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Mark Lynas

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3 years

Do you remember the famous 97% study - that 97% of climate science supported the consensus on human-caused climate change? Well we have just published an update for 2012-2021 papers in the same journal, Environmental Research Letters. The figure is now... drumroll please...99.9%!

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It's over for nuclear in Germany. The SDP-Green coalition has won a vote in the Bundestag backing more coal burning so that the three remaining nuclear plants can be switched off as planned this year. Climate targets may have to be abandoned as a result.

Kohlekraftwerke: Bundestag gibt grünes Licht für Gas-Ersatz

Der Bundestag hat wegen der Gaskrise beschlossen, dass mehr Kohlekraftwerke zur Stromerzeugung herangezogen werden. Zudem wird das Energieunternehmen Uniper staatlich gestützt. Kritik daran gibt es...

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With each new Russian atrocity in Ukraine, calls for NATO intervention increase. Are we sleepwalking towards nuclear war? The appetite for risk is increasing with the horror of civilian casualties. Putin is cornered and may escalate. What's the worst that can happen? Thread: 1/12

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New Nature paper out today states very clearly what is needed if governments are serious about limiting global heating to 1.5C, as agreed at Paris. Spoiler: No new fossil fuelled infrastructure, anywhere, ever. From now on. Read thread for details...

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Greenpeace and its allies just won a court case in the Philippines blocking Golden Rice from reaching millions of vitamin A-deficient young children. If this isn't a crime against humanity, I don't know what is. Avoidable deaths could total 100,000s. More:

Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism

First, a word of warning. If you donate money to Greenpeace, you might think you’re helping save the whales or the rainforests. But in reality, you may be complicit in a crime against humanity. Last...

www.spectator.co.uk

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2 years

Finally, there's an environmental group dedicated to stopping this madness. If this makes you as angry as it does me, please join @letsreplanet We've just won on the EU taxonomy. Most Germans support keeping nuclear switched on - the tide is turning.

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Here's the full article published by @ScienceAlly with all the above facts together with important context and sources from the peer-reviewed literature. Please do read and share - the word count is only 1,500. 12/12. END

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Oh, and nuclear in the UK is now planned to be carbon NEGATIVE, with the new Sizewell C plant potentially deploying air capture technology to use waste heat to sequester 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 a year. Eat your heart out, coal-addicted Germany!

'Megatonne' CO2 capture plant plan for Sizewell C

A consortium hoping to use heat from the UK’s proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station to capture carbon dioxide from the air on a giant scale say they have successfully completed a research and...

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Disastrous news from the Philippines- the Court of Appeals has sided with Greenpeace and the antis in blocking vit-A enhanced Golden Rice, which is now in widespread cultivation in the country. All planting must now stop, harming the interests of millions.

PhilRice acknowledges Court of Appeals’ decision granting the Writ of Kalikasan against Golden Rice...

On April 19, 2024, the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice), through the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC), received the decision of the Court of...

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Scientists are running out of words to describe the dramatic acceleration in global warming - Aug and now Sept 2023 were the hottest months ever recorded on Earth. The planet is entering dangerous territory, unprecedented for as much as 3 million years.

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3 years

This is huge climate news: the PM of Bangladesh is calling for developing countries to stop paying debts in order to fund essential adaptation now that the IPCC report has definitively linked extreme weather loss & damage impacts to climate change.

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“..re-assess CVF countries international debt burdens in response to the climate emergency and call international financial institutions, loan providers and donors to declare their consensus in supporting efforts towards restructuring internal loan..” PM Sheikh Hasina

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Finland's national Green Party has voted to endorse nuclear power in its manifesto, representing a historic moment in the evolution of the global environmental movement. Full story:

Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power - Alliance for Science

In a historic shift, Finland’s Green Party voted overwhelmingly to adopt a fully pro-nuclear stance at its national meeting. The party manifesto now states that nuclear is “sustainable energy” and...

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But this is why cool heads MUST ultimately prevail, even as emotions run high. The price of nuclear war is planetary suicide. No-one wins. Neither Zelensky nor Putin. It won’t save lives in Ukraine - it simply takes the death toll from the thousands into the billions. 11/12

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Eating grass-fed organic beef is the dietary equivalent of flying a private jet, yet many green-minded people seem to think the opposite. Once again, @GeorgeMonbiot sets them straight.

