Clif @Clif@qoto.org

@longobord Yes. But leaving entirely is even easier than migrating. So what may eventually look like a calm & safe place is actually just exclusionary. But as I said, I have high hopes!

Doing a bit of an experiment. Boost if you agree!

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Her body is her choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.

The U.S. Supreme Court justices are the only judges in the country who are not governed by a code of ethics. This needs to change.

Here are three reforms that the Court can make now to shore up its legitimacy: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/supreme-court-ethics-reform

The basics of climate change science have been known for a long time, and the predicted impact of a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide on global temperature hasn’t changed much in 100 years.

There simple ways to make the major points about climate change, especially to general audiences, without relying on complex models. https://eos.org/features/simpler-presentations-of-climate-change

It’s good to see engagement and use growing here. It would be healthy to have a social platform free of the billionaire oligopoly and the corporate ad folks, don’t you think?

Ok, Mastodon…let’s try this out.

I’m still gonna stick around over on Twitter until the bitter end, but I want to try to get this new world figured out in the meantime!

Any tips…?

#startrek #sevenofnine #twitterrefugee

Really remarkable how little of interest there is in my Twitter timeline or mentions after only a couple weeks. And it seems to get more empty every day.

Twitter still shines as source of breaking news and official emergency announcements, but if and when that migrates here, there will very little reason for me to check in over there.

#twittermigration

Over on Twitter transphobic bigots are openly calling for genocide while the website’s owner cheers with glee.
Apple must pull Twitter from their App store. They must not and cannot endorse this hatred and terrorism.

First there was Doom scrolling, then Greenwashing now we have HopeFishing

https://lynxotic.com/first-there-was-doom-scrolling-then-greenwashing-now-we-have-hopefishing/

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

#COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

The climate conference delivered a historic deal on loss and damage — but little else. #ClimateChange

https://grist.org/article/cop27-is-over-what-did-it-achieve/

Wind, solar and hydropower will generate more than 20 percent of the power supply
U.S. Renewable Energy Will Surge Past Coal and Nuclear by Year's End

Renewables are on track to generate more power than coal in the United States this year. But the question is whether they can grow fast enough to meet the country’s climate goals

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-renewable-energy-will-surge-past-coal-and-nuclear-by-years-end/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #USA #US

🚀 Taking a 40-sec trip into the heart of the Milky Way to reveal the first direct image of the supermassive #blackhole Sagittarius A* which was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.
Video: BlackHoleCam/Radboud University. Observations: Gaia, Reich et al. 2001, Meerkat/Heywood et al. 2022, VLA/Zhao et al. 2009,2016, EHT Collaboration 2022.

“The influence of the fossil fuel industry was found across the board.”
Tragic, shocking.
https://heated.world/p/how-fossil-fuel-influence-choked?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Carbon Capture Based on #Crystallization of Bicarbonate-#water Clusters: A Promising Approach... | A new carbon capture method has been devised to capture #carbondioxide from #fossilfuel #emissions #Greenhouse emissions are the biggest contributor towards #ClimateChange Emissions...

https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/environment/carbon-capture-based-on-crystallization-of-bicarbonate-water-clusters-a-promising-approach-to-control-global-warming/

‘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).