Peter Ronald

Clean energy & resiliency advocate. Grateful Turtle Islander. Rescuer of spiders.

[Emma Graney 🇦🇺🤷🏻‍♀️🇨🇦 @EmmaLGraney]

A study from one of Canada’s premiere climate labs says methane emissions from Alberta’s energy industry are underestimated by almost 50% https://t.co/R5jPbqVWq9 #ableg #cdnecon #cdnpoli

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

We have almost no time to slow that heating—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we need to cut emissions in half in the next six years to have an outside shot at holding temperatures to anything like a livable level.
https://t.co/7CxrdkOdu6

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

Yesterday, Nov. 18, 2023, the planet’s temperature went past the 2.0 degree Celsius barrier for the first time.
https://t.co/Axk9cAjxWH

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

Whose Police? @cbcfifth profiles the @rcmpgrcpolice Community-Industry Response Group's excessive interventions in service of resource companies in #unistoten #wetsueten #cgl #fairycreek #oldgrowth #IndigenousRights #bcpoli
https://t.co/v5qges6RUv

[John Vaillant @JohnVaillant]

#ExxonKnew, #ShellKnew, and so did Suncor. In our presser on "Climate Crisis and Canada's Energy Sector," @CharlieAngusNDP connects the dots with a flaming Sharpie: https://t.co/tu2eKs8Zak #canpoli #oilandgas

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

Cat Bohannon, author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, interviewed by Quirks & Quarks' Bob McDonald.
Check out this segment from CBC's Quirks and Quarks:
https://t.co/yvsB6gN6rz

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Garth Lenz of Victoria highly commended in photojournalism category for an aerial, early morning shot of the biggest open excavation on Earth, the massive Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah https://t.co/w8U1SmTefs

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

@votesarahfowler Featuring the indefatigable #UBCM Convention Coordinator Pamela Lewis.

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

"Global Stocktake"says countries are trying, but urgently need improvement #ClimateCodeRed https://t.co/NJD0me50tt

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

Until now scientists hadn’t teased apart how much of the most extreme precipitation will fall as snow and how much as rain. Rain tends to produce more hazards for humans than snow does, including floods, landslides and soil erosion. https://t.co/bycotvkX9q

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

U.S. wind and solar sources generated a combined 252 terawatt-hours through the first five months of 2023, compared with coal output of 249 TWh. Hydro generated an additional 117 TWh through May.
https://t.co/jwTkpVBJGx via @sciam

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

The Age of Stupid: We know there is an existential threat. We know there are solutions. We know the costs (economic, human, planetary) will only increase if we do not act quickly. The signs and symptoms become more and more evident.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

WATCH THIS: Timelapse video shows NYC skyline disappear due to wildfire smoke

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

Carbon dioxide levels are now more than 50% higher than they were before the onset of the industrial era.

[NOAA Climate.gov @NOAAClimate]

Announced earlier today, Carbon dioxide levels measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked at 423 parts per million in May, continuing a steady climb further into territory not seen for millions of years.
https://t.co/5iV9MgjQWx

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Man, it's barely June 💀

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

A few personal notes:
I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. The scientific findings are so fucked up. Experts on tropical rainforests told me privately that they think the Amazon has already passed its tipping point. Let that sink in. The world needs to know

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

January 2023's global average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) was ~419 parts per million (ppm), a roughly 50% increase since 1750. Countless scientists, climate experts, and government officials agree that 350 ppm is the “safe” level of carbon dioxide.
https://t.co/nYHtI0MGJC

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

Remember the "Climate Spiral"? This popular visualization now runs up to 2022. https://t.co/jxGQvgu1Rs

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

Some 260 fires are active across the parched region of Chile. The wildfires have consumed some 270,000 hectares, as of Sunday. https://t.co/ZXWAgen0FS

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

"We have an agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, to work on restoration, to reduce the use of pesticides. This is tremendous progress." https://t.co/D4McDOmhoD

[Peter Ronald @raenvald]

Global coal-fired power generation is set to rise to a new record of around 10.3 terawatt hours this year, while coal production is forecast to rise by 5.4% to around 8.3 billion tonnes, also an all-time high. https://t.co/6imtBFOAVc