The most damaging farm products? Organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb

Analysis: You may be amazed by that answer, but the area of land used for grazing is vast compared with the meat and milk produced

www.theguardian.com

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The current wind lull in Europe is a big reality check for the renewables-only crowd. The reality is that no storage tech is remotely close to being able to run a whole continent for 2 weeks with low sun and no wind. If nuclear's out of the picture, only fossil fuels remain.

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Germany says the earliest it can get off Russian oil and gas is 2025. The EU says 2027. This is NOT true. They could stop buying Putin's dirty fossil fuels IMMEDIATELY if they wanted to truly support the people of Ukraine. In this thread I'll show you how... #switchoffputin 1/12

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Sri Lanka just did a massive experiment in converting the entire country to organic agriculture through banning imported artificial fertilizer. It helped push half a million people into poverty. When faith collides with reality...

In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong

A nationwide experiment is abandoned after producing only misery.

foreignpolicy.com

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6 years

1,500 private jet flights to Davos for global elite to talk about climate change: And then they wonder why ordinary folk get cynical about carbon taxes that disproportionately hurt the less well-off?

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“The elephant in the room at Cop27 is the cow." It's extraordinary that the meat and livestock industry - which gobbles up more than a quarter of the planet's surface - is not able to be discussed at the COP.

Replace animal farms with micro-organism tanks, say campaigners

Advocates of plant-based protein say 75% of world’s farmland should be rewilded to reduce emissions

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

With memories of the Cold War fading, some seem to suggest that nuclear war is worth risking. That is not what the science says. Nuclear war scenarios have been thoroughly evaluated using climate models - the same ones used by the IPCC to project global warming. 2/12

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According to the IPCC, our remaining 1.5C carbon budget is 420-580 Gt CO2. (To have a 50-66% chance of limiting warming to 1.5C) What does this mean? It means ALL PLANNED, PERMITTED AND UNDER CONSTRUCTION fossil infrastructure must be CANCELLED. Paging @ExtinctionR !

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Here's what we need to do: - No new coal or gas power plants, anywhere, ever. - Immediate transition to fully electric transport (no more diesel, petrol) - Stop all oil/coal/gas exploration (bye bye Shell/BP/Exxon) - Massive renewables+nuclear deployment - Decarbonise industry

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Surface temperatures plummet. The weather stays below freezing throughout the Northern Hemisphere summer. e.g. in Iowa temps remain below 0°C for 730 days straight. There is no growing season. This is what my generation used to call a 'nuclear winter'. 6/12

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This would cause an estimated 770 million direct deaths. These people are vaporised, incinerated, buried in flattened buildings or die within days from acute radiation sickness. In the US about a fifth of the population is killed outright. They are the lucky ones. 4/12

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Yay! Tanzanian farmers will no longer have access to drought-tolerant maize! Now they can stay malnourished and their kids can stay out of school. "Huge win" indeed. @foe_us you are an embarrassment to the environmental movement. Your opposition to science is shocking and immoral

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Huge win! Tanzania just banned all #GMO trials — including Monsanto's attempts to undermine sustainable agriculture.

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3 years

Big shoutout to my co-authors at Cornell University, Ben Houlton and Simon Perry. The Cornell Chronicle piece detailing the study is below.

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7 years

Dear @nhk_news - please stop siding with the anti-vaccine cult and instead report on the #MaddoxPrize of @rikomrnk . Young women die from cervical cancer because of what you're doing. You shame the media profession!

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Anti-GMO activists have managed to convince the Philippines supreme court to block the release of Bt eggplant and Golden Rice. The former reduces pesticides, the latter stops kids going blind from Vit A deficiency. This is a travesty of justice and a victory for misinformation.

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By years 3 & 4 after the nuclear exchange, global rainfall has fallen by half. It takes over a decade for anything like climatic normality to return to the planet. This is why radiation is unimportant. Long before any cancers show up, most people will already be dead. 7/12

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2 years

As President Zelensky says below, by buying Russian oil and gas Europe is financing genocide against the Ukrainian people. Our @letsreplanet polling - carried out by Savanta ComRes and released today - shows that 70% of European citizens would support an immediate boycott.

