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    2025 shows we are winning the war on carbon, much slower than we should have but still: From the solar explosion to the death of coal - here are the Top 10 Good News stories Big Oil doesn't want you to see Watch Ep 97 & subscribe for the blunt facts: youtu.be/Mb4bX6twU9Q?si…
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    France just legislated that every parking lot for 80 cars or more must be covered by solar panels That’s 11GW of new solar (same as 10 new nuclear reactors) powering millions of home - zero new land needed Climate action is happening, just not at #COP27
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    Luxury cruises are punctured garbage bins on water >47 cruise ships emit 10 times more sulphur dioxide in European waters (2017 data) than all of Europe’s 260m cars combined >That's just 1 of 3 air pollutants discharged from the ships’ smokestacks And it gets worse THREAD
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    Australia today: Penrith, near Sydney, was for a time the hottest place on earth: 48.9°C 4,000 km2 burned in Victoria state Third of Kangaroo Island burned (1700 km2) Some bushfires generating own weather, incl. tornadoes, thunderstorms “indescribable hell and devastation”
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    Earth’s hottest recorded day was 16.92°C (62.46°F) on 24 July 2022 We’ve broken this record on each of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 July 2023, so far It’s the hottest it’s been in 125,000 years. Now back to drilling for oil everyone
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    Ground-breaking Oxford University paper (which had a soft launch earlier but now is in scientific journal Joule) deserves enormous air time It overturns the common thinking that decarbonizing will be hugely expensive. It’s not – in fact it saves us $5-15 TRILLION THREAD
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    “The era of global boiling has arrived” Exxon did this. Shell did this. TotalEnergies did this. PetroChina did this. Chevron did this. BP did this. Gazprom did this. Coal India did this. Saudi Aramco did this: Just 100 companies caused 71% of man-made global warming emissions
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    Karachi, population 15 million, is largely underwater: Pakistan's biggest city had it roads turned to rivers, its houses destroyed and its people fleeing to shelters - suffering from its worst floods since records began #climate
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    Typhoon #Hagibis made a direct hit on Tokyo, together with landslides, floods and an earthquake -Most powerful storm for 60+ years -Millions evacuating -500mm of rain to fall on Tokyo in 24 hours, 700mm fell on Hakone in 48 hours -Follows Typhoon Faxai which damaged 30,000 homes
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    "We seem trapped in a world where fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat. They exploited the same scandalous tactics as Big Tobacco decades before [and] must not escape responsibility" UN Secretary-General, speaking truth to power, 17-6-22 #climate
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    In news not making headlines this week: "Flooding in Assam and Nepal kills hundreds, displaces millions" "One-third of Bangladesh under water in one of worst deluges to hit region" "Worst flooding in decades endangers China’s Three Gorges Dam, 40m people affected" #climate
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    China added a phenomenal 60GW of solar in Q1 as rooftop installations surged to 36GW 60GW is more than the total installed solar capacity in Spain and France combined. And China installed it all in just 3 months renewablesnow.com/news/china-add…
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    Iraq's heatwave is worsening, bringing under-reported hardship to 40m people Temperatures above 50°C (122F) over the next few days will be the hottest anywhere - and above wet-bulb temperatures humans can endure The new normal is here, including bigger waves of climate refugees
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    Batteries are currently going through a massive domino effect of adoption certain to phaseout 50% of global fossil fuel demand by 2040 at the latest. Because: economics We are witnessing, live, the end of the age of oil (that's why Big Oil hijacked the UN climate talks) THREAD