Clif @Clif@qoto.org

How do you escape from a meteoroid swarm?
It's not a science-fiction issue. After a relatively large impact dinged the Webb telescope in May, engineers came up with a strategy to steer it away from the "micrometeoroid avoidance zone."
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/11/15/nasa-webb-micrometeoroid-mitigation-update/ #meteors #webb

LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words

The #Arctic continues to bake, despite total darkness...

#Alaska’s northernmost city posts warmest #winter temperature on record https://wapo.st/3h3XYk5 #Utqiagvik

Climate activist Violet Coco was sentenced to 15 months in prison for a peaceful protest.

Can you guess where?

“As far as biodiversity is concerned, we are at war with nature. We need to make peace with nature. Because nature is what sustains everything on Earth … the science is unequivocal.” — Inger Andersen, UN environment chief spells out the challenges facing the planet as Cop15 delegates gather in Montreal.

#Cop15 #nature #environnement #climatechange #biodiversity

Things are not always what they seem, example no. 643. This idyllic winter scene is a flooded path near Lower Rouge River after a winter storm. Storm water regularly overwhelms Ypsilanti, Michigan's sewage treatment and leads to partially treated sewage flooding the river. Climate change has already increased the number of severe rain events in Michigan, and flood inducing rain events are expected to become still more common.

#winter #photograph #nature #ClimateChange #michigan #art

Long-term changes to Earth's energy balance are increasing the frequency and intensity of many extreme events — heat waves, wildfires, cyclones, and floods — with trends projected to accelerate under certain greenhouse gas emissions scenarios.
Many of the health risks could be prevented through building climate-resilient health systems with improved risk reduction, preparation, response, and recovery.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33406378

#ClimateChange @CUPopCenter #NICHDimpact #ClimateImpact #Emissions

Today #Trump lost in the courts in New York and on the streets in #Georgia.
Today was a good day for democracy.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-may-have-lost-more-than-a-million-users-since-elon-musk-took-over/

#TodayinHistory 80 years ago, one of Hollywood's most beloved films, #Casablanca, was released! 🎬

A heady mix of #romance, cynicism, thrills and danger, the film went on to win three Academy Awards, and a long-lasting legacy.

🏆 Today, it's third on the American Film Institute’s 100 best movies of the last 100 years, and is one of the most referenced films of all time.

🔗 https://theconversation.com/watching-casablanca-on-its-80th-anniversary-we-remain-in-awe-of-its-simplicity-and-profound-depth-192186

#cinema #film #history #movies #oscars #popculture #arts #culture #journalism #news

This is why you must mask. #covid #wearamask

Young people feel betrayed by government inaction on climate change — we must take action

With the impacts of climate change accelerating, it’s worth remembering that young people have the most to lose. Seventy five percent of young people in the U.S. have indicated a moderate to extreme worry about climate change, while reporting feelings of betrayal and distrust with our government’s long delayed climate action

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3762578-young-people-feel-betrayed-by-government-inaction-on-climate-change-we-must-take-action/

#ecology #environment
#ClimateChange #Climate #USA #US

Musk’s Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing - Brain-implant company accused of causing needless suffering and deaths amid pressure from CEOElon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing... #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/neuralink-animal-testing-elon-musk-investigation

Ontario is sitting on billions of dollars they withheld from the health care system and hospitals are using the red cross to survive.

When will you accept that conservatives want you dead?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canadian-red-cross-cheo-ottawa-childrens-hospital-1.6673628

Just a shocking number of people don’t even know the bivalent boosters •exist•.

Folks, there is a newly forumated booster as of October.

If you got your last before October, you should get a new booster.

It’s available for kids 5 and up.

It’s free.

It will protect you ••much•• better against the newest variants, which are hospitalizing people en masse.

Tell your less-online-than-you family, friends, neighbors. Publicity has been terrible.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-new-covid-wave

Subsidies weren't made to last forever (even though fossil fuel subsidies keep hanging on and on).

Researchers found the optimal timing for #CleanEnergy and explain why starting high and phasing out fast makes sense (via @TheConversationUS)

https://theconversation.com/how-to-design-clean-energy-subsidies-that-work-without-wasting-money-on-free-riders-191635
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SustainableEnergy #sustainability #News

Companies have poured millions of dollars into forest carbon offsets so they can keep emitting greenhouse gases.

It's not working.

Scientists at @nasa and the University of California Irvine looked at 37 forest carbon offset projects across #California. They found the amount of carbon stored isn't increasing and logging isn't slowing down over the past decade

From @TheConversationUS, edited by our #Climate editor @smorford@sciencemastodon

https://theconversation.com/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-benefit-from-10-years-of-forest-carbon-offsets-in-california-193943
#NetZero #ClimateChange #Offsets

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A Polish Jew, Aron Safier.

He was a clerk from Tarnobrzeg. He perished in Auschwitz on 5 December 1941 - after 20 days in the camp.

He was 34 years old.

Over 400 thousand people were registered at Auschwitz as prisoners. Two largest groups were Jews of different nationalities (separate category, some 200,000 people) and Poles (some 140,000). Our podcast discusses the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-12-Polish-and-Jewish-prisoners-in-the-camp-e1b21sn/a-a70j912?fbclid=IwAR3ICuxZ2dLoeITnWSK96pP2Fhpxb9uGdeU7vkAy51cK1rDxdQuiWKFH6AM

#Auschwitz #history #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #ww2

Calling a targeted attack on a county's power grid "vandalism" instead of the #domesticTerrorism that it actually is is sort of like calling a concerted attack on the Capitol to overthrow the government "a riot" instead of the #insurrection that it truly was.

And one of those insurrectionists was involved in this act of terrorism.

Call things what they are. Words have power.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article269579392.html