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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Climate tweets for 12 May 2014

.@Harvard Should Cut Hypocrisy, Divest from Fossil Fuels: @CommonDreams
[investing]

Trillions of Dollars On Track to Be Invested In Costly Oil Projects: @valuewalk
[investing, divestment]

RT Phil Plait ‏@BadAstronomer:
The slow-speed collapse of *six* huge Antarctic glaciers is past the point of no return.
[science, sea level, Antarctica]

RT Andrew Dessler ‏@AndrewDessler:
There are lots of "war on X" that we're not winning (e.g., drugs, terror, coal). But the one war we are winning is the Repubs' War on Ice.

Stopping Climate Change ‘Almost Impossible’ If China Can’t Quit Coal, Report Says

Sense and (climate) sensitivity: more evidence we're in 4 hot future: @skepticscience
[science]

Marco Rubio Goes Full-On Climate Denier: @climateprogress 
[denial]

How lessons from space put greenhouse effect on front page: Simple Climate
[science, James Hansen]

RT Shauna Theel ‏@ShaunaDeNada:
The 5th stage of climate denial is no more sophisticated even if you see it in @washingtonpost 
[Media Matters]

RT Andrew Dessler ‏@AndrewDessler:
Exxon hiring "climate researcher". Will join their "round Earth" and "gravity is real" researchers. 
[denial, ExxonMobil]

Wilder winds, less rain, as Roaring Forties become Furious Fifties: @p_hannam @smh 
[science, drought, Australia, Antarctica]

RT Climate Reality ‏@ClimateReality:
Tick, tock, that's how long it could take the sun to power the whole Earth #ISF #CoalSucks #BeyondCoal #YEARSProject 
[solar, investing, divestment]


Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Climate tweets for 6 May 2014

What's at Stake in Harvard's Fossil-Fuel Divestment Debate: @TheAtlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/divestment-as-a-tool-for-social-change/361437/ 
[investing]

RT Bill McKibben ‏@billmckibben:
Great story in the NYT on Stanford divestment--@DivestStanford has won a "major victory" in the drive for divestment
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/education/stanford-to-purge-18-billion-endowment-of-coal-stock.html
[investing]

Landmark Report Warns: Time Running Out to Save U.S. From Climate Catastrophe: @climateprogress
http://thkpr.gs/1o24qnr
[science, National Climate Assessment]

Climate Change Moves Firmly Into Present: Blockbuster National Climate Assessment: @wunderground
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2675
[science]

RT ClimateCentral ‏@ClimateCentral:
Here are most 8 most compelling graphics from the latest NCA2014:
http://bit.ly/1g5RNAa  http://twitpic.com/e349ec
[National Climate Assessment, science]

RT Eric Holthaus ‏@EricHolthaus:
Climate Change Report: Global Warming Is Here, and It’s Now. An excellent summary of NCA2014 from @badastronomer:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/06/national_climate_assessment_report_details_impacts_of_global_warming_on.html
[National Climate Assessment, science]

RT NASA GISS ‏@NASAGISS:
Think--is YOUR hometown wetter or drier? NCA details future of precipitation with climate change. #ActOnClimate
http://pic.twitter.com/AUE2EQN9Ho
[science, National Climate Assessment]

Top 10 globalwarming 'skeptic' arguments answered: @dana1981 @guardian
http://gu.com/p/3zq8j/tw
[denial, science]

Scientists race to develop farm animals to survive climate change: @latimes
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-climate-chickens-20140504,0,2628316.story#axzz30k6AOdP3
[food]

Peatland Fires Biggest Contributor to Indonesia Carbon Emissions:
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/peatland-fires-biggest-contributor-carbon-emissions-scientist/ 
[forests]

Amid Statewide Drought, California Races to Burn Wildfire Fuel: @NPRnews 
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/04/309023778/amid-statewide-drought-california-races-to-burn-wildfire-fuel 
[fire, water]


Saturday, May 3, 2014

Climate tweets for 2 May 2014

160 Faculty Join Call 4 Fossil Fuel Divestment at B.C.’s U of Victoria: @DeSmogCanada 
http://desmog.ca/2014/04/30/faculty-members-join-call-fossil-fuel-divestment-b-c-s-university-victoria-0
[investing, British Columbia, Canada]

Capitalism Unable 2 Deal with Climate Change (?): @Worldwatch @IPSnews http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/05/capitalism-unable-deal-climate-change/ 

