Clif @Clif@qoto.org

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

Climate deniers ... the quantity of your lies ... will NOT overcome ... the quality of the truth.

🌍🔥 #ClimateBrawl 🔥🌍

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

“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

X ranks last on climate change misinformation scorecard | The Hill

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4214070-x-app-ranks-last-on-climate-change-misinformation-scorecard/

#ClimateChange

Mocha is now a Super Cyclonic Storm, with estimated winds of 240 km/h (150 mph) and still intensifying.

Mocha will likely weaken slightly before making landfall near the city of #Sittwe in Myanmar (Burma) just after midday local time tomorrow, May 14th.

There is a high risk of significant storm surge, damaging winds, and flash flooding in the vicinity of Sittwe.

#CycloneMocha #MochaCyclone #mocha #cyclone #myanmar #burma #bangladesh

Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting #methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points

Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating #ClimateCrisis

https://apple.news/AWrD8cBgOQGCo9zVkC4LVKQ

Take a look at this beautiful and poignant cartoon strip about climate action!

We need to act collectively and individually to stop the thousand years of harm that fossil fuels and other sources of greenhouse gas emissions are doing to our planet, which is our only home.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-02-2023/the-side-eye-a-climate-change-reality-check

#Climate #ClimateAction #Cartoon #Art #EnergyTransition
#NoPlanetB #CycloneGabrielle #NZ #Aotearoa

Just found out my story from April, wherein I FOI’d my own media request to the City of Ottawa
and got back emails showing Ottawa Police sent convoy trucks to camp out next to residential homes and a school, is a finalist for a COPA investigative journalism award.

https://canadianonlinepublishingawards.com/2022/winners

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’
#climate #ClimateChange #foodinsecurity #climatecrisis #scarcity #drought #africa #famine

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11122022/kenya-somalia-africa-famine-hunger-climate-change/

From the great Dr. James E. Hansen-

"Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today's GHG forcing alone -- after slow feedbacks operate -- is about 10°C." 

"The enormity of consequences of warming in the pipeline demands a new approach addressing legacy and future emissions. The essential requirement to "save" young people and future generations is return to Holocene-level global temperature."

#ClimateCrisis #news
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474

Why did more than 200,000 workers go on strike this year? Perhaps it’s because CEOs are now paid 399 times as much as a typical worker…

Reminder: any lawmakers who engaged in insurrection on January 6th must be held accountable and barred from holding public office now and in the future.

And yes, that includes Donald Trump.

Hey, remember when we learned that a right-wing terrorist network extensively planned a violent coup to overthrow the German government and constitution and establish a reactionary, ethnic nationalist, authoritarian monarchy with them as its leaders, and this network included members of the German judiciary, the police, one of its major political parties, the army, and many members of the bourgeois (and formerly royal) societal elite? That was earlier this week.

A good intro to the super important hearing on application of 18 USC 1512(c)(2) at the DC Circuit tomorrow in the January 6 investigation, from @rparloff. Many TV lawyers have assumed that David Carter's ruling that Trump probably violated it is all that matters--but this appeal (and the follow-up appeal) will determine to what degree it can be applied.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/crucial-appeal-capitol-riot-prosecutions-dc-circuit-hear-arguments-challenging-felony-charge-used

@museum @histodons "The fate of artist Felix Nussbaum’s family, from Osnabrueck, Germany, substantiates the desperate efforts to find shelter and refuge on foreign soil. It is the history of one family among many that found itself in the maelstrom of hopeless flight...

...His works continue to tell his story, that of his family, and that of the fate of the Jewish people."

wrote Yehudit Shendar at Yad Vashem website: https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/nussbaum/about_nussbaum.asp