Zonal mean temperature anomalies since 1900 (by latitude) - regional trends, greater year-to-year variability in the Northern Hemisphere, and pronounced #Arctic warming...
+ Watch the animation at https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/
+ Note: uncertainties in Southern Ocean data & latitude is not scaled by distance.
+ Data: https://berkeleyearth.org/data/
Hey.
Minnesotans.
Tell your MN State House Rep to support HF 146.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF146&ssn=0&y=2023
It's the trans refuge bill, proposed by my rep, Leigh Finke. The gist is that the laws of other states hunting down trans people who have fled their unjust and inhumane laws cannot apply in Minnesota because they are against our laws.
No Fugitive Trans Acts allowed in Minnesota.
Admits to falsehoods then lies about lying.
How to File Taxes for Free Without TurboTax
I’ve been happy with FreeTaxUSA (last year it charged $15 for state tax filing; federal is free).
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-file-taxes-for-free-without-turbotax
"we examined 146,327 streets in 30 major European cities in 17 different EU member states or candidate countries. On average, 90.4 percent of streets named after individuals are called after men. In the city with the smallest gender gap – Stockholm – streets named after men still account for more than 80 per cent."
https://voxeurop.eu/en/the-gender-gap-is-written-on-the-streets-of-europe/
World’s Top Emitters Interactive Chart I World Resources Institute
WRI charts provide excellent interactive views of emissions, globally, by country, by sector, and historically.
https://www.wri.org/insights/interactive-chart-shows-changes-worlds-top-10-emitters
It's #tax season, so #TurboTax is once again advertising just about everywhere.
Remember:
• TurboTax spent decades fighting to stop Americans from filing taxes for free:
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
• There are ways to file for free without TurboTax:
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-file-taxes-for-free-without-turbotax?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Reporting the facts is a crime in Putin’s Russia. This doesn’t stop Meduza from doing its job: helping our millions of readers to maintain access to reliable information about Russia and its actions in this monstrous war. And we need your support.
https://support.meduza.io/en
3/3 Michelangelo's grocery list. Because even great artists have to eat! Especially on their birthday, and his is today.
🚨 Unsurprisingly, average #Antarctic sea ice extent was the lowest on record for February 2023. This was 1,160,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average.
Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
A new study about seabirds and offshore wind turbines may surprise you.
A two-year, €3 million study of seabirds at an offshore wind farm off Scotland combined radar data with cameras to identify the species of seabird and create a three-dimensional image of birds’ flight patterns and how they avoid offshore wind turbines’ rotor blades.
The study’s findings: Not a single collision between a bird and a rotor blade was recorded.
https://electrek.co/2023/03/02/seabirds-and-offshore-wind-turbines-vattenfall/
“Renewable energy critics love to point out that it takes 255 tons of coal to build a wind turbine,” Michael Thomas point out in a twitter thread. “But it would take a coal-fired power plant 154,494 tons of coal to generate as much electricity as a wind turbine produces over its entire life.”
If you have access to Twitter, read @curious_founder ’s whole thread. https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1631049994810671113
Skeptical Science founder John Cook turned out of bed in Melbourne Australia at 3a today to deliver testimony about climate misinformation on social media, to the EU Parliament's "Special Committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation."
The session includes many experts, is a one-stop shop for information.
John's segment begins at 16:35:12.
Please boost
The Canadian Wildlife Service is hiring a quantitative biologist, to join our team in Ottawa.
https://emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/applicant/page1800?toggleLanguage=en&poster=1922275
A team player to contribute to the data analysis and survey design aspects of broad-scale bird monitoring programs.
Forecasts just keep being wrong.
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RT @DrSimEvans
UPDATED: Solar outlooks vs reality
https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1626611205887471617
Yet another reason to drive an EV.
No catalytic converter.
Indeed, no exhaust system at all.
I live on the shores of #LakeSuperior on the #Keweenaw Peninsula in the #UpperPeninsula of #Michigan. This region is within Ojibwe Gichigami (“Ojibwa’s Great Sea”) homelands and ceded-territory, established by the TREATY OF 1842
I'm a professor of #environmental #chemistry with an interest in everything related to #climate