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The models are eerily specific. Averaged over 5 years, China sees a reduction in food calories of 97.2 percent, France by 97.5 percent, Russia by 99.7 percent, the UK by 99.5 percent and the US by 98.9 percent. In all these countries, virtually everyone starves to death. 9/12

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This is because almost all those who survive the initial bomb blasts die in the subsequent global famine. Food stocks are quickly exhausted, and less than a quarter of the population of most countries even lives past year 1. Dying from starvation is horrible. 8/12

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Firestorms from the explosions pour 150 Tg (teragrams) of soot into the atmosphere from burning cities and forests. Rising to the stratosphere, these black carbon particles block 60-70% of incoming sunlight, causing worldwide gloom. They also destroy most of the ozone layer. 5/12

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The US and Russia have deployable nuclear weapons inventories of roughly 4,000 warheads each, with many thousands more held in reserve. Over the last decade, scientists have studied a scenario where roughly half the inventories are detonated, involving 4,400 nuclear blasts. 3/12

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4 years

Despite pledging to peak emissions by 2030, China has gone on a coal plant-building spree. Total of 247 GW is currently in planning or development, six times Germany's entire coal capacity.

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The good news is that this probably does not cause a species-level extinction of Homo sapiens. It's also not as bad as the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Some humans survive to eke out a living on a devastated, barren planet. 10/12

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World ruminant livestock numbers have passed 4 billion, representing greater mass than all humans and wild mammals combined. This is the Anthropocene made flesh.

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4 months

Greenpeace is getting serious media pushback now on Golden Rice. We need to keep the pressure on, defend Filipino scientists & farmers growing vit A-enhanced rice, and ultimately help save lives of 1000s of malnourished children.

Our favourite charities are becoming bloated and confused

It's hard to credit that Greenpeace, now an oddly confused and compromised charity, was once one of the world's most powerful pressure groups, says Paul Baldwin

www.express.co.uk

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3 years

And here’s a perspective from the remaining 0.1%. Thankyou Steve!

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5 years

And if we fail? What does 4 degrees or above mean in terms of climate impacts? *shudder* This is a CLIMATE EMERGENCY. /the end

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Or we ditch the 1.5C target and go for 2C instead. That means: - 99% of coral reefs extinct - 65 million more people exposed to deadly heat - 2x as many plants, 3x animals lose 50% of their habitat as 1.5C - Arctic sea ice disappears - 10 million displaced by rising seas

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6 years

This is HUGE - after decades of implacable opposition to nuclear power, the Union of Concerned Scientists has reversed its position and now seeks to keep nuclear plants in the US open. Why? Because nukes closed early will be replaced by fossil fuels:

Environmental group: Keep open nuclear power plants

Nuclear energy is carbon-free but controversial.

www.axios.com

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4 years

Pro-nuclear environmentalists rally in Paris against Greenpeace, which is advocating closure of reactors despite the inevitable resulting rise in carbon emissions. #ClimateEmergency

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7 years

The way activist groups abused science and sidelined evidence-based policy in the glyphosate saga made me ashamed to be an environmentalist. Here's the piece I never wanted to write:

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3 years

Here is the full paper, which is open access (no paywall) in ERL. It explains the methodology, and also links to all the data files - how we rated the different papers, calculated the % of sceptical ones, and which they are.

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4 years

Can somebody please tell the EU that nuclear is zero-carbon? At the moment it's excluded from 'green transition' by being lumped in with natural gas. Ideological groupthink perhaps? Or the malign influence of anti-nuclear greens?

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5 years

"For two years the ten MPs of the party of Arlene Foster [DUP] have dominated UK political calculations. That party got about half the number of votes that produced a single Green MP." @DAaronovitch on the unfairness of UK electoral system: @CarolineLucas

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I'm feeling a bit alone here. I'd love it if authors and artists showed their love and appreciation for @hayfestival and other literary festivals now facing extinction due to misplaced activist pressure. Please support these vital cultural events.

Mark Lynas and Fossil Free Books clash on Hay Festival

Environmental writer Mark Lynas has condemned the campaign by Fossil Free Books (FFB) against festival sponsorship from investment company Baillie Gifford, suggesting authors had been pressured into...

www.thebookseller.com

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Here's the Guardian's take, courtesy of @jonathanwatts

‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans

Trawl of 90,000 studies finds consensus, leading to call for Facebook and Twitter to curb disinformation

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Note to news media on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant attack - do NOT take this 'analysis' from Greenpeace as a serious contribution. This is an opportunistic way to push their anti-nuclear message, and is shameful under the circumstances.

