Pedro @PedroMiguel@qoto.org

#Renewables are on track to generate more power than #coal and #Nuclear in the United States this year. But the question is whether they can grow fast enough to meet the country's #climate goals accounting for just 20% of #electricity https://bit.ly/3Oud3aR #climatechange

Wealthy NIMBYs scamming their neighborhoods onto the National Register of Historic Places in order to prevent any building ... is the best reason to eat the rich I've come across in at least the last several minutes. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2022/12/14/after-years-of-attempts-eastmoreland-neighborhood-makes-it-into-the-national-register-of-historic-places/

We KNOW that MOBILITY IN CITIES IS ABOUT SPACE, and we’ve seen lots of great images from global cities reinforcing the point. This one might be my favourite, from #Santiago, because it ALSO shows the fundamental inequality/inefficiency of making buses run in mixed traffic.

Dedicate bus-only lanes.

#Chile #PublicTransit #cities #urbanism #cars #transit #transportation #PublicTransport #city

Just saw my fist poster that was accessible for vision impaired people and it is amazing, why don’t we all do this!

#ScienceForEveryone #Inclusion #DEIA #Lightning #Atmospheres #AGU22

Deregulation for the banks, more regulation for the unions - welcome to Rishi Sunak’s “golden age”

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/23657-deregulation-for-the-banks-more-regulation-for-the-unions-weekly-briefing

I know what I am giving for Xmas this year. Pricey but my family is worth it. 👍

@bitchfox

Cops are a bigger theat to society than trans people and drag queens are

Great!

I look forward to a world where fusion powers our electricity; but we're only going to get there if we tackle climate change at scale, today, with the tools available now: efficiency, clean energy, nature + more. We know what to do, we just need to DO it! http://www.drawdown.org

COVID-19 has erased two decades of life expectancy growth in the US. Yet, leaders are still trying to gaslight us into believing that the US had one of the best responses to the pandemic.

https://healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/#Life%20expectancy%20at%20birth%20in%20years,%201980-2021

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

COVID deniers/minimizers often use the CDC's misleading Community Levels map, which is mostly green, to trick people into thinking there isn't much COVID spread (which is happening in dense population centers). This is the exact same trick that election deniers use!

#COVID #COVID19 #NewYork #PublicHealth

HOW TO TELL CRYPTO’S A SCAM:

1. FTX crashed and it didn’t wreck the real economy even a little. Unlike, say, Lehman Brothers.

2. But SBF got indicted lickety split. Unlike, say, Lehman’s executives, who were no better.

Mind-boggling how poorly we protect pedestrians and cyclists as so many other countries have figured out ways to get drivers to slow down https://nyti.ms/3i6DS8Q

Journals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/journals-to-trial-tool-that-automatically-flags-reproducibility-and-transparency-issues-in-papers/4016666.article

logic gate

Never forget, electric cars are here to save the car industry, not the planet.

A reminder of why we are trying to make a new and improved science community here on Mastodon.

It’s wild that we can see images like this from NASA’s Webb Telescope - galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away, stars being born & dying - and yet carry on ravaging the planet as if it’s not miraculous that somehow, we’re here.

A tiny speck of sand in the vastness of the cosmos. #space