Not ChuckYatesDad. I’m a greenie addicted to O&G.
Lawrence, KS
Joined November 2010
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Thomas Birt retweeted
5. How do we justify it?
But people tell me - I'm not going to quote them, but they tell me building highways is consistent with climate action.
Like I said, no shared basis in fact.
So, I think I'll go roll another one.
Thomas Birt retweeted
Another day digging up “plugged” wells that are leaking water and gas at surface. #txlege #cvxblowout – at Texas, USA
"The problem with climate scientists is they believe in Immaculate Construction.
The Douglas County Underwater Search and Rescue Team pulled this goal post from Potters while training today. They said it had been there 10 years. @LawrenceKSTimes
Thomas Birt retweeted
24. It's not the fossil fuels.
It's the ton-miles per day.
And until we admit that it's going to go on getting worse every day, at increasing, exponential rates.
The whole conversation is madness.
It's not the oil.
#SlowDown #DeEnergjze
Or go ahead and burn it down.
Thomas Birt retweeted
5. All that #ClimateActionNow people are demanding, all the wind turbines, solar panels, and electric cars, is to support the energy appetite of building exactly this world.
Might as well enjoy it.
Thomas Birt retweeted
The despair of a sumatran #orangutan tyring to protect his home.
Time to protect the planet and everything on it. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateEmergency #climateaction #deforestation #nature
Thomas Birt retweeted
As El Niño collides with a warming climate, seas off south Florida are shattering record temps. "It's bonkers" says Ben Kirtman, an atmospheric scientist with the University of Miami.
npr.org/2023/07/19/118834914…
Thomas Birt retweeted
The temperature in China hit 126 degrees F today (52.2 C.)
That beats the old record by an almost inconceivable 3 F. The world is on fire.
Thomas Birt retweeted
Where did PE come from? How can these people live with themselves? Why do we let them get away with it? How do we stop them?
In @TheProspect, Maureen Tkacik reviews two books that try to answer these questions, but really only manage the first three:
prospect.org/culture/books/2…
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Thomas Birt retweeted
Seems to me it should be a bigger scandal that @SenSchumer’s second largest political donor is NextEra Energy, the company behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline that *randomly* popped up in the debt ceiling deal.
