Fact-checking the climate 'experts' on your timeline. It's not magic, it's atmospheric physics.
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ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
The planet is hotter now than it’s been throughout the history of human civilisation. We have no real idea how bad this is going to get.
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
🌍 FOLLOW BACK FRIDAY 🌍
Climate Twitter/X — let’s find each other. 👋
If you: 🌡️ Talk about climate science
🌱 Share solutions
🔬 Post research & evidence
📊 Love a good graph
🔥 Or just want to understand what’s actually happening to our planet…
Follow me + drop a 🌍 below.
I’ll follow back as many genuine climate accounts as I can.
Let’s build a community that can have the arguments, share the evidence, challenge misinformation — and still keep it civil.
RT to help good climate accounts find each other.
#FollowBackFriday #ClimateChange #ClimateScience #ClimateAction
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
25 years ago, the world watched in disbelief as lives were changed forever.
Today, we remember the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, and the countless families, friends, first responders and communities who carried the consequences long afterwards.
Whatever our differences, some things should unite us.
Remembering those we lost, honouring those who helped, and choosing compassion over hatred.
We remember. We honour. We will never forget. 🕊️
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
“It’s just El Niño.”
That argument misses the point.
El Niño is a natural fluctuation riding on top of a rapidly warming climate.
August 2026 just tied the hottest month ever recorded at +1.65°C above pre-industrial levels.
Natural variability explains the wiggles.
It doesn't explain the rising trend.
That's physics. 🌍🔥
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
Global war
Climate collapse
AI singularity
Are these now all happening at once ?
50%Yes
29%No
21%Unsure
14 votes • Final results ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
Qué barbaridad esta tormenta que se ha desarrollado en el Mediterráneo....
Puedo estar equivocado pero no recuerdo haber visto unos topes nubosos así en nuestra región.
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
Studies show: Trees are the true air conditioners. Under a tree, the temperature can be 15 C° cooler than measured in the ambient air. Shade and evaporation create the same effect as a conventional A/C, but without electricity. A tree produces about 20-30 KW/h, as much as ten A/C
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
🌍🌿 “But CO₂ is making the planet greener!”
Yes. And that’s not a secret.
Satellite observations show significant global greening since the 1980s.
Higher CO₂ increases photosynthesis and has contributed substantially to this greening — the IPCC recognises CO₂ fertilisation as an important negative feedback on climate change.
But climate deniers often stop the story there.
🌱 More CO₂ → more photosynthesis
🌿 More vegetation → more carbon temporarily absorbed
❌ Therefore → “CO₂ is good, so climate change isn't a problem.”
That last step simply doesn't follow.
Plants don't magically absorb unlimited CO₂.
Their response is constrained by water, nitrogen, phosphorus, temperature and other environmental factors.
NASA notes that the fertilisation effect is already becoming less efficient as CO₂ rises.
And “greener” doesn't mean “healthier”.
Climate change can simultaneously cause: 🔥 heat stress
💧 drought
🌡️ ecosystem shifts
🔥 wildfires
🌊 flooding
🐝 biodiversity loss
🌾 changing crop conditions
In fact, some greening is caused by afforestation and agricultural intensification, rather than CO₂ alone.
The irony?
The extra CO₂ is both helping plants absorb more carbon AND warming the planet.
The first effect is a negative feedback that slows warming.
It does not cancel the greenhouse effect.
🌍 CO₂ is plant food.
It is also a greenhouse gas.
Both things can be true at the same time.
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
Hurricanes in the Mediterranean...all completely normal...carry on...#climatecrisis
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
🌍 An alternative timeline for Earth…
Imagine we had listened to the scientists in the early 1970s.
1970's
We recognise the risks of rising CO₂ and make cutting emissions a global priority. Governments massively invest in energy efficiency, public transport, nuclear, wind and solar. Fossil-fuel subsidies begin disappearing.
1980s
Clean energy becomes mainstream. Cities are redesigned around public transport, cycling and walking. Buildings become dramatically more efficient. Oil dependence begins falling rather than rising.
1990s
Renewables become cheaper through decades of investment and deployment. Electric vehicles begin entering the mainstream much earlier. Forest protection and ecosystem restoration become major global priorities.
2000s
Instead of spending trillions responding to increasingly severe climate impacts, much of that money is invested in resilient infrastructure, clean technology, healthcare and education.
