Clif @Clif@qoto.org

Carbon taxes affect consumer prices today by only 0.6% and so that’s how much things would get cheaper by if we were to eliminate the carbon taxes completely.
School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary:
Carbon tax not to blame for affordability crisis: UCalgary study
https://calgary.citynews.ca/2023/12/05/ucalgary-carbon-tax-affordability-study/

Here is also shorter “takeaways” piece summarizing the major parts of the series to date (we need to update it for the NATO story)./9 https://nyti.ms/46QoYY7

My #Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume graphics are updated for last month, which observed the 6th lowest November volume on record: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/ #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz

@koen_hufkens @ErikJonker theres a meme for that

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/market-basket-measure-calgary-2023-1.7054147

We are LIVE on Product Hunt! If you are feeling oh-so generous, give us an upvote and try out Mammoth 2 for Mastodon! Thanks to @Chris for hunting us! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mammoth-2-for-mastodon?r=h

The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future https://theconversation.com/the-disagreement-between-two-climate-scientists-that-will-decide-our-future-217759?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange

Frozen methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm – and things are worse than we thought https://theconversation.com/frozen-methane-under-the-seabed-is-thawing-as-oceans-warm-and-things-are-worse-than-we-thought-216054?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange

"...billionaires are a menace to the rest of us: their sheer political size warps our public life."

"On a thriving planet, human beings should be human scale, but the super-rich are on another scale altogether, giants trampling underfoot both nature and our efforts to protect it." - Rebecca Solnit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/billionaires-great-carbon-divide-planet-climate-crisis

20 November 1936 | Czech Jewish girl Hana Brocková was born.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

America, we have 11 months to stop a dictator. Don't be fooled by the familiarity of the fool or by any soft-pedaling of the situation. Trump means us excessive harm.

Nobody in the Democratic Party, including Joe Biden, is perfect. We don't need that and we won’t get it. We need people that will stop this march to autocracy, misogyny, racism, and the deletion of our rights.

One chance, people.

Voters must take Trump seriously and literally. The stakes are that high.
https://wapo.st/47EtCsV

18 November 1910 | A Czech Jewish woman, Lota Kleinová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 May 1944. She did not survive.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Theresienstadt #ghetto #woman

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 419 ppm in October 2023

10 years ago October averaged about 394 ppm

Preliminary data from https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Ars Technica: 2023 National Climate Assessment paints grim picture while offering hope https://arstechnica.com/?p=1983665 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #FifthNationalClimateAssessment #nationalclimateassessment #climatechange #syndication #Science