Clif @Clif@qoto.org

A fair and important point. The drafters of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment understood why you needed to keep dangerous insurrectionists off the ballot in the first place.

Humans might have driven 1,500 bird species to extinction — twice previous estimates
Humans are probably responsible for the extinction of 12% of bird species, many of which were never documented.

news:
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04065-4

paper:
Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction waves
Cooke+
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43445-2

Young Voters Overwhelmingly Support Biden Over Trump, Finds Economist/YouGov Poll  - The Messenger

https://themessenger.com/politics/young-voters-overwhelmingly-support-biden-over-trump-finds-economist-yougov-poll

Another week and another raking of ashes refusing to entirely cool.

"What is causing the increase in atmospheric CO2?"

It beggars belief, but this faint hot-spot of cultivated ignorance still glows a little bit. Why? Because pretending we don't know will allow monetization of fossil fuels to continue just a little longer.

Revised and updated: our #ClimateMythDebunking of this closed question. Comments and suggestions welcome-- a convenient form is provided!

https://skepticalscience.com/co2-increase-is-natural-not-human-caused.htm?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

Another global sea level update with satellite altimetry data now processed through early November 2023 🌊

+ Note that this graph was produced by https://aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/ocean-indicators-products/mean-sea-level.html

Revealed: Ads Urging Canadians to Oppose Climate Laws Paid for by Gas Industry

“Voice of Energy” is a new ad campaign and website featuring photos of diverse and well-dressed young people, explainers making the case for natural gas while downplaying its massive contribution to climate change, and videos urging viewers to join in an effort to “protect” the fossil fuel against laws restricting new gas hookups in buildings

https://www.desmog.com/2023/12/21/revealed-ads-urging-canadians-to-oppose-climate-laws-paid-for-by-canadian-gas-association/

#canada #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Corrupting the Future: The Sines 4.0 Data Center That Collapsed Portugal's Government

If it came to fruition, Sines 4.0 would consume almost as much energy as that produced in all Portuguese dams in 2022, and much more than all the solar energy produced in the same year

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/sines-4-0-data-center-portugal

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #Portugal

First Street finds, 3.2 million Americans moved away from high-flood-risk 🌊 areas between 2000 & 2020. The full extent of migration has been hidden, however, since most people didn’t move far https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-18/more-than-3-million-americans-are-already-climate-migrants-researchers-say #ClimateRisk

Dr. James Hansen (Director of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions program in the Columbia University Earth Institute): “The climate denial serpent lives, even as climate change emerges. Kutney rightly thrashes the serpent, for the sake of us all, especially young people.”

https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794

If direct air removal costs $500 per tonne, removing just US emissions would cost ~$3 trillion annually (that's ~4x US military spending).

It would also require twice the total power generation capacity of the US today (and it has to be carbon-free).

https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/direct-air-capture-an-expensive-dangerous-distraction-from-real-climate-solutions/

From a survey of #climate and #environmental researchers in #Canada: "Almost half of respondents said they limited their communications with the public and policymakers due to fears of negative backlash and reduced career opportunities."
https://theconversation.com/canadian-scientists-are-still-being-muzzled-and-that-risks-undermining-climate-policy-216812

"COP28 nations agreed to ‘transition’ from fossil fuels. That’s too slow, experts say" by Carolyn Gramling for @ScienceNews

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cop28-fossil-fuels-climate-change

Trees are great but not as #climate solutions in a world where we’re emitting more than 37 billion tonnes of CO₂ from fossil fuels annually.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stop-planting-trees-thomas-crowther

17 December 1941 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Alice van Thijn, was born in Amsterdam.

She probably perished during a transport from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz in February 1944.

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

Read every word. Decarbonization has to come first. #CDR is only for legacy and residual emissions.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/12/1085178/two-former-department-of-energy-staffers-warn-were-doing-carbon-removal-all-wrong/

Collecting anecdotes, data, and anecdata on people and orgs who’ve left Twitter and found higher engagement from ostensibly fewer followers. This is in preparation for a renewed pitch to the org I’m in, to begin the process of x-trication. Boosts appreciated!

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