jonathanwatts

Amazon-based author of The Many Lives of James Lovelock. Global environment writer @Guardian. Founder @Sumaumajornal & @Amazon_RJF. Mostly on BlueSky 🦋

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This is the week! After four years’s of research and writing, my book, The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory finally hits the shelves.

It explores a century of science and environmental thinking through the life and relationships of one man... 🧵

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Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says.

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds

Story by me.

https://t.co/8uIny3hpHZ

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@palaceletters Thank you Jenny

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@SBethlenfalvay Thank you Stefan.

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@anandnaidoo Thank you Anand.

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@anandnaidoo Thank you Anan.

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@ProfCMitchell Thank you Catherine.

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Fossil fascism is here

My take on capture of US state by oil, gas & coal interests and what this means for the world.

Having lost the science, moral and economic argument, they are trying to halt energy transition using military power and lies

https://t.co/iDKMDnE7WG

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UN chief decries ‘incendiary rhetoric’ after Trump ramps up threats against Iran as deal deadline looms – Middle East crisis live https://t.co/xNidCPeFJm

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK @PIK_Climate]

🆕Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @OregonState, @IIASAVienna, PIK. https://t.co/oAxgJrk5kp

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

“The group [of scientists] said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed.”

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@TobyABGreen @guardian @CarbonBrief Apologies. That should have been fixed now.

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Trump attack on Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with resources. Maduro warned the US would do anything to “gets their hands on Venezuelan oil” in an interview with Seamus Milne and me in 2014.

https://t.co/rETNfGnEp0

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Tipping Points need to be on the agenda for COP30

The possibility of sudden catastrophic change has been neglected in UN climate reports, which allows politicians to carry on with business as usual. That must change in Belém

My editorial for @Sumaúma

https://t.co/uXtSPTXlcg

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Brics summit in Brazil tries to reinvent collective approach to world’s problems.

My column from Rio as Lula rebukes wealthy nations for retreating on climate and trade.

Ominous for COP30

https://t.co/P4X3Za6zZp

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To learn more about this subject, follow next week’s Tipping Points conference in Exeter, organised by Tim Lenton, Johan Rockström and Ricarda Winkelmann. and featuring Genevieve Guenther, Carlos Nobre, David Obura and many other experts.

https://t.co/yBSmpgTTGx

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“If anything we have underestimated the risks”

Positive cascades of social change are needed to address climate crisis, says tipping point expert Tim Lenton.

My fifth and final interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge.

https://t.co/fxthkauCpp

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‘It looks more likely with each day we burn fossil fuels’: polar scientist Louise Sim on Antarctic tipping points

My fourth interview for the Guardian series, Tipping Points: On the Edge.
https://t.co/FiOgjlJGFJ

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‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre on the future of the Amazon rainforest.

Interview with me for the third instalment of the Guardian series, Tipping Point: On the Edge.

https://t.co/rdYExvK2F6

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‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist @DavidObura shares his anger on the collapse of coral reefs

My latest interview in the series, Tipping Points: On the Edge

https://t.co/sVflnQy8iL

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‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield

My interview with ⁦@DoctorVive⁩

First in a series: Tipping Points: On the edge? https://t.co/C8kUdJSFZJ