New analysis on severe nuclear hazards at Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine – only solution is immedi...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine poses an unprecedented nuclear threat, according to analysis on severe hazards at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

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6 years

Long-awaited Golden Rice to be released soon in Bangladesh -

Golden rice to be available soon: Minister

Golden rice, a new variety of rice enriched with Vitamin A will be available soon, said Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak.

www.thedailystar.net

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"Had California and Germany spent on nuclear what they instead spent on renewables, both places would already have 100% clean power." One of the architects of the previous 'Green New Deal' on why it failed -

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Opposition to nuclear energy “has probably been more harmful in the long run than climate denial”, says climate expert Kerry Emanuel of MIT.

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This is probably the biggest single personal climate action you can take this year.

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Be one of 50k people across 🌍 persuading the 🇩🇪German government to keep its nuclear electricity. Your personal share of the emissions saved - by not burning lignite coal - will be bigger in one year than your carbon footprint over your whole life. Here's how 🧵

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France is now aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050, so must abandon earlier Green-inspired targets to reduce nuclear power. Why do so many people talk about 'climate emergency' but continue to oppose carbon-free nuclear? Don't they really believe it?

France to delay cutbacks to nuclear power by a decade

Move aimed at making country carbon-neutral by 2050

www.ft.com

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Coal-to-nuclear is the smartest climate idea I've heard for a decade. In the US there are nearly 400 available sites - using existing grid connections, turbines etc to make nuclear cheaper, retaining high-paying jobs in communities, and eliminating CO2.

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But where are we ACTUALLY heading? - carbon emissions at an all-time high, 37Gt in 2018, 2% annual growth: - current policies still take us potentially over 4 degrees = climate catastrophe

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Having ignored 139 Nobel laureates and the voices of Filipino scientists, will ⁦ @Greenpeace ⁩ continue its colonial campaign against Golden Rice even when criticised by the Observer?

The Observer view: When modified rice could save thousands of lives, it is wrong to oppose it

The green movement’s attempts to block the cultivation of a grain enhanced with vitamin A is misguided

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What an extraordinary statistic: the world's richest 1% are responsible to the same CO2 emissions as the poorest 50% of the world's population. Global injustice is destroying the planet, not global development. @oxfamgb @XRebellionUK

World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam

Charity says world’s fast-shrinking carbon budget should be used to improve lot of poorest

www.theguardian.com

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The largest-ever study of the impacts of 'GMO' Bt cotton in China show dramatic and sustained reductions in the use of pesticides. Great news, eh @Greenpeace ?

GMO cotton prompts dramatic drop in China's pesticide use - Alliance for Science

China has experienced large and sustained reductions in pesticide use as a result of adopting GMO cotton, according to the largest-ever scientific study on the impacts of Bt cotton use in that...

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Germany is set to remain hooked on coal and gas for decades to come. There is another option, as we explain in a letter to the @FT today:

Letter: Germany should postpone nuclear exit to help climate

From Dr John Law and others - Our best-read letter of the last week

www.ft.com

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Green groups are jubilant at their European court defeat of the scientific community over gene editing. But will they rue the day they became so explicitly 'anti-science' as seeking to ban a whole category of scientific research and innovation? My report:

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Name added too.

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Name added.

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Why is Germany always leading with the dumb stuff?

Germany Leads Fightback Against Green Hydrogen Made With Nuclear

Germany and six other European Union nations are fighting back against France’s efforts to count hydrogen produced using nuclear power as renewable, a major battleground in the bloc’s transition to...

www.bloomberg.com

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Done? OK, so now take the 188 from the 846 - but still leaves 658 Gt of committed emissions. Damn! Still over budget. Therefore... to have a better than 50:50 chance of meeting the 1.5C goal another 100-200 Gt-equiv of power plants, cars, industry etc MUST BE CLOSED EARLY.

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Hundreds of tonnes of Golden Rice are in limbo and could be destroyed following Greenpeace's disastrous court 'win' in the Philippines, which will undermine food security in an entire nation. Here's the latest:

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Remember the ecocide of Easter Island, popularised by Jared Diamond? We can now be pretty confident it never happened.

The Mysterious 'Ecocide' Collapse of Easter Island Never Really Happened

The truth is revealed.

www.sciencealert.com

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... and much more (as I'll outline in the new Six Degrees book). The carbon budget for 2 degrees is bigger, 1170-1500 Gt CO2. Phew - still some wriggle room then! But keeping to this bigger 2C budget means: ...reducing emissions by 5% per year STARTING FROM NOW. Not 2030, now.

