@Snoro nearly half of Canadians don’t understand the concept and have expectations twice as high as they should be for a measure meant only to be a small part of a comprehensive climate policy.
11 December 1903 | A Czech Jewish woman, Nely Königová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 19 October 1944. She did not survive.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts
Wow, the last three months have really shattered the previous September to November temperature record for our planet...
Using data from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview
People with a special interest in climate change and climate crisis may appreciate our efficient regular compendium "SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup."
Our 49th edition for 2023 provides ledes and links for 28 items. This week's coverage is of course heavily dominated by COP28. But our main highlight is about an intriguing tool from #CarbonBrief helping to understand pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement goal.
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https://skepticalscience.com/2023-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_49.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks
@Snoro And the next COP will be another infuriatingly wasteful farce as will all those following as long as oil producers continue to host them.
Surprising no one, #ElonMusk will bring back Alex Jones to the Dead Bird Site.
I guess when he tweeted this, he was lying.
Again.
#twittermigration
Donald Trump defended comments he made last week where he said he wanted to be a dictator if re-elected only on “day one” in office. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-doubles-down-dictator-day-one-1234922468/
10 December 1905 | A Pole, Piotr Słomski, was born in Nowa Wieś. A judge.
In Auschwitz from 28 March 1942.
No. 27461
He perished in the camp on 8 September 1942.
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"Carbon tax accounts for 0.3 percent increase in food prices. That's 30 cents on a $100 grocery bill."
"Canadians are going to be disappointed when "axing the tax" does not result in promised affordability at the grocery store."
"Axing the tax' will bring such miniscule savings nobody will notice except for low income people who will no longer get the rebate checks."
"Axing the tax will on average benefit the wealthy and hurt everyone else."
#poilievre cc @bhundey
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/12/05/ucalgary-carbon-tax-affordability-study/
Based on their inaction and false claims, I argue it should read "prefer to ignore and instead lie or mislead".
“What far too few leaders seem to grasp (prefer not to grasp?) is that every delay means an ever-steepening challenge. Canada has the widest emissions gap among the countries UNEP surveyed — a 27 per cent gap between policies in place and international commitments. The U.S. logs the next widest at 19 per cent.” #climatechange #energytransition #climatecrisis #climatejustice #climatepolicy #climatepledges https://www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/zero-carbon/2023/11/24/2-days-above-2-degrees
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
@dimillian I quit months ago and feel much better for it.
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
This should have been the case decades ago. #climatechange #energytransition https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/07/we-need-power-to-prescribe-climate-policy-ipcc-scientists-say
Retired Coast Guard Officer BA Geography living on the beautiful west coast of Canada on unceded Lekwungen/Songhees territory.
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