Paul Macdonald
@paulmac.bsky.social
Fighting for climate action, and challenging anti-science propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation.
Nuclear is not a climate crisis solution 👀☢️
Climate Watcher@pmagn.bsky.social · 4d agoUnpresidented ☢️ Paks nuclear plant, located around 50 miles south of the capital Budapest, could face a shutdown for THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 44 YEARS of service due to a lack of water for cooling www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
This is hopefully a helpful hint for those who follow me. If or when you go to my profile, click on the ‘Replies’ tab, and that will take you to the latest updates that I’ve appended to my mega-threads. For many of the threads it’ll show you the first post of the thread, and the latest two posts.
Paul Macdonald@paulmac.bsky.social · 2y agoA few years ago, prior to Australia’s ‘Black Summer’, I began capturing extreme events as I became aware of them escalating to a frequency of becoming annual events - some type of disaster of unprecedented scale occurring somewhere where such an event was previously unheard of. 🧵
If you read this article, you will come to understand the ascendancy of Trump, the emergence of a global ‘idiocracy’, and the grotesque, genocidal psychopathy of the disseminators of climate science disinformation, that leads those who are incapable of critical thinking to climate science denial.
Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
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Anthropogenic Global Warming, Genocidal Corruption, & the Destruction of Democracy The Fossil Fuel Industry, Libertarian/Conservative/Neo-Liberal Political Parties, ‘Think Tanks’, & Their Complicit ‘News’ Agencies: Follow The Money 🧵 #koch #atlas #heartland #gwpf www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
ExxonMobil’s own climate models showed that fossil fuel use would cause climate warming.
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Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate | Journal of the Geological Society
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Paul Macdonald@paulmac.bsky.social · last mo.“The ONLY time geologists can find an instance when CO2 and temperature are changing as rapidly, was 66 million years ago when the meteorite struck and wiped out the dinosaurs. And by the way, that temperature change was in the opposite direction.” youtu.be/t2C6NfFIK_g
Attribution of Extreme Events to Anthropogenic Global Warming 🧵 www.facebook.com/share/p/15Jy... nap.nationalacademies.org/cart/downloa...
Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print or as an eBook.
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Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
90% of the energy (heat) the Earth absorbs goes into our oceans. climatesignal.net#sea-level
Paul Macdonald@paulmac.bsky.social · 2w agowww.nature.com/articles/s41... #SeaLevelRise #OceanHeat #ThermalExpansion #Storms #RapidIntensification #StormSurge #CoastalErosion #CoastalFlooding #SaltWaterIntrusion #LandSubsidence #Infrastructure #HumanDisplacement #Oil #Coal #Gas #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming
I’ve been using the hashtags #ClimateCriminals & #ClimateNuremberg for the better part of a decade now. Occasionally I find others raise the prospect of such criminals being held to account in such a way, but I’m surprised that these hashtags have not been embraced by others fighting the good fight.
Out-of-Control Canadian Wildfires Prompt Calls for 'Nuremberg Trials for Big Oil' | Common Dreams
Over 100 fires were raging in Ontario alone, where they have forced the evacuation of at least 15 rural communities; destroyed homes in the Indigenous community of Collins First Nation, or Namaygoosis...
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