2010s
Global emissions are already falling rapidly. Coal is largely obsolete in many countries. Air pollution has dramatically declined. Millions fewer people are exposed to dirty air.
2020s
We still have a changing climate — but a far less dangerous one.
Less warming.
Less extreme heat.
Less sea-level rise.
Less glacier and ice-sheet loss.
Less ocean acidification.
Less pressure on food and water supplies.
And the benefits wouldn't just be environmental.
Cleaner air means healthier people.
Better public transport means less congestion.
Efficient homes mean lower energy bills.
Renewable energy means greater energy security.
New industries create millions of jobs.
Cleaner cities become quieter, greener and more pleasant places to live.
We wouldn't have created a perfect world.
But we could have created a different one.
The tragedy isn't that humanity didn't know anything about climate change.
By the 1970s, scientists were already warning that increasing CO₂ would warm the planet.
The tragedy is that we had decades in which we could have acted gradually, cheaply and intelligently.
Instead, we delayed.
Climate action isn't about saving the planet from some distant future.
It's about choosing which future we want to live in.
And importantly:
It's not too late to choose the better one. 🌱
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #ClimateScience
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
We wouldn't have created a perfect world.
But we could have created a different one.
Instead we delayed obfuscated deliberately misinformed funded climate wars over fossil fools
Its not too late to avoid the worst
But will the lurch to the hard right destroy civilisation as we know it?
@ExtinctionR @Greens
🌍 An alternative timeline for Earth…
Imagine we had listened to the scientists in the early 1970s.
1970's
We recognise the risks of rising CO₂ and make cutting emissions a global priority. Governments massively invest in energy efficiency, public transport, nuclear, wind and solar. Fossil-fuel subsidies begin disappearing.
1980s
Clean energy becomes mainstream. Cities are redesigned around public transport, cycling and walking. Buildings become dramatically more efficient. Oil dependence begins falling rather than rising.
1990s
Renewables become cheaper through decades of investment and deployment. Electric vehicles begin entering the mainstream much earlier. Forest protection and ecosystem restoration become major global priorities.
2000s
Instead of spending trillions responding to increasingly severe climate impacts, much of that money is invested in resilient infrastructure, clean technology, healthcare and education.
2010s
Global emissions are already falling rapidly. Coal is largely obsolete in many countries. Air pollution has dramatically declined. Millions fewer people are exposed to dirty air.
2020s
We still have a changing climate — but a far less dangerous one.
Less warming.
Less extreme heat.
Less sea-level rise.
Less glacier and ice-sheet loss.
Less ocean acidification.
Less pressure on food and water supplies.
And the benefits wouldn't just be environmental.
Cleaner air means healthier people.
Better public transport means less congestion.
Efficient homes mean lower energy bills.
Renewable energy means greater energy security.
New industries create millions of jobs.
Cleaner cities become quieter, greener and more pleasant places to live.
We wouldn't have created a perfect world.
But we could have created a different one.
The tragedy isn't that humanity didn't know anything about climate change.
By the 1970s, scientists were already warning that increasing CO₂ would warm the planet.
The tragedy is that we had decades in which we could have acted gradually, cheaply and intelligently.
Instead, we delayed.
Climate action isn't about saving the planet from some distant future.
It's about choosing which future we want to live in.
And importantly:
It's not too late to choose the better one. 🌱
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #ClimateScience
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
We really need to stop prioritizing “individual action” within the climate movement.
Your “personal carbon footprint” was a distraction marketing tactic that Big Oil spent BILLIONS advertising to you.
We need collective action, and it needs to be the main priority.
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
What could have been. Except a handful of people wanted to keep making obscene profits..
🌍 An alternative timeline for Earth…
Imagine we had listened to the scientists in the early 1970s.
1970's
We recognise the risks of rising CO₂ and make cutting emissions a global priority. Governments massively invest in energy efficiency, public transport, nuclear, wind and solar. Fossil-fuel subsidies begin disappearing.
1980s
Clean energy becomes mainstream. Cities are redesigned around public transport, cycling and walking. Buildings become dramatically more efficient. Oil dependence begins falling rather than rising.
1990s
Renewables become cheaper through decades of investment and deployment. Electric vehicles begin entering the mainstream much earlier. Forest protection and ecosystem restoration become major global priorities.
