Clif @Clif@qoto.org

People with a special interest in climate change and climate crisis may appreciate our efficient regular compendium "SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup."

Our 49th edition for 2023 provides ledes and links for 28 items. This week's coverage is of course heavily dominated by COP28. But our main highlight is about an intriguing tool from #CarbonBrief helping to understand pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement goal.

#ClimateInformation
https://skepticalscience.com/2023-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_49.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

@RollingStone

Surprising no one, #ElonMusk will bring back Alex Jones to the Dead Bird Site.

I guess when he tweeted this, he was lying.
Again.
#twittermigration

Donald Trump defended comments he made last week where he said he wanted to be a dictator if re-elected only on “day one” in office. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-doubles-down-dictator-day-one-1234922468/

10 December 1905 | A Pole, Piotr Słomski, was born in Nowa Wieś. A judge.

In Auschwitz from 28 March 1942.
No. 27461
He perished in the camp on 8 September 1942.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2  #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts

"Carbon tax accounts for 0.3 percent increase in food prices. That's 30 cents on a $100 grocery bill."

"Canadians are going to be disappointed when "axing the tax" does not result in promised affordability at the grocery store."

"Axing the tax' will bring such miniscule savings nobody will notice except for low income people who will no longer get the rebate checks."

"Axing the tax will on average benefit the wealthy and hurt everyone else."

#poilievre cc @bhundey
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/12/05/ucalgary-carbon-tax-affordability-study/

Carbon taxes affect consumer prices today by only 0.6% and so that’s how much things would get cheaper by if we were to eliminate the carbon taxes completely.
School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary:
Carbon tax not to blame for affordability crisis: UCalgary study
https://calgary.citynews.ca/2023/12/05/ucalgary-carbon-tax-affordability-study/

Here is also shorter “takeaways” piece summarizing the major parts of the series to date (we need to update it for the NATO story)./9 https://nyti.ms/46QoYY7

My #Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume graphics are updated for last month, which observed the 6th lowest November volume on record: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/ #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz

@koen_hufkens @ErikJonker theres a meme for that

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/market-basket-measure-calgary-2023-1.7054147

We are LIVE on Product Hunt! If you are feeling oh-so generous, give us an upvote and try out Mammoth 2 for Mastodon! Thanks to @Chris for hunting us! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mammoth-2-for-mastodon?r=h

The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future https://theconversation.com/the-disagreement-between-two-climate-scientists-that-will-decide-our-future-217759?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange

Frozen methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm – and things are worse than we thought https://theconversation.com/frozen-methane-under-the-seabed-is-thawing-as-oceans-warm-and-things-are-worse-than-we-thought-216054?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange

"...billionaires are a menace to the rest of us: their sheer political size warps our public life."

"On a thriving planet, human beings should be human scale, but the super-rich are on another scale altogether, giants trampling underfoot both nature and our efforts to protect it." - Rebecca Solnit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/billionaires-great-carbon-divide-planet-climate-crisis

20 November 1936 | Czech Jewish girl Hana Brocková was born.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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