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Biden Administration Quietly Approves Huge Oil Export Project Despite Climate Rhetoric - Inside Climate News
Katelyn Weisbrod
8-10 minutes

The Biden administration has approved plans to build the nation’s largest oil export terminal off the Gulf Coast of Texas, which would add 2 million barrels per day to the U.S. oil export capacity

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23112022/biden-administration-oil-export-texas/

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

To Meet the Moment on Climate, Biden Must Stick to 'No New Drilling' Promise

https://earthjustice.org/from-the-experts/2022-november/to-meet-the-moment-on-climate-biden-must-stick-to-no-new-drilling-promise

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

Sea level rise is not uniform around the world. Some places are hit sooner and harder.

#risingsealevels #climateemergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #coastalerosion #ocean #degrowth

https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3002/sea-level-101-part-two-all-sea-level-is-local/

"Wind turbines kill birds.

While this is true, it misses an important piece of context:

Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds per GWh than wind turbines do."

#ClimateChange #RenewableEnergy

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1595185015884767235.html

Despite all the renewable energy investments and installations, actual global greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing. That’s largely due to economic growth: While renewable energy supplies have expanded in recent years, world energy usage has ballooned even more—with the difference being supplied by fossil fuels

https://www.eurasiareview.com/22112022-the-renewable-energy-transition-is-failing-oped/

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

#Food Wastage Due to #Premature Discarding: A Low-cost #Sensor to Test #Freshness | Scientists have developed an inexpensive sensor using PEGS #technology which can test #food #freshness and can help reduce wastage due to discarding food prematurely (throwing away of food solely because it is close to (or passed) the use-by date, regardless of its actual freshness). The sensors can be integrated into food packaging or tags.

https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/sciences/agriculture-food/food-wastage-due-to-premature-discarding-a-low-cost-sensor-test-freshness/

In case you missed it, here's last week's comic illustrating the history of #Twitter in four panels:

@Snoro
http://www.hydroscot-energies.com/
Hydropanels are making water from air, even very dry air.

I'm think of installing some on my roof!

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

@kaydubatl @Deglassco I’m so glad you feel that. 🥰💕Other than calling out,blocking & reporting any BS I see is there something else specific #wyp can do in this app to make it better. #twittermigration #KHive

@Deglassco Southerner here so definitely understand. I’m moreso saying I like the option of having somewhere else to go (for those that may want a break from or choose not to “fight the good fight”) versus having no safe space option at all. Same way we go out in the world - I do my part to try to impact and educate people’s viewpoints knowing some may NEVER change. At some point you want to go home or be in a space and just have a good time in peace. It’s possible here, I feel 🙂

@Deglassco I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my experience so far and hope that others find the same community that I’ve found on here. I’m all for the decentralized model - that other app just felt like you could not escape that energy at all as it was programmed to keep pushing it to you. At least you can leave and go to someone else’s house who got more sense on here, just like in real life 😄

In a sane world, the possibility of over 800 mass shootings in a single year would be incomprehensible and intolerable.

Mary Peltola, first Alaska Native in Congress, wins bid to retain seat - Peltola made history to become the first woman to represent the state when she won a special election in AugustMary Peltola, a Democrat and the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress, has won her bid to retain the state’s sole seat in the House of Representatives.Peltola made history when she won a special... #Alaska #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/23/mary-peltola-wins-alaska-democrat

Synthetic plastic fibers discovered in Antarctic air, seawater, sediment and sea ice
#science #climate #climatechange
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-synthetic-fibers-antarctic-air-seawater.html

Artemis I – Flight Day Eight: Orion Exits the Lunar Sphere Of Influence https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/23/artemis-i-flight-day-eight-orion-exits-the-lunar-sphere-of-influence/

Good news on the global #energy capacity front: solar and wind are up, coal and gas (methane) are down. Proving we have the tools to fight an increasingly dangerous #climate. Scientists say we need the political will to transition faster. @CFigueres #environment #climatechange