Fossil fuel subsidies costing global economy $2 trillion: @IMFNews: @Renew_Economy 
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/fossil-fuel-subsidies-costing-global-economy-2-trillion-imf-79534 
[investing, energy subsidies, divest]

RT Ophir Bruck ‏@OphirBruck:
Over 100 ppl deliver divestment petition w/ 60K+ signatures to @Harvard Pres Faust 
http://pic.twitter.com/fLaOObMutl via @chloemaxmin @DivestHarvard
[investing, Drew Faust]

Koch-Funded Groups Continue Endless Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
http://thkpr.gs/1nQnXqQ
[denial]

RT Jim O'Donnell ‏@JimODonnell2: 
Global Weirding in the Vineyards of Tuscany 
http://ow.ly/vQHap
[Italy, wine, food, agriculture]

Climate adaptation will fail without emissions cuts, funding insufficient: UN climate chief 
http://www.trust.org/item/20140430112123-2bt63/?source=quickview 
[Christiana Figueres]

South Australians warned they may have to carry cost of losing homes to rising sea levels: 
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/south-australians-warned-they-may-have-to-carry-cost-of-losing-their-homes-to-rising-sea-levels/story-fni6uo1m-1226901369729?sv=f15dce217d93f815bb6b49f27c7a6af#.U2Kuv7aqE2M.twitter 
[insurance, risk, flooding]

Madrid's smart parking meters to charge more for most polluting cars: @guardian
http://gu.com/p/3zzpj/tw 
[transportation, Spain]

Climate change and health: Extreme heat ‘silent’ killer: @GlobeandMail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/climate-change-and-health-extreme-heat-a-silent-killer/article18343936/
[heat waves, Canada, Ontario]

RT Sierra Club ‏@sierraclub
Preview of Episode 4 of @YEARSofLIVING, airing this Sunday, "Preacher's Daughter"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5U6lZIw2S0 … #YearsProject
[Years of Living Dangerously, Showtime]



Friday, May 2, 2014

Climate tweets for 1 May 2014

RT Heidi Cullen ‏@HeidiCullen  11h
Melting Arctic permafrost creating wetlands known as fens, unexpectedly emitting large amounts of methane: 
http://bit.ly/1fUfkUt 

RT Bill McKibben ‏@billmckibben:
First arrest of divestment movement in Harvard Yard this a.m. Bravery @DivestHarvard

New financial index aims to ease fossil fuel #divestment: @pacificswell
http://www.scpr.org/blogs/environment/2014/04/29/16496/new-financial-index-aims-to-ease-fossil-fuel-dives/ 
[investing]

RT A Siegel ‏@A_Siegel:
.@FoxAndFriends freaks out when its anti-climate science bias is exposed 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/fox-friends-michael-moyer-climate-change_n_5246369.html
[Michael Moyer, denial]

More detail on Fox & Friends vs. that #science-y stuff: @Salon
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/30/guest_accuses_fox_news_of_refusing_to_let_him_talk_about_climate_change/
[denial]

.@MichaelEMann: Costs Of #Climate Change (VIDEO): @sandydec @cleantechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/30/michael-mann-costs-climate-change-video/ 
[science]

Why economists don't get #climate change: @TheWeek
http://theweek.com/article/index/260779/why-dont-economists-get-climate-change 
[investing, divestment]

How military spending is helping us lose the biggest war of all: 
http://shar.es/SbIip 

RT Climate Reality ‏@ClimateReality:
MT @carbonbrief: Climate change increased risk of extremely wet UK winter by 25%
http://bit.ly/1miN9H8  http;//pic.twitter.com/o0XnT9i5tO
[science]

Sweltering in the city: Surviving #climate change in our great urban metropolises: @CarbonBrief 
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/04/the-rise-of-the-megacity-at-egu-conference/
[heat waves, Canada]

The Tol of climate inaction: tracking errors of a contrarian economist:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/30/economics-clear-need-climate-action
[science, denial, Global Warming Policy Foundation]

RT Eric Holthaus ‏@EricHolthaus:
As heavy rain moves throughout East, extreme drought intensifies in the West. #TwoAmericas
http://pic.twitter.com/aUz4fQjVCx


