Clif @Clif@qoto.org
Retired Coast Guard Officer BA Geography living on the beautiful west coast of Canada on unceded Lekwungen/Songhees territory.
My interests include #ClimateDenial #renewables #RenewableEnergy #EV #bcpoli #canada #SeaLevels #SeaLevelRise #Oceans #Nature #transition #energy #environment #fedi22 #ClimateChangeIsReal #Misinformation #Disinformation #space #astronomy #genealogy
Joined Nov 2022
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Nice collaboration on a graphic by @SkepticalScience volunteers Evan Whitby and jg.
The only trigger word is "climate,"* which is sort of unavoidable.
Part of a newly published analogy.
https://skepticalscience.com/SkS_Analogy_10_Budgets_and_Bathtubs_2022.html
*waving extraneous flags explodes rationality and erects communications barriers.
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Space.com: NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft leaves moon's orbit to head home.
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-orion-departs-moon-orbit
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1 December 1921 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Sophia Brandel, was born in Rotterdam.
In August 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.
Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #ww2 #WorldWar2 #woman #people #education #NeverForget #remember #Netherlands #Rotterdam
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The #USMilitary was one of the first institutions in government to acknowledge the threat posed by #ClimateChange, as well as the science behind it, and yet it remains the largest single energy consumer in the country and the largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter in the world. To talk through this strategic disconnect, Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Dr. Neta Crawford on the Lawfare Podcast.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-neta-crawford-pentagon-climate-change-and-war
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The US Senate held a hearing on cryptocurrency regulation today.
But they've all got it wrong: cryptocurrency shouldn't be regulated, it should be banned.
It's money laundering and sanctions evasion for organized crime and rogue nations, with a side effect of greenhouse gas emissions.
#senate #cryptocurrency #ClimateChange
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BREAKING - Massive gas project rejected by Federal court
Gas giant #Santos has LOST its bid to restart drilling at the A$4.7 billion #Barossa offshore gas project in Australia.
Santos previously described the Barossa project as the biggest oil and gas investment in Australia in a decade.
Today's decision sends a message to all gas companies.
Reporting by ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-02/nt-santos-loses-appeal-barossa-tiwi-island/101726772
#climate #climatechange #gas #australia #japan #southkorea #korea #darwin #tiwi #media #news #breakingnews #energy #mining #exploration #ieefa #oilandgas #pipeline #law #court #environment
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#Pliocene-Like #Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest:
"As carbon concentrations rise, conditions are becoming more like they were 3 million years ago, when the area was wetter and the rain was heavier" 👇
https://www.wired.com/story/pliocene-like-monsoons-are-returning-to-the-american-southwest/
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@Rjdlandscapes sigh x2 … why is this so hard to understande/accept by many humans?? … coincidentally those in charge of big #Bussiness and #policymaking. We, as a collective of ppl, can pressure those in #power to change by choosing wiser solutions, being critical and outspoken abt mistakes such as #carbonoffsets. We must not let #consumism and #marketing rule over our lives. Let’s change our #mindset and search for a #sustainable way to be #happy. #stopCO2 #climatechange
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So (surprise!) forest carbon offsets dont help against climate change.
Its an accountants way of doing magic instead of making real changes.
Same as anyone promising 'net zero by 2050'
We need #climateChange action now, real action. We need to stop burning stuff.
Yes we can plant trees and look at CC later. Theres no point until we stop releasing more co2.
Sigh.
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How could climate change alter our diets?
Science X staff
6–7 minutes
How could climate change alter our diets?
Credit: OLEH SLEPCHENKO/Shutterstock.com
As climate change alters rainfall and temperatures, and provokes heat waves and droughts, the quality and quantity of crops suffer. Such changes to yields could significantly jeopardize food security for the world's growing population
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate
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Fiji is set to tackle the impossible: 42 villages have been earmarked for potential relocation in the next five to 10 years, owing to the impacts of the climate crisis. 🏘️ 🇫🇯 🏝️
Story by Kate Lyons via The Guardian/Climate Desk.
#Fiji #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Relocation #Community #Government #Climate #Cyclone #Damage #Risk #SouthPacific #Islands #Village
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-to-move-a-village-or-40/
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So do it now. Better late than never.
