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@ProfBillMcGuire for all things climate, volcanoes and more
Bill McGuire
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Bill McGuire
@ProfBillMcGuire
I'M BACK! Volcanologist, climate scientist, writer, broadcaster, activist, socialist, best-selling author of HOTHOUSE EARTH: AN INHABITANT'S GUIDE. Born @ 313
- Let's be absolutely clear what's up for grabs We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher
- The world has now completely turned its back on tackling the climate crisis - a crisis that is now certain to become a cataclysm Societal breakdown is all but certain, whether our civilisation and species survive is a moot point Start preparing now
- "Microplastics have been detected in the brains of dementia patients, and in arterial plaques from people with heart disease" And the response of the plastics industry is...... ....to massively ramp up plastic production
- Business as usual = climate breakdown = economic and societal collapse It's coming
- Humankind is on a mission to wipe out all life - including itself And it is bang on track
- Suicidal There is no way whatsoever we can dodge catastrophic climate breakdown We are actually turning away from serious action on emissions and heading instead towards an Eocene hothouse
- Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant Pure insanity
- "a quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich." Excellent piece by Mathew Lawrence of the @Cmmonwealth thinktank How the government keeps you poorer
- Can you actually believe this? A swift brick costs £35 But this dire, anti-nature government, must make sure it does all it can to maximise house builders' profits Totally inexcusable
- We actually KNOW that carbon sinks are failing Nonetheless, governments are rowing back on green measures and FF corporations are expanding production We can't keep lying to ourselves We are well down the road to a society-busting climate cataclysm
- The Joint Intelligence Committee report on climate breakdown warns of food shortages and economic collapse potentially within years Yet the government refuses to publish it If you have access, please disseminate We all have a right to know what it says
- Climate breakdown is all-pervasive and will affect every single one of us Yet the government expands airports, plans more roads, and considers the opening of new oil and gas fields Pure, unadulterated, insanity
- The oceans are dying, just as happened in The Great Dying 250 million years ago Only today it's happening much, much, faster And do the world's governments and fossil fuel giants care? Do they hell
