Tony retweeted
The idea that we can reverse climate change and planetary overshoot without some trauma for society is just magical thinking.
LINK👇
artberman.com/blog/renewable…
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Tony retweeted
Homo sapiens is different from all other species in that it believes it is different from all other species.
Tony retweeted
The false claims of Sultan Al Jaber, the COP28 president, are a crisis of credibility for the COP talks and the UN.
The UN and @antonioguterres must immediately, arrange a public debate between Sultan Al Jaber and leading climate scientists.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Tony retweeted
I’ll add that while I believe the stark counterpoint presented, it is my strong wish that serious thought be given to how the economy, climate and thermodynamic principles interrelate so that something more tolerable might be found. But that does mean relinquishing fairy tales
Tony retweeted
In a world sustained by combustion, even just maintaining the GDP at current levels accelerates CO2 emissions and the rise in concentrations. To stop this either:
1. We proactively collapse the economy now, or
2. Wait for climate change to do it for us later🧵
Tony retweeted
CCS is like Ozempic for an obese person @acranberg
It's a way of avoiding the underlying problem.
Our focus should be reducing energy consumption not finding ways to continue increasing it & using some palliative to pretend we are limiting its negative effects.
#energy #EnergyTransition #ClimateActionNow #renewables #NetZero #FossilFuels
Tony retweeted
I think what you are saying, is that the current system, the ideology, can't be sustainable. But the system, the overarching economic model, is not the same as our civilization. You are talking in riddles. Why don't you just say, the current economic model is not sustainable?
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Tony retweeted
High climate sensitivity and a greater Faustian debt are a double whammy. We need to cool off the planet to maintain shorelines and a propitious climate. That requires a better understanding of the home planet and appropriate observations. See Home Planet: mailchi.mp/caa/to-understand…
Tony retweeted
Renewable energy creates economic value
Economic value is sustained by consuming energy
Consuming energy destroys the environment by transforming raw materials
Renewables destroy the environment
Tony retweeted
Its hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment. They have blown past anything we've previously experienced by a huge margin.
Over at The Climate Brink, we try and visualize this summer of extremes in seven charts. theclimatebrink.com/p/visual…
Tony retweeted
"Economic growth can benefit both human welfare and the environment."
It doesn't get more out of touch with reality, unless your version of reality doesn't include thermodynamics. We use energy to transform the stuff of the environment to the stuff of us, at its expense
I've always thought the degrowth crowd was a small group out of touch with reality, but it is apparently a large group out of touch with reality.
Economic growth can benefit both human welfare and the environment.
Poverty is not an option.
theconversation.com/idea-of-…
Tony retweeted
Code UFB!!!
In a year of weather records, yesterday was 0.92°C above the 1991-2020 mean and fully 1.75°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline.
Year-to-date the planet is now 1.37°C above the 1850-1900 baseline, with about a 50% chance to break the Paris limit for the year.
Tony retweeted
"Virtually all so-called environmental problems are co-symptoms of overshoot.
"We humans are depleting and contaminating the biophysical basis of our own existence."
--William E. Rees @ecofootnotes
Link
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mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/3/32
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Tony retweeted
I feel like we expected climate change to be this gradual thing we'd be challenged to adjust to. Instead, it's more like a roving beast. We never know when it will strike, where, or even how, just that eventually it will come for us too
Tony retweeted
We know that July has been exceptionally hot globally.
But it’s now on track to shatter the prior July record (set in 2016) by a massive 0.38°C (0.31°C to 0.45°C) based on the month-to-date in JRA-55:
Tony retweeted
The conclusion is clear: carbon emissions and overshoot of planetary boundaries are unlikely to decrease as long as world GDP and population continue to increase.
artberman.com/2023/06/21/cli…
#energy #EnergyTransition #ClimateActionNow #renewables #NetZero
