Bill McGuire

I'M BACK! Volcanologist, climate scientist, writer, broadcaster, activist, socialist, best-selling author of HOTHOUSE EARTH: AN INHABITANT'S GUIDE. Born @ 313

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Our planet is heating faster than at any time in the geological record. That's terrifying. But here's the hopeful part: most of us are worried and want action — we just stay silent, assuming no one else cares. 7 in 10 people rarely or never talk about it. The silence feeds itself

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@AlexisDVyne @ProfBillMcGuire No ICE 🔥
France's largest glacier is vanishing - this may be the end of Mer de Glace.

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#FOTW Daily Post 9

We're in uncharted territory

The air you are breathing today is different in composition to any breathed by humans before

This is because CO2 levels are higher now than for 14 Million years, and still climbing

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The state of California will be one of the ground zeros of Hyper El Nino driven extreme weather

Prospects are looking grim for the rest of the year and 2027

https://t.co/3lOOHfTq89

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Our glorious leader - the Reform Party head of Derbyshire County Council - doesn't believe in gravity or evolution either

But he does believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden

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Public execution 😮

This just beggars belief

The US continues its rapid journey back to the dark ages

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I fully endorse this

Please sign the petition and take part in the action

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#FOTW Daily Post 8

3 million years ago, giant camels roamed temperate High Arctic forests, where there is now frozen tundra. The past reveals just how different a warmer world looks. No speculation needed. it's written in the rocks

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[The] "National Risk Register....estimates the risk of a drought with a moderate impact... in the next five years at just 0.2-1%. What??"

An excellent piece by @GeorgeMonbiot on the complete disconnect between government advice on risks, and action

https://t.co/sznsGtjcr6

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#FOTW Daily Post 7

56 million years ago - at the PETM - there was an explosion of heat. There were palms in Siberia, and crocodiles in the Arctic Ocean. Today, the world is heating 10x faster

#FateOfTheWorld #DeepTime

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Bill's Climate Catch-up #33

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“techno-optimist” scientists [engaged in] less civic actions and protests, signed fewer petitions and engaged in less advocacy, also less likely to reduce the number of flights they took, cut car usage......."

You know who you are - and should be ashamed

https://t.co/Qt6dRemumC

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@Thompson_1914 Lunatic 🤡

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The Tory party goes full-on climate denier and nature hater

Pure lunacy

https://t.co/z6j20ufw1f

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@mikescoates Yes they are. All I did was plant and let them get on with it 🙂

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All set for Halloween 😄

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@WalkerLeftie I know

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#FOTW Daily Post 5

Favourite denier myth - volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans

Ask me or any other volcanologist — false

Volcanoes: ~300 million tonnes CO2/year. Humans: 130 times more

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#FOTW Daily Post 6

Imagine heat so humid you can't sweat. No water, no shade will save you - organ failure within 6 hrs. Such 'wet-bulb' heatwaves become more common as the planet gets hotter. Not distant. Not abstract.

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@happyspud1 👍

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@AndriMagnason Indeed!

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@nawtheclaw What about it?

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#FOTW Daily Post 4

Dinner-table science: Carbon and CO2 are not the same

Multiply CO2 by 0.27 to get Carbon value

In 2023 we emitted ~40bn tonnes CO2 = ~11bn tonnes carbon

Knowing this is how you spot a misleading stat

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Everything you need to know about the subject of my new book - THE FATE OF THE WORLD - in a single picture