John Gibbons 🇵🇸
@think_or_swim
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No longer posting on TwiX, am on BlueSky only. No to fascism [email protected] Blog: https://t.co/DBB20A4Gek https://t.co/3PoyILqUAu
Joined November 2010
My last ever post on Twitter is of my article today explaining why I’ve moved to @bluesky to escape the toxic Musk/Trump swamp. Hope you’ll consider following suit. It’s been a (mostly) fun 15 years, but that’s it, I’m out.
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Not to be alarmist but…this is what’s called a six-sigma event, now unfolding in Antarctica. Otherwise known as a once-in-7.5-million-year event. Hang onto your hats. HT @EliotJacobson
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With more and more of those incredibly annoying @JustStop_Oil #climate protesters being locked up, as you can see, the traffic is now flowing freely .
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This is absolutely bananas. There is NOTHING like this on the instrumental record. Its likely impact is probably immeasurable. But is it leading our news bulletins & on newspaper front pages? . Nope.
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Shocking to witness how pedestrianisation and the #waroncars has ripped the heart out of once-thriving Edinburgh
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With governments cracking down on & criminalising #climate protests aimed at disrupting motorways, we can soon expect to see traffic, ahem, flowing freely.
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Thank you, Twitter, this is the best thing I’ve seen in a long, long time. (BBC coverage of North Korean funeral overlaid on QE2 footage).
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Quite simply - astonishing. There’s no other word for it. Almost beyond belief.
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As perfect a metaphor for our divided & unequal world as you are likely to see.
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We were warned that mega droughts could cause rivers to run dry by mid-century. Well, it’s happening right now, from 66 disappeared rivers in China to Germany & US mid-west. We’re in a #ClimateEmergency, despite our efforts to pretend otherwise.
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OMFG. Turns out The Day After Tomorrow could possibly be the Year After Next?. We're hanging by a thread from full-scale #climate collapse that will be far, far worse than even our direst imaginings.
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If you look very, very closely, you may detect just the slightest hint of a trend.
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So you think peaceful protestors begging for action on #ClimateEmergency are annoying? Wait till what hit Zaragoza in northern Spain today, arrives on our doorstep. And yesterday, “Code Red” summer storm killed 2 in Amsterdam, shut down airport, trains.
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“We’ll be looking at what we can do to maximise the protection of children” says Anthony Blinken. May be out in a limb here, but perhaps NOT arming a genocidal state with 2,000-pound bombs to massacre civilians would be a good place for US to start?.
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Ok, a tornado. In Milan. In Italy. In July. What next? Giant hailstones? .(Well, yes).
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Laughing psychopaths aka presenters on ‘GB News’ fall around the studio in laughter at descriptions of deadly effects of #heatwaves. Grim.
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Bloke from the BBC decided to give one of the former colonies a jolly good lecture on carbon emissions. The reply, from the president of Guyana to the paternalistic hypocrisy & double standards of The West, is truly priceless.
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With wildfires & #heatwaves hammering Rhodes, Greece etc, how about heading instead to Switzerland for a relaxing break?.
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Worried by the deadly flooding in #Valencia? Wait till you see what else has been going on around our hotter, wetter, more dangerous world in just the last 7 days. Via @weareyellowdot .
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Holy mackerel, there are THOUSANDS of people here already, fantastic turnout in Dublin for #FridaysforFuture #schoolstrike #ActOnClimate #climatebreakdown
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October 16th, and multiple locations in France above 30C. Meanwhile, horrifying flooding in Spain. This is what the #ClimateEmergency looks like in real time.
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It’s September. Peak month for apples in Ireland. Head-wrecking to see these @dunnesstores apples shipped in from NEW ZEALAND. Our food system is so, so broken.
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“Can you imagine the British army going into Belfast and blowing up every house, every hospital, on chance there might be a Republican in a cellar somewhere”?. @mrjamesob on Israeli genocide in #Gaza. Horrified that @LeoVaradkar refuses to grasp this.
