Clif @Clif@qoto.org

@palafo
Isn't it a dangerous trend for Post to try to build a culture where people providing news are paid by anonymous readers for each post? How can that not affect what they write? It's an avenue for vested interests to warp what's delivered as news.

This morning, while making coffee, I logged onto the Other Site out of habit really. Five seconds of doom scrolling later, I deeply regretted it. Just bile and anger.

Came over here. Learned a bunch of new things, read loads of interesting posts, muted one person, liked/boosted a few other things... and here we are.

@jeffjarvis was right. It's just better here.

Sea #Turtle Sanctuary Survived 40 Years. #ClimateChange May Kill It.
Against odds and initially strong opposition, a pristine #marinepreserve in #Philippines has thrived for decades under care of local #fishermen. Warming waters threaten the achievement. https://nyti.ms/3Us8H6a

Up to 40 per cent of Tuvalu’s capital is underwater at high tide, and according to the starkest estimates yet, the entire Pacific nation is forecast to be entirely underwater by the end of the century.

#ClimateChange #Environment #EnvironmentalLaw #InternationalLaw #ClimateAction

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/11/23/tuvalu-is-recreating-itself-in-the-metaverse-as-climate-change-threatens-to-wipe-it-off-th

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

Global floods and droughts will intensify sooner than expected, studies show

A new study published in Nature concluded that the influence of a warming planet in pushing up ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific will be detectable in the weather patterns in eight years — almost 70 years earlier than previously though

https://www.ft.com/content/55512eae-201d-49b5-9d66-2fc3dcf3059a

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

'the heat wave was so unprecedented it essentially broke most of the standard tools used to measure the human influence on heat waves'

#ClimateCrisis #heat #health #science
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-climate-frequency-temperature-extreme.html

Aurora borealis on Jupiter, imaged by the Hubble telescope on Sept 29, 2022.
See the odd, comet-like streak at right? That's the magnetic imprint of Jupiter's moon Io! Its volcanoes spew out fumes that create their own aurora display.
https://www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop_16193/v54-oef454vrq.html #space #Hubble

A good day for climate Mastodon: Katharine Hayhoe has arrived! Follow her here: @kathhayhoe

#climatescience #climate #climatejustice #ClimateChange #optimism #climateaction

https://www.idausa.org/campaign/elephants/latest-news/african-lion-safari-elephants/

African Lion Safari in Ontario, Canada, boasts the largest herd of Asian elephants in North America. Its conservation claims are a thin excuse for decades of abuse, profit through forced breeding, and the transferring of these regal and intelligent animals. Its breeding program is little more than a legalized animal trafficking ring. African Lion Safari's Asian elephants must be sent to an accredited elephant sanctuary!

#elephants 🐘 #sanctuaries

'Water is vital to global trade, with 90% of products moving around the world via oceans and waterways.

But Summer 2022 saw severe droughts that led to several international trade routes becoming unpassable.

Economic damage from droughts jumped by 63% in 2021 compared with the 20-year average, according to the World Meteorological Organization.'

#trade #economy #ClimateChange #ActNow
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/drought-trade-rivers-supply-chain/

Interesting new paper about tropical cycle (TC) intensity. TCs are what we call hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons in the Pacific.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05326-4
Paywall, sorry!

This study uses measurements of ocean currents to back out TC wind speed. The key physics is that wind applies a torque to the ocean surface and the flow of the ocean responds to that. If you can measure the change in ocean current, you can back out the wind speed.

I love atheists because they don’t try to takeover the government to force their lack of beliefs on others.

Now Musk is saying if Apple and Google block Twitter on their app stores, presumably for failure to moderate hate speech and for safety, he will just create a new phone.

So it’s going well, right?

I refuse to accept an economic system in which school teachers pay a higher tax rate than billionaire investors.

We’re finishing up an overhaul of the sign-up experience in our iOS and Android apps, hopefully it can go live next week, I know the Android app hasn’t had a public release for a while but the beta already has editing and upload progress and a bunch of other nice things. A lot more in the pipeline for the future.

“We've arranged a society based on #science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

- Carl Sagan, in his last interview to Charlie Rose https://charlierose.com/videos/9094