Pietro @TopT326@qoto.org

India.
Pakistan.
China.
Kenya.
Malaysia.
UK.
US.
Brazli.
Australia.
South Africa.

The #climate crisis is costing the world billions. The argument that we 'can't afford' to mitigate emissions is increasingly absurd. We can't afford not to. #globalwarming #fossilfuels

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/27/biggest-climate-toll-in-year-of-devastating-disasters-revealed?CMP=share_btn_tw

I don't think this is getting the coverage it needs. Scottish government to require passivhaus standard for all new build homes. This is big. Really big. Growing out of lessons from the 70's oil crisis. Passivhaus buildings use very little energy to heat, or to cool. We've known how to do this for decades. It's gross negligence from all western governments that the same is not true of all new builds in the developed world.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23197204.government-announces-passivhaus-standards-adopted-scotland/

But the trees kept voting for the axe.

Tra le assurdità di questa pandemia c'è la resistenza a prevedere esiti come questo da parte di persone che avrebbero gli strumenti concettuali per capirne: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04469-8?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=3baa4cf847-briefing-dy-20221219&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-3baa4cf847-46666198

Ruby-crowned kinglets (Regulus calendula) are lovely little birds, a quarter of an ounce in weight, with huge borb energy.

They love the shaded underbrush and absolutely cannot sit still for even a fraction of a second, so they are quite difficult to photograph, especially in low-light conditions.

Anyway, here's today's effort. Nothing epic, but fun anyway.

#BirdPhotography #birding #birdwatching #birds #borbs

Splashdown for the #NASA #Orion capsule. #Artemis #Artemis1

L'obiettivo dell'URSS era che l'Ucraina abbandonasse le proprie aspirazioni nazionali, e che la vera storia del Paese venisse seppellita.
Sono tutte cose che puoi approfondire leggendo "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine" il libro di Anne Applebaum, scritto con evidente lungimiranza nel 2017:
https://amzn.to/3iqtOb2 🧶

First light with my new scope, and loving it already 🤩
NGC2264 the Christmas Tree and Cone Nebulae

🔭 Askar 107PHQ +.7 reducer
📷 ASI2600MC
🟡 Antlia ALP-T 5nm dual narrowband
TI 2h45min

#Astrophotography #space #astronomy #ChristmasTree #goldenfilter #Nebula

A video map of the Local Void, a large underdense region of the Universe, on the outskirts of which is located our galaxy the Milky Way, and of its relation with other cosmic voids and major overdense neighbors.
https://vimeo.com/326346346

Research paper: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9525

University of Hawai'i News: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/07/22/vast-void-in-cosmic-neighborhood/

Check out the wonderful paper Corey S. Powell wrote on this research: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/master-plan-universe-revealed-new-galaxy-maps-ncna1040936

#universe #cosmology #cosmography #astronomy #astrophysics #space #physics

Tonight’s #sunset was mostly #reds and #blues intermingled with #greys. #Black silhouettes make up most of the rest in this #photograph.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Autumn

You certainly don't get #skies quite like this here in the UK! This is me under the spectacular #starry skies above the #ESO #LaSilla #Observatory in #Chile. Above and to the right you can see the Large and Small #MagellanicClouds. These are relatively small galaxies that orbit our #MilkyWay #Galaxy. Literally galaxy moons!

C'è sempre bisogno di un silenzio pieno di stelle.

📸 Il centro della Via Lattea in una notte di fine estate in Val D'Orcia.

#astrophotography #astrofotografia #stars #stelle #skywatching

"Ogni uomo vive come un selvaggio nella sua tana, e ne esce di rado per visitare il proprio simile, come lui accovacciato in un'altra tana."

Ricordando Lautréamont, morto il #24novembre 1870.

#LyndsDarkNebula1251
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221124.html

#APOD #Nebula

Tra le differenze direi che Mastodon è un social network, mentre Twitter è un social media.
Non sono sinonimi: il social media massimizza il coinvolgimento del singolo, mostrandogli più spesso utenti e contenuti divisivi. Facendo così ha spazi pubblicitari più ambiti, ma viene meno alla funzione di essere una piattaforma paritaria di discussione.
Moderazione e rimozione dei contenuti divisivi tengono pulito un social network, ma per il coinvolgimento serve indignazione
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03697.pdf

In addition to my book recommendation yesterday (https://qoto.org/@bloc/109377741972697407), I'd like to share this gem, even if the original article is in German:

https://www.handelszeitung.ch/politik/klima-auto-schlagt-velo-und-ov-545475

This one is a textbook example of bullshit, although a pretty obvious one. For those not capable of the German language:

A professor of financial and economics tries to work out the numbers showing why bicycle and public transport are worse options going by car in terms of climate effects.
For public transport, he argues that even why those may be powered by green, locally generated electricity, this electricity could otherwise be provided to the power grid, therefore public transport was the reason CO2-intensive power plants could not be taken of the grid.
For bike, he compares the CO2 footprint of a 5 Liter per 100 km (app. 47 mpg) car with 4 passengers (no, this is certainly not the standard here) to the additional food intake a biker would need to handle longer travels (seriously!), which, for the calculation to carry home the point, is assumed to be almost pure beef.

#callingbullshit @ct_bergstrom #climatechange

NEW, BY ME

The UK now has an experienced king and a novice PM.

And this power imbalance at the heart of the executive may have important consequences.

How King Charles outplayed Rushi Sunak over COP27.

At Al Jazeera.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/11/21/the-uk-now-has-an-experienced-king-and-a-novice-pm

Musk has used "Vox, populi, Vox Dei" to justify reinstating Trump on #Twiiter. But the quote is from a letter from Alcuin to the Emporer Charlemagne urging him to resist such ideas, "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." Which translates as "And do not listen to those who keep saying, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God', because the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."