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
“Governments, in aggregate, still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.” #climatechange #climate #climatecrisis #climatepolicy #fossilfuels https://productiongap.org/
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"Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term" | My new commentary for @thehill https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4290467-trump-2-0-the-climate-cannot-survive-another-trump-term/
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"Here we show that the surface temperature increase through the recent La Nina influenced years (2022) is consistent with the 50-year trend of 0.18 °C/decade. We use an Earth System Model based tool to filter out modulations to the warming rate by sea-surface temperature patterns and find consistent warming rates in four major global temperature data series...we also find clear indications, in all observational series, of a step-up in warming rate since around 1990."
“some practical advice on how to avoid spreading misinformation, disinformation and propaganda, how to increase your own information resilience, and importantly, how to practice some self-care.” #disinformation https://counterhate.com/blog/how-to-navigate-online-disinformation-and-propaganda-and-practicing-information-resilience/?utm_source=advocacy-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=giving-tuesday-2023&utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=giving-tuesday-2023&utm_content=Giving+Tuesday+Week2
When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics
"It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization. Yet Nordhaus treats agriculture as indifferently fungible." #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #climateeconomics
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/
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A court for Christians:
Recent decisions by SCOTUS don’t protect the freedoms of all Americans, but instead represent “the culmination of a decadelong strategy by conservative Christians … to use the courts to limit the freedoms of groups of Americans of whom they disapprove.”
Analysis by two political scientists:
https://theconversation.com/supreme-court-is-increasingly-putting-christians-first-amendment-rights-ahead-of-others-dignity-and-rights-to-equal-protection-210220
#USpolitics
"The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023. We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered," #ClimateChange #ExistentialThreat https://phys.org/news/2023-10-life-earth-existential-threat-climate.html
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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
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Climate deniers ... the quantity of your lies ... will NOT overcome ... the quality of the truth.
🌍🔥 #ClimateBrawl 🔥🌍
“Canada doesn’t have the guts to take on fossil fuel companies and their powerful banking allies, is betting that the energy transition fails, or doesn’t believe it is the government’s job to align the economy of today with the demands of tomorrow. Whatever the rationale, we are a country at risk of being left behind.” #ClimateChange #ClimateDeadbeat #energytransition https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/10/26/news/canada-out-step-unstoppable-green-energy-transition-iea
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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
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“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
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X ranks last on climate change misinformation scorecard | The Hill
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"But #1MillionMarch4Children was never really about the kids. It’s an embarrassing, poorly constructed platform for parents who are afraid of losing control in a world that continues to evolve beyond their grasp." #cdnpol #rightwing #fearmongering
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/20/Who-Are-1-Million-March-4-Children-Fighting-For/
"the only reason oil prices are high right now is because the Saudis and other OPEC members have decided to voluntarily cut millions of barrels of their production. But there’s only so far they’re going to cut, and only so long they’ll be willing to prop up the market — and by extension, Alberta’s treasury. When the Saudis decide it’s in their best interests to stop — say, when they see demand rolling over as renewables continue to take market share — they’ll happily flip the switch and flood the market all over again."
#energyextortion #energy #climate #climatedenial #climatechange #cdnpol
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/20/opinion/so-much-ethical-oil
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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
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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
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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
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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