Stephen LeMarbre

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

These once in a lifetime storms are several times a year now.

Strange isn't it?

[Stephen LeMarbre @LemarbreStephen]

@TimmonsRoberts for those that follow, definitely not shocking, but good to shed as much light as possible on these tactics.
https://t.co/1QnmvXcCu3

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

Old-growth forests sequester much more carbon than younger forests.

It makes more sense to focus on not cutting down trees rather than planting new trees since it takes two to three decades for trees to reach full maturity, if they survive.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The fossil fuel industry gets 11 million dollars every single minute in subsidies: https://t.co/a9XupnWn2k

How many more disasters does it take before we stop funding the problem? #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #SDGs

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

***WARNING***

IPCC Climate Models are Broken‼️

Dr. James E. Hansen in Conversation with Paul Beckwith

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

🚨 JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTER GIVEN 6 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR MARCHING

⛓️ Stephen Gingell, 57, a business owner and father of three, was sentenced to 6 months in prison for marching after appearing in Manchester Magistrates Court yesterday.

🦺 Stephen was arrested on 13th November 2023 in London for peacefully marching for no more than 30 minutes with 40 other Just Stop Oil supporters. He was transferred to the court in Manchester for sentencing.

💬 A spokesperson from Lawyers are Responsible, a group of legal professionals, said: “This sentence demonstrates the increasingly repressive environment that people find themselves in when they take entirely peaceful action to express concern about the climate and ecological crisis. Our legal system has become completely detached from the real threat to our futures posed by the climate and ecological emergency. People should not be criminalised for standing up for our futures.”

💸 Support people like Stephen in nonviolent civil resistance — https://t.co/Vryfy1aZQh

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

It's super depressing that bad news about climate change is like, "Omg, everything is gonna die," and the good news is like, "In paragraph 28d, COP finally acknowledged that fossil fuels exist."

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

One day people will look back on "net zero by 2050" as one of the dumbest things ever.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

"Stop giving power to people who don't believe in science or worse than that, pretend they don't believe in climate change for their own self-interest." Harrison Ford

There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #biodiversity #GreenNewDeal #cop28

[Stephen LeMarbre @LemarbreStephen]

@Kyrre080957 @MikeHudema lol - he's not a climate scientist and is just an 80-year old yelling at and about clouds (literally)
https://t.co/c7Ior2hDy8

[Colin Carlson @ColinJCarlson]

Just devastating

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

So the size of it is that it has only taken delegates 28 years to actually mention the source and scale of the problem. 
Well whoop-y-doop. At that rate, by 2051 maybe they will agree a (non-binding) pledge to phase out fossil fuels…
@billmckibben famously says that winning slowly on climate is the same as losing. Well, this sure is the quintessence of SLOWLY!

What that is concrete, that actually means something, has come out of this CoP? Nothing. Only a few more unbelievable, unenforceable voluntary pledges. (There was that early success on loss and damage - but even that achievement melts almost into thin air when one actually scrutinises it. The fund is tiny, and not parameterised in any of the ways that the affected countries wanted.)

Should I be kinder to this agreement? After all, there is, famously, some reasonably decent novel language in the agreement they managed to reach at CoP28, language that speaks of “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems”. Good. But look closer: “in energy systems”. Why did they add that phrase? Why not just say “transitioning away from fossil fuel”, full stop? What do they mean by the (in this context) slightly odd, rarely used phrase, “energy systems”? The most plausible interpretation - the one that will certainly be in the minds of the likes of Sultan Jaber - is that they mean power (I.e. power-stations) and heat (as in for instance combined heat-and-power plants, or in home-heating). I.e. “Energy systems” mean the generation (and transmission) of electricity (and of heating). So let’s be clear: CoP28 did NOT even actually ‘call on’ countries to transition away from fossil fuels. They only called on countries to transition away from fossil fuels in the generation of electricity (and of heat for heating purposes).
CoP28 simply did not ‘call on’ countries to transition away from fossil fuels in their use in transportation, or in heavy industry (eg chemicals or steel production), or in the food system. Only in the production and transmission of ‘energy’: I.e. basically electricity (plus heating).
This is the real significance of the failure to call for the phasing out of fossil fuels, at CoP28.

Let us put the matter bluntly and clearly. This just is not the breakthrough that some are inadvisedly and rather desperately trying to convince themselves (and the less will-informed) that it is. It is a loophole- ridden, merely rhetorical advance, without teeth.
CoP in anything like its present form has, inevitably, categorically failed us and is never going to effectively deal with this more-than-emergency. 
The most powerful, transformative thing that CoP delegates could do as they leave Dubai and trail home is to admit - to proclaim - exactly this.
They need to do so, to counter the impression that the CoP PR machine is giving: that this is summit has somehow been a success that has put the world on the path to salvation. On the contrary. This is yet another power-less sticking plaster. A mere rhetorical flourish.
The CoP system is moribund. It needs to end.

What is actually needed is smaller, nimbler, bolder coalitions of the willing, collaborations of countries (and businesses, and other entities) willing to go much further toward what actually needs to be done, if we are to have a future.

[Al Gore @algore]

The decision at #COP28 to finally recognize that the climate crisis is, at its heart, a fossil fuel crisis is an important milestone. But it is also the bare minimum we need and is long overdue. The influence of petrostates is still evident in the half measures and loopholes included in the final agreement.

Fossil fuel interests went all out to control the outcome, but the passionate work of millions of climate activists around the world inspired and motivated delegates from many nations to loosen the industry’s grip.

Whether this is a turning point that truly marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era depends on the actions that come next and the mobilization of finance required to achieve them.

We must ask ourselves how much longer will the world have wait before all nations summon the political will to overcome these narrow special interests and act on behalf of the future of humanity. It is up to all of us to hold our leaders accountable to their promise to transition away from fossil fuels once and for all.

[Stephen LeMarbre @LemarbreStephen]

its 2023 - we're at 1.5C - who in their right mind is giving an award to climate criminal Darren Woods

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

This is huge. This is absolutely monumental. We just shut down an event honoring Exxon CEO Darren Woods. The whole room fled. We showed up & prevented this monster from uttering a word. We will resist him with all we've got. There is no choice.

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

Everyone should know that in 2021 Darren Woods and 5 other fossil fuel executives went in front of Congress, and when asked point blank if they would stop funding climate disinformation to confuse the public, they would not agree to do so. They will keep lying and blocking action

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

MORE OF THIS PLEASE
We must revoke the social license and the social power of the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuel executives are planetary criminals

[Stephen LeMarbre @LemarbreStephen]

@Reezyard @rahmstorf ah yes - all those billions of people and costal cities that were around 65-55 million years ago...this chart means nothing

[Stephen LeMarbre @LemarbreStephen]

@EricYoungArt @ECOWARRIORSS just like musk selling you that blue check mark homie

[Stephen LeMarbre @LemarbreStephen]

@sanctuaryvilla @EricYoungArt @ECOWARRIORSS b/c there is like 99% of the scientific community in agreement on this and the 1% that is not is heavily funded by the oil and gas lobby - all you have to do is look at the background of everyone one of them

[Stephen LeMarbre @LemarbreStephen]

@EricYoungArt @ECOWARRIORSS Eric in the comments not understanding anything, yet also so certain about everything