#SR15

Steeling myself with a strong coffee to sit down and read major new report on avoiding dangerous #climatechange (@IPCC_CH #SR15, available here: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ ). My takes to follow (1/n) As always,
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IPCC: By 2050 a Brazil-sized area of new forests and/or crops may be needed to meet 1.5°C climate goal…No, this is not the new Shell scenario, this is the IPCC
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1. “one of the most important sentences of the last few centuries”…Did the IPCC SR15 change the debate, the IPCC just in the right place at the right time, or
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Is there warming in the pipeline and what are the implications for policy and climate targets? A short thread on how to interpret new results from a recent study in
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"Halving emission by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050 will get us to the 1.5°C ambition" is a dangerous myth, and it is unfortunately spreading all over the place.
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On the 5th anniversary of the #ParisAgreement, the General Assembly of @ICOMOS (the global cultural heritage NGO) has overwhelmingly voted to declare a Climate & Ecological Emergency. A THREAD /1
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1/ "the availability of BECCS proved critical to the cost-efficiency, & indeed the theoretical possibility, of these deep mitigation scenarios, leading to systemic inclusion of BECCS in RCP2.6 scenarios" says
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@CrisisGroup’s 10 Conflicts to Watch is out today in @ForeignPolicy and for the first time a transnational risk made our annual list: rising insecurity related to climate change. Here’s why
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My main point is that we have "scientists" willing to put economic cost projection figures on devastating climate change: that it will "cost" x% of GDP growth going forward. These
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@TweetWorcester released its Green Worcester Plan in October: an agenda to address many of Worcester’s environmental and climate problems. Sunrise Worcester has read and reviewed the plan. We have many
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Our @flyingless & virtual efforts are covered in @josiegz ’s story in @Nature http://go.nature.com/3pVFxwN . A retro-perspective of the last 2 years & how virtual comm. can help us to make
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Fascinating new paper by @AndrewDessler and colleagues arguing committed warming might be higher than expected given historical pattern effects. Its combining a lot of different concepts together, so lets spend
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Hi all, woke up in the middle of the night full of climate/ecocide/world war/refugee etc angst, and decided to make lemonade, in this case a pretty diagram of my "10
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Denialists are a steadily shrinking pool and will in time only have each other to bounce around their non-science, anti-factual arguments with. Conversion from Denialism to the #GlobalClimateConsensus is a
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