10 Best Tweets of the Climate Twitterati

SPECIAL EDITION Roundup of Climate Tweets Worth Noting: ISSUE 13, Apr. 15, 2019

Apr 15, 2019

LET’S GET TO IT. While you were maybe following the 24/7 MSM coverage of the newest stinkbomb heaved by that guy in that white house, all kinds of pungent, significant climate tweets were populating the Twitterverse. Here’s a CCT Special Edition of recent tweets from Climate Twitterati worth heeding (and whose authors are worth following). PS: If you’re not on Twitter or the tweet links break, I’ve added links to referenced articles. PSS: Subscribe for free to this newsletter and please pass the link on in your social media world. PSSS: If you are on Medium, here is a Medium article version of this story,

ONE | Dear Brain: Why Are You Not Climate-Change Freaked Out Yet?

Greenpeace @Greenpeace

Try to reframe your personal action on climate change: “In 10 years, what will I wish I had done about climate change?”

grist.orgWhy can’t I stress about climate change like I do about everything else?It’s not you, it’s your brain.

ARTICLE LINK | Calm Before the Storm: Why can’t I stress about climate change like I do about everything else? Eve Andrews | Grist, 03.29.19

TWO | Plastic Bad, Global Warming Worse for Oceans

Dr. Luiz Rocha @CoralReefFish

Yes, photos of whales with plastic in their stomachs are shocking, and yes, banning plastic bags is easy and good. But make no mistake, global warming is BY FAR the biggest threat to the oceans.

sciencetimes.comOcean Heat Sets A New Sky High Record: UNThe United Nations says that the ocean heat is setting a new record with its sky high rating in 2018, posing great risks to ocean creatures and to mankind.

ARTICLE LINK | Ocean Heat Sets a New Sky-High Record: UN | The Science Times, 04.15.19

THREE | Pro Bono Lawyers for Climate Change

Michael Gerrard @MichaelGerrard

We have identified more than 1,000 specific federal, state and local actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and are now recruiting pro bono lawyers to do the legal drafting on the needed laws, regulations and ordinance s.

ThinkProgress @thinkprogress

Environmental lawyers fight fire with fire, adopt ALEC’s methods to tackle climate change https://t.co/rRxbTWxSWj https://t.co/BzOWjtSyjg

ARTICLE LINK | Environmental lawyers fight fire with fire, adopt ALEC’s methods to tackle climate change: Borrowing from the conservative playbook, a pair of veteran environmental lawyers has a bold plan to overhaul climate laws. | ThinkProgress | Nexus Media, 04.01.19

FOUR | It’s a Bank Thing—Fossil Fool No More

Alan milroy @alan_milroy

On my bad boy list. About to write to my bank and tell them why I am moving after 15 years. Simple their unethical funding of fossil fuel projects. There are good ethical banks - I am making the change.

#ActOnClimate @1o5Climate

Barclays funds climate catastrophe https://t.co/zTqu2DJwE8 The bank is a huge backer of fossil fuels & since 2015 Paris agreement, they have funded the industry to the tune of $85bn, from fracking & coal in UK to pipelines in USA Direct action needed, plus #BoycottBarclays[⧖]

ARTICLE LINK | OPINION: Barclays Funds Climate Catastrophe. We Are Determined to Make It Stop: The Bank Is a Huge Backer of the Fossil Fuel Industry and Attendant Climate Catastrophe. Direct Action Is Vital | Seema Syeda | The Guardian, 03.30.19

FIVE | Can a Climate Change Candidacy Break Through?

Paul Dawson on Climate Change @PaulEDawson

"If climate change isn't priority No. 1, it's not gonna get done," "So I am saying this: I am pledging today that if I am given this high honor, I will make fighting climate change the No. 1 priority in the United States of America."

wbur.fmPresidential Candidate Jay Inslee Says Climate Change Should Be America’s ‘No. 1 Priority’Jay Inslee joined WBUR’s Morning Edition host Bob Oakes in-between campaign stops in New Hampshire.

ARTICLE LINK | Presidential Candidate Jay Inslee Says Climate Change Should Be America's 'No. 1 Priority' | WBUR News, 03.19.19

SIX | Airplanes considered as flying coal plants

Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman

Most people have no idea how much climate damage they're doing when they fly in planes.

theguardian.com‘Ryanair is the new coal’: airline enters EU’s top 10 emitters listIrish firm joins nine coal plants on list, with carbon emissions up nearly 50% in last five years

ARTICLE LINK | '‘Ryanair is the new coal”: airline enters EU’s top 10 emitters list: Irish firm joins nine coal plants on list, with carbon emissions up nearly 50% in last five years. | Arthur Neslen | The Guardian, 04.01.19

SEVEN | Cutting your aid to spite your face

Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe

Cutting US foreign aid to Central Am countries affects efforts to address the root causes behind migration...including climate change, a threat multiplier that exacerbates the challenges many in these countries already face on a daily basis. @OxfamAmerica

oxfamamerica.orgOxfam reaction to proposed aid cuts to Central AmericaIn response to reports that President Trump has directed the State Department to cut aid programs to Central America, Vicki Gass, Oxfam America Senior Policy Advisor for Central America and Mexico, issued the following statement:

ARTICLE LINK | Oxfam reaction to proposed aid cuts to Central America | OxfamAmerica.org | 03.20.19

EIGHT | Strike This Way

Extinction Rebellion 🐝⌛️🦋 @ExtinctionR

This is an emergency. Our way of life is breaking the natural world. Our leaders have failed us. On 15 April we are calling for a full-scale Rebellion to demand decisive action from governments on climate change and ecological collapse. buff.ly/2A16uXv

ARTICLE LINK | ‘This Is An Emergency: International Rebellion from 15th April. Find Out More’

NINE | Sun of a gun, that’s ‘scary stuff’

Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann

They might claim they're going to "dim the Sun", but that's not what they would actually be doing. They would be shooting massive amounts of sulphur particles into the stratosphere with unknown and potentially dire consequences. Truly scary stuff:

businessinsider.comHarvard scientists want to limit how much sunlight reaches Earth’s surface in order to curb global warmingResearchers at Harvard are proposing a solution to climate change that sounds almost too simple to be true — they want to block some sunlight.

ARTICLE LINK | Harvard scientists want to limit how much sunlight reaches Earth's surface in order to curb global warming | Melina Seiler and Ruqayyah Moynihan | Business Insider Deutschland, 03.21.19

TEN | Did You Strike? Or Strike Out?

Peter Believes In Science Not Dogma @ScienceNotDogma

"Grampa, were you a school striker?" "No honey, I was out of school then. But I supported them, for years." "Why?" asked the girl. "Did you do it to feel better?" "No, sweetheart," said the old man, his eyes gentle. "I did it for you, who came into the better world that we made."

Pete Fillery @petefillery

I'm with #ParentsForFuture because "I need to be able to tell my #children I did not stay silent." #ActNOWForFuture ✊ @parents_4future @Strike4Youth @Team4Nature @UKSCN1 @guardian @GretaThunberg @ExtinctionR #FridaysForFuture #YouthStrike4Climate @Resurgence_mag @the_ecologist https://t.co/W7XACcVCZi

PS | Steal This Meme!

I usually end issues with a cartoon. Today, I introduce an occasional ‘Steal This Meme!’ feature from the MemeWorks at my story archive site, TheStoryIsTheThing.com. The quotes comes from a profile of environmental attorney Mary Christina Wood, author of “Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age” from an interview in the February 2019 The Sun.

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