Doug Hendrie

Deputy environment + energy editor at The Conversation. Sometimes writes. RT = interest not endorsement

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.

Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

[Steve Turton @Stephen48474730]

What’s driving north Queensland’s deadly, record-breaking floods? https://t.co/mBGkckZPsJ via @ConversationEDU

[Richard C Franklin @Franklin_R_C]

Don’t go chasing waterfalls: slippery rocks, currents and daredevil jumpers make Australia’s waterways surprisingly deadly https://t.co/DLQhbbfSlo via @ConversationEDU

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Incredible stat:

A single container ship of solar panels can provide as much electricity as more than 50 large LNG tankers of gas – or 100 large coal ships

There's many more insights in IEA Energy Technology Perspectives 2024 – here's a selection 🧵

1/7

[Liam Moore @Moore_Liam]

‘We will not allow others to determine our fate’: Pacific nations dial up pressure on Australia’s fossil fuel exports

New one for @ConversationEDU on CHOGM in Apia and calls for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
https://t.co/zw85IQN6Fx via @ConversationEDU

[Dr Karl @DoctorKarl]

(About 40% of all food that is produced, is wasted).
"Whey is useful, as it still has about half the nutrients of milk. But whey remains one of the largest sources of food loss and waste in Australia’s large dairy sector."
https://t.co/Agwz8Vhq9s

[Kimberley Reid @kjreid95]

Severe thunderstorms are sweeping through southern Australia. But what makes a thunderstorm ‘severe’? https://t.co/D47ErfesoN via @ConversationEDU

[Aida Greenbury @AidaGreenbury]

Land clearing has begun, in what is said to be the world's largest deforestation effort, as Indonesia seeks to establish a 2 million hectare sugarcane plantation in the Papua region.

“Has the government asked Papuans whether they want to plant sugarcane?” asked Faisal Basri (RIP).

https://t.co/0DvhrHHXsu

[Patt Finnerty @Patt_Finnerty]

Excited to see our research into #SensoryConservation on African elephants out today in Functioanl Ecology. Using the smell of plants elephants naturally avoid, we can gently nudge these giants away from areas we don't want them to be. https://t.co/qgkMi5IycT

@Sydney_Science

[Dr Helen Bostock @HelenBostock5]

We have been measuring the amount of microplastics in the sediments in Moreton Bay - led by @ElvisOkoffo. A clear link between local population growth and plastic production and consumption increasing since 2000s. https://t.co/JAJPwfedWb

[James Murray @James_BG]

A genuinely historic day for Britain and the world. The crucible of the Industrial Revolution halting the use of coal power once and for all, and proving it is possible for an advanced economy to end its reliance on coal inside a decade or so. https://t.co/Zw4Sju8zTh

[Jenny Chase @solar_chase]

What I have been working on lately is this public report, Unlocking Investment to Triple Renewables, which is about how we're doing on progress to decarbonizing human civilization.

https://t.co/E5pwwIcGPw

[Duncan S. Campbell @duncancampbell]

The distributed solar story in Pakistan is nuts!!

It's now the third largest importer of solar in the world and basically all of it isn't a part of the utility system.

All of this is in response to the central planners that run the national grid making decisions that ended up jacking up rates via bad debt.

There's so much distributed solar being installed that the utility system is seeing a meaningful decline in demand. It went down 9% over the past year. They're worried about a death spiral.

Despite the national grid being concerned, provinces are leaning in. Punjab and Sindh provinces are going as far as to give away solar panels to people who can't afford grid electricity.

https://t.co/krHL9cmbJM

[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

It’s time for @tanya_plibersek to deliver on @AustralianLabor’s 2022 rhetoric. The environment cannot afford further delay nor timid, incremental policy change.

https://t.co/YAhNeXGzsE

[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

‘Pirate birds’ force other seabirds to regurgitate fish meals. Their thieving ways could spread lethal avian flu https://t.co/8wrJirUgjE via @ConversationEDU

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“Atmospheric concentrations are now growing faster than at any other time since global record-keeping began about 40 years ago.” https://t.co/TgvIdnWRtt

[Pep Canadell @pepcanadell]

Methane emissions are at new highs. It could put us on a dangerous climate path

https://t.co/w2dF4W7Sx8 via @ConversationEDU

[Doug Hendrie @doughendrie]

@SStapczynski @wtmpacific

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.