Steve Baynes

🇨🇦 living in 🇫🇮 co-founder of @savepondhockey ❄️🏒 sustainability expert. sharing climate crisis news and solutions. working for a liveable 🌎 for my kids.

[Steve Baynes @stevebaynes]

#FridaysForFuture #Helsinki

We demand urgent #climateaction from the decision makers inside. The #climate is not waiting! #Ilmasto ei odota!

Our planet is on fire.
There is no Planet B.

#climatestrike #climatechange #climatecrisis #ilmastolakko #ilmastonmuutos #ilmastokriisi

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers.

To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR says was used to calculate the reciprocal tariffs we imposed on other countries. And when you back out the Greek symbols, what is that formula? Trade deficit/imports - exactly what I said it was.

I don't know if the Deputy Press Secretary was misinformed, or is just being misleading. Either way, the Trump administration did not "literally calculate tariff and non tariff barriers" to determine the tariff rates it's imposing on other countries. As I said, it divided our trade deficit with a country by our imports with that country, and then multiplied by 0.5 (because Trump was being "lenient").

Oh, and if our trade deficit/imports with a country is less than 10%, or we have a trade surplus with a country, Trump slapped a flat 10% tariff on that country.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Its pretty stark just how much warmer 2023 and 2024 were globally than any prior year on record.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

New study LA fires: “Conditions are up to 5°C warmer, 15% drier & 20% windier now compared to past. We ascribe the strengthened winds, higher temps & drier conditions to human-driven climate change. Natural climate variability likely played a minor role.” https://t.co/i7cA6lUVwX

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Great (and scary) visualization of 2024 daily temperatures compared to prior years by the BBC today. Evocative of the iconic Joy Division album cover from 1979: https://t.co/o2zLigFV7h

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

some of the best #climate writing I've ever read, by @ClimateHuman

please read it (link in first reply) and share it with everyone you know

[Jim Baird @JimBair62221006]

Farmers raise concerns after staple crop becomes increasingly harder to grow: 'I don't remember this happening before'

Excessive heat & prolonged drought have devastated chestnut harvests in Greece

Some farmers expecting 90% reduction in yield
https://t.co/KHIzS3t9e2

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

If you’ve got kids it’s worth keeping in mind that pretty much all the science is pointing to our society having collapsed before they are the age you are now.

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

Until this heatwave... Sweden 🇸🇪 and Norway 🇳🇴 had never hit > 30 °C in September. New national records have been set and by huge margin.

Extraordinary weather pattern in Europe right now.

THREAD

[Steve Baynes @stevebaynes]

The September national heat record didn’t break, but monthly heat records broke all over the place across #Finland a few days ago. Quite a quote from one of the lead researchers of weather and climate at @IlmaTiede.

#climate #climatecrisis #climatechange #ClimateActionNow

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

It was hotter yesterday above the Arctic Circle than it was across parts of #Florida.

We're in a climate emergency. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Companies like ExxonMobil don't want you to know that this summer's brutal heatwave was Brought To You By Big Oil.

So we bought billboards in cities across America to make sure the public knows the truth.

More in @RollingStone:
https://t.co/VHmXTMGWoK

[Steve Baynes @stevebaynes]

Mayor @KenSimCity and @Vote4ABC have got to go. They are not working for the people; they are slithering behind the scenes and abusing power for themselves and their developer friends. What a disgrace!

#vanpoli #bcpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli #vancouver #bc #canada #fortisbc

[Pete Fry @PtFry]

Report details pattern of bullying, intimidation, fraud, coercion, and lying under oath by Mayor Sim's staff against elected officials.
BUT report can't establish mayor's direct responsibility and under current by-law, CoC and IC don't apply to staff 2/7
https://t.co/yexFHwsj16

[Pete Fry @PtFry]

I've now read Vancouver Integrity Commissioner's report (by-law it must be released to public within 48h of delivery to Council).

Though Code of Conduct complaints are dismissed - details in the report expose there are untouchable rotten goings-on in the mayor's office. 1/ 7🧵

[Steve Baynes @stevebaynes]

Mayor @KenSimCity and @Vote4ABC have got to go. They are not working for the people; they are slithering behind the scenes and abusing power for themselves and their developer friends. What a disgrace!

#vanpoli #bcpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli #vancouver #bc #canada #fortisbc

[Pete Fry @PtFry]

I've now read Vancouver Integrity Commissioner's report (by-law it must be released to public within 48h of delivery to Council).

Though Code of Conduct complaints are dismissed - details in the report expose there are untouchable rotten goings-on in the mayor's office. 1/ 7🧵

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

It's 2 AM local time in Dubai, where the heat index is currently 129°F (54°C).

Life-threatening heat like this is expected to worsen in the coming decades due to climate change, likely making the Persian Gulf uninhabitable for human life.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

The science shows that the mean collapse time of the #AMOC is estimated at 2050, with a high probability before then. In the lifetime of most under 50 alive today, The #UK would cool by an average of 10°C. A new ice age for that region would be possible.

[Steve Baynes @stevebaynes]

Wild weather has completely destroyed the Okanagan’s legendary stone fruit harvest. Another victim of the worsening climate crisis caused by burning fossil fuels. #okanagan #bcpoli #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction #climateactionnow

https://t.co/gAYogWfxbn

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Berardelli Bonus: The spike in Earth's heat over the past 12 months is nothing short of astonishing. Recent study: 8% of the spike due to El Nino & 92% due to humans. Visualize the immense CO2 emissions and you see the main problem Tks @CopernicusEU @Climatologist49 4 the GFX!