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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Portugal shut down their last remaining coal fired power plant and is fostering a renewable energy revolution. They could be completely renewable by 2040 if not sooner. It can be done. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Humans are creating the third great extinction. If we don't change - 99.9% of critically endangered species will be lost & it will take the earth more than 3 million yrs to recover. We have solutions to the #climate crisis, implement them. #ActOnClimate #climateaction
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
The 2026-30 five-year mean will be between 1.55°C and 1.8°C*, with 2031-35 looking set for between 1.85 and 2.15°C as global warming continues to accelerate. * 75% chance of >1.5°C (WMO/UK Met Office Global Update Report, Spring '26)
Replying to @ClimateBen
1.4°C according to IPCC scientists. In reality, we're already hitting 1.5-1.6°C or more, see James Hansen, etc. ('Degrowth is dumb'? That's some nasty Extinction Denial, I'm afraid.)
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Record crops do not prove that warming is harmless. Agricultural progress has been driven by technology, while climate change is increasing drought, water stress and extreme weather.
Replying to @ClimatePNowak
Here's what the warming trend - longer growing seasons, agriculture further North and at higher elevations, together with diesel tractors and more CO2 has done to agriculture. Record crops.
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Solar is set to overtake generation capacity of all other power sources by 2027. In three years, it will overtake gas. In four years, it will push past coal. And it's creating jobs as it does it. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
FOSSIL FUELED HEAT KILLED 200,000 IN EUROPE SINCE 2022 WHO, 11 June 2026 Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average Deaths will mount ever faster, so long as mass murderous fossils are burnt for energy. Physoorg, 11 June 2026 #heatwave #climatechange #globalwarming
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RT @Leseerlaubnis: In den kommenden 14 Tagen bekommt Deutschland die Folgen des Klimawandels deutlich zu spüren. Anstatt, wie in meiner K…
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Repeat after me - we can't drill, pipe, or log our way out of this crisis. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #climatemergency #gorenewable #panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
France is heading towards its second heatwave... BEFORE the summer solstice! 🔥🌡️🥵 It’s just nightmarish, morbid, and foreshadows how difficult life will be in the 21st century. 😰 I’m thinking of the ecosystems that can’t take it anymore... 🌲✝️ Map via @Kevin_Fillin
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
People often ask how long a wind turbine takes to "pay back" its construction CO₂. Surprisingly, including mining, steel, concrete, copper, manufacturing, transport, installation, maintenance & decommissioning, a modern turbine repays its entire carbon debt in 5-12 months. After that, it can spend another 20-30 years generating electricity while avoiding far more emissions than were created to build it. Every technology has an upfront footprint. The question isn't whether emissions exist. The question is how quickly they are repaid. For wind, the carbon mortgage is usually measured in months. The carbon savings are measured in decades. That's what disruption looks like when physics and economics start pulling in the same direction.
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Most people aren’t talking or thinking about this. But before you know it, this will be all anyone is talking or thinking about.
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Another major environmental catastrophe that impacts on climate and world trade, but it is not on the radar. The following link is a good video of the Sargassum problem, a pelagic seaweed floating on the surface of the ocean. When we sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, we got stuck three times in giant mats of Sargassum. The video gives a good explanation of what happens in the Caribbean when it washes ashore, but it misses the major environmental and economic implications that have a profound impact on world trade and marine life in an entire ocean. The Sargassum starts off from the coast of Brazil; it picks up nutrients from the Amazon and grows at an accelerated rate. It can double in biomass every 10 days. The weed crosses the South Atlantic to Africa and flows up the west coast, picking up more nutrients from the Congo and Gambia as well as agricultural run-off. By the time it reaches North Africa, Cape Verde, it takes a left turn and starts heading back across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. There should only be 1 million tonnes of the weed in the Atlantic, but there are now 40 million, and it is expanding year on year. Sargassum is a plant, and like all plants, it requires nutrients such as phosphate. However, the massive amount of weed uses up all the phosphate and then biochemically defaults to absorbing arsenic, which sits below phosphate in the periodic table. The Equatorial Atlantic is now devoid of phosphate, which means there is almost no phytoplankton, zooplankton or fish. When we conducted our citizen science project, 5000 samples were collected by 25 yachts at around 15 deg. North, and the results all confirmed that the Equatorial Atlantic was effectively dead. The results were not ignored by the academics; instead, they attacked the Citizen Science project, this has become the subject of a reports by seethroughnews.org. Given the phytoplankton, such as coccolithophores and diatoms, have exhibited a regime shift, it also means the SML oil surfactant layer is gone, which means evaporation across the air-water interface has increased and aerosol/cloud formation has decreased. Satellite. Imagery confirms a 10% increase in humidity and a 10% decrease in cloud formation and rain. This is climate change TICC, the consequences. Impact on Central America, the survival of the tropical rainforests, mangroves, coral reefs, 25% of all marine life in the Atlantic and water supply for the Panama Canal. 6% of world trade and 40% of USA trade pass through the canal, and it has been totally missed as a major economic and environmental catastrophe. GOES centre for marine research: Seahorsepoint.org The video below was taken in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from our sailing vessel Copepod. Via Howard Dryden
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
“If the bees disappear off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” #SaveTheBees #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #Climate #nature #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and its benefits. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil fuel emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13…
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
"Stop giving power to people who don't believe in science or worse than that, pretend they don't believe in climate change for their own self-interest." Harrison Ford There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #biodiversity #panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli
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Gibb Laytham retweeted
China now has enough wind and solar to power every home in the country: buff.ly/OG9Wprq We have the solutions. Dump fossil fuels and implement them. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climate #energy #renewables
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