Clif @Clif@qoto.org
Retired Coast Guard Officer BA Geography living on the beautiful west coast of Canada on unceded Lekwungen/Songhees territory.
My interests include #ClimateDenial #renewables #RenewableEnergy #EV #bcpoli #canada #SeaLevels #SeaLevelRise #Oceans #Nature #transition #energy #environment #fedi22 #ClimateChangeIsReal #Misinformation #Disinformation #space #astronomy #genealogy
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https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-scariest-climate-plot-in-the “The decisions we make in the next few decades will determine the climate for the next 5,000 generations. If we choose unwisely, people in the future will justifiably be furious with us because we know what we’re doing but we’re doing it anyway.” #ClimateChange
"The Fifth National Climate Assessment, or NCA, is a peer-reviewed collaboration by more than 800 scientists from 14 federal agencies, universities and research institutions."
It has a lot of bad news - and a bit of optimism - for the most climate-denying nation on the planet. Buckle up North America because no where will be immune to the present and future effects of climate change.
A link to the report is within the article. #ClimateChange #CimateDenial #climatecrisis
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14112023/biden-national-cliimate-assessment/
@CarbonBubble 🧐 The mental gymnastics of #climatedenial are astounding.
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Yesterday in Ohio
A constitutional amendment establishing the right to abortion access passed 55.5% to 44.5%.
Recreational Marijuana passed by 56% to 44%
An overwhelming victory.
Within hours, top republicans stated they will go against the will of the people and undermine these new rights
Independents and moderates: when you vote Republican you vote against democracy https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/will-of-the-voters-republicans-in-ohio-pledge-to-push-back-on-abortion-marijuana/ar-AA1jALdm
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You all know my theory: Because of our current information disruption, and because news exists in a click-driven world, and because sensational opinions get more clicks than boring facts, the facts are lost in a firehose of opinions and speculation.
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"Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs" | An excerpt from my new book #OurFragileMoment (courtesy of @bulletinatomic infused with the legacy of the great Carl Sagan on this #CarlSaganDay eve:
https://thebulletin.org/premium/2023-11/book-excerpt-catastrophic-climate-change-lessons-from-the-dinosaurs/
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12 November 1921 | A Czech Jew, František Šťastný was born in Brno.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts
“Governments, in aggregate, still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.” #climatechange #climate #climatecrisis #climatepolicy #fossilfuels https://productiongap.org/
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"Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term" | My new commentary for @thehill https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4290467-trump-2-0-the-climate-cannot-survive-another-trump-term/
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"Here we show that the surface temperature increase through the recent La Nina influenced years (2022) is consistent with the 50-year trend of 0.18 °C/decade. We use an Earth System Model based tool to filter out modulations to the warming rate by sea-surface temperature patterns and find consistent warming rates in four major global temperature data series...we also find clear indications, in all observational series, of a step-up in warming rate since around 1990."
“some practical advice on how to avoid spreading misinformation, disinformation and propaganda, how to increase your own information resilience, and importantly, how to practice some self-care.” #disinformation https://counterhate.com/blog/how-to-navigate-online-disinformation-and-propaganda-and-practicing-information-resilience/?utm_source=advocacy-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=giving-tuesday-2023&utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=giving-tuesday-2023&utm_content=Giving+Tuesday+Week2
When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics
"It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization. Yet Nordhaus treats agriculture as indifferently fungible." #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #climateeconomics
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/
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A court for Christians:
Recent decisions by SCOTUS don’t protect the freedoms of all Americans, but instead represent “the culmination of a decadelong strategy by conservative Christians … to use the courts to limit the freedoms of groups of Americans of whom they disapprove.”
Analysis by two political scientists:
https://theconversation.com/supreme-court-is-increasingly-putting-christians-first-amendment-rights-ahead-of-others-dignity-and-rights-to-equal-protection-210220
#USpolitics
"The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023. We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered," #ClimateChange #ExistentialThreat https://phys.org/news/2023-10-life-earth-existential-threat-climate.html
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28 October 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Louise Pachter, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #girl #Netherlands #Amsterdam
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Climate deniers ... the quantity of your lies ... will NOT overcome ... the quality of the truth.
🌍🔥 #ClimateBrawl 🔥🌍
“Canada doesn’t have the guts to take on fossil fuel companies and their powerful banking allies, is betting that the energy transition fails, or doesn’t believe it is the government’s job to align the economy of today with the demands of tomorrow. Whatever the rationale, we are a country at risk of being left behind.” #ClimateChange #ClimateDeadbeat #energytransition https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/10/26/news/canada-out-step-unstoppable-green-energy-transition-iea
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For only the second season in the 45-year satellite record (and probably far longer than that), the combined sea ice extent in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas (north and northwest of Alaska) has falling below 200,000 km². To put it another way, as of Sept 19, 2023, more than 90 percent of these two seas are currently open water. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce #ClimateChange
@Climatologist49 @ZLabe
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“Smoke from #wildfires fueled by human-driven #climatechange, however, has erased roughly 25% of those air quality gains, according to a new study…in Nature. ‘We've seen really remarkable improvements in air quality,’ says Marissa Childs, one of the authors of the study & a researcher at Harvard's Center 4 the Environment. ‘But wildfire smoke is undoing that progress in many states." https://kuow.org/stories/how-wildfire-smoke-is-erasing-years-of-progress-toward-cleaning-up-america-s-air
Retired Coast Guard Officer BA Geography living on the beautiful west coast of Canada on unceded Lekwungen/Songhees territory.
My interests include #ClimateDenial #renewables #RenewableEnergy #EV #bcpoli #canada #SeaLevels #SeaLevelRise #Oceans #Nature #transition #energy #environment #fedi22 #ClimateChangeIsReal #Misinformation #Disinformation #space #astronomy #genealogy
Joined Nov 2022
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