There's a 67% chance of 1.5°C of global warming within 36 months. Cancel the debt of countries most vulnerable to abrupt climate change. 🧵
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) April 10, 2023
🧵Even if it makes more sense to use renewable energy to curtail fossil fuel usage, you could make more money using it for CO₂ removal (CDR).
— David Ho (@_david_ho_) April 7, 2023
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It takes 250 kWh of electricity to remove a tonne of CO₂ using direct air capture. The CDR could be sold for $100-1000 per tonne.
— David Ho (@_david_ho_) April 7, 2023
If that electricity were sold for $0.10 per kWh, it would be bring in $25.
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To achieve net zero aviation emissions you need a substantial period of no aviation at all. There are currently no meaningful negative emissions tech. It requires more energy to recapture CO2 from the atmosphere than was generated when released. https://t.co/9gbCGyvGaj
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) April 6, 2023
Every day the difference between the current sea-surface temperature and what's "normal" just gets more extreme. There is no context in modern human history to describe natural events this deviant.
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) April 6, 2023
In real-world terms, what's happening should never happen. pic.twitter.com/co2A1Yuf54
“The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere today is comparable to where it was around 4.3 million years ago during the mid-Pliocene epoch, when sea level was about 75 feet higher than today, the average temperature was 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher…” https://t.co/yosUOtwj1P
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) April 6, 2023
BREAKING: scientists show rates of Antarctic melt are now sufficient to cause rapid ice sheet collapse 🧵 pic.twitter.com/owVYIMotPt
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) April 5, 2023
"Overall, there is almost no ice over 4 years old remaining - it now comprises just 3 percent of the total ice cover... ...contrasts starkly with the late 1980s when 30 to 35 percent of the Arctic Ocean’s ice was older than 4 years."
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) April 7, 2023
End of winter update: https://t.co/6gA8WIAQ34 pic.twitter.com/hTPrCQPJFA
We've started to exceed dire 1.4°C of global warming as emissions rise to extreme record levels. Trillions of dollars are being invested in fossil fuels even though production should have begun plummeting years ago to avoid the most catastrophic effects of abrupt climate change. pic.twitter.com/DBw9hS5lPC
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) April 7, 2023
Why aren't scientists and journalists talking feverishly about the need to stop emissions from rising any further *before 2025 at the very latest* to avoid not just 1.5/2°C but also *2.5°C*?
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) April 6, 2023
This is a basic element of recent IPCC reports.
Why the silence?https://t.co/0urqzaZYg0
Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 6, 2023 ~ Facts.
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) April 6, 2023
"The amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere today is comparable to where it was around 4.3 mya, when sea level was about 75' higher than today, the average temperature was 7°F higher than in pre-industrial times."https://t.co/UKeiGqbBld
🧵11/n
— Emily G Cunningham (@EG_Cunningham) April 5, 2023
As I sail north and stare out at the vast ocean blue, I am more certain than ever that we have to do everything in our power to save what we can.
This is the fight of my life.
The fight of all of our lives.
The fight for all of our lives.
"Earth's ice sheets lost enough ice over the last 30 years to create an ice cube 12 miles high." "Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting rapidly and driving sea level rise, new satellite data finds", Jack Guy, CNN, April 20, 2023
*taps mic* you cannot increase fossil fuel production and address climate change. A choice is required and there is no compromise between the two. That’s me just stating science and yet it feels controversial somehow
— Amy Westervelt (@amywestervelt) March 17, 2023
I find the narrative "we need BOTH emission reductions AND carbon dioxide removal" increasingly problematic.
— Glen Peters (@Peters_Glen) April 11, 2023
We need emission reductions. Full stop. Period. End of story.
Here is another attempt to show why emission reductions must come first & be prioritised.
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673 billion dollars investment finance in fossil fuels last year. Here are the top 30 banks investing in the destruction of the biosphere since 2016. Now you know what they get their bonuses for. There’s no safe haven from planetary destruction. pic.twitter.com/49rhQ1XaOm
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) April 13, 2023
Did governments and corporations rapidly steer away from the current limited paradigm of economic growth in the early-2020s as demanded by the consensus science on biodiversity and ecosystem destruction in order to curb the 21st century extinction catastrope? Did they fuck. 🧵
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) April 14, 2023
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