Dermot Craig Swanson

Armchair Activist ⚛️ 🌎🌱🇮🇪 🇺🇸 I was here before Elon 😂 “Peoples come and go, the land remains” -Aldo Leopold

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Goes to one Knicks game and they lose for the literal first time in 2 months. Calls the head of FIFA to make him overturn a red card and then the US loses in one of the worst matches of the tournament. No one does it like him, it’s actually amazing

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Even if Trump is "bluffing," the US may never come back from this. Whether you voted for him or not, the rest of the world sees this guy as our collective will. To everyone else, we are a landmass teeming with viciousness. We have a very high bar to prove that's not true.

[Dermot Craig Swanson @dermotswanson]

Damn. Tonight feels like Christmas Eve on steroids. Whewwww. RDJ 🫡🙏

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

The carbon cycle has been close to equilibrium through the Holocene; we know this because we measure atmospheric CO2 concentrations in ice cores. But in the past few centuries CO2 has increased by 50%, and is now at the highest level in millions of years due to human emissions.

[Dermot Craig Swanson @dermotswanson]

@GBR__RDJ The dawgs needed some help. Also I turned to Rachel and said, I guarantee Aidan tweets this. Glad I could entertain lil bro 🇮🇪 ❤️🙏😂☘️

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Everyone who thinks the world could just stop using fossil fuels on the snap of a finger should have a look at this chart. More than 80% of the world's energy supply presently comes from oil, gas, and coal, and that number has barely changed in the past decade.
Of course we will eventually phase out fossil fuels, simply because the supply is finite. No matter how hard you dig, there's only so much of the stuff.

But at present, the life of pretty much everyone on this planet depends in one way or another on fossil fuels. In case you live in a fancy new "zero emissions" house, well, first of all congrats on being in the 0.001% of the world population who can afford that, and second, try to figure out how many of the supply chains for building that house would break down without fossil fuels.

If we were to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions tomorrow without also subsidizing fossil fuels, much of the world economy would collapse because most of the key industries would go bankrupt basically overnight. (I think we should still put a price on carbon because it's the right default, but then we'll need to find a way to ease the transition.)

This is why it's become so hard to solve this problem. It would have been easy enough 50 years ago to put a price on carbon dioxide, switch to nuclear, and with further improvements in solar to more of that. But we've missed that bus.

I want to emphasize again because people keep misunderstanding this, I am not a fan of fossil fuels. If it were up to me, I'd plaster the world with nuclear power plants tomorrow and would take great pleasure in seeing oil companies falter and die. I am merely saying this is a difficult problem to solve, and the reason it's difficult is not technological, it's mostly economical.

That said, let me stress again that I think the extensions of the electric grid necessary to support the transition to renewables are an underappreciated problem. Without the grid, nothing else is going to work.

[Dermot Craig Swanson @dermotswanson]

@GBR__RDJ Very true Aido

[Dermot Craig Swanson @dermotswanson]

Strap in everybody 🙏🌱🫡🎲🎲🎲

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

It's internal variability, they said.

It will go back down within weeks, they said.

Talking about increased warming from desulphurisation promotes geoengineering and inaction, they said.

It's just El Niño, they said.

People need to be accurately informed about risks!

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

wind &
solar &
nuclear &
hydro &
geothermal ✨

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Ice was still present on top of this stake (~7 m) hold by @matthias_huss one year ago! 🔥❄️

Another record ice loss year, close behind 2022, pictured here at Gries Glacier.
These losses really mark a new era 😱

@CorsinManser
Story here:
https://t.co/yZOlqMRm82

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

OIL MARKET: China's refineries processed the most crude on record last month (64.7 million metric tons, or ~15.3m b/d). Gasoline and jet-fuel consumption is soaring in China, despite so-so economic growth | #OOTT #China

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The US produced more energy in 2022 than any year on record.

If Biden is waging a "war on domestic energy," he's not trying very hard.

[Dermot Craig Swanson @dermotswanson]

Ok 👀 I see you Mr Czar. Respect to the Biden admin for starting to wake up. 🙏🙏⚛️✌️🌱☮️

[Dermot Craig Swanson @dermotswanson]

This is so hype. Can’t wait to watch this play out. I hope Ia gets a debate or response from them someday. @greenpeaceusa you guys are in trouble. Get on the right side of history, here is your chance…🌱✌️🙏⚛️☮️

[Ia Aanstoot @ia_aanstoot]

We know what's at stake and that's why we're asking you to drop your opposition to nuclear energy.

Obstructing clean energy in a #ClimateCrisis is unjustifiable.

Join me in calling on Greenpeace to take the climate crisis seriously - https://t.co/hRGU1Bo3Tt

[Ia Aanstoot @ia_aanstoot]

What a launch 🚀

With your help we truly are making an impression!

Thousands of you have already signed our petition calling on @Greenpeace to drop their opposition to nuclear energy.

Sign and share to make sure your voice is heard! https://t.co/cTNy15Uuvf

#DearGreenpeace

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Good comparison of baseline ocean temperatures during each of the last super El Niños 1997, 2015 and this year. Something is changing. Must be the Atlantis Urban Heat Island Effect.

[cars.destroyed.our.cities @CarsRuinedCity]

Maps of Omaha’s public rail networks. 1927 vs 2023

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Happy 111th birthday to this little one

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

COLUMN: In this age of climate crisis, the world is consuming more oil than ever. Peak demand? Not yet.

On my calculations, global oil demand has surpassed in the past few weeks the peak set in 2019 before the covid pandemic | #OOTT via @Opinion https://t.co/jQfXI4eWlu