Unless we consider a number of other factors — permanence, albedo, co-emitted GHGs, asymmetry — balancing CO₂ emissions with removals (net zero) will not achieve the intended climate goal.
Conversation: https://t.co/2AZBqPx7ug
Article (free link): https://t.co/H1O3KLrr1f
THREAD: With all the talk #cop28 centring on #fossilfuelphaseout or not – abated, unabated, etc – what actually is the logical role of CCS in the energy transition?
This is appalling.
The recolonization of Africa through carbon markets is underway.
Company from UAE, COP28 host & major fossil fuel producer, buying up 10% of Liberia so it can continue to pollute.
Story in @MiddleEastEye here:
https://t.co/dyxBUurCX0
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MAJOR UPDATE: All planetary boundaries are assessed, and six are crossed.
For the first time ever, scientists have quantified all nine planetary boundaries. Six of them are already transgressed and we are increasing pressure on the others.
Read more: https://t.co/QkDpxH2BOl
1/n Pre-print: proposal and demonstration of a new modeling framework. A departure from the IAM-SSP framework. Quantitative assessments for climate-compatible futures are possible without assuming that these can and/or will only be modeled using IAMs https://t.co/88Vy0p0heN
Our paper is now published! https://t.co/abvGHJwcXn Here's a 🧵on the problem of estimating agent-level latent variables, why it's important for quantitative and data-driven agent-based models, and what solution we propose. (1/11) ⬇️
💥 BREAKING: SCIENCE MUSEUM DISRUPTED
🏛️Scientists For XR and other groups at the Science Museum today with a guerilla stand.
💰 Why? This is the only major museum in London still receiving money from climate criminals (BP, Equinor, Adani)
✊ Join us
https://t.co/JcshO4GUux
The Global Warming Potential (GWP100) of hydrogen is estimate to be 11.6 ± 2.8 (one standard deviation).
Hydrogen is not a direct GHG, but its chemical reactions change the abundances of the methane, ozone, stratospheric water vapor, & aerosols.
https://t.co/CtmvjzOWul
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🚨Breaking 🚨
"Behind every oil well is a lawyer" 🛢️⚖️
Crucial new report just released by @Ls4Ca highlights how London's top law firms are profiting from the #ClimateCrisis.
In this short thread we note some key take-aways & why it's findings are so timely... 🧵
NEW: In @ScienceMagazine today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking skill & accuracy between 1977 & 2003, contradicting the company's decades of climate denial. THREAD.
📰No pay wall for 2 weeks: https://t.co/JDtT9nkbzC
1/ 🚨HSBC made a *secretive* multimillion-dollar loan to the energy company bulldozing a village in western Germany to expand its huge coal mine, just three months after the bank pledged to stop funding coal
https://t.co/X8P6dwfiXt
The best video to watch today:
The Anti-Zionist Jewish community flying a Palestinian flags in Jerusalem sneering Israeli army that rushed to remove it.. a whole unite rushed to take down a *flag* lol.
Full video https://t.co/7r4fISmHxF
#Israel
It is often said that if you want to know who has influence in Washington follow the money 💰💰💰
In our latest research in @ClimaticChange_ @RBrulle
and I did just that by looking at trade association spending
Total spending was in the billions, but that's not all we found 🧵
⚠️ THE PEOPLE & PLANET UNIVERSITY LEAGUE 2022/23 IS OUT NOW!
😲 153 universities ranked on sustainability & ethics criteria
🤔 How did your university perform this year? Where did they place compared to everyone else?
👉Find out now! https://t.co/3L0uIEoJ1u
📌#COP27 is over. So much happened over past 3 weeks at & around the COP…
👀Time to look back / to look forward
Here is a thread of threads to review the good, the bad & the ugly in relation to key aspects of COP27, by some of the most astute observers of the process
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The UN said a couple of weeks ago staying below 1.5 degrees is now impossible unless we see "a radical transformation of society". So all the papers ran with headlines like this. None ran with "how about we have a radical transformation of society?" Sounds far preferable to me..