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Mark Lynas
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Environmental writer, speaker and activist. Head of Policy @WePlanetint. Science advisor @theCVF. New book: 'Six Minutes to Winter' out now. Weekly podcast.
Hay-on-Wye, Wales
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    Mark Lynas
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    Oct 19, 2021
    Do you remember the famous 97% study - that 97% of climate science supported the consensus on human-caused climate change? Well we have just published an update for 2012-2021 papers in the same journal, Environmental Research Letters. The figure is now... drumroll please...99.9%!
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    Mark Lynas
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    Jul 8, 2022
    It's over for nuclear in Germany. The SDP-Green coalition has won a vote in the Bundestag backing more coal burning so that the three remaining nuclear plants can be switched off as planned this year. Climate targets may have to be abandoned as a result.
    Kohlekraftwerke: Bundestag gibt grünes Licht für Gas-Ersatz
    From faz.net
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    Mark Lynas
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    Mar 11, 2022
    With each new Russian atrocity in Ukraine, calls for NATO intervention increase. Are we sleepwalking towards nuclear war? The appetite for risk is increasing with the horror of civilian casualties. Putin is cornered and may escalate. What's the worst that can happen? Thread: 1/12
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    Mark Lynas
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    Jul 2, 2019
    New Nature paper out today nature.com/articles/s4158… states very clearly what is needed if governments are serious about limiting global heating to 1.5C, as agreed at Paris. Spoiler: No new fossil fuelled infrastructure, anywhere, ever. From now on. Read thread for details...
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    Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target
    From nature.com
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    Mark Lynas
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    Apr 25, 2024
    Greenpeace and its allies just won a court case in the Philippines blocking Golden Rice from reaching millions of vitamin A-deficient young children. If this isn't a crime against humanity, I don't know what is. Avoidable deaths could total 100,000s. More:
    Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism
    From spectator.com
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    Mark Lynas
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    Jul 8, 2022
    Replying to @mark_lynas
    Finally, there's an environmental group dedicated to stopping this madness. If this makes you as angry as it does me, please join @letsreplanet replanet.ngo We've just won on the EU taxonomy. Most Germans support keeping nuclear switched on - the tide is turning.
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    Mark Lynas
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    Mar 11, 2022
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    Here's the full article published by @ScienceAlly with all the above facts together with important context and sources from the peer-reviewed literature. Please do read and share - the word count is only 1,500. 12/12. END allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/03/w…
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    Mark Lynas
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    Jul 8, 2022
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    Oh, and nuclear in the UK is now planned to be carbon NEGATIVE, with the new Sizewell C plant potentially deploying air capture technology to use waste heat to sequester 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 a year. Eat your heart out, coal-addicted Germany!
    world-nuclear-news.org
    'Megatonne' CO2 capture plant plan for Sizewell C
    A consortium hoping to use heat from the UK’s proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station to capture carbon dioxide from the air on a giant scale say they have successfully completed a research and...
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    Mark Lynas
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    Apr 24, 2024
    Disastrous news from the Philippines- the Court of Appeals has sided with Greenpeace and the antis in blocking vit-A enhanced Golden Rice, which is now in widespread cultivation in the country. All planting must now stop, harming the interests of millions.
    philrice.gov.ph
    PhilRice acknowledges Court of Appeals’ decision granting the Writ of Kalikasan against Golden Rice...
    On April 19, 2024, the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice), through the Office of the Government ... Read more
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    Mark Lynas
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    Oct 4, 2023
    Scientists are running out of words to describe the dramatic acceleration in global warming - Aug and now Sept 2023 were the hottest months ever recorded on Earth. The planet is entering dangerous territory, unprecedented for as much as 3 million years. allianceforscience.org/blog/2023/10/g…
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    Mark Lynas
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    Aug 13, 2021
    This is huge climate news: the PM of Bangladesh is calling for developing countries to stop paying debts in order to fund essential adaptation now that the IPCC report has definitively linked extreme weather loss & damage impacts to climate change.
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    Mohamed Nasheed
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    Aug 13, 2021
    “..re-assess CVF countries international debt burdens in response to the climate emergency and call international financial institutions, loan providers and donors to declare their consensus in supporting efforts towards restructuring internal loan..” PM Sheikh Hasina
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    Mark Lynas
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    May 23, 2022
    Finland's national Green Party has voted to endorse nuclear power in its manifesto, representing a historic moment in the evolution of the global environmental movement. Full story: allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/05/f…
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    Mark Lynas
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    Mar 11, 2022
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    But this is why cool heads MUST ultimately prevail, even as emotions run high. The price of nuclear war is planetary suicide. No-one wins. Neither Zelensky nor Putin. It won’t save lives in Ukraine - it simply takes the death toll from the thousands into the billions. 11/12
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    Mark Lynas
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    Aug 16, 2022
    Eating grass-fed organic beef is the dietary equivalent of flying a private jet, yet many green-minded people seem to think the opposite. Once again, @GeorgeMonbiot sets them straight.
    The most damaging farm products? Organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb
    From theguardian.com