Founding Partner at @creativedlab Climate | CEO @DstnThink | Strategy @AirMiners | Founder at TSI | Kiteboarder | Skier | Dad
British Columbia, Canada
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“The scale of our actions is nowhere near what is necessary.”
Not yet. But it’s coming.
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Today is the last day of coal powered electricity in Denmark. Block 3 at the Esbjerg plant will close down today.
At its peak it used 500.000 tonnes per year, emitting 1,2 million tonnes of CO2 yearly.
A good day for the climate 😊
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As it looks like we will head over 2C this February, it is worth revisiting the most important science paper of the century:
academic.oup.com/oocc/articl…
2 November 2023 @DrJamesEHansen et al
"global warming will exceed 1.5°C in the 2020s and 2°C before 2050"
Leading to the most important quote of the century at the end of the paper:
"Young people have the opportunity to provide the drive for a revolutionary third party that restores democratic ideals while developing the technical knowledge that is needed to navigate the stormy sea that their world is setting out upon."
Dear young people - come on the next zoom call to hear about how to create this Revolution:
Sunday 17 March 2024 7pm GMT
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Um. Hello? Media? Politicians? Celebrities? Oprah?
The latest global temperature that was just posted by Copernicus (data from Feb. 9) was 2.03°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
This ski paradise in Canada is one of the snowiest places on Earth nationalgeographic.com/trave… via @NatGeoTravel
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NEW
China's CO2 is to fall in 2024 – & could be facing structural decline – after record clean energy growth reached the level needed to meet rising demand
Latest analysis by @laurimyllyvirta for @CarbonBrief
carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi…
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Climate defenders in The Netherlands are playing Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem in the middle of a motorway to get the government to stop subsidising fossil fuel usage.
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16 We don't need new technologies: we have everything we need to scale-up climate action. We just need to deploy existing technologies faster and on a larger scale, while continuing to decrease their costs
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The UN released a "global stocktake" taking a hard look at the state of our planet
In short, we are still sleepwalking to a world we will increasingly not recognize
It has 17 key findings which I've tried to translate into non-UN speak
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"Climate change is reducing the amount of carbon the trees fix and likely has cascading effects on how much carbon they can provide to their ectomycorrhizal fungi,"
This is a huge deal. We lose the fungi, we lose the forests. We lose it all.
phys.org/news/2023-09-trends…
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Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.
His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuels and use of renewable energy.
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🎧The Travel Beyond podcast is back! In season 2, discover how Queenstown Lakes, NZ made the commitment to reach carbon zero by 2030. Hear from a local leader about why this commitment is so important for the community and the planet🌍 tinyurl.com/yjrr4fpw #RegenerativeTravel
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COME HELL or HIGH WATER: These graphs so how we are losing ice all over the world, due to global heating, causing sea level rise. You can read our climate emergency report here as an article in BioScience: doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac0…
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Another broken record, now from the past:
Ice sheet retreat of 600 meter per day.
Bad news for the next decades at current rate of warming.
"There’s evidence of sea level increasing at a rate of up to 50 cm per decade during episodes of rapid ice sheet disintegration."
“This is not a model. This is real data. And it is frankly scary, even to me. These data should keep us awake at night.”
This probably doesn't qualify as good news. insideclimatenews.org/news/0…
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So, Cdn Oil Sands co's are paying Google so if someone searches federal climate policy or climate change they get industry misinformation @PathwaysNetZero and these same company emissions are single largest reason Canada can't meet our climate targets?! 🤦♀️ desmog.com/2023/04/05/oil-sa…
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it’s amazing that people can’t get it into their heads that without the planets health we are dead. Fuck all matters as much because there will be fuck all at the rate we are going. We are amidst a collective insanity. It is absolutely fucking insane theguardian.com/environment/…
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My time in Antarctica has come to an end. An important message, please read ❄️👇🏻
🧵1/n
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The US sold 918,000 new EV last year, representing new annual electricity demand of about 3.67 TWh.
Yet the US also created 96 TWh of fresh electricity last year entirely from new wind+solar.
Our clean power growth swamps new EV demand.
More in tomorrow's @TheGregorLetter
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Compiled by @VatanHuzeir, the latest cache of internal documents describing Big Oil's concealed knowledge of global warming is a gold mine.
One bombshell is a confidential @Shell scenario report from 1989 which imagined two futures: SUSTAINABLE WORLD and GLOBAL MERCANTILISM 🧵
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There is no deadline, no timeline, no 'future peak' - every single decision today from the powerful and the rich that leads to stable or rising emissions, instead of falling emissions, is an act that will end up causing pain, suffering and death for the people around you #IPCC