Climate Dad

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[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Why are fossil fuel companies allowed to profit at all?

Why aren’t they being forced to pump their $2,500,000,000 DAILY PROFITS into rapid decarbonization?

Why aren’t all those who subverted the truth about this genocidal industry for 40 years in prison?

Genuine questions.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

This is what Google's AI expansion looks like on the ground 🤬

Forests destroyed, topsoil stripped and brown runoff reportedly flowing into a local stream, all before environmental impact assessments were completed. Finnish authorities had to step in and order work to stop.

So much for Google's green credentials. Its sustainability advertising means very little when the reality is this. Corporate hypocrisy at its finest.

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Google did this to build a data center in Finland.

It was illegal, but they did it anyway.

Big Tech is out of control.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Governments talk about ‘red lines’ while ignoring this one that’s running away with our kids futures, their hopes & dreams.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

We had more days above 30 degrees C this Summer than during the whole of the 1980s. Yes, really! In one year!

I personally find the complacency of the major parties on climate breakdown, which is just starting, the extreme position.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Sorry, but this is absolute nonsense. The reason people haven’t acted on climate change is because the massive amount of disinformation being pumped out from most of the media that for decades has said it’s probably not true.

The opposite is true. This woolly false hope forced positivity mentality is exactly why people don’t understand it’s the existential life-and-death-billions-of-us-at-risk crisis that it is.

https://t.co/HczsGuelOm

[Larry Sanders @Sanders4Health]

To the mainstream press Burnham is riding high and Polanski a loser. Burnham stands for so little he is on the Starmer path to oblivion. Polanski and the Green Party work to reduce climate disaster and to ensure that we have decent homes and enough to live on. Who is the loser?

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

@ZackPolanski still telling it as it is… unfazed, unbowed & still highly focused after a plethora of MSM attacks on his character & leadership qualities.
His story still has a long, long way to run despite what his detractors would have you believe.
A remarkable inner strength.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

@JackCaramac @MhehedZherting Sure, but NetZero 2050 is completely inadequate to the scale of the threat. The world’s top climate scientist James Hansen warns that not only is 1.5C dead, but 2C is too! Burnham’s ‘pragmatism’ is about maintaining a suicidal BAU where governments are drowning in corporate cash.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

The BILLIONS of people on track to be killed this century won’t all be climate campaigners.

Climate campaigners are just people willing to accept uncomfortable scientific truths, while governments bury their heads in fossil fuel profits.

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

"This is politics as an orgy of destruction. Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals!"

Or, this is the politics of James Cameron's Avatar films

A marvellous and desperately scary and depressing piece by @GeorgeMonbiot

https://t.co/dcA6u5zpjI

[Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate]

Jackdaw: a decision for last century. https://t.co/Vd3FZR7F65

A hastily drafted post following the UK Govt’s decision to approve further drilling & production at the Jackdaw gas field in the N.Sea. Please excuse typos, non-sequiturs, etc - I wanted to get the post online today.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

@Eta_Miraklo “The natural course of events”??

According to the 2021 update to limits to growth & the UK’s top actuaries & risk assessors were looking at a collapse in human population by up to 50% by the end of the century.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

@JackCaramac @MhehedZherting I didn’t say Jackdaw is responsible for this - because of course it isn’t! But by opening this gasfield as a ‘pragmatic approach’ shows a government shackled to BAU in a moment where we need rapid systemic & societal change to avoid unprecedented collspse & billions of deaths

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

@MhehedZherting The UK’s top actuaries & risk assessors working for the insurance industry.

https://t.co/linsr60MMC

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

We have just experienced our hottest summer on record.

It is unfathomable that the government would approve another gas field in the midst of a climate emergency.

The government has put the profits of fossil fuel giants over the future of our children. Beyond shameful.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Labour approving the Jackdaw gas field won't bring down our energy bills. It will, however, add to the climate crisis.

So who exactly is this for? The public? Or are Labour bowing down to Trump and the fossil fuel industry?

A decision on a second, even larger untapped site, the Rosebank oil field, has been delayed and is being decided separately.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Won’t lower energy bills.

Won’t boost energy security

And creates just 27 jobs.

Compared to all the benefits of investing in renewables and insulating our homes.

https://t.co/fCvwymKScQ

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

"The “statistial significance” of this model is overwhelming, i.e. we can resoundingly reject the hypothesis that global average SST has warmed at the same rate for the last several decades.
It’s a lot faster now (about 0.3°C/dec) than it was before 2012 (less than 0.1°C/dec)."

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

To be clear: both the Lib Dems and Labour are saying that they will refuse to form a coalition with the Greens, even if it as the expense of a Reform or Tory government, because of a Green Party conference motion condemning a political ideology that’s led to genocide?

Really?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Can anyone remember the last time @BBCNews interviewed a Palestinian about their experience of the racism of Zionism? Having spent the last two weeks interviewing elderly Nakba survivors in Jordan, driven off their land in their teens because of their ethnicity and religion, I'd be happy to suggest some astonishingly articulate victims of Israeli racism who would be only too happy to tell their tragic stories of eviction, slaughter and dispossession. It is like reporting on the Civil Rights movement in the US and only interviewing outraged Whites
@bbclaurak @bbcnickrobinson @JustinOnWeb
@BBCr4today