Thursday, May 1, 2014

Climate tweets for 30 April 2014

Epic Rains Deluge Florida Panhandle and Parts of Alabama: @ClimateCentral
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/torrential-rains-deluge-florida-panhandle-17371 
[flooding]

RT Eric Holthaus ‏@EricHolthaus:
.@NWSMobile: Perspective on last night's "historic rainfall event". 
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/?n=flashflood_04292014
http://pic.twitter.com/XL4LUw9SxZ
[flooding]

RT Eric Holthaus ‏@EricHolthaus:
Yes, there's a link btw climate change and last night's historic floods in Florida. I explain:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/30/record_rains_and_extreme_weather_florida_s_floods_are_linked_to_climate.html http://pic.twitter.com/DlmNb38ln3

Indian Monsoons Becoming More Extreme: @SciAm
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/indian-monsoons-are-becoming-more-extreme/
[farming, food, agriculture]

Washington State Announces Effort to Take Climate Fight Into Its Own Hands: @climateprogress 
http://thkpr.gs/1khvBnT  #divest

Exxon, Total and Shell finally talking about #climate change: @guardian
http://gu.com/p/3zngz/tw 
[oil, investing, divestment]

Fascinating piece on how climate change denial industry fakes alarmism: @RealClimate
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/04/faking-it/ 
[science]

Kansas Wheat Turning Brown Shows Drought Damage for Winter Crops:
@BloombergNews 
http://bloom.bg/1kftyC2
[water, food, farming, agriculture]

What climate denial, oil addiction, xenophobia have in common: Neocons: @guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/apr/29/climate-denial-oil-addiction-xenophobia-neocons
… #globalwarming

RT 350 dot org @350: 
BREAKING: @DivestHarvard blocking doors to Admin. offices to demand open meeting on divestment w/trustees: 
http://bit.ly/1iCBfzm 
[investing, Harvard]

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Climate tweets for 28 April 2014

Will Alberta's Oilsands Become 'Stranded Assets'?: @TheTyee
http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/04/28/Oilsands-Stranded-Assets/
[oil, investing, divestment]

RT Chloe Maxmin ‏@chloemaxmin:
After fantastic @BillMoyersHQ divestment segment, @OphirBruck & I write about the student perspective! 
http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/28/students-rally-against-fossil-fuel-giants/ 
[investing, divestment, Harvard]

RT Jim Prall ‏@jimprall:
The @NCSE 2014 Friend of the Planet award deservedly goes to @MichaelEMann
http://ncse.com/climate-denial-creationism/kitzmiller-v-dover-team-climate-science-leaders-honored-by
[science, education, Michael Mann]

Drought takes toll at Kalbarri Natl Park: @thewest_com_au https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/23020471/drought-takes-toll-at-kalbarri/
[wildlife, Australia, trees]

Climate change, El Niño, cold winters, and California’s drought: @ArsTechnica
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/04/climate-change-el-nino-cold-winters-and-californias-drought/ 
[science]

Scottish "Bog Squad" aims to save wildlife, fight global warming: @TheScotsman
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/bog-squad-on-mission-to-save-butterflies-1-3390228
[Scotland, butterflies]

Meeting to spotlight climate change impacts in WV Allegheny Highlands: @Kenwardjr
http://shar.es/TMPVd
[West Virginia]

Ground zero for future of oyster farming: @NorthBayNews http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140426/business/140429633#.U11YreU-AH4.twitter [oceans, acidification, CO2, food]

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Climate tweets for 11 April 2014

Almost 100 @Harvard staff demand fossil fuel divestment: @RTCCnewswire http://shar.es/TmPCO 
[investing]

RT Bill McKibben ‏@billmckibben:
Wide coverage of Harvard faculty demanding divestment, incl. this great piece by @wenstephenson in the @thenation 
http://www.thenation.com/blog/179289/harvard-fossil-fuel-divestment-smackdown-faculty-vs-president-faust#
[investing]

At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report: @suzyji @guardian http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/11/cities-solution-climate-change-ipcc 

Radical shift to green energy would be tiny brake on growth: UN: @Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/climate-growth-idUSL6N0N335020140411 
[investing, divestment]

Extreme Weather Has Driven 10-Fold Increase In Power Outages Over Last 2 Decades: 
http://thkpr.gs/1iBxmv7  

RT Moms Clean Air Force ‏@CleanAirMoms:
A bucket list for a warming world: 
http://ow.ly/vE9mn 
via @grist #OceanCity #Salzburg #Everglades #Bangkok

