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🧵[𝟭/𝟳] 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚
"𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗨𝘀 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗲" - 𝘙𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘬𝘦 𝘑𝘳.
https://t.co/8qW0fFACUQ
A #FLICC Critical Analysis

🚬 Leave it to a policy wonk to spot a perfectly mundane New York Times op-ed and treat it like a Marxist coup in a tin-pot junta.

Roger Pielke Jr has peered into the dry, academic world of climate modelling and somehow emerged convinced he has uncovered a grand, coordinated heist to smuggle bad data into our wallets. Let's take a peek at the sheer hilarity of his outrage!👇

[The Honest Broker @RogerPielkeJr]

Fool Us Once
A Trojan Horse effort to place RCP8.5 back at the center of climate science and policy
https://t.co/nNpiSQzDbZ

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Holland managed to keep a small, specific patch of coastal land dry by building dikes, windmills, and pumps over hundreds of years, Ray.

They had generations to adapt to baseline regional geography. Modern climate change is compressing massive ecological shifts into decades.

But, I forgot. You know what you're talking about, apparently.

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@DaveGibelli @Ceist8 @anika_climate Absolutely, yes.

Why wouldn't she want a nice little chunk of their fossil-fuel slush funds?
https://t.co/Eyz4XATpjY

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@ClintelNED Complaining about wind turbine material ratios by using data that includes solar panels is like complaining about how heavy a bicycle is by weighing it while sitting inside a Honda Civic. Elite methodology right here.👍

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@ClintelNED Climate science denialism isn't "happening again", though.
It 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 for decades.

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@JamesMelville Yes, Brexit, a total overhaul of the UK's trading relationships, is apparently a 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 event with zero economic consequences.

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@dorfman_p The US mid-terms are vitally important for the world, not just the US.

The sooner this mob can be stopped and the process of holding them to account can begin, the better.

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

Ray, there's a 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 between moving your tribe to a slightly less muddy cave 10,000 years ago and trying to "adapt" a globalised, industrialised urban/suburban civilisation of billions, built on fixed borders, huge coastal infrastructure and rigid agricultural zones.

You can't just pack up Tokyo or the entire state of Florida into a couple of Ikea bags because the weather got warm.🙄

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

I'm sure the likes of @TiceRichard will waste NO TIME in celebrating this good news for 'Britain's hard-pressed motorists'.
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[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK

✍️ Written by Molly Lempriere
📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam

Read here: https://t.co/q8JzXJoZt8

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

Air conditioning relies on a stable, functional electrical grid. Relying on AC to survive global warming while ignoring the fact that rising temperatures strain power grids to the point of blackouts is a lethal oversight.

Assuming a vulnerable 85-year-old in a temperature-controlled American suburb represents the global reality is entirely inaccurate. A subsistence farmer in South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa cannot simply turn up the AC when wet-bulb temperatures hit life threatening limits.

A drop in US Medicare spending does not mitigate global issues like crop failures, rising sea levels, migrating disease vectors or ecosystem collapses.

Intermediate scenarios are not a passive, natural outcome. They represent a future where the world takes significant action to cut emissions and curb warming. Celebrating the lower numbers in an intermediate scenario while actively fighting against the emissions reductions required to achieve them is entirely contradictory. But it's lucrative for climate science denialists, right?

[Watts Up With That @wattsupwiththat]

𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗜𝘀 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗔 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗔 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲
Global warming will result in 2.5 million fewer elderly deaths over the next 50 years.

Cold already kills far more people than heat.

Mainstream outlets still push the heat death scare.

Read the full article:
https://t.co/MMxB5EGsQ8

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@Tw_timerAlder @latimeralder He just turns instinctively to his stale meme stash to post something else and hope nobody notices.

[Earth Accounting @EarthAccounting]

Ukraine adds 1.1 GW of solar in H1.
https://t.co/zBYygimhdn

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OMG! The cold has "𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 -3𝘊 (26.6𝘍)" on the summit of Mount Pip Ivan!
Having said that, It’s a mountain summit over 2,000 metres high. Dropping slightly below freezing in late September isn't a meteorological anomaly; it's just called living at altitude.

But road crews deployed "𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩����𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘵" to clear the Transfăgărășan Highway!

Five metric tons sounds a lot, but it's practically a single truckload on a Tuesday morning local gritting run...

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Earth's magnetic shield is weakening. Its largest weak spot is expanding. And, beneath it all, the core-generated field is undergoing abrupt changes quickly enough to outpace our newest forecasts.

Full breakdown (and more) in today's article: https://t.co/W4mR0jXfdN

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@latimeralder @TheRealRolfster But I didn't say humans weren't ingenious, however desperate you are to craft the same feeble straw man as Forest.

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@TheRealRolfster @latimeralder No, I attributed human knowledge and awareness of artifical global warming to scientists, which leads to ingenious mitigation and prevention measures by the rest of society.

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@renewablesmiffy

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@TheRealRolfster @latimeralder What a strange view of me you must have if you think such a feeble straw-man fallacy is going to fly without comment.😂

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

@TheRealRolfster @latimeralder But these "many scientists" have yet to built up a body of robust peer-reviewed climate science that provides a better explanation for global warming than AGW, have they?

They've had DECADES. Where is it?🤔

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

Unlike this denialist post, the World Bank report highlights a critical piece of physics: the difference in solar potential between the absolute best country in the world (Namibia) and the absolute worst (Ireland) is only a factor of about two. In other words, a solar panel in a low-sunlight country like the UK or Ireland still generates roughly half the total annual energy of a panel placed in the scorching Sahara desert. It doesn't drop to zero.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

The UK is pushing solar power despite having some of the lowest sunlight levels in the world.

Northern Britain receives less sunshine than even Canada.

According to a World Bank solar resource assessment, the UK ranks among the least suitable countries for solar generation, second only to Ireland in Europe.

Low sunlight means low output and greater reliance on backup power.

Moreover, the UK government has approved solar geoengineering research, experiments designed to dim incoming sunlight.

So the policy is this: build solar in a low sunlight country while exploring ways to block the sun.

[SmokeAndMirrorsGlobal🌍🌡️ @SmokeAMGlobal]

"Climate science deniers understand understand the consequences of the science, so they 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗘𝗣𝗧 the science. They know what it means if it's true, so they 𝗪𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪 it to be true" -@davidfinig