Rodney Payne
@rodneyp
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Founding Partner at @creativedlab Climate | CEO @DstnThink | Strategy @AirMiners | Founder at TSI | Kiteboarder | Skier | Dad
British Columbia, Canada
Joined February 2008
“The scale of our actions is nowhere near what is necessary.” Not yet. But it’s coming. https://t.co/0gtlpFi4qD
rollingstone.com
The climate crisis was not created by Trump, but we will fail if we dont' fix it, Jeff Goodell reports.
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Today is the last day of coal powered electricity in Denmark. Block 3 at the Esbjerg plant will close down today. At its peak it used 500.000 tonnes per year, emitting 1,2 million tonnes of CO2 yearly. A good day for the climate 😊
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As it looks like we will head over 2C this February, it is worth revisiting the most important science paper of the century: https://t.co/IJcyzXZxZ2 2 November 2023 @DrJamesEHansen et al "global warming will exceed 1.5°C in the 2020s and 2°C before 2050" Leading to the most
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Um. Hello? Media? Politicians? Celebrities? Oprah? The latest global temperature that was just posted by Copernicus (data from Feb. 9) was 2.03°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
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This ski paradise in Canada is one of the snowiest places on Earth https://t.co/bdbKL2QCKr via @NatGeoTravel
nationalgeographic.com
Located in a rare inland temperate rainforest known for epic snowfall, British Columbia’s Revelstoke is the perfect winter playground.
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NEW China's CO2 is to fall in 2024 – & could be facing structural decline – after record clean energy growth reached the level needed to meet rising demand Latest analysis by @laurimyllyvirta for @CarbonBrief
https://t.co/WxSCkhC3h9 1/2
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Climate defenders in The Netherlands are playing Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem in the middle of a motorway to get the government to stop subsidising fossil fuel usage.
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16 We don't need new technologies: we have everything we need to scale-up climate action. We just need to deploy existing technologies faster and on a larger scale, while continuing to decrease their costs
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The UN released a "global stocktake" taking a hard look at the state of our planet In short, we are still sleepwalking to a world we will increasingly not recognize It has 17 key findings which I've tried to translate into non-UN speak THREAD
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"Climate change is reducing the amount of carbon the trees fix and likely has cascading effects on how much carbon they can provide to their ectomycorrhizal fungi," This is a huge deal. We lose the fungi, we lose the forests. We lose it all. https://t.co/rXVWLXt6dB
phys.org
Children are taught to leave wild mushrooms alone because of their potential to be poisonous. But trees on the other hand depend on fungi for their well-being.
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Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuels and use of renewable energy.
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🎧The Travel Beyond podcast is back! In season 2, discover how Queenstown Lakes, NZ made the commitment to reach carbon zero by 2030. Hear from a local leader about why this commitment is so important for the community and the planet🌍 https://t.co/i8K4Aji45q
#RegenerativeTravel
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COME HELL or HIGH WATER: These graphs so how we are losing ice all over the world, due to global heating, causing sea level rise. You can read our climate emergency report here as an article in BioScience: https://t.co/bca7h18Sbp
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Another broken record, now from the past: Ice sheet retreat of 600 meter per day. Bad news for the next decades at current rate of warming. "There’s evidence of sea level increasing at a rate of up to 50 cm per decade during episodes of rapid ice sheet disintegration." “This
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So, Cdn Oil Sands co's are paying Google so if someone searches federal climate policy or climate change they get industry misinformation @PathwaysNetZero and these same company emissions are single largest reason Canada can't meet our climate targets?! 🤦♀️
desmog.com
Ad data reviewed by DeSmog shows industry group paid Google to link its website to hundreds of climate-related search terms.
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it’s amazing that people can’t get it into their heads that without the planets health we are dead. Fuck all matters as much because there will be fuck all at the rate we are going. We are amidst a collective insanity. It is absolutely fucking insane
theguardian.com
Sediments from the last ice age provide a ‘warning from the past’ for Antarctica and sea level rise today, say scientists
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My time in Antarctica has come to an end. An important message, please read ❄️👇🏻 🧵1/n
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The US sold 918,000 new EV last year, representing new annual electricity demand of about 3.67 TWh. Yet the US also created 96 TWh of fresh electricity last year entirely from new wind+solar. Our clean power growth swamps new EV demand. More in tomorrow's @TheGregorLetter
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Compiled by @VatanHuzeir, the latest cache of internal documents describing Big Oil's concealed knowledge of global warming is a gold mine. One bombshell is a confidential @Shell scenario report from 1989 which imagined two futures: SUSTAINABLE WORLD and GLOBAL MERCANTILISM 🧵
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I'm updating my Climate Change lectures and it's hard not to get emotional reading the IPCC AR6 WG1 Report. This is the deciding decade and we're not making the right decisions.
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There is no deadline, no timeline, no 'future peak' - every single decision today from the powerful and the rich that leads to stable or rising emissions, instead of falling emissions, is an act that will end up causing pain, suffering and death for the people around you #IPCC
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