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Marcus Gibson

@Marcusgibson

Author ('D', ‘The Dead See’, ‘The Peace Bomb’.) Painter. Poet. Climate campaigner. Information Systems. The meaning of life is the preservation of life.

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What to do with the ad exec who thought showing wanton waste/destruction of beautiful things was a good idea? 🤔 Apple

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Another very real risk of nuclear power is spending the money and getting nothing (link). Some cost too much. Others, public sentiment shifts after an accident. Dozens of units have been cancelled in the US even after construction commenced (pic).

Another very real risk of nuclear power is spending the money and getting nothing (link). Some cost too much. Others, public sentiment shifts after an accident. Dozens of units have been cancelled in the US even after construction commenced (pic).
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California's 100% renewables revolution

'What factors are responsible? What lessons can be learned? What does this tell us about future of energy across the US and worldwide?'

Podcast with Bruce McCabe

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illuminatibot Calling someone a professor who was a contracted researcher just shows how clueless you are. Almost as dumb as citing a source that misspelled ‘Harvard’ 🤣

@iluminatibot Calling someone a professor who was a contracted researcher just shows how clueless you are. Almost as dumb as citing a source that misspelled ‘Harvard’ 🤣
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RRSchünemann Graham K Most science deniers buy into this form of ‘Copernicus Syndrome’ where they believe they have special insight that defies the current consensus. What they overlook is that Copernican theory was banned by a corrupt authority, a church. When the idea was introduced in other

@RRSchunemann @GrahamLKeegan Most science deniers buy into this form of ‘Copernicus Syndrome’ where they believe they have special insight that defies the current consensus. What they overlook is that Copernican theory was banned by a corrupt authority, a church. When the idea was introduced in other
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Kinda looks like this turned out to be a thing (La Nina propagation flipping west-to-east/CP a couple years before a strong El Nino)? 🤷‍♂️

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Does anyone else find it odd how - for years - conservatives called environmentalists hair-shirt wearing communists… But now, how fast conservatives are to ignore the economics on renewable energy? 🤔

Does anyone else find it odd how - for years - conservatives called environmentalists hair-shirt wearing communists… But now, how fast conservatives are to ignore the economics on renewable energy? 🤔
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Interesting fact: Air pollution slowed economic development even during the industrial revolution (link). The indirect costs of unregulated air pollution - on human health and asset values (Guo et al 2023) - were always an oversight. If we had a do-over as a species, we should

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While it is true that humans might survive in a less biodiverse world, that protecting every other species could be optional to our own success, there is one very good reason - above all others - which is entirely self-serving, why we should preserve all other species and their

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It’s saddening to watch climate deniers continue gorging themselves on the same intellectually lazy drivel year after year, rejecting centuries of diligent advancement, choosing instead the cognitive equivalent of cotton candy. Our ancestors, and our descendants, deserve better.

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Elizabeth Kolbert great piece today on ‘Why Is The Sea So Hot?’. But I’m not linking that. I’m linking this instead - which deserves more credit: 18 mths prior to ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ hitting cinemas, you tackled the subject of climate change with more force and foresight, than

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