Clif @Clif@qoto.org

‘False solutions’: scepticism over Saudi carbon capture plan.

Kingdom’s #Cop27 announcement of new storage hub part of pattern of delaying fossil fuel transition, experts say.
#climate #climatechange #science http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/19/false-solutions-scepticism-over-saudi-carbon-capture-plan

Building green energy facilities may produce substantial carbon emissions, says study. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-green-energy-facilities-substantial-carbon.html

@Clif The US EPA is currently doing a review of a draft update to the social cost of carbon.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-floats-sharply-increased-social-cost-of-carbon/

It's worth dropping comments into their docket. It'll help if you cite specific scientific studies favoring a higher value.

Young children actually take in the particulate matter from air pollution at a much higher rate than older youth or adults because they breathe in and out quite a bit faster. They are smaller in stature, so they're closer to the ground, where the pollution concentrates. They're inhaling the particulate matter much, much more than adults

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-11-22-early-childhood-and-climate-change-are-connected-in-more-ways-than-you-might-think

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #EarlyChildhood

Climate activists are on the right side of history

On the one hand, little outrage is voiced about the fact that “in east Africa, one person dies of climate-induced hunger every 36 seconds”; on the other, there was worldwide condemnation of the throwing of two cans of soup at a work of art

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/22/climate-activists-are-on-the-right-side-of-history

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #ClimateStrike

@mathewi Toot! for iOS allows this, too. Don't know about any Android apps, sorry!

Note also that scholar.social is an instance where you have to have an administrator-approved account to browse their local/federated timeline (I discovered this the hard way when I deleted my unused account, only to find that I had locked myself out of what is essentially a walled garden).

Oil companies' profits surge while lobbying against climate action

In theory, these companies’ financial strength should position them to invest aggressively in their energy transition. But, as Canada’s environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, pointed out recently, they are not doing so. Worse, they continue to lobby against climate action

https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/canadas-oil-sands-companies-reap-windfall-profits-while-lobbying-against-real-climate-action/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #canada

What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-tomatoes-climate.html

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #Australia

Journalists on Mastodon and Fediverse (Responses) is a very good list maintained by Tim Chambers @tchambers.

In an effort to improve the useability of this great resource this is a version with the addresses converted to CLICKABLE LINKS, sorted by name, and raw data cleaned up >>>
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14vfonxtyy0JFDxu5dZOZo-yAJrRXcu2lZ33atkFb7GM/edit#gid=0

This list is manually created from the original list and will only be updated periodically.

#twittermigration #journalists #list #mastodonmigration #Fediverse

With respect, @pewresearch, Gab, Truth Social, Gettr, Parler, Rumble, Gettr are not "alternative social media in the news and information environment." They are far-right and fascist networks and should be known as that.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2022/10/06/the-role-of-alternative-social-media-in-the-news-and-information-environment/

M 6.2 #earthquake 29 km SW of Las Brisas, #Mexico

#Baja California (part of Mexico), is moving NW at ~50 mm/year riding on the Pacific Plate.

This region is part of the Pacific / North American plate boundary where the plates are sliding past each other, causing right lateral strike-slip faulting.

This is amazing. Thanks @NJGov@twitter.com for mandating climate change education! https://www.minnpost.com/education/2022/11/one-state-mandates-teaching-climate-change-in-almost-all-subjects-even-pe/

House Democrats’ path back to the majority could run through the Supreme Court

Democrats are suing to overturn congressional maps in six states they weren’t able to undo before the midterm elections: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas. If courts side with them, Democrats believe it could be the difference between the majority and the minority.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/22/house-democrats-path-back-majority-could-run-through-supreme-court/

The Colorado Springs mass shooting is terrorism. GOP politicians share responsibility., by @MSignorile@twitter.com https://open.substack.com/pub/signorile/p/the-colorado-springs-mass-shooting?r=bydn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

On Nov. 17, the Biden administration filed a suggestion of immunity on behalf of Mohammad bin Salman (#MBS) in a suit filed by the fiancée of Jamal #Khashoggi, who was assassinated in 2018. Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, brought a case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2020, seeking relief under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 and Alien Tort Statute in connection with Khashoggi’s killing.

#SaudiArabia

On site with summ: https://www.lawfareblog.com/biden-administration-recognizes-mbss-immunity-khashoggi-case

New study from Ontario and Quebec which isolated pathogens causing tick-borne illness from ticks and small mammals. Results: plenty of Lyme (Borrelia burgdorferi) and some Babesia. A surprise: some samples positive for Rickettsia rickettsia, the agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which is not supposed to occur this far north!

Tick-borne illness was once rare in Canada and is now becoming common, largely as a result of #climatechange. #Lyme #tickborneillness
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/vbz.2022.0036