one

176

284

1K