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This is what courage looks like. Alizée, 22, interrupted French Open to warn us all that the #ClimateEmergency is spiralling out of control. She risks prosecution, incarceration & ridicule for her peaceful actions. Wish I had a tenth of her bravery.
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This is what happens when we in Ireland treat European Parliament elections as a bit of a joke. Nobody is laughing now.
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So many #Climate emergencies worldwide, it's hard to keep up. But #AmazonRainforest burning is stand-out global disaster. Every red dot below represents a significant fire
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This gifted, hard working young Irish athlete has achieved more in her 21 years than all the mouth-breathing bigots, racists & anonymous trolls and knuckle draggers managed in their entire sad lives. And they know it. Hate speech ≠ free speech.
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This time, at least let’s not pretend we didn’t know.
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It’s like watching the Nuremberg war crimes hearings in colour. Breadth and scale of Israeli atrocities over last 95 days are among worst human rights violations in the last century. Shame on them, and the many quislings who support them.
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@weather_talk @ECOWARRIORSS @EliotJacobson Repeat after me: "An event with a likely frequency probability of once in 7.5 million years". That's five-sigma. Current event is in fact six-sigma, ie. vastly more remote likelihood.
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As a small-but-important correction on the above: six-sigma means this is more like a one-in-a-one-billion year event than one-in-7.5m years.
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Drove 150km up the motorway this glorious late summer’s evening; arrived home to notice there was not a solitary bug splash on the windscreen. Nothing. Nature is disappearing – right before our eyes, yet we’re barely even noticing.
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Don’t know the identity of the cartoonist, but this, as #COP15 on #biodiversity continues, is…perfect
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Now that peaceful #climate protests have been banned and criminalised in many countries, guess there’s no need to ever worry about having our streets blocked again, right?.
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So, 30.7C recorded. In Europe. In January. Never happened before on the instrumental record. Who knows what else 2024 has in store?
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Heartbreaking scenes in Glasthule today. This pedestrian wasteland used to fit THREE parking spaces, now look at it. Why are soulless planners trying to kill our towns & villages with this relentless #WarOnTheCar?. Oh, the humanity!
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@weather_talk @ECOWARRIORSS @EliotJacobson I'm sure random anonymous 'weather' guy knows far more about it than the teams of scientists, many of them based in Antarctica, who actually study and collate the data and publish their findings in top scientific journals.
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This is the most exquisitely delicious take-down of Cruella Braverman you’re ever likely to see. Young people are just not “playing the game” with these ghouls anymore. Enjoy 🧑🍳.
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Think about it for a moment: people desperately trying to prevent scenarios like this are criminalised and jailed for up to 5 years for *peaceful* protests against #climate breakdown. In truth, they are heroes and we owe them everything.
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Greece’s agricultural breadbasket. “Can’t happen here” has become “Happening here, there and everywhere”.
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Fancy some delicious artesian water from the aquifers of…Fiji? . It’s packed in a plastic bottle and shipped 16,000km from a water-stressed island to Ireland for your thirst-quenching pleasure . This is late-stage capitalism.
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It’s only a few centimetres long, but this is by some distance the most important piece in any of our papers today. #InsectApocalypse
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Sicily, today. A reminder that #climate system is indifferent to politics, negotiations & diplomacy. As it heats, this will get worse and worse until societies are overwhelmed & thrown in to a desperate scramble for survival. It’s really that simple.
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Who are the true victims of Gaza? The countless dead, maimed, orphaned kids, the murdered medics, aid workers, journalists? The 2m-plus starved, traumatised civilians?. No, apparently it’s the Zionists who feel offended by Irish people not condoning a colonial genocide.
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“We scientists have been trying to warn you for decades we’re heading towards a fucking catastrophe, and we’ve been ignored We’re not joking. We’re not lying. We’re not exaggerating” . - @ClimateHuman on #climate, as quoted in today’s @businessposthq .
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“I am concerned we have reached a point we cannot return from”. Astonishingly blunt assessment of ocean heating and #ClimateBreakdown from meteorologist in Florida.
