
A brilliant talk that punctures current discourse on climate ambition in Scotland, setting out what's really needed, by @KevinClimate for @ScotClimateCA
📽️ https://t.co/i02FtSkJT8 📽️
Well worth watching. Otherwise, here's a summary thread 👇
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Negative emissions technologies cannot be relied on to make up the difference at that scale. 6/10

The climate crisis is emblematic of how political decisions get made in devolutionary Scotland: being slightly less inadequate than other places is the baseline for success.
— Jamie Maxwell (@jamiedmaxwell) December 16, 2020
Scotland’s wealthy high emitters must reduce more than 10% each year.
Real zero energy is needed by 2035.
8/10

Home retrofits & new homes at Passivhaus standards🏘️
Phase out gas heating🔥
Shift from cars to public transport and active travel🚴♀️
Frequent flyer levy🛬
Huge electrification with renewables⚡️
Phase out of oil and gas, with just transition⛽️
9/10
More from Climate change
I don't have time to make this detailed, but here's a little thread about the world's first major politically-charged blackout that was blamed on renewables, in South Australia, in 2016............
On September 28, 2016, an unprecedented tropical storm progressed rapidly across South Australia. Truly - this thing was unusual. The sky folded in on itself. It tore towns to bits.
Australia's @climatecouncil pointed out that the storm was so unusual at least partly due to the influence of climate change, and that this is due to get worse.
https://t.co/76ekkfJpR8
I'm going to use brief snippets from my book to fill this out! The storm's primary impact on the grid was the destruction of several major transmission lines. When I say destruction - I mean they snapped like twigs.
Here's what happened in the following seconds:
- A voltage spike from the line falls
- Wind turbines automatically shut off due to software settings that trigger shutdown during a spike
- The interconnector to Vic tried to compensate, failed and died
- All of SA blacked out
On September 28, 2016, an unprecedented tropical storm progressed rapidly across South Australia. Truly - this thing was unusual. The sky folded in on itself. It tore towns to bits.

Australia's @climatecouncil pointed out that the storm was so unusual at least partly due to the influence of climate change, and that this is due to get worse.
https://t.co/76ekkfJpR8

I'm going to use brief snippets from my book to fill this out! The storm's primary impact on the grid was the destruction of several major transmission lines. When I say destruction - I mean they snapped like twigs.

Here's what happened in the following seconds:
- A voltage spike from the line falls
- Wind turbines automatically shut off due to software settings that trigger shutdown during a spike
- The interconnector to Vic tried to compensate, failed and died
- All of SA blacked out
