Clif @Clif@qoto.org

First there was Doom scrolling, then Greenwashing now we have HopeFishing

https://lynxotic.com/first-there-was-doom-scrolling-then-greenwashing-now-we-have-hopefishing/

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

#COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

The climate conference delivered a historic deal on loss and damage — but little else. #ClimateChange

https://grist.org/article/cop27-is-over-what-did-it-achieve/

Wind, solar and hydropower will generate more than 20 percent of the power supply
U.S. Renewable Energy Will Surge Past Coal and Nuclear by Year's End

Renewables are on track to generate more power than coal in the United States this year. But the question is whether they can grow fast enough to meet the country’s climate goals

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-renewable-energy-will-surge-past-coal-and-nuclear-by-years-end/

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

🚀 Taking a 40-sec trip into the heart of the Milky Way to reveal the first direct image of the supermassive #blackhole Sagittarius A* which was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.
Video: BlackHoleCam/Radboud University. Observations: Gaia, Reich et al. 2001, Meerkat/Heywood et al. 2022, VLA/Zhao et al. 2009,2016, EHT Collaboration 2022.

“The influence of the fossil fuel industry was found across the board.”
Tragic, shocking.
https://heated.world/p/how-fossil-fuel-influence-choked?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Carbon Capture Based on #Crystallization of Bicarbonate-#water Clusters: A Promising Approach... | A new carbon capture method has been devised to capture #carbondioxide from #fossilfuel #emissions #Greenhouse emissions are the biggest contributor towards #ClimateChange Emissions...

https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/environment/carbon-capture-based-on-crystallization-of-bicarbonate-water-clusters-a-promising-approach-to-control-global-warming/

‘False solutions’: scepticism over Saudi carbon capture plan.

Kingdom’s #Cop27 announcement of new storage hub part of pattern of delaying fossil fuel transition, experts say.
#climate #climatechange #science http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/19/false-solutions-scepticism-over-saudi-carbon-capture-plan

Building green energy facilities may produce substantial carbon emissions, says study. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-green-energy-facilities-substantial-carbon.html

@Clif The US EPA is currently doing a review of a draft update to the social cost of carbon.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-floats-sharply-increased-social-cost-of-carbon/

It's worth dropping comments into their docket. It'll help if you cite specific scientific studies favoring a higher value.

Young children actually take in the particulate matter from air pollution at a much higher rate than older youth or adults because they breathe in and out quite a bit faster. They are smaller in stature, so they're closer to the ground, where the pollution concentrates. They're inhaling the particulate matter much, much more than adults

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-11-22-early-childhood-and-climate-change-are-connected-in-more-ways-than-you-might-think

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

Climate activists are on the right side of history

On the one hand, little outrage is voiced about the fact that “in east Africa, one person dies of climate-induced hunger every 36 seconds”; on the other, there was worldwide condemnation of the throwing of two cans of soup at a work of art

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/22/climate-activists-are-on-the-right-side-of-history

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

@mathewi Toot! for iOS allows this, too. Don't know about any Android apps, sorry!

Note also that scholar.social is an instance where you have to have an administrator-approved account to browse their local/federated timeline (I discovered this the hard way when I deleted my unused account, only to find that I had locked myself out of what is essentially a walled garden).

Oil companies' profits surge while lobbying against climate action

In theory, these companies’ financial strength should position them to invest aggressively in their energy transition. But, as Canada’s environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, pointed out recently, they are not doing so. Worse, they continue to lobby against climate action

https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/canadas-oil-sands-companies-reap-windfall-profits-while-lobbying-against-real-climate-action/

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

What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-tomatoes-climate.html

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

Journalists on Mastodon and Fediverse (Responses) is a very good list maintained by Tim Chambers @tchambers.

In an effort to improve the useability of this great resource this is a version with the addresses converted to CLICKABLE LINKS, sorted by name, and raw data cleaned up >>>
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14vfonxtyy0JFDxu5dZOZo-yAJrRXcu2lZ33atkFb7GM/edit#gid=0

This list is manually created from the original list and will only be updated periodically.

#twittermigration #journalists #list #mastodonmigration #Fediverse

With respect, @pewresearch, Gab, Truth Social, Gettr, Parler, Rumble, Gettr are not "alternative social media in the news and information environment." They are far-right and fascist networks and should be known as that.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2022/10/06/the-role-of-alternative-social-media-in-the-news-and-information-environment/

M 6.2 #earthquake 29 km SW of Las Brisas, #Mexico

#Baja California (part of Mexico), is moving NW at ~50 mm/year riding on the Pacific Plate.

This region is part of the Pacific / North American plate boundary where the plates are sliding past each other, causing right lateral strike-slip faulting.