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Scott Duncan

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Unimaginable heat in China 🇨🇳 The longevity and intensity of the heatwave is hard to comprehend. Too many heat records to count, both day and night. Beibei hit 45°C for two consecutive and some places not falling below 34°C at night. The heat is ongoing...

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Peter Dynes

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Europe and the US not the only Drought stricken regions. The Yangtze River in China has shrunken to half its normal width. They’ve had to close canals supplied by this water.

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Wu-Tang Is For The Children

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Pretty wild that where Lake Mead used to be there’s now grass growing as the lake is evaporating

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Climate scientist here. With all due respect Mr Dimon, you’re the one with the thick skull. How is it you can’t see? Deadly heat, fire, flood, storm, drought, crop failure. Infrastructure, economic, ecologic, geopolitical collapse. By expanding oil and gas we risk everything.

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Much of climate policy is obvious. The real problem is that too many people in charge are paid off by the fossil fuel industry, and furthermore the ruling class doesn't want to pay for the transition to prevent it from slamming poor / working class households...

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We must make permitting fossil fuel projects harder, renewable projects easier. Goal: end the fossil fuel industry ASAP which is causing increasingly catastrophic global heat. Should not be hard to understand.

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Fossil fuel executives and lobbyists bribe elected officials to block climate action, slow the transition, and expand fossil fuel production. They deserve prison, not riches. An example:

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Global heat is an emergency. We must treat it as such. Heat and fires will continue to get worse each year until we end the fossil fuel industry. #EmergencyMode

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· Aug 18

#Palermo, a #fire in the city: residents flee in cars. And because of the heat, shops are closed. In the afternoon, at a temperature of over 43 degrees, the flame broke out in the Borgo Nuovo area. The fire is fueled by strong winds. Evacuation began. #Sicily. #Italy

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I don't think this is sanctimony on my part. She fights as hard as she can to block climate action. OK, yes, pro-Trump Republicans are even worse because they are completely fascistically unhinged, but not being like that seems maybe too low a bar for praise, to me.

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The love-fest liberals are having over Cheney is gross. Yes she's anti-Trump. She's also a climate denier, against voting rights, against abortion rights, against healthcare rights, against taxing the rich, pro wall building, pro guns, pro torture, pro bombing innocent people...

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I still think Earth breakdown is basically all we should be talking about until we get it under control and civilization on track to a livable future. At the least, we should be talking about it and addressing it with much greater urgency. It threatens everything.

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My dream is to grow to the point that we have science-based, captivating TV ads, billboards, and powerful education initiatives around the world, countering fossil fuel industry disinformation. It's crazy, at this point, there's no such federal initiative in the US for example

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How Far Can We Get Without Flying? - YES! Magazine

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So many experienced, creative people want to put their talents to work for a livable planet. That's why I started

@ClimateAd

, the first ad agency for the Earth. Now we're hiring a full-time Digital Producer! Apply here: climateadproject.org/digital-produc And pls share to get the word out.

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You can also sign up to volunteer at the website. We need writers, animators, videographers, editors, voice actors, back office, etc. climateadproject.org/volunteer/

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We've been an all-volunteer team for the last two years. We incorporated as a non-profit, we learned a lot, we made some great videos, we raised some funds. But all-volunteer is challenging, plus we want to serve climate disobedience actions w media support more effectively

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So many experienced, creative people want to put their talents to work for a livable planet. That's why I started

@ClimateAd

, the first ad agency for the Earth. Now we're hiring a full-time Digital Producer! Apply here: climateadproject.org/digital-produc And pls share to get the word out.

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Thread on first chapter coming soon. I wanted to reread the book, see what I still like and what I might completely disagree with now - things have changed so, so much. And Earth breakdown has gotten worse in 10 years faster than I ever imagined it could. So fast...

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...and the editor was like "that author, Peter Kalmus, why is that name familiar?" and he dug out my manuscript from the pile. I was so excited that they wanted to publish my book! They gave me a tiny $3000 advance (which I donated to climate orgs) but it was never about money

This article was my "big break." When it came out, my manuscript was sitting in a big pile on the New Society acquisition editor's desk. He happened to have an over-the-fence chat with his neighbor who happened to have read and loved my article...

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When a climate scientist decided to stop flying to cut his carbon emissions, he caught a glimpse of the post-oil future.

For two years before this, I'd been reducing my own use of fossil fuel. I found I loved living with less fossil fuel! At the time I didn't see anyone enjoying this process of FF reduction & communicating it. So I started giving talks at libraries, churches etc. Talk after talk...

Before we get into the first chapter, here's a story about how it got published at all. At the time, c.2012, I was a new postdoc in climate science and the barrier to publishing a book seemed insurmountable. For four years I worked on the manuscript without a clue how to publish

Here's a thread about my first book. I'll write one thread per chapter and then link them at the end in a thread of threads below. 🧵🧵 My book is available online for free, or you can buy it to support the publisher.

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Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution

“A plethora of insights about nature and ourselves, revealed by one man’s journey as he comes to terms with human exploitation of our planet.”DR. JAMES HANSEN, climate scientist, former director of...

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No, you cannot have meaningful climate action and fossil fuel expansion at the same time. The two are diametrically opposed

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Unfortunately, it's damaging when prominent climate activists and scientists defend flying, because it strengthens cultural support for business as usual and undermines public understanding that we are in a climate emergency. We should all call for systemic ending of fossil fuels

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We'll get rapid change when enough people accept that burning fossil fuel causes global heat and global heat kills people, therefore burning fossil fuel kills people. When this happens policies and culture will shift fast. E.g., flying will become a social negative

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As always, I wish this were not the case... it just is

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Know that climate disasters this summer are only the beginning and they will get catastrophically worse until we end the fossil fuel industry. Everything humanity does depends on a livable climate. End fossil fuels rapidly and equitably. Switch into emergency mode

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some planet-destroying consent being manufactured here

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Here are some of the specific bribes, but I doubt this is the whole story (from NYT a few days ago)

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New York Times write a story where the climate activists who are actually challenging the system since the whole system needs to change are the good guys challenge

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The sound of an airplane overhead is the sound of Earth getting hotter.

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It is all just so awful

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Schumer owes Manchin a deal to fast track new fossil fuel projects. Both Schumer and Manchin have taken hundreds of thousands in bribes from fossil fuel special interests and there can be no new fossil fuel expansion if we are to avoid devastating and irreversible global heat

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Tell me you don't get the climate emergency without telling me you don't get the climate emergency

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