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As Leo Varadkar this week argued that investing in rail should really mean more roads & more cars, let’s look at a typical urban European hellscape as a direct result of the woke #WarOnCars. We’ve been warned, sheeple, wake up.
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It appears that the arsonists who’ve obviously been starting all the recent devastating wildfires have changed tack and are, ahem, now causing massive, unprecedented flooding events.
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2008-'22, a 15-year guide to #climate excuses. 2008 - sorry, recession.2009 - same.2010 - same.2011 - still recession.2012 - ditto.2013 - economic recovery.2014- ditto.2015 - ditto.2016 - sorry, Brexit.2017 - Brexit.2018 - same.2019 - same.2020 - Covid.2021 - Covid.2022 - War.
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Stop whatever you’re doing and take a few minutes to listen to this breathtaking speech by @laurensunfl0wer telling oil chiefs that, since they have no humanity to appeal to, we will instead fight to stop them destroying our living planet for profit.
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So, according to Tubridy, Greta Thunberg “needs to be brought home, to watch a movie or something”. This is fast approaching the level of trolling. This guy btw has teenage daughters. I wonder is he as patronising to them?.
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“Tourist numbers in Ireland could increase by more than 9% on current levels if there was an average increase in temperatures of 4C”. At +4C, billions will be facing famine, chaos & death. Good to know they can holiday in Ireland to get away from it all.
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“Never was there an occupation in history in which occupier presented himself as the victim”. Brilliant analysis by Gideon Levy of @Haaretz of psychology of Israel’s cruel, racist occupation. In essence, Palestinians are sub-human to them.
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Saying goodbye is not easy. My dear mother Ann Gibbons passed away peacefully yesterday evening. She will be sorely missed by so many who knew and loved her. R.I.P.
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Is it too much to expect that humans might take a break from butchering one another and instead concentrate on tackling our common enemy: an angry, overheated #climate system that is shaping up to wipe us all off the map like we never existed.
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Some years ago, Prof James Hansen warned that as #climate change worsened, it would reach a point where “all hell would break loose in the North Atlantic”. With below vast energy transfer into atmosphere, that point may be fast approaching
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Honestly believe @GretaThunberg's new book is most important yet on #climate. I'd like to put a copy in the hands of key #media folk in Ireland. They REALLY need to read this, asap. Can you help me ID who to send them to? .(ok, I bought quite a few!)
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This, from @ClimateSciBreak is just…perfect. Watch the full clip, you won’t be disappointed. 🧑🍳 .
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Astonishing, simply astonishing. "Ornithologists suspect bar-headed geese fly over Mt. Everest because they have been doing so since before it existed. When it began rising up from the land, some 60 million years ago, they simply moved upward with it".
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Areas of the #Arctic, near North Pole are today 24ºC above normal. No, that is not a misprint. 24ºC above normal. The #ClimateEmergency is getting ready to blow. (HT to @kevpluck)
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Credit where credit is due. Well done, @gardainfo, no messing, that’s how you deal with racist thugs. More, please.
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If the #WarOnCars continues, this is the kind of urban hellscape that could be coming to an Irish city near you. Resist, sheeple, resist!.
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Crowds still building in Dublin, looks like well over 10,000 at this point, with more still streaming in to join. Politicians, meet your new generation of voters .#FridaysForFuture #SchoolsStrike4Climate .#ClimateStrike
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Dublin City centre just now. These nightmarish scene will only become ever more common if the Anti-Car-Everywhere zealots have their wicked way.
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Dear celebs keen to really help our health system, just follow the three easy steps below:. 1. Pay.2. Your.3. Taxes.
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Main Street, Midleton, yesterday. Your street tomorrow. All those politicians, special interest lobbyists & media outlets who play down & distract from tackling the #ClimateEmergency, they own this.
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Before-and-after images coming from the #LibyaFloods are simply mind-blowing. This looks like the aftermath of a massive artillery attack rather than when we’d associate with a flooding event.
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Just back from a weekend in Cork city; astonishing to see how far ahead of Dublin it is in terms of pedestrianisation & how incredibly vibrant whole city centre is. Half tempted to up sticks & move south!
