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Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard 🔶

DivestHarvard

This morning, a Harvard professor was quoted in @NYTimes suggesting that the crisis Texas is the "necessary" result of markets working properly.What it didn't say is that his research is

Mario Coiro

Lepidodendron

I will take the opportunity of these beautiful drawings from @JulianPalaeoART to talk about how cycads and bennettites branch (a thread) (1/n)https://twitter.com/JulianPalaeoART/status/1338716798682886144 Extant seed plants (and many fossil

Greenpeace USA

greenpeaceusa

Texans are suffering through a polar vortex without power — let down by the same fossil fuel corporations responsible for the climate crisis. An unprepared, non-resilient system has left millions

Cam Fenton 🌅

CamFenton

Thread on today's new @JustinTrudeau climate plan. TLDR: It's better than the past plan, but still woefully short of what we need. But, even so, it's enough action that it

Benjamin Poulter

carBenPoulter

THREAD2020 #carbonbudget @gcarbonproject contains loads of info on 2019 carbon budget (in addition to 2020 emission forecast making the news). Lets look at 2019:Sources:Fossil Fuel=9.7 GtCLand Use=1.8 GtCSinks:Atmosphere=5.4 GtC, 2.54

Patrick S. Tomlinson

stealthygeek

It's freezing in Dallas because of Global Warming.I know that sound's counterintuitive, but it's true. There's a thing called the Jet Stream, a highspeed river of air and F-22 fighter

Teri Robins

TeriRobins2

Bernard Looney CEO of PB has pledged their company will cut production of fossil fuels by 50% in the next decade. 2 years ago however they spent $13ml to defeat

The Progressive List

ProgressiveList

With 2021 around the corner, we're proud to endorse @Sam_Rasoul for Lt. Governor of Virginia!Since his election as the 1st Muslim in the VA General Assembly, Sam has been a

Beige Shiba ♔

BeigeShiba

I am ever more strongly of the opinion that "Western Civilisation" isn't dying, it's a zombie. I'm pretty happy to call World War 1 as the point of death for

ehues

ehues

I just ran across @Greens4Nuclear. And I gotta say, I'm conflicted. Nuclear energy is touted as a panacea: it doesn't produce much in the way of greenhouse gases, it can

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Tis the time to be thinking about the future, and one big question beyond 2021 is the prospects for technology. For background, here's the BLS measure of multifactor productivity —

Natural History Museum of L.A. County

NHMLA

While floor-based specimens are normally cleaned twice a year, hanging specimens like this Morrice's Sperm Whale — or Aulophyseter morricei, a juvenile of an extinct species of sperm whale —

Lindsay Broadwell 🏳️‍🌈

LindsayPB

I am honestly open for both - the trouble with pushing renewables exclusively is gas companies are very keen on stepping in to plug the gap.... with fossil fuels.Nuclear power

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

5/ The answer, it turned out was CO2. In 1908, Svante Arrhenius figured out that CO2 (and water vapor, and methane) acts like a blanket around the earth. But it's

The Weather Station

TheWeatherStn

My first response to the phrase 'defund the police' was to think it was extreme. Then I read up on the idea, and I'm floored by what an elegant, thoughtful

Sierra Club

SierraClub

Released on Dec. 1, the Nevada Climate Strategy is a mandate from @GovSisolak administration to act on climate. #NevClimateAction Nevadans have consistently shown a desire to move away from fossil

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