Clif @Clif@qoto.org

These Canadian provinces tried fixing wait times using private clinics, and failed #privatizationfail #healthcare #publichealthcare #Canada #health #privatization
https://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/failed_privatization_experiments?utm_campaign=aug_newsletter24&utm_medium=email&utm_source=bchealthcoalition

Why wildfires are getting more dangerous

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-wildfires-dangerous.html

#ClimateChange #Environment

Trump has Dementia.
He's also a Dark Tetrad.
He's also an ongoing, decades-long Drug-abuser.

Tropical Storm Debby was moving so slowly that Olympic athletes could have outrun it as it moved along the Southeast.

Here’s how #climatechange played a part in keeping it slow-moving, a new and different kind of threat from tropical storms.

Slower-moving storms have longer to rain over the same area, and that can dramatically increase the risk of flooding.
https://theconversation.com/tropical-storm-debby-loiters-along-the-carolinas-bringing-days-of-heavy-rain-and-flooding-a-climate-scientist-explains-why-236291
#tropicalstormdebby #environment #news #wx

Beware of politicians cynically co-opting things like #JasperStrong, especially if their only climate "policy" is #AxeTheTax. It's like #ThoughtsAndPrayers from NRA-funded US politicians after mass-shootings. Ask instead how they'll turn the heat down. /17

When it comes to hurricanes and the financial damages they bring, things may be about to get much worse. https://www.artemis.bm/news/climate-attributed-u-s-hurricane-losses-may-be-underestimated-aon-research/

Secondary effect of astroturf campaigns against modernized energy systems: local governments lose their credibility and hence authority, end up being treated as an impediment.

Letting outmoded industries employ all means and methods to prolong monetization of a stale product degrades us all.

#Astroturf
#EnergyModernization

https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2024/08/07/michigans-new-siting-process-gives-some-authority-to-state-regulators-but-under-what-circumstances/

When someone keeps “just asking questions” about whether vaccines are safe, or if climate change is real, or if a particular ethnic group should be put in a fucking camp, they’re not engaged in a genuine search for truth.

They’re exploiting our cognitive biases to make their fucknuckle ideas seem more plausible through sheer repetition.

https://youtu.be/qtKZnEP08iw?si=-gtyd6emsra6Tj9e

Great Barrier Reef’s temperature soars to 400-year high

Chemical analysis of coral skeletons reveals unprecedented warming trend that could spell disaster for the iconic reef

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02529-9

#Australia #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Hard to abate? There was a time when there was no technical or affordable way to reduce #emissions from steel or aviation, but those arguments aren’t holding up so well https://buff.ly/3SJsoaP

The world is currently seeing the fastest-spreading, largest-ever outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious, deadly strain of avian influenza. Scientists say this virus now presents an existential threat to the world’s biodiversity, with the risk to humans rising as it continues to leap the species barrier, reaching new host species.

By Sharon Guynup
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/animal-apocalypse-deadly-bird-flu-infects-hundreds-of-species-pole-to-pole/

#News #Environment #Conservation #Wildlife #Animals #Health

https://climateinstitute.ca/beyond-the-brink-making-sense-of-canadas-year-of-climate-chaos/ "The year has shown us, more than ever before, that dithering over climate policy is not just unproductive, it’s ruinous. What we’ve experienced should be a call to action that transcends politics, a call to safeguard our future against the relentless force of a wilder climate. Governments wise enough to answer that call must press forward with robust mitigation and adaptation policies and investments." #ClimateChange

Hansen et al. 4 January 2024

Global absorbed solar radiation anomaly

"Earth has become darker, absorbing more of the sunlight incident on the planet. The increase of absorbed solar radiation (1.4 W/m2) is a decrease of Earth’s albedo (reflectivity) of 0.4% (1.4/340). This reduced albedo is equivalent to a sudden increase of atmospheric CO2 from 420 to 530 ppm."

https://mailchi.mp/caa/groundhog-day-another-gobsmackingly-bananas-month-whats-up

#climate #climatecrisis #ClimateScience #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

Several years ago, members from our team spent a lot of time to help train an AI tool called #cards

So, it's cool to see CARDS put to good use and bearing fruit as the underlying tool utilized to create @CCDHate's report about "The New Climate Denial"!

Favorite pull quote: "“There is no relationship between hurricane activity and the surface temperature of the
planet." Take a moment to fully unpack, savor that.

#SolutionsDenial
#DicoursesOfDelay
#ClimateBunk

https://skepticalscience.com/ccdh-the-new-climate-denial.html?utm-source=mastodon@utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

Montana Supreme Court upholds landmark climate ruling that said emissions can't be ignored

https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/jan/17/montana-supreme-court-upholds-landmark-climate-ruling-that-said-emissions-cant-be-ignored/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #Montana #USA #US