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RT @BrianMcHugh2011
Poll finds that 46 per cent of adults believe bills including food, fuel and energy would not be as high today if earlier action had been taken to tackle climate change
#ClimateChange
#YouGov
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cost-of-living-crisis-bills-uk-environment-b2236163.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1669829184
https://twitter.com/BrianMcHugh2011/status/1598098254901571584
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Global News BC: 2021 heat dome linked to climate change, could become once-in-10-year event: study https://globalnews.ca/news/9315890/2021-heat-dome-linked-to-climate-change-could-become-once-in-10-year-event-study/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #climatechangestudy #ColumbiaUniversity #HeatDomeDeaths #ClimateChange #2021HeatDome #Climatestudy #Environment #heatdeath #heatdome #Research #Weather #Climate #Heat
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Mastodon will break 8 million users by tomorrow!
7,925,283 accounts are active.
>2,000 new accounts are being made every hour.
That's 1 million new accounts being made since a week and a half ago.
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RT @curious_founder@twitter.com
It's been two weeks since Elon Musk let Jordan Peterson back on Twitter.
In that time he's posted dozens of tweets about climate change and renewable energy.
They are all textbook examples of climate denial and misinformation.
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1598429174665977858
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I just graphed Mastodon's MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS each day for the month of November.
At the end of October there were 496K active users, and at the end of November there are 2.6M -- that's over 500% growth.
This is just ACTIVE users; there are millions more non-active accounts.
(For comparison, Twitter allegedly has 396.5M monthly active users, or about 152x the active userbase of Mastodon.)
The case for fossil fuels being an energy poverty panacea is not compelling and more likely bogus.
"A 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that pollution from burning fossil fuels — like particulates, sulfur oxides, and nitrogen oxides — kills 3.6 million people per year. Conversely, reducing air pollution has massive health, economic, and social benefits. Some researchers have found that the air quality improvements alone more than make up the cost of the transition to clean energy."
"Another worry is that fossil fuel infrastructure is expensive. It can take years to build up the mines, pipelines, and roadways to support power plants and refineries, and these billion-dollar investments can take decades to pay back, creating a long commitment to continue burning fossil fuels. But the world needs to dramatically cut fossil fuel use in the coming years. While the onus is on wealthy countries to make the biggest, most aggressive reductions, eventually every country will need to taper off. That time could come before these fossil fuel investments are paid off, creating stranded assets."
In Alberta, Danielle Smith has introduced “perhaps the most blatantly unconstitutional pile of crap ever introduced in a legislature in modern Canadian history.”
"the act sets out several troubling ways the Smith government might use the act to “hurt Albertans at least as much (if not more) as it would hurt the interests of the federal government.
For example, by ordering police to ignore federal gun restrictions in Alberta’s cities, putting Albertans in the line of fire.
There is no way that the federal government will allow itself to be seen to be caving in to these antics. That would invite every province to give itself the same kind of power. At that point, the federal government becomes entirely ineffective and the Constitution starts to unravel.”
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/01/Danielle-Smith-Sovereignty-Act-Worse-Than-Expected/
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@rogermcnamee believes Musk’s impact as CEO will be felt way beyond spheres on the internet: "We have essentially turned over the biggest communication systems in our country-- effectively the places where Democracy takes place-- to a handful of billionaires whose personal politics and personal ambitions are at odds with Democracy."
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I have been here for a couple of weeks now, and I just want to say #ThankYouFedi for the work that all the individuals and teams do to make #mastodon work . At a time of epic commercial failure in social media it is a such a gift to the rest of us that this community of engineers and admins have built a civic space and kept it open . And now they are working their collective socks off to keep it running as we stumble around, finding our way
Retired Coast Guard Officer BA Geography living on the beautiful west coast of Canada on unceded Lekwungen/Songhees territory.
My interests include #ClimateDenial #renewables #RenewableEnergy #EV #bcpoli #canada #SeaLevels #SeaLevelRise #Oceans #Nature #transition #energy #environment #fedi22 #ClimateChangeIsReal #Misinformation #Disinformation #space #astronomy #genealogy
Joined Nov 2022
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