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European court plumbs the depths of scientific absurdity with today's gene editing decision - random mutagenesis is OK, while precision editing is a 'GMO' and therefore borderline illegal. Go figure! Like saying doctors can use blunderbuss but not scalpel.

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The Arctic is now experiencing an 'abrupt climate change event' comparable in magnitude to the massive and very rapid shifts during the last ice age. This is off the scale.

Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change

Nature Climate Change - In recent decades, the Arctic has warmed at over twice the global rate. This Perspective places these trends into the context of abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger warming...

www.nature.com

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Kenya's new president has rescinded the country's long-standing GMO ban, because science says it's safe, and high food prices are causing widespread malutrition. Greenpeace protests, saying it reduces Kenyans' right to choose. Choose what? Starvation?

Food security, consumer groups protest Kenya's GMO decision

Food security, consumer rights and biodiversity groups are protesting Kenya’s reversal of a ban on genetically modified foods, saying the public wasn’t consulted on an issue key to the East African...

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It may be annoying to have hippies and vicars blocking your route to work, but let's take a minute to acknowledge just how damn prescient @InsulateLove were in drawing attention to the urgency of energy efficiency. If we'd listened, there would be no cost of living crisis today.

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Fantastic news that the rules in England will change to allow gene editing of crops with no additional regulatory hurdles. Strong pro-science signal from UK govt - hopefully the EU will learn from this example.

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Existing infrastructure - if operated until the end of its lifetime - commits us to 658 billion tonnes (Gt) CO2 future emissions. That's - 358 Gt from electricity (mainly power plants) 162 from industry 64 from transport, mostly on-road vehicles

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Seriously bad news from Italy. Field trial of new rice variety developed using gene editing - non-GMO, aiming to reduce fungicide chemical use - destroyed by anti-tech vandals.

Vandals Purposely Destroy Italy’s Landmark First Gene-Edited Rice Crop Trial

The fungus-resistant CRISPR-edited rice variety was the country’s first-ever field trial of a modified crop.

www.iflscience.com

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This should be a hugely shocking finding: that the President of the United States was the single greatest source of COVID misinformation in the world. Amazing work by @ScienceAlly lead author @Sarah_Evanega , am proud to be a co-author.

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Virtually all of today's advocacy on food and ag is based around the romantic agrarian fantasies of rich, well-fed people. Never having missed a meal, they demand policies that would bring back famine. Please read this superb essay by @GeorgeMonbiot

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023 Tourism sells to you the story...

www.monbiot.com

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Some of the most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates use recombinant DNA, the technology that anti-GMO types have been fighting to ban for 20 years. The lesson? We need science to survive.

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Greenpeace is still opposing Golden Rice, despite the fact that this Vitamin A-enriched food could save the lives and sight of thousands of malnourished young children.

‘Golden Rice’ commercialization to further drag down Filipino farmers amid climate, COVID struggles...

The Department of Agriculture should prioritize strategies to diversify food production which ensure Filipinos’ access to nutritious, healthy, balanced diets that also address problems such as...

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I remember when 450ppm was just a number put into models. Now it's probably only about 15 years away:

Latest data shows steep rises in CO2 for seventh year

Readings from Hawaii observatory bring threshold of 450ppm closer sooner than had been anticipated

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That Germany will close its two remaining nuclear fission plants next year despite a looming power crunch and a desperate shortage of clean energy is looking dumber every day. Why not close the coal straight away and leave the fission running longer?

Germany Flirts With Power Crunch in Nuclear and Coal Exit

www.bloomberg.com

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@mark_lynas

4 years

These are the most important climate protests in Europe. Germany's plan to keep burning coal until 2038 is a guarantee of climate disaster, and activists should use every tool in the box to fight coal extraction and burning.

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Please support the most important Europe-wide action this year: - With nuclear we can #switchoffputin - European citizens support it - Net Zero requires it - Environmentalists in 10 countries say 'ja bitte!' Be there & show the EU the green movement is no longer anti-nuclear.

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How can anyone seriously argue that the danger of nuclear accidents outweighs the dangers of climate change? The answer comes at the end - the author runs an offshore wind company... Follow the money!

Perspective | I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned.

