These metrics omit the inventory
No celebration for "slowing growth" when we emitted 41Gt. Carbon sinks are failing, EEI increasing, albedo reducing etc.
We need a bank bailout-style war footing, or keep managing our liquidation and finding new layout plans for deckchairs.
#WinningSlowlyIsLosing
2025 Global defence $2.63T. 2008 Bank bailout $29T committed. Where were the quibbles over tanks, banks, bonuses or drones?
Our life-support system isn't a budget item when we've far more to lose. Physics only cares about cumulative emissions. We need all available tools now
#WinningSlowlyIsLosing
This endless renewable spin is borderline cultish—we’re massively off track
Germany’s real reductions = ~0.8%/yr; linear zero won't hit until 2115. @ 11.5t/capita, Germans emit 28% more than the EU average
Potentially game over, just not in the way Paul thinks
#endFossilFuels
#noBillionaires
Well done Greens.
Shockingly, of the 29.55% who turned out to vote - 60% weren't in favour of progressive policies.
Denmark’s transition is a mirage. Include imports & int. transport and the real rate of decarbonisation is ~0.6%/yr
At 13t/capita Danes consume 4x their equitable carbon budget. Which is partly why +1.5°C is no longer achievable. Many EU countries are similar
shorturl.at/8gDuA
#endFossilFuels
Please enjoy my latest substack post:
Earth is Heating at a Rate of Over One Million Hiroshima Bombs Every Day!
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
No need for aliens from distant planets with fascinating biodiversity on your own doorstep
Comparing $60/MWh solar+storage to $160/MWh LNG exposes fossil insanity. But 4hr batteries are only a partial fix
$60 covers 1st MW, not the last. We need seasonal storage. And the grid needs upgrading now the low hanging fruit has gone
We need emergency measures in an emergency
#endFossilFuels
Saw this, thought of you (Bill only gets a brief mention):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWXy...
Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting
open.substack.com/pub/councile...
EU's total impact on the atmosphere has barely moved in 20 years. The physics has been outsourced (int aviation/imports).
Without binding carbon budgets and full systems accounts, this report is just another pretty deckchair arrangement.
#SystemsThinking
#CarbonBudgets
Who needs carbon budgets? 🤷♂️
The UNDP celebrates quality and ambition while ignoring meaningful action today and any ref to carbon budgets.
But to be fair, UNDP do know how to arrange a set of deckchairs. Can't wait for their next seating plan! Hope it's as pretty.
#endFossilFuels
#noBillionaires
Another perspective on the contd rise of emissions:
Those who created the lions share of emissions are failing to decarbonise fast enough, before starting a restorative phase
The poorest (with their minimal impact) need an emissions budget to escape poverty
#equity
#endFossilFuels
#noBillionaires
IPCC has a +30 yr record of not bending the fossil fuel curve. COP28 (2023) would "think" about phasing out fossil fuels.
Yet a 1st meet to look at this some 868 days later is not IPCC!
Thank goodness the IPCC don't work in emergency serv... oh - hang on a sec
shorturl.at/1BI22
#endFossilFuels
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Insightful take down of #samAltman from the consistently excellent @rutgerbregman.com
The genie is out of the AI bottle but give me Demis Hassabis everyday of the week over Altman.
#stopUsingChatGPT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bta1...
Solving climate change is a win, win, win - for most
youtube.com/shorts/NnHnr...
To get to the root cause(s) and deal with the main consequence of a block to the Straight of Hormuz, we need the USA and Israel to cease committing war crimes AND eradicate the use of fossil fuels.
A more suitable backdrop for this interview would be The Hague or a renewable energy generation plant
We need the authorities to act like there's an emergency
Hydropower schemes continue to face a lack of proportionality in their licensing
My £135 domestic license from 2011 is £7k, +£125 p/hour for civil servant advice today. You need maybe £25k to burn plus a year or two to get a decision
We're slowing the speed of our backwards trajectory. The records being broken are inadequate and drastically need to be ratcheted up from 0.6% to 13% YoY emissions reductions for an 83% chance of staying below a dangerous +2°C (Anderson/Tyndall)
#WinningSlowlyIsTheSameAsLosing
shorturl.at/r8G83
The Good Liars on great form at CPAC:
• Climate change is a hoax; Noah's flood is from a history book
• Nobel Peace Prize for "bombing the shit out of them"
• Pro-life, but not for +160 dead non-american school girls
A clear Olympic Gold in ideological contortion
youtu.be/lDsWtp2pE38?...
@fifawc26.bsky.social
Definition of Terrorism
shorturl.at/BBu6e
#boycottFifaWorldCup2026
#boycottWorldCup26
#boycottUSA
#warCrimes
#InternationalCourtOfJustice
#Minab
Climate cares about cumulative emissions, which hit new records YoY. Vast amounts of renewables, batteries and nuclear are meaningless when they only meeting new demand. Fossil fuels are not being replaced.
No celebration for slow walking to the starting blocks.
shorturl.at/ZdyvL
#endFossilFuel
Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.
Artemis II crew returning to Earth.
"The moment renewables and nuclear power everything, if just for a few minutes, would be the first time in 144 years the UK has not relied on fossil fuels"
Everything = 20% of our consumed energy
Climate Reality is the UK needs 13% YoY reductions for 83% chance of not exceeding a dangerous +2oC
April 4, 1957 – New Scientist runs story on carbon dioxide build-up
allouryesterdays.info/2023/04/03/a...
Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.
1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing?
The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise.
A thread. 🧵👇
Great points.
if you can:
-Insulate your house
-Generate renewable electricity
-Grow some food
-Join members of your community to scale up your action(s)
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