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This is so important it's my new pinned tweet. Only article that has helped me deal with solastalgia vox.com/energy-and-env…

That’s it. I’m done with twitter. Fuck Elon Musk. Hope all the excellent folks still here eg @dwallacewells @RogerHallamCS21 @DouglasTodd @maxfawcett @411Regan @Ayan604 @Garossino @christineeboyle migrate over to Bluesky amp.theguardian.com/australia-news…

Just curious what folk's longest wait time is for @ChatGPTapp . I've managed to stump it a few times for many minutes

Positive take on Ukraine: economist.com/by-invitation/…

@iamkennethchan Utterly sick. What are we doing

This is Ivanhoe Cambridge's proposed revised master plan concept for redeveloping Metropolis at Metrotown mall into dozens of towers. BC's largest indoor shopping mall would be demolished over decades. #TOD #SkyTrain #vanre #vancre #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/metr…

‘Oh my God… what the f**k?’ Dubai, UAE This is what happens when you put 100million tonnes of heat trapping gasses into the air every single day and have the hottest year on record… Educate yourself: youtu.be/2Jq23mSDh9U?si… Understand who’s trying to stop us from taking action: youtu.be/I32R6Yx9PTI?si… #climate #ClimateAction Video by @Top_Disaster

Interesting. Boris perhaps shows how to speak to climate change skeptics in Canada: kelownanow.com/news/news/Nati…

The public don’t understand that the olive oil price is skyrocketing because crops in Europe have been devastated by extreme drought because of climate change, and that it’s going to get much worse - or that David Attenborough warns the collapse of the food system is on the horizon which means extreme violence… youtu.be/8kKe_x1YEoA?si… The public don’t understand because the media aren’t interested and aren’t telling them. More about it here: x.com/jimbair6222100…

“About a tenth of the world’s residential property by value is under threat from global warming—including many houses that are nowhere near the coast.” economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

1/2 "In Vancouver, only 15% of dwellings are considered 'single-detached houses,'" says census. @Ayan604 says Vancouver has one of the lowest percentages of single-detached homes in Metro. Via Michael Kluckner's new book, Surviving Vancouver. #vanpoli midtownpress.ca/authors/michae…

So @LaCDPQ are decarbonising fast. What's your excuse now @MyBCMPP? cc @ActionShift @corporateknight thelogic.co/briefing/cdpq-…

Climate change: 'Uncharted territory' fears after record hot March bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

🚨Stop Scrolling! Let's pause & reflect a minute about what this shocking picture of @GretaThunberg 's arrest tells us about the current state of #climate politics. A short 🧵on some key lessons we can take from this image

AHEM. The CPC isn't going to present a climate plan because the vast majority of its voters don't think Canada needs one.

I’m afraid we should have been on the streets in our millions 20 years ago. The European potato crop is now under threat because of record breaking relentless rainfall. And this is still just the beginning #climatecrisis theguardian.com/environment/20…

Wake up Canada

So here's how we should look at all this temperature stuff. The fundamental thing to understand is that there is a cut off point where the human body dies in 6 hours (Wet Bulb Effect)- around 35C to 50C, depending on the humidity. As I keep reminding people, when people die they do not come back - unlike just being ill. These are the two key facts. So really the thing to think about is not, hey it is now 30C at night in Crete in March every year or two. The KEY THING is how often is it going to be 50C at night in Crete? Let's say that is every 20 years - so half the population dies in one day every 20 years. This is why THE AVERAGE is completely irrelevant - the horror is in how often the long tail happens - how often a place hits the "all humans die in one day" point. So if at 1C it is once in 10 000 years - at 2C it might be once in 100 years - at 3C once in 20 years (i.e., effective human extinction). At 1C things are tricky - at 2C things are super risky - at 3C half the world has to move because every 20 years they all die if they stay put. Of course you are going to say well people will adapt (have underground shelters etc). Sure some people survive in the Sahara. But try doing that in an area such as France! The biggest social shock of human history is going to be when the first mass mortality event happens suddenly and what I have written in this post will become the most important information in the world. And then everyone will go - oh fuck fuck fuck. The door of the gas chamber has closed. In case you are interested in how this has worked in history you can read the "general crisis" on the 1C drop in temperatures in the seventeenth century when the global population dropped by a third. You can see that the mass death events happened all in one go when extreme climate events happened - droughts and extreme cold temperatures. When these happened two years in a row it took generations for the population to recover. And it did of course. But this time round it will never change. It will just get worse. The researchers concluded: “The geographic range and frequency of non-compensable heat extremes will increase rapidly, given only moderate continued increase in global average temperatures. This implies that, in the near future, a substantial portion of the world’s population will be exposed to these non-compensable environmental conditions.” “a real risk” of widespread exposure with “hundreds of millions of people” affected before they were sufficiently heat-adapted to avoid attendant increases in deaths and illness." theguardian.com/environment/20….

Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute theguardian.com/environment/20…

In the @CityofVancouver 13.5% of (recent) condos were purchased by people who live outside the country, who may or may not hold a Canadian passport. In @Richmond_BC it’s 16.2% In @CityofBurnaby it’s 12.7% Via @Ayan604 @GoldinYVR #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/va…

Density does not mean affordability: biv.com/news/commentar…

Brilliant, as ever, comments by ⁦@Ayan604⁩ in this article. Let’s direct the foreign money rather than measuring it theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/va…