Bob Jacques

Stay alert,
Stay aware,
Watch the Eagle,
Watch the Bear.
(Gil Scott-Heron, 1982)

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@wobblyclark @MrMatthewTodd IEA data: UK 19th in emissions league table, broadly similar emissions to several other countries. Our emissions are of course low compared to countries with huge populations like China, but per capita they are higher. All countries need to act - most are. https://t.co/9BztVeSq3u

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

There’s another heatwave coming in the next 10 days.

I hope im wrong but I think we’re fucked.

People are too stupid and the whole media is just unable to tell the truth.

We literally are seeing temperature and rainfall records falling all over the planet constantly and it’s barely making a dent in peoples consciousness. There should be millions protesting in the street day in day out until global governments change.

But there is no urgency from the useless deadly media who literally think they know more than scientists who’ve studied it for decades.

The public only cares about superficial celebrity nonsense, lifestyle guff and money, even people on the left generally are not very engaged with this issue whereas the right often deny it’s even happening. Only 10% of MPs across the board attended a briefing on climate change by the chief scientist in the UK several years ago.

Politicians don’t understand and don’t care, just like the public don’t. Most people won’t even tweet or discuss it let alone watch a documentary.

Someone asked me recently why I focus more on climate change than gay stuff now. It’s because climate change is the biggest threat to gay people that’s ever existed. Because it’s the biggest threat to all people that has ever existed.

We are talking about the total breakdown of the food system, of law and order and eventually, as David Attenborough says, the collapse of civilisation itself. Mass death, in other words, and with the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - we put 100 million tons of it out every single day - it can’t return to normal for thousands of years.

The media has turned us into idiots and completely failed to convey scientists warnings about how serious and imminent climate breakdown is. It’s not decades away. It’s here. It’s now. Extreme suffering and violence are incoming.

Video: Monmouth, UK, earlier this year. Scientist Prof Hayley Fowler, video below this tweet, warned last year that the UK could now see 2/3 of years worth of rain, triple what Monmouth experienced, to fall within a day or two, enough to wash homes and cars away and to completely flood the tube system in London if it happened there. No reporting in the media at all.

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@SeekahTruth @e_philalethes @ProfBillMcGuire 👍

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@SeekahTruth @e_philalethes @ProfBillMcGuire It rains, @SeekahTruth.

That means the water vapour condenses and precipitates, ending up back in the ocean. It takes about 9 days I think. You don't have to get it out. It's called the water cycle. Try typing it into a search engine if you want to educate yourself.

[Duncan Porter @misterduncan]

Hi Peter, lots of misunderstanding to tackle here.

1. Logarithmic CO2 forcing graph is real, but you've misread it. Each doubling adds the same ~3.7 W/m^2. That's literally what logarithmic mean. You're restating what scientists already know.

2. "Late interglacial warm period" implies natural orbital warming, but natural cycles should have us cooling slightly right now. The warming is going the wrong direction for your narrative.

3. Yes, CO2 fertilisation is real & greening is happening, but more frequent & more extreme weather due to the warming climate adds substantial risks for agriculture. You're citing the upside of one variable while ignoring the ignoring the downsides.

4. That red map is ARPEGE, Meteo-France's forecast model. The colours are standard visualisation, not editorial choices by journalists. Are you saying Meteo-France is sensationalising their model output?

5. CO2 does mean soaring temperatures. Studies cited by the IPCC show an increase in frequency & severity of heatwaves, risking severe agricultural impacts, health issues & infrastructure costs.

https://t.co/xwzkq1LaVT

I understand your mining background may be biasing your perspective, but it's worth engaging with the evidence & the clear scientific consensus. There's real risk with further warming & it will disproportionately affect the poor & vulnerable.

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@Dan__Stevens I'm embarrassed for you, @Dan__Stevens, a temperature reading taken at centre court in Wimbledon! Reported by a tabloid newspaper! Once! You can't really believe that that refutes decades of research by thousands upon thousands of climate scientists. Who is the clown emoji for?

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@mapet_hugh @1goodtern What do you mean 'too deep for fossils', @mapet_hugh? Coal is fossilised trees etc, mostly from Carboniferous, plenty of intact, identifiable fossils are found in coal deposits. Oil as fossil fuel is slightly tenuous, it is plankton that has been cooked in the absence of oxygen.

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@TafPomScotiPole @JamesMelville Confused by your reply, @TafPomScotiPole, what does 'technology to cook our living spaces' mean? Also there's odd syntax in your second sentence. In your decades as a geologist and palaeoclimatologist you must have published many papers, could you share a list, or your ORCID PID?

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@TafPomScotiPole @JamesMelville Homo sapiens arose during Pleistocene oscillations between ice ages & warmer interglacials. Evidence suggests climate strongly influenced human evolution. Current climate change is much too fast for us to adapt. Where will you migrate to, @TafPomScotiPole? https://t.co/Ckh6HD293e

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@domdyer70 @JamesMelville Desperation for deniers! Faced with real time effects of climate change they grasp at straws like 'they've changed the colours'. True deniers never believe anything from BBC Verify, but charlatans like @JamesMelville
will ignore it - they just need clicks.
https://t.co/0enHVyrDAR

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

James I have quite a lot of time for your views on many issues, but call time on the climate change denial. It’s looking increasingly desperate, hundreds of millions people are living through hell in Britain & across Europe at the moment & no doubt tens of thousands will die as a result of these heatwaves. The evidence is irrefutable that fossil fuels are making this situation far worse & even the most sceptical people on carbon reduction are waking up to that brutal reality. Nature will kick us hard for what we are doing it’s a wake up call for mankind

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@Colin00007 @BBCFactChecker In half a century those useless EU countries still haven't managed to keep their cities in the right countries. That's what happens with open borders.

No, the map is just a FAKE and you are just GULLIBLE, @Colin00007 (with very poor geography).

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@DFurneaux It's the rate of change in CO2, @DFurneaux you fool, not the concentration per se that is dangerous. The rate we are pumping it out by burning in 200 years fossil fuels, that were laid down over 200 million years, is probably unprecedented.

[T Allman @TimAllmanWriter]

@LeeAndersonMP_ Reform trying to obstruct action on the climate again? I wonder why?
https://t.co/HiwDh7kN6n

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@JamesMelville You might do well to check what you are posting, @JamesMelville! Look at the position of some of the major European cities....

Embarrassed now?

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@SeanTufford @JamesMelville We evolved in an ice age, learned to farm and feed (more or less) 8 billion people in the Holocene, which we are likely to leave way behind if CO2 emissions continue to increase faster than at any time for at least 66 million years.

[Duo'rimi @Duorimi]

@JamesMelville This map is fake to spread fake propaganda. Dubrovnik, Venice, Bordeaux, Gibraltar, Berlin, are not positioned well in the map. Dubrovnik isn't in Bulgaria, Venice isn't Croatia. So, the stupid fck who made this map is either mentally impaired or he is stupid and ignorant as fck.

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@JamesMelville This is foolish misinformation, @JamesMelville. The last 11 years have been the hottest on record, don't try to make out it's no different to the '70s. You are a charlatan who knows the scientific reality but chooses to peddle such rubbish for your own ends (whatever they are)!

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@2bittesla @climacritic Not sure what statement you're referring to, @2bittesla. If it's mine about the rate of change, there are multiple studies of prehistoric climate changes if you care to look. Try this synopsis from NASA https://t.co/c0oNvPzSWV (cue typical deniers' statement like 'NASA lies').

[Bob Jacques @bob__jacques]

@2bittesla @climacritic It's the rate of change that matters. Temperatures are increasing faster now than ever before.