2000s
Instead of spending trillions responding to increasingly severe climate impacts, much of that money is invested in resilient infrastructure, clean technology, healthcare and education.
2010s
Global emissions are already falling rapidly. Coal is largely obsolete in many countries. Air pollution has dramatically declined. Millions fewer people are exposed to dirty air.
2020s
We still have a changing climate — but a far less dangerous one.
Less warming.
Less extreme heat.
Less sea-level rise.
Less glacier and ice-sheet loss.
Less ocean acidification.
Less pressure on food and water supplies.
And the benefits wouldn't just be environmental.
Cleaner air means healthier people.
Better public transport means less congestion.
Efficient homes mean lower energy bills.
Renewable energy means greater energy security.
New industries create millions of jobs.
Cleaner cities become quieter, greener and more pleasant places to live.
We wouldn't have created a perfect world.
But we could have created a different one.
The tragedy isn't that humanity didn't know anything about climate change.
By the 1970s, scientists were already warning that increasing CO₂ would warm the planet.
The tragedy is that we had decades in which we could have acted gradually, cheaply and intelligently.
Instead, we delayed.
Climate action isn't about saving the planet from some distant future.
It's about choosing which future we want to live in.
And importantly:
It's not too late to choose the better one. 🌱
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #ClimateScience
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
According to the Milankovitch (orbital) Cycles, the Earth should have continued to gradually COOL as it had done over the last 6000 years.
Instead, the Earth is warming rapidly mostly due to humans burning fossil fuels and increasing the 'greenhouse' effect.
Link: science.nasa.gov/science-res…
The global mean temperature increased naturally out of the last glaciation by about 6°C in 6,000 years, or 0.1 °C per century. The current rate is about 2°C per century. ~20x faster .
See "Global temperature changes mapped across the past 24,000 years" - Marcott & Shakun 2021
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
Here's the full story of 9/11, the one conspiracists have to downplay or deny outright. It only reads as impossible if you believe the hijackers were unsophisticated men who couldn't have managed it, which is why that assumption is load-bearing for every alternative theory. It's also wrong. The men who planned it and flew the aircraft were engineers and graduate students. The plan had a history, it failed on its first attempt in 1993, and it was redesigned over the next eight years by a man with a mechanical engineering degree from North Carolina A&T.
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
🌊 El Niño & La Niña
what are they?
Ever wondered why the climate can swing from one extreme to another?
El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases of a natural climate pattern called ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation).
🔥 El Niño:
Winds across the tropical Pacific weaken, allowing unusually warm water to spread eastwards toward South America.
This changes atmospheric circulation and can influence weather across the entire planet.
❄️ La Niña:
The trade winds strengthen, pushing warm water westwards towards Asia and allowing cooler deep water to rise in the eastern Pacific.
🌍 The result? Changes in rainfall, drought, storms and temperatures in different parts of the world.
Importantly, ENSO is natural variability — it isn't caused by human-caused climate change.
But here's the crucial point:
👉 El Niño can temporarily push global temperatures higher, while La Niña can temporarily suppress them.
Think of ENSO as a natural “wiggle” on top of the long-term warming trend caused primarily by rising greenhouse gases.
So when someone says “warming is just El Niño”, they're confusing short-term variability with the underlying trend.
📈 Natural variability changes the path. Greenhouse gases change the baseline.
#ElNino #LaNina #ClimateScience #ClimateChange
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
🌎 FOLLOW BACK FRIDAY 🌎
Looking to connect with more people who are interested in:
🌡️ Climate science & climate change
🌊 Weather & natural climate variability
🔬 Science & evidence
🌍 Our changing planet
🧠 Critical thinking & fact-checking
Drop a 🌍 in the replies and let's find some new accounts to follow!
If you follow me, I'll check out your profile and follow back where I can.
Let's grow a community that values evidence over misinformation. 🤝
#FollowBackFriday #FBF #ClimateScience #ScienceTwitter #Climate
ClimateChap 🌍 retweeted
It's genuinely maddening that scientists can publish super accurate models that get things right, and conservatives can just LIE and pretend that they didn't and all their predictions failed.
I guess we’re all science illiterate now, but actually yes scientists were ABSOLUTELY correct with their modeling
science.nasa.gov/earth/clima…
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
