MSc, Global Sustainability Solutions at Exeter University. Previously...PhD (Psychology), SEN teacher. Interested in Tipping Points, Systems Thinking, Feedback Loops..."the talkative one, the one trying to save the planet" 🤣
David Parslow
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Can't say I completely agree with you here, Mike. If CO2 continues to be emitted, we'll cross those critical warming thresholds anyway, just a bit later -- and any tipping points (however ill-defined) are far more likely to be triggered by the persistent warming due to CO2 than by a temporary
True. It often surprises people to learn that of all the CO2 emitted by people since the Industrial Revolution, about 1/4 to 1/3 is from deforestation and other land-use change (with the rest from burning fossil fuels).
They're a game changer. The more you can store and the longer you can store it, the more reliable it is and that will change everything.
ClimateBook
Richard Waite
Put it on the front pages
David Parslow
Kemi Badenoch has been in Aberdeen today to launch her "Fuel Britannia" campaign to extract "every last drop" of oil and gas from North Sea.
She has been photographed visiting "Well Safe Solutions".
Guess who their non-exec director is?
Alasdair Locke - who has given £1.2m to the Tories
David Parslow
That would be roughly enough to recuperate 2,000 square metres of reef. The Great Barrier Reef is 344,400 sq km (344,000,000,000 sq m). It might be better, as you say, to address the cause.
Best of intentions. All power to people trying to fix a continuing disaster. But I can't help but think unless we seriously address climate change such projects are likely futile. And the scale of the challenge regarding restoring the GBR is massive.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
I don't disagree that CO2 emissions have to be zeroed. I'm saying that methane does too, or we'll cross 1.5C and then 2C thresholds. I agree that the duration & magnitude of overshoot matters, but we don't know how close we are to warming thresholds for GIS/WAIS collapse, AMOC shutdown, etc.
Reducing CO2 emissions is paramount. But reducing methane is necessary for avoiding critical warming thresholds. Warning we could soon cross these limits while downplaying the importance of methane reductions is hypocritical.
Steve Baty (He/him)
Leo Hickman
Professor Euan Ritchie
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann
I'm sure that's true. But I can't believe that 100% of the land used for raising animals for food can only be used for that purpose, instead of crops for human consumption or forests or biodiverse grasslands. And it would only take a tiny proportion of the beef/lamb land to feed us entirely.