The danger from climate change no longer outweighs the risks of nuclear accidents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

1 year

Can somebody please explain to Greenpeace that gas is a fossil fuel which emits carbon, while nuclear is carbon-free? It isn't actually that complicated.

Greenpeace Suing EU Over ‘Fake’ Green Label for Gas and Nuclear

Greenpeace said it’s suing the European Union’s executive over its decision to grant some gas and nuclear power stations a “fake” green label under EU sustainable finance rules.

www.bloomberg.com

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

5 years

The main barrier to nuclear power helping solve climate change is not economic, technical or even political - it is psychological. Something about the way nuclear is framed sparks mass dread and fear. The mythologising of Chernobyl is the latest symptom:

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2 years

How long until #NuclearFusion becomes a useful contributor to clean energy? "Probably decades", admit the scientists behind this supposed breakthrough. Fun science, but entirely irrelevant for the climate emergency and meeting the Paris goals. Meanwhile...

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

4 years

I would like to express my solidarity with @GeorgeMonbiot in his withdrawing from the Science Museum 'Climate Talks' series in protest at their funding from oil companies. I am also down to speak at the series, but will withdraw too unless @sciencemuseum stops taking dirty money.

ORCA

@orca_4_el

4 years

BREAKING: @Cambridge_Uni complicit in greenwashing again Earlier today, the environmentalist @GeorgeMonbiot withdrew from a Science Museum panel because of its continued links with BP and Equinor. We've now discovered that Emily Shuckburgh of @CambridgeZero is also a panellist.

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Mark Lynas

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3 years

We need to rapidly accelerate the transition to alt-protein and plant-based diets, in order to release land used for animals/animal feeds to nature restoration, rewilding and carbon sequestration. (Source: ; x axis is 1990-2020)

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021

In 2019, Ripple and colleagues (2020) warned of untold suffering and declared a climate emergency together with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from

academic.oup.com

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

6 years

Another milestone for Golden Rice - just approved by FDA.

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@mark_lynas

5 years

But there's more: over 1,000 GW of fossil-fuelled power plants are planned, permitted or in construction. (20% in China). That gives us another 188 Gt committed future CO2 emissions. TOTAL: 846 Gt "if all proposed plants built and all infrastructure operated".

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

5 years

President of the Maldives announces a global first - a total ban on single-use plastics by 2023, to protect coral reefs and the marine environment.

President Solih announces phase-out of single-use plastics, in maiden address to United Nations...

President Solih announces phase-out of single-use plastics, in maiden address to United Nations General Assembly

presidency.gov.mv

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

2 years

Imagine spending your life campaigning against zero carbon energy in the midst of a climate emergency! Lol!

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

7 years

"The forests of North Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi — as well as those in Europe — are being destroyed to sustain a European fantasy about renewable energy." Fred Pearce on biomass in @YaleE360

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@mark_lynas

6 years

Climate change is not a key cause of conflict, finds new study - Real reasons include poverty, governance failures. As you might expect, actually.

Climate change is not a key cause of conflict, finds new study

We looked at ten countries in East Africa and found poverty and politics were much more important drivers of conflict and displacement than climate change.

theconversation.com

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

3 years

So the "Glasgow Climate Pact" is adopted at COP26. Thanks to India and China, "phase out" of coal is now "phase down" of coal. Fair enough. That means the US, Europe and Australia have 5 years to end coal use completely. Or the 1.5 target is dead.

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

3 years

Last year Europe bought 155 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas from Russia. This is the magic number. How can this be substituted? The biggest win is to turn down thermostats - we suggest from 22C to 18C across all of Europe. Wear a jumper for Ukraine! That saves 40bcm. 4/12

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

3 years

To stay with a 50:50 chance of a 1.5C outcome, 90% of the coal and 60% of the known oil and gas must STAY IN THE GROUND. No ifs, no buts.

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@mark_lynas

4 years

Conspiracy theories don't arise in a vacuum - they serve an agenda. The 5G COVID conspiracy theory has been assiduously promoted by Russia's disinformation network RT, as Wired reveals here:

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Mark Lynas

@mark_lynas

7 years

Dear all anti-nuclear activists: Every time you succeed in getting reactors closed, they are replaced with fossil fuels. Climate changed nothing, did it?

Todd Allen

@ToddAllen5

7 years

NY plans to replace Indian Point reactors with three large gas-fired plants. Is this good for system diversity and for climate mitigation?

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