I’m thrilled to announce , & my new paper in on why scientists should consider participating in civil disobedience to promote climate action.
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Graduate student at - researching the role of science in climate communications of social movements. PhD Ecology. Activism.
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Frontover fatalities (where drivers accidentally run over small children) have increased 3,800% in the last 30 years in the US
Whatever could be causing this?
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Last weekend for People’s Assembly for Nature. The first of its kind: 110 people reflecting diversity of UK deciding on a people’s plan for nature. Independent, objective, candid, passionate, powerful. Can’t wait to see what the plan looks like when it’s published in March.
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“I’ve been representing protesters for 15 years. I never had a client in prison before 2021. Now I have dozens. It is a completely new experience…a completely new scenario that we are in.” Our colleague quoted by
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We're excited to host at on Feb 27, with Q&A feat local organisers, activists and sustainable investors.
This is not your usual doc about climate breakdown - it's about the money and industry ticking away in the background.
TIX:
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How do you navigate being an early career researcher 🌱when the house is on fire?
You can still sign up to this ⬇️online session with and me on Wed 8 Feb 14-16.30 CET- come join us for the reflections and discussion!
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We present genomic evidence showing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during the #LastInterglacialPeriod!🇦🇶🌊🚨#popgen #icesheet #interdisciplinary
...the tipping point of future #WestAntarcticIceSheet collapse could be reached even under the #ParisAgreement (+1.5-2.0°C)
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Sociologies of #climatechange are not enough. Putting the global #biodiversity crisis on the sociological agenda tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10 #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #PlanetaryThreats
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Utah's short-term solution to save Great Salt Lake is to seal off the causeway that bisects it. The move essentially creates two lakes, one dead and one on life support.
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A lot of colleagues have asked me over the past month how they can help me (apart from, I hope, becoming activists themselves!) and I just wanted to let everyone know that I have funding to support my research coming from institutions that would rather stay out of the news. 1/4
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For the record. They are not partners in the transition, they just need us to believe that they are. twitter.com/BloombergUK/st
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Due to the huge response to this tweet I put together a googledoc where everyone can add their relevant references on this point. I have fished out some of the suggested refs and added already. Please feel free to add your own suggestions:
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Tomorrow will be Rosa Parks' 110th birthday. She was adamant to the end of her life in 2005 that "the struggle continues" & there was much more work to be done. But too often we trap her on the bus on a long ago Dec. evening, refusing what her legacy asks of us today. A thread:
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Global oil companies are reporting 2022 as their most profitable year in history.
Meanwhile, the planet continues to burn as household budgets shrink.
We must change course. The only credible direction to take is away from fossil fuels & towards renewable energy.
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I have an even more egregious example.
Ask #Google how to get from Paris to Barcelona and it tells you to take 6 trains for 9 hours. In fact there’s 2 direct trains per day that take 6 hours.
Even putting in that train’s stations, Google pretends flying is 1h40 door to door. twitter.com/mrsamwilkin/st
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“Op een gegeven moment moet je als instituut de balans zoeken. Moeten we bedrijven helpen met de energietransitie? Ja, als ze er echt voor gaan. Maar dat doet Shell niet. Op een gegeven moment ga je over een grens, en zeg je: we moeten ermee stoppen.”
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Every so often it is worth pointing out that when you update older graphs of paleo and instrumental temperatures, the more recent period stands out more and more.
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Senator demands answers from about punishment of and for climate activism 👏🏾 while pointing out links to big oil 😤 sign our letter to AGU: aguopenletter.com
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I've emailed to cancel membership:
Accepting money from #Shell, thus allowing the organisation and its members to be part of a campaign to distract, deflect and delay de-carbonisation is awful and absolutely not acceptable. I want no part of it.
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Good to see this being called out. I would have included economics in the broadest sense. Endless growth at all costs is madness.
UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models ‘inconsistent with human survival’
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And this is why placing PV on roofs results in far fewer conflicts.
