Physicist. If your politics requires you to reject basic physics, your politics is a fantasy ignorance cult. Surrendering your capacity to learn isn't freedom.
Marsden, UK
Joined May 2008
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Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
Itโs very strange that so many people donโt care about their children
Denial of the need for net zero is climate denial.
Treating facts of planetary physics as divisive trigger words is performative infantilism, not politics.
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
Isnโt it great that weโre celebrating David Attenboroughโs 100th birthday whilst ignoring the message heโs spent the last 20 years trying to get through to us:
The right-wing press now exists to promote self-harm.
More accurately, a fantasy that we're better off if we ignore the harm we're doing to ourselves and treat those who want solutions as the enemy.
This isn't naรฏvety. It's a performative ignorance cult, and it's vile.
Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time
"All 98 editorials opposing climate action were in right-leaning titles, incl the Sun, Mail, Telegraph, Times & Express"
By Josh Gabbatiss & Sylvia Hayes
carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-โฆ
Sadly the last ever episode of Science in Action, the excellent flagship science programme of the BBC World Service. Thanks @PeaseRoland & crew for your work.
They haven't held back. It's a belter...๐ฅ
bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6ygโฆ
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
In a new article, @S_VanTeutem and Joe Hasell give a sense of the scale of global inequality โ and explain how those of us living in rich countries find ourselves in an extraordinary position to do good.
ourworldindata.org/global-inโฆ
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
Itโs โjust some weatherโ in Portugal.
People who deny climate science are every bit as deranged as anti vax conspiracists.
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
If we reach 1.5ยฐC, this is what is going to happen:
โผ๏ธEvery fraction of a degree mattersโbeyond 1.5ยฐC, the risks and damages from extreme weather, sea-level rise, and biodiversity loss increase dramatically.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
What Is "Nobel Disease", And Why Do So Many Prizewinners Go On To Develop It? | IFLScience share.google/2atjO1jOZKqh4CIโฆ
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
Itโs like weโre living in the first 15 minutes of โThe Day After Tomorrowโ where thereโs crazy weather all over the world, from India to the USA, as politicians dismiss the science, just before civilisation collapses
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
The fact that no one cares about this will forever be a mystery to me. Stupidity? Cognitive dissonance? Evil? IDK. But it really pisses me off that the people doing nothing are taking all of us - and all species - with them. ๐คฌ
apnews.com/article/climate-uโฆ
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
What could possibly be behind this letter?
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
Many petitions and campaigns to ban artificial grass, for residential use, childrens play areas, sports, or in town centres. All pollute, overheat, harm our environment and do nothing for nature. Rubber has to be replaced as it migrates into soil and water ways.
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
The Times caught out totally mangling facts on costs of climate inaction. Thanks @DrSimEvans for getting to the truth: โInstead, it was the impact of NOT cutting emissions that the OBR had found would be "far more damaging than thought"
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
I live in a country that gives military support to another country which is killing thousands of civilians while proscribing an organisation which protests about it.
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
This article will soon be illegal.
Designating Palestine Action a terrorist organisation on an equal footing with ISIS is a grotesque attack on democracy.
It's those who facilitated genocide who should be on trial.
Piece for @The_NewArab ๐
newarab.com/opinion/if-palesโฆ
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
"I support Palestine action, and I want you to say the same. What are they going to do, jail us all?"
George Monbiot:
Bob D ๎จ๐๐ฆ retweeted
Independent experts today urged the UK ๐ฌ๐ง not to ban the โdirect actionโ group @Pal_action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
โActs of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as #terrorism.โ
