Clif @Clif@qoto.org

This is amazing. Thanks @NJGov@twitter.com for mandating climate change education! https://www.minnpost.com/education/2022/11/one-state-mandates-teaching-climate-change-in-almost-all-subjects-even-pe/

House Democrats’ path back to the majority could run through the Supreme Court

Democrats are suing to overturn congressional maps in six states they weren’t able to undo before the midterm elections: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas. If courts side with them, Democrats believe it could be the difference between the majority and the minority.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/22/house-democrats-path-back-majority-could-run-through-supreme-court/

The Colorado Springs mass shooting is terrorism. GOP politicians share responsibility., by @MSignorile@twitter.com https://open.substack.com/pub/signorile/p/the-colorado-springs-mass-shooting?r=bydn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

On Nov. 17, the Biden administration filed a suggestion of immunity on behalf of Mohammad bin Salman (#MBS) in a suit filed by the fiancée of Jamal #Khashoggi, who was assassinated in 2018. Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, brought a case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2020, seeking relief under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 and Alien Tort Statute in connection with Khashoggi’s killing.

#SaudiArabia

On site with summ: https://www.lawfareblog.com/biden-administration-recognizes-mbss-immunity-khashoggi-case

New study from Ontario and Quebec which isolated pathogens causing tick-borne illness from ticks and small mammals. Results: plenty of Lyme (Borrelia burgdorferi) and some Babesia. A surprise: some samples positive for Rickettsia rickettsia, the agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which is not supposed to occur this far north!

Tick-borne illness was once rare in Canada and is now becoming common, largely as a result of #climatechange. #Lyme #tickborneillness
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/vbz.2022.0036

Check out this epic piece in The New Yorker by @elizkolbert . ‘Climate Change from A to Z: The stories we tell ourselves about the future’.
Because of the alphabetical presentation, the article winds a non-linear path through the past, present, and future, with narratives of the underlying physics, natural sciences, history, politics, tech, and what we tell ourselves about the future of #ClimateChange.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z

How much of Canada’s ongoing climate failure is caused by oil and gas industry pollution?

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/11/21/analysis/how-much-canada-ongoing-climate-failure-caused-oil-gas-sector

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #canada

Unusually warm lakes lead to mammoth snowfall

Upstate New York digs out from one of its biggest November lake-effect snows on record

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/11/unusually-warm-lakes-lead-to-mammoth-snowfall/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #snowfall #NewYork #USA #US

#IMO is developing a crucial role to achieve a massive reduction of #GHG emissions on atmosphere. Shipping is responsible for approximately 2% of global #CO2 emissions and IMO is actually taking direct actions to reduce these emissions at least 50% before 2050. #ClimateAction #UN #mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency

Simple infographic showing GHG emissions atmospheric balance

Erik Button, 2022

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Sustainability

Junk Carbon Offsets Are What Make These Big Companies ‘Carbon Neutral’.
For more than a decade, Credit Suisse Group AG has claimed to be “carbon neutral” in its operations. Every gleaming office tower, every flight by an executive — all the emissions generated directly by a global banking giant are supposedly counterbalanced. A closer look at the Swiss bank’s #sustainability reports tells a different story: its sweeping claim is based on purchases of low-quality carbon offsets that experts rate as useless.
#climate #climatechange #cop27
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-carbon-offsets-renewable-energy/?sref=Ptu9QECN&leadSource=uverify%20wall

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#Europe’s #Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That’s a Good Thing
The sprawling mass of #suburbia has been a disaster for the #environment. But now smaller, denser cities herald a renaissance in #city living.
https://bit.ly/3UUfaat #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate

120 years of climate change animated

Countries turn from mainly blue to mainly red in more recent years, illustrating the rise in average temperatures in that country.

For each country, the average temperature in 1971-2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red colors, and the color scale varies from +/- 2.6 standard deviations of the annual average temperatures between 1901-2000.
"Warming stripe" data: https://showyourstripes.info/c/globe
Viz: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/hdoxkv/oc_animated_map_showing_120_years_of_climate/
#Climate #ClimateChange

Less than a week here so I’m still learning and fine tuning. While I definitely need to find my #blackmastodon community, I’m open to and interested in these other communities as well:
#ScreenWriting #TVwriters #ClimateChange #Science #Writers #SciFi #HorrorMovies #SocialActivist #WomeninFilm #theater #lgbtqally

Late to the party, but Emily Atkin wrote an excellent piece for her newsletter HEATED about the climate impact of Elon Musk, the one man who has supposedly done more good for the climate than anyone else. (Spoiler alert, that’s total horseshit.) #climatechange #ElonMusk https://open.substack.com/pub/heated/p/the-climate-case-against-elon-musk?r=gtavi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@amywestervelt John Oliver did a whole segment on Carbon Offsets. https://youtu.be/6p8zAbFKpW0
#climatechange #johnoliver #carbonoffsets