Scientists: you should wash your hands because of Coronavirus.
People: I'm gonna stop flying, hoard masks, work from home & totally rearrange my life.
Also Scientists: the #ClimateCrisis will kill millions - we must use clean power & change how we get to work.
People: No way.
Remember:
0.5°C safety
1.3°C irreversible feedbacks (now)
1.5°C severe danger
2°C extreme danger
2.5°C approaching hell
3°C horror
3.5°C death of organised society
4°C human survival in doubt
5°C extinction possible
6°C extinction likely
7°C current trajectory
Climate 'change'.
A church catches fire and the entire world stops, news is everywhere and billions are raised overnight. But when our planet catches fire, there's crickets. This fire in Australia has killed HALF A BILLION ANIMALS. Half a billion. This needs to be trending everywhere!!
Scientists "don’t think people realize how little time we have left,” to stop irreversible and disastrous changes to Earth’s climate systems https://t.co/tKb3Mzvt7d
Say what you want about people’s reasons for voting the way they did, but it has undoubtedly emboldened these brazen right-wing racists, which was completely predictable to be honest
“We’re blowing through our carbon budget the way an addict blows through cash.”
Instead of the drastic reductions desperately needed, our CO2 emissions keep increasing... we’re still moving fast in the wrong direction. #ClimateEmergency https://t.co/rhf18mdhft
Boris Johnson didn't want you to know this about his secret talks but today we revealed that:
- Our NHS is up for sale
- The NHS will have to pay millions more for medicines
- It doesn't just stop at our NHS, all our public services are up for grabs
Only Labour can stop Johnson
This just happened.
Six words you never thought you would read in the Financial Times: “Economists and academics back Labour spending plans”. https://t.co/vRoZdnuP6h
If you asked me: "which industry presents the greatest environmental threat, oil or media?", I would say "the media". Every day it misdirects us. Every day it tells us that issues of mind-numbing irrelevance are more important than the collapse of our life support systems.
To celebrate the 100th bird of #TwitterBirdsong I have two signed copies of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? to give away (cat not included). RT and follow to enter. Closes 2359 Sunday 28th April.
Greta points out that WE DON’T HAVE TIME for school kids like her to grow up and develop ‘solutions’, as Theresa May suggested they should do.
The UN Secretary General puts it starkly: we have only about 18 months left to put ourselves on track for huge emissions cuts by 2030.
Did some more walling on Thursday for an art installation commemorating the Sheffield flood. Met some interesting characters living in the woods #sheffield#nature#art#carving#outdoors
Just seen a stag do floating down the Thames. As their boat went past they began pointing at Parliament chanting, “you don’t know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you’re doing...”
Probably the most accurate commentary yet.