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The rain in Spain falls mainly….as a deluge. Murcia earlier today. And on it goes, floods in one country, blistering heatwaves in the next. That’s what the #ClimateEmergency looks like, and no amount of political wishful thinking will make it go away.
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That’s quite the progressive #Budget2025. If you’re a low earner scraping by on €22,000 a year, you’re €17 poorer today. On the other hand, high earners with combined income of €300,000 are €1,774 better off today. Make that make sense.
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I only ordered a croissant 🥐 and jam with my cuppa but it came garnished with a side-order of SIX separate pieces of plastic. Unless and until we start taxing every single item of plastic, this insanity will continue
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Paris did it. Dublin can too. Once stranglehold of traffic is broken, cities thrive, business booms, air quality improves, emissions drop. And the public LOVE it (but only after it happens).
In Paris, just 4.3% -- 4.3%!! -- of the trips within the colored areas now occur in private cars. Source:
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At Dart station in Sandymount just now; visitor to Dublin asks me which side of the line for city centre? . Good question too, as there’re no signage whatever at DART stations, 40 years later, to give simple directions like this. Cmon @IrishRail, this isn’t asking much.
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Here was the scene in Dun Laoghaire last night. SUV properly parked, except it’s so huge, it also blocks half the footpath. We need a new set of rules for vehicles like this, preferably rules restricting them from built-up areas.
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Where exactly are fabled “custodians of rural Ireland” as this annual carnage ramps up? . Wildlife incinerated, ecology destroyed, air polluted but nobody gives a damn, as it’s their “right” to “clear the hills” for subsidised sheep. This madness has to stop.
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Brilliant presentation by Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh in calling out the “overt, genocidal rhetoric” of Israeli government, “matched by actions on the ground” in #Gaza. Make no mistake, this is a key moment in 21st century history.
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I think this picture, of teen #climate campaigner @GretaThunberg standing in front of a coal-fired power plant, may come to be seen as one of the most iconic images of 2018
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Less than 4% of people in EU are involved in farming or agribusiness, yet they get 30% of total EU budget (nearly €60bn p.a.) in subsidies & supports from taxpayers across Europe.
French farmers pour manure on the office of the biodiversity agency in Cleracq in the department of Lo and Garonne.
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All anyone needs to know about #Eurovision2024. An opportunity for a state in middle of carrying out a genocide to launder its blood-soaked reputation in a music competition while its victims die & their flags are banned. So much for “non-political”.
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I’m not a #climate denier, new MEP Ciaran Mullooly explained to @morningireland just now. He then went on to reject nature restoration & parrot Michael Fitzmaurice’s anti-green, anti-science populist agenda. What a total waste of a seat in Europe.
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“Once collapse occurs, it will be impossible to reverse, even if temperatures are brought back down in the future”. #Climate breakdown is a one-way ticket.
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Imagine living in a country where Gov’t funding for protection of all wild birds is €16,000 p.a., while it pumps over 1,000 x more (€19.2m) into. greyhound racing. That country is Ireland.
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Perfect visual metaphor for the #ClimateEmergency, we’ll carry on with our lives, ignoring it and denying it – until we can’t.
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Astonishing 40-year view of US pedestrian fatalities. From 2010 onwards, decades of progress thrown into reverse as oversized SUVs explode in numbers, egged on by aggressive marketing. Another ugly trend likely to cross the Atlantic.
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“Hezbollah-controlled suburbs”, .“Hamas militants”, .“Hamas-controlled heath ministry”. This is the language used just now on RTÉ news. No mention of “US-backed Israeli death squads” or that its leader is a war criminal wanted by ICC for prosecution. Balance?.
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How about this for an alternate headline, @rtenews ?. “Plans to enhance public transport, reduce congestion, pollution & noise in Dublin City to go ahead next month”
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So on-brand for 2024: tourists hanging out by the pool in Athens as gigantic smoke plumes from out-of-control wildfires gather overhead.
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