Taking close look at deniers' shaky #science: @dana1981 @guardian http://gu.com/p/3zaye/tw 
[Richard Lindzen, John Christy, Roy Spencer, denial]

Prepare for the pollen vortex: @TorontoStar http://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2014/04/07/coldest_march_in_30_years_keeps_pollen_at_bay_for_now.html 
[allergy, health]

Cities are on hook for extreme weather. What are they doing?: @Globalnews http://globalnews.ca/news/1243430/canadian-communities-respond-to-climate-change/ 

RT Sierra Club ‏@sierraclub:
Check out @chrislhayes' @allinwithchris segment on @YEARSofLIVING: http://sc.org/1lVXfww 
#YEARSproject #ActOnClimate
[journalism]


Friday, April 11, 2014

Climate tweets for 10 April 2014

Under Student Pressure, @Harvard Pledges to Take Climate Change More Seriously: http://thkpr.gs/1ivhNFf 
[investing, divestment]

RT Fossil Free ‏@GoFossilFree:
Oh yes. This Saturday, Pitzer College (& trustee Robert Redford ) will make a *big* announcement. Watch it live: 
[investing, divestment]

[water]

RT YEARS ‏@YEARSofLIVING:
Thanks for sharing! MT @BarackObama The real victims of climate change: people. Watch #YEARSProject 
[Years of Living Dangerously]

RT YEARS ‏@YEARSofLIVING:
.@LoftusBrooke @climatehawk1 @ClimateReality @CCACoalition @accrolaine We'll be tweeting/creating a Twitter storm @ 1pm ET Sunday as well!
[Years of Living Dangerously]

Brutally Dishonest Attacks On @SHO_Network Landmark Series On Climate Change http://thkpr.gs/1mYmluO 
[Years of Living Dangerously, Showtime]

.@IPCC issues official rebuttal to more David Rose/Daily Mail nonsense: http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-rebuttal-april-6th-2014.html 
[journalism, science, denial]

One English Town’s Innovative Response to Sea Level Rise 
[flooding]

Carbon Dioxide Levels Just Hit Highest Point In 800,000 Years: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/09/3424704/carbon-dioxide-highest-level/ 
[science]

RT Andrew Dessler ‏@AndrewDessler:
Yale Forum gives my 6-min. video on "decisions under uncertainty" a shout out: http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2014/04/texas-ams-andy-dessler-on-decision-making-under-uncertainty/

RT Forecast The Facts ‏@ForecastFacts:
Desmond Tutu demands divestment to save planet from climate change! Pls rt http://bit.ly/desmonddivest  http://pic.twitter.com/sqwxVNjGAT
[investing]

RT Dianah Mieglich ‏@DianahMieg:
The generation gap on climate change: @abcthedrum 

.@Unilever boss reveals company already being impacted by climate change: @BusinessGreen 


Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Climate tweets for 25 March 2014

Arizona's future climate: temps rising, water disappearing: @physorg_com http://phys.org/news/2014-03-arizona-future-climate-temps.html 
[science]

Cherry-picked and misrepresented climate science undermines @FiveThirtyEight brand: @skepticscience 
http://www.skepticalscience.com/fivethirtyeight-pielke-downplay-climate-damages.html 
[Nate Silver]

RT JPascal van Ypersele ‏@JPvanYpersele:
Quote of the Week: @Time Magazine on CO2, climate change, & sea level in 1956 http://blogs.ubc.ca/maribo/2014/03/25/quote-of-the-week-time-magazine-on-climate-change-in-1956/ … MT @simondonner @Keeling_curve

RT CECHR ‏@CECHR_UoD:
@ecolitical A remarkably accurate global warming prediction, made in 1972:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/19/global-warming-accurate-prediction-1972  http://pic.twitter.com/baYuPqhctm

.@Harvard’s destroying our planet: America’s grand, institutional failure to stop climate change: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/23/harvards_destroying_our_planet_americas_grand_institutional_failure_to_stop_climate_change/ 
[investing, divestment]

RT Tim Rote ‏@timrote:
Climate Change 'Going To Affect Nearly Every Aspect Of Human Life':
http://zite.to/1eEP3vY
[science] 

How The Koch Brothers Are Hacking Science: @TPM http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-the-koch-brothers-are-hacking-science 

