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[Zack Labe @ZLabe]

As always, my last tweet of the year - rising carbon dioxide (CO₂)...

There is no deadline. Any reduction in emissions will reduce future climate warming. I am hopeful! Thank you all for following! 🙂

+ Visualization/info by @gcarbonproject: https://t.co/SAMabQQGbF

[周婉窈Wan-yao Chou/Chiu Oan-iau @ChiuOaniau2022]

「丞相，起風了！」你知道最近國際在吹什麼風嗎？為何澳洲参議院和荷蘭國會相繼通過「2758決議不涉及台灣」的挺台動議？什麼是2758決議？為何這樣主張就是挺台灣？為何台灣必須就是台灣不是中華民國才能順風前進？這是最新更新版，不止能掌握過去的史事，並能了解當前的風向：https://t.co/TG7POpnwph

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The human species, led by white Europeans and Euro-Americans, has been on a 500-year-long planet wide rampage of conquering, plundering, looting, exploiting and polluting the Earth—as well as killing the indigenous communities that stood in the way. But the game is up. The technical and scientific forces that created a life of unparalleled affluence and luxury—as well as unrivaled military and economic power—for the industrial nations are the forces that now doom us.

The mania for ceaseless economic expansion and exploitation will culminate in mass death. But even as our economic and environmental systems unravel, even after the hottest year in the contiguous 48 states since record keeping began over a century ago, we lack the emotional and intellectual creativity to shut down the engine of global capitalism. We have bound ourselves to a doomsday machine. As Roger Hallam, a founder of Extinction Rebellion who now leads Just Stop Oil, warns, if global temperatures reach two degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average "humanity is at risk of extinction and so is everything we have ever created: our works of art, our favorite novels, our historical buildings and artifacts, our traditions."

The global ruling class will not save us. It knows that new oil and gas extraction is a death sentence for billions. Yet it continues to license new drilling and does little to curb our addiction to fossil fuel. This ensures more and deadlier heat waves, larger and larger crop failures, and ultimately a climate inhospitable to human habitation. We are, I fear, past the tipping point with feedback loops intensifying the climate emergency. The failure by the global ruling class to act, as Hallam, with whom I will do a live stream (https://t.co/6e0zIiM1k1) on Saturday at 10am EST, states is "an act of genocide against billions of people in the poorest countries on Earth and an act of war against the young."

Complex civilizations have a habit of destroying themselves. The difference this time is that when we go down the whole planet will go with us. The long struggle between the human species and the Earth will conclude with the remnants of the human species learning a bitter lesson about unrestrained greed, hubris and self-worship.

[經濟民主連合 Taiwan Economic Democracy Union @edu_org_tw]

✊ Taiwan's democracy is not dead, citizens continues to defend it!

Over 50,000 Taiwanese reject this draft which violates procedural justice, lacks substantive discussion, disrupts the separation of powers under the Constitution, and could potentially harm people's rights.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!

March came in at 1.68°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the 10th consecutive month at an all time recorded high, and the 9th consecutive month breaking the Paris limit of 1.5°C.

[CO2_Earth @CO2_earth]

🏆📈🏆  426.50 ppm #CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere February 3, 2024  🏆  HIGHEST daily average recorded at Mauna Loa in human history  🏆 #Scripps @Keeling_curve data & graphic: https://t.co/Xr9bFdEjHA 🏆 Daily https://t.co/DpFGQoZclJ records: https://t.co/PTTkLiQebA

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

The Earth is not reflecting short-wave radiation into space the way it used to just a few years ago. This means a larger percentage of incoming solar is directly heating the planet, with the heat trapped by record GHGs.

This is a huge f&%king problem for life on this planet.

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles | @DrSimEvans #CBarchive

Read here: https://t.co/V3V6lBhSyc

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Its now official: 2023 was the warmest year on record in the JRA-55 dataset, at 1.43C above preindustrial levels.

It beat the prior record set in 2016 by 0.14C, and continues a rapid warming trend thats seen global temperatures rise around 1C since 1970.

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

2023 was the warmest year on record globally by a large margin. Another dark red stripe gets added, though I think I need a new colour.
#ShowYourStripes

[International Energy Agency @IEA]

To achieve energy & climate goals, the world needs to add or replace 80 million kilometres of power lines by 2040.

That’s the size of the entire global grid built over the past 100 years and enough to wrap around the Earth roughly 2,000 times.

More 👉 https://t.co/6bMp6pDxiC

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? | Daisy Dunne Tom Prater Joe Goodman #CBarchive

Read here 👉 https://t.co/GFjWQ1xbKp

[ClimateActionTracker @catclimate.bsky.social @climateactiontr]

ANALYSIS: what impact will the #COP28 announcements make on closing the emissions gap?
Few of them will do so meaningfully.
Many either lack the ambition, clarity, coverage or accountability needed to make a difference /🧵
[from the *actual* CAT]
https://t.co/63UCjAnW35

[ClimateActionTracker @catclimate.bsky.social @climateactiontr]

Of the total emissions savings that cld be achieved:
* around a quarter already in govt NDCs/overlap w Glasgow
* a quarter additional, achievable
* and about half are unlikely to be achieved unless the initiative is improved.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

To those who opposed a clear reference to phase out of fossil fuels during the #COP28 Climate Conference, I want to say:

Whether you like it or not, fossil fuel phase out is inevitable. Let’s hope it doesn’t come too late.

[歐洲動態(國際) @europechinese]

氣候峰會 #COP28 達成協議
有關石油天然氣的字眼最終是「遠離化石能源的過渡」（transition away ）

[Copernicus ECMWF @CopernicusECMWF]

In the anniversary of the Paris Agreement and as the Parties negotiate the #COP28 declaration to keep alive the 1.5°C threshold, an analysis using #C3S data shows that we've lost 19 years in the battle against global warming.

More👉https://t.co/Bm20ReB4ig

[Backchannel @BackchannelNews]

It would take 343 years for Adnoc to capture the emissions it will produce in the next six years. Carbon capture is a misleading distraction from the urgent need to reduce #fossilfuel production and #emissions.
#COP28 #EndFossilFuels