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#FOTW Daily Post 10

A little more than 700m years ago, the Earth was a giant ice-ball. What thawed it? CO2 building up over millions of years

Even the deepest freeze was ended by carbon — the lever we're now yanking

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#FOTW Daily Post 9

We're in uncharted territory

The air you are breathing today is different in composition to any breathed by humans before. This is because CO2 levels are higher than at any time in the last 14 Million years, and still climbing

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#FOTW Daily Post 8

3 million years ago, giant camels roamed temperate High Arctic forests, where there is now frozen tundra. The past reveals exactly how different a warmer world looks. No speculation needed. it's written in the rocks

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#FOTW Daily Post 7

56 million years ago - at the PETM - there was an explosion of heat. There were palms in Siberia, and crocodiles in the Arctic Ocean. Today, the world is heating 10x faster

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#BillMcGuire: “Our planet is heating faster than at any time in the geological record.. what we can still do.. the single biggest thing .. is simply to talk about it.. fight #ClimateChange ..together.”

#TogetherUnstoppable #FateOfTheWorld”

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#FOTW Daily Post 6

Imagine heat so humid you can't sweat. No water, no shade will save you — organ failure within 6 hours. These 'wet-bulb' heatwaves become more common as the planet gets hotter. Not distant. Not abstract.

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This is an insane policy move by the Tories. A must read is, Professor Bill McGuire's book The #FateOfTheWorld. #Renewables are critical, no more oil & gas.

#FOTW Daily Post 5

Favourite denier myth - volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans

Ask me or any other volcanologist — false

Volcanoes: ~300 million tonnes CO2/year. Humans: 130 times more

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#FOTW Daily Post 4

Dinner-table science: Carbon and CO2 are not the same

Multiply CO2 by 0.27 to get Carbon value

In 2023 we emitted ~40bn tonnes CO2 = ~11bn tonnes carbon

Knowing this is how you catch a misleading stat

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#FOTW Daily Post 3

74% of Brits say climate change is important. 62% want the UK among the world's most ambitious. We're not a fringe. We're the majority — we just don't feel like the powerful collective we are. Time to feel it.

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#FOTW Daily Post 2

Fossil fuels are just old sunlight - stored solar energy from deep time that we're now burning all at once. The sun already sends us 10,000x the energy we need. We're digging up the past instead of making the most of the gift above

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#FOTW daily post 1

A water-powered cotton mill opened near my home in 1771, lighting the touchpaper for a planet-wide experiment - the Industrial Revolution. Not once have we paused to ask if it was the right way to go. That's why I wrote #FateOfTheWorld

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2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 8. Break the silence and we break the paralysis. You can't fix this alone — but together, we're unstoppable. #TogetherUnstoppable #FateOfTheWorld

2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 8. Break the silence and we break the paralysis. You can't fix this alone — but together, we're unstoppable.
#TogetherUnstoppable #FateOfTheWorld