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Dave Vetter

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Climate journo; Forbes Senior Contributor; Consultant @ University of Oxford; @oxfordsmithschool. Tips/leads: vitruvius.09 on Signal.
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Yupp.

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📢NEW: There's another election on the horizon, and this one is far scarier. I wrote about The Heritage Foundation's well-funded, tightly coordinated plan to create an ever more brutal future - and it'll affect everyone on Earth.

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Britain really needs to stop simply handing citizenship out to Telegraph columnists until we can figure out what's going on.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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🚨A great summary of Tory net zero sceptics getting the boot in the UK elections from my colleague Carlton Reid. Also: why can't the media talk about the progressive Green party, which won four seats, while it lavishes attention on the aggressively xenophobic Reform party, which won four seats?

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As broken as the UK electoral system is, it has at least given us this.

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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Alt text of a tweet: Jacob Rees Mogg loses his seat Somerset NE and Hanham.

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Dan O’Sullivan's avatar Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social
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bittersweet to see this Conservative member of parliament lose his seat. Michael Fabricant you may be the craziest white boy on Earth

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Being on Eastern Time means I'm getting to watch the Tories get absolutely obliterated at a civilised hour, and I love that for me.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.

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Yung En Chee's avatar Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social
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👀 CEO who presided over SBTi's capitulation to allow use of carbon credits for scope 3 emissions steps down Board 🙏msg leaves out that staff quit in protest cos C credits are “scientifically, socially & from a climate perspective a hoax” that cld provide a “survival floor for fossil fuel companies"

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With #Beryl barreling across the Caribbean as the earliest cat. 5 on record, let’s remember that things are just going to get worse as we continue to consume nearly 100 million barrels of oil every day.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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There are a lot of climate people out there who might say that if enabling an ongoing genocide isn't a dealbreaker, why worry about climate change?

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As hopeless as it is, and as basic as this makes me sound, the people who rescue marine animals from our horrible garbage are among my favourite people in all the world.

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We’re making a lot of plastic. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, we produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic. But that's equivalent in weight to the amount of CO₂ we emitted to the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024.

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Jan Rosenow's avatar Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social
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Unthinkable just a few years ago: Almost 20% of all cars sold in 2024 are predicted to be electric vehicles. BNEF expects global EV sales to reach 16.6 million in 2024.

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Elaine Johnson 's avatar Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social
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"I think that when we see a multi-billion-dollar corporation, hiring a multi-billion-dollar US law firm to go after environmental charities for legal costs, we do have to ask whether people ought to be protected from this type of legal strategy."

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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The book title, I should clarify, is Climate Obstruction *Across* Europe. My apologies!

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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📢To paraphrase singer Utah Phillips: “Climate action is not dying, it is being killed. And those who are killing it have names and addresses.” We know who they are, and we even have a good idea about how to counter their efforts.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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📢NEW: When it comes to climate inaction, our media and the IPCC have been trying to tell the story of Star Wars without Darth Vader. A new book, Climate Obstruction in Europe, shows how this approach is making fools of us all.

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"Using our new range of pCO2 values, we calculate average Earth system sensitivity and equilibrium climate sensitivity, resulting in 13.9°C and 7.2°C per doubling of pCO2, respectively." Audible gulp.
@hausfath.bsky.social ?

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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📢NEW from me: Carbon dioxide removal is "stuck between a rock and a hard place": on the one hand, there are concerns that companies could use it to delay cutting their emissions. On the other, every pathway to zero carbon requires CDR. So what should we do? @oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social

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Lauren's avatar Lauren @laurenkayes.bsky.social
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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The full-scale media operation against this guy on behalf of the rich has been utterly nauseating to watch.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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🚨NEW: "In our unreal world, in which we’re continually incentivised to ignore a civilisation-scale crisis, apathy simply swims with the social, cultural and economic tides, both actively and passively reinforcing the status quo." Read my latest for The Climate Laundry!

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paolo bosonin's avatar paolo bosonin @paolobosonin.bsky.social
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One of the most interesting and thought provoking discussions in the On Thin Ice podcast series yet. Thanks to Bilha and Saray for all their insights!

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📢 OUT NOW: I'm proud to present ON THIN ICE - EPISODE 5! 📢 @paolobosonin.bsky.social speaks with climate entrepreneur Bilha Ndirangu and alpinist Saray Khumalo, who share their strategies for making Africa a global climate innovation hub. Spotify and Apple links in next post.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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🚨NEW: "The real threat to meaningful climate action is not climate denial, it’s ambivalence and apathy." My latest, on the UK elections and the politics of despair, for The Climate Laundry.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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There's a tendency for people to believe that "sustainability" means "doing eco stuff", when what it actually means is "doing things that can physically continue to be done".

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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Please read Rachel's beautifully lyrical call for rewilding.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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Without requiring hyperbole, it's possible to say that technofeudalism means the eradication of human culture in search of profit.

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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Tonight at Word Up Books we got to hear author Mary Heglar speak to @kendrawrites.bsky.social about her novel Troubled Waters, about climate grief, and about fiction needing to reflect our climate reality.

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Just out: a potentially very significant mitigation paper, this time on hard-to-abate emissions. The authors find a combo of demand and tech interventions can substantially lower emissions in industry, farming, buildings & transport, hugely reducing reliance on CDR.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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Many thanks indeed Laura! More coming your way!

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Dave Vetter's avatar Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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I think he thinks of himself as a CEO, but doesn't know what a CEO does.

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