Our paper shows that just on roofs the globe could produce ~ as much power as today's total global power demand
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This is just wrong from the . There is nothing inevitable about reliance on oil and gas for decades to come, it is political and with global consequences. Perhaps there’s a conflict of interest here… twitter.com/thierryaaron/s
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🚨Job alert🚨
Support 36 food justice organisers in Tower Hamlets to build a community-led urban food system.
You'll lead on:
🎨 Participatory arts installations
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✊🏿 Fostering mutual support + empowerment
15th Feb deadline
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Als je 38 miljard winst maakt met vooral olie en je zet de rem op investeringen in duurzame energie, dan doe je niet eens meer je best om te greenwashen.
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3of4 To understand some of the key reasons the global community has failed to bend the emissions curve away from its rising trajectory, this multi-authored paper may help; it also points to a potential route out of this impasse. annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114
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1of4 To understand national rates of phaseout of fossil fuel production, aligned with the Paris temperature & equity commitments, this report, based on the IPCC's latest carbon budgets & with clear assumptions, may help. pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles
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The State of UK’s Butterflies 2022 report has been released today and it's not good news
80% of butterflies in the UK have declined since the 1970s 🦋📉
We need urgent action to turn things around. Act Now 👉 butrfli.es/40juRuZ
#StateOfButterflies #SaveButterflies
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Register now: Interdisciplinary symposium on translating climate science for the human rights courtroom, 2nd March '23. Prepare for a fascinating exchange between former and current judges, legal scholars, anthropologists and climate scientists. fered.unistra.fr/evenements/eve
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Imagine a world without butterflies 🦋
Imagine what you would be prepared to do to prevent such a world.
Do that! Whilst we still can.
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Climate change poses significant health risks
But many MPs aren't aware
It's vital that our leaders are clued-up to reduce the strain on our NHS
Please help
1.Retweet this post
2.Use the link below to ask your MP to attend the climate health briefing
👇 action.ukhealthalliance.org/page/120577/ac
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Not only does demonstrate disregard/ignorance of climate change (science, mitigation & impacts), but also of 101 economics & social science. 's enthusiasm for N.Sea oil/gas for "decades to come" illustrates 's weak stance on climate change.
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Let's make this very plain ANY new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with our climate targets!
Most existing fossil fuel reserves need to remain in the ground.
The public deserves to be informed of this by
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This isn't the first time that has been picked up for his poor grasp of the scientific facts. Its very disappointing that he's making the same basic errors again! 9/n
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After an interview I did with a Just Stop Oil campaigner I’ve been accused of being a “climate denier” & “green gaslighter”. I challenged her assertion that “EVERYONE agrees that “OUR govt’s decision to pursue new oil is a death sentence for millions around the world” 1/6
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. & examined the remaining production rights that compatible within our carbon budgets in this paper.
Their conclusion? "Rich countries must end oil and gas production by 2034" 8/n
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Put together current projections for fossil fuel production are totally incompatible with our climate targets & show how hollow the promises made by governments are!
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Our 2021 #ProductionGap report is out!
Two years on, with the climate crisis clearer and more urgent than ever, governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with #ParisAgreement limits. 
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This is true of the North Sea too!
A team of experts at concluded that new oil and gas fields and licences in the UK is incompatible with the Paris Agreement.
As explains in this excellent thread:
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A brand new blow to the case for new oil & gas extraction in the UK:
The UCL team behind last year's landmark 'Unextractable Fossil Fuels' paper has concluded that the development of new oil and gas fields and licences in the UK is incompatible with the Paris Agreement
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The "Global Registry of Fossil Fuels" by & "shows that producing & combusting the world’s reserves would yield over 3.5 trillion tons of ghg emissions, over 7 times the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C" !!!
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Here in the technical summary WG3 report from this April, signed off by all world governments, is the plain truth that meeting even the 2C climate target means the majority of fossil fuel reserves become stranded assets #CarbonBubble 4/n
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This is not at all scientifically controversial.
In a report commissioned by ahead of #COP26 - , Executive Director of the , said there "can be no new investment in oil, gas and coal"! 3/n
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