🚨Michigan's Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel just announced that her office is taking steps to sue Big Oil for climate deception.

'Big Oil caused these problems and they ought to pay the expenses related to these damages.'

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EnvironmentalDefence @CAPE-ACME
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We are already being affected by forest fire smoke from out west.

Taking action on climate change will SAVE us money, not COST us money.

'It's arsonists!'

It's drought

This is great reporting by Fatima Syed / @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and The Narwhal. Key points:

1. The climate emergency poses serious risks to food security

2. ON officials tried to soften language

3. ON has a lack of adaptation policies

4. ON lacks data on climate impacts on vulnerable populations

You pay so they play

Climate damages are '6X LARGER than previously thought', says new NBER working paper

– every 1C wipes out 12% of global GDP
– every tonne of CO2 causes >$1,000 of damages

Gernot Wagner tells me: 'Assuming nobody finds a flaw in this paper, it is going to truly change things'

Axe the tax! Burn it all down!

I just said this to Chris Hayes for an upcoming pod and I think it's so important for people to understand: you can make a bulletproof case for the clean-energy transition that *doesn't mention climate change at all*.

They used police to clear the protest camp at the U of C in less than one day. Compare that to this … 👇👇👇

Wow look at the branding power between natural and methane gas.

There are micro-plastics in HUMAN PLACENTAS, but if anyone tries to do something about it, Canadian Conservative MPs will mount a campaign against 'woke paper lids' because they are a front for the oil industry.
Lianne Rood

And, of course, policy, technology, and behavior still have the potential to do much better than the path we are headed down today. It will be a heavy lift, but it’s still quite possible to end up well-below 2C this century.

Trump asked oil execs gathered at Mar-a-Lago to raise $1 billion for his campaign so he can eliminate pollution restrictions and governmental policies that support EVs, according to Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

The The Guardian have just published a poll of IPCC scientists by Damian Carrington, showing almost 80% of respondents expect we'll cause a disastrous level of warming of >2.5C

This fits with other recent studies into scientists views, here's a🧵summarising some key results…

'Implemented policies result in projected emissions that lead to warming of 3.2°C, with a range of 2.2°C to 3.5°C (medium confidence)'

According to the landmark, widely reported IPCC Synthesis Report published in 2023.
ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/

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“What the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is?”

Btw, my response was a warming of 3C, in line with many of my IPCC colleagues… theguardian.com/environment/ng…

NEWS: Today 29% of Enbridge investors again broke with management regarding the company's misleading scope 3 reporting. Our numbers show the company becoming more and more misaligned with the energy transition.

Pricier insurance, pricier food, pricier everything -- they say climate action is 'too expensive' when inflation is a top concern, but climate inaction will be much, much more expensive than climate action.