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RIP Twitter.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@JollyGoodWheeze @PastGlasgow @GlasgowCC @AngusCMillar Right now it's a bit disruptive. In a few months it will be done, and then it will be better than it was before, especially for old people and those with mobility issues.

[J @jrsbailey5]

My latest article. Thanks @MissCDow for providing the inspiration!
https://t.co/DOb552d2tK

[J @jrsbailey5]

@lokiscottishrap There's some quite serious allegations against B&B that need to be investigated if they haven't already been. See here: https://t.co/RPEiPKssMH

[J @jrsbailey5]

Not wishing to cause a diplomatic incident here, but @IrlEmbSlovakia... look at your passports. See where it says 'cestovnŷ pas' on the second page, in the translations of the word 'passport'? Well, Slovak has just about every letter possible in the Latin alphabet except.. 'ŷ'.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@SydneyDaddy1 @Gerashchenko_en Came to say the same thing haha.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@culturaltutor Could also add Torridon, Scotland

[J @jrsbailey5]

@Ian_Willoughby Still better than Paris Charles de Gaulle.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@JaCisar @Ian_Willoughby @VojtaMT "When's the train to Germany?"
"Very soon! They are building it now!"

[J @jrsbailey5]

@russophiliac @samagreene To be sure, the Russian elites have no interest in starting a 'bloodbath'. I mean, it just wouldn't happen. They would never, say, declare the largest European war for 80 years and get (at current estimates) a quarter of a million Russians killed.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@spectatorindex "Investigation finds out that nearly every leader of America... is American." Because virtually everyone with pre-20th century US ancestry is a descendant of slaveholders, including most African Americans.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@peterrhague 2. Climate justice: people don't buy in to unfair policies. Rich countries got rich through burning fossil fuels and have huge per capita emissions because of lifestyles. So they can hardly turn around and ask poor countries with low per capita emissions to solve the problem. 2/2

[J @jrsbailey5]

@peterrhague You're omitting two important concepts:
1. Development reduces vulnerability to climate change, so development-related omissions are very different to lifestyle omissions as they're doing good as well as harm.
1/2

[J @jrsbailey5]

@berlingrad @yishan Farming is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Unlike energy, it's also a low-hanging fruit for cheap mitigation with big cobenefits, since basic changes like reduced livestock farming, better animal feed and improved fertilisation techniques make a real difference.

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@tweetthoughts23 @yishan Plastic is essentially a byproduct of oil, and synthetic clothes aren't a big contributor to plastic pollution nor GHG emissions. Farming on the other hand is responsible for a huge percentage of global GHG emissions so it's certainly a key area for mitigation.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@ThomasLMatula @peterrhague Modern animal feeds also lead to more methane emissions than natural grazing.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@ThomasLMatula @peterrhague Nice try, but:
Total North American bison population in 1600 - 30 million.
Total cattle population now: close to a billion.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@peterrhague Not quite 'climate denial', but certainly anti-scientific nonsense. The agriculture sector is responsible for a huge proportion of global emissions, up to 25%. And the implication of 'over time' is that the problem is a mere future possibility - actually it's a huge problem NOW.

[J @jrsbailey5]

Agriculture is responsible for c. 25% of global carbon emissions. Denying this is shameful anti-scientific nonsense. The fact that the boss of Tesla doesn't understand basic climate science is a good reminder that we shouldn't count on tech to save us from climate change.

[J @jrsbailey5]

@SnappedInHalf @Max_Plaid @EricHolthaus Lumber farming itself may not produce much carbon. But the conversion of a massive carbon sink (e.g. a rainforest or peat bog) into a monoculture plantation usually represents a huge net loss of carbon.