144 Bipartisan U.S. Congress Members Seek Wind Energy Tax Credit Renewals: http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/24/144-bipartisan-congress-wind/ 
[renewable energy]

"The polar bear is us": Big climate report: Global warming is big risk for people: @nzherald 
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11225449 
[science]

RT Chris Riedy ‏@chrisjriedy  15h
Climate change is waking the Kraken! IPCC preview: deep trouble brewing in our oceans: 
http://theconversation.com/ipcc-preview-deep-trouble-brewing-in-our-oceans-24721 
via @ConversationEDU

The Puzzles Involving Sea Ice at the Poles: @YaleMediaForum http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2014/03/the-puzzles-involving-sea-ice-at-the-poles/ 
[science]

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Climate tweets for 1 February 2014

Oceans Warmed Sharply in 2013: We're Going to Need a Bigger Graph: @skepticscience http://www.skepticalscience.com/The-Oceans-Warmed-up-Sharply-in-2013-We-are-Going-to-Need-a-Bigger-Graph.html 

.@Harvard and @BrownUniversity Fail [Us All] on Climate: @TheNation http://www.thenation.com/article/178138/harvard-and-brown-fail-climate# 

.@RealClimate: New climate science MOOCs: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/02/new-climate-science-moocs/ 

RT Green Bean ‏@iamgreenbean: Underlying California's balmy weather this winter is a growing sense that something's not right. 
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25031083/drought-shakes-off-winter-perilous-early-spring 

Extreme weather is a reality–insurance industry must adapt: @guardian http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/extreme-weather-insurance-industry-climate-change 

MT @dwelch11: Nestlé CEO: Let God Handle Global Warming: @climateprogress http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/31/3233481/nestle-climate-denier-god/ 

High tides, strong winds prompt flood warning for 1,000 miles of UK coast: @guardian http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/flood-warnings-uk-coast-high-tides-strong-winds 

Want to cut Arctic warming in half? Curb emissions now: @latimes http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-arctic-warming-sea-ice-carbon-emissions-20140130,0,6296635.story#axzz2s4eo6BOn 

RT Moms Clean Air Force ‏@CleanAirMoms: MT @e2org: "I'm a Republican, and I agree with Obama on climate change," evangelical leader says. http://www.salon.com/2014/01/30/im_a_republican_and_i_agree_with_obama_on_climate_change/ 

Flooding experts say Britain will have to adapt to climate change–and fast: @guardian http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/30/flooding-experts-uk-adapt-climate-change 

Does Polar Vortex Mean ‘So Much for Global Warming’?: @MichaelEMann @EcoWatch http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/30/polar-vortex-global-warming/ 

Friday, January 31, 2014

Climate tweets for 30 January 2014

Nuts to @Harvard: Foundations Band Together to Get Rid of Fossil-Fuel Investmentshttp://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/foundations-band-together-to-get-rid-of-fossil-fuel-investments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 

Meltdown: Arctic Heat Wave Brings Alaska Hottest Ever Winter-Time Temperatureshttp://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/arctic-heat-wave-sets-off-hottest-ever-winter-time-temperatures-major-melt-disasters-for-coastal-and-interior-alaska/ 

RT Laurie Kidd ‏@KiddCaptain: Global Temperature: the Post-1998 Surprise http://tamino.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/global-temperature-the-post-1998-surprise/ 

California bans fishing in several rivers in midst of drought: @latimes http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-california-drought-fishing-20140129,0,7096313.story#axzz2rsScjWMb 

RT CitizensClimateLobby ‏@citizensclimate: Your chuckle of the day from cartoonist Brian McFadden. @BigFatWhale http://ow.ly/i/4rCBT 

Climate change is 'killing Argentina's Magellanic penguin chicks': @BBCnews http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25950906 

RT TalkingOutOfMyHat ‏@Lee_Tennant: Climate scientist’s lawsuit could wipe out conservative National Review magazine http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/climate-scientists-lawsuit-could-wipe-out-conservative-national-review-magazine/ 

Warming oceans consistent with rising sea level, global energy imbalance: http://skepticalscience.com/warming-oceans-rising-sea-level-energy-imbalance-consistent.html 

RT Mathew Carr ‏@carrzee: Snowden revelations of NSA spying on Copenhagen climate talks spark anger http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/30/snowden-nsa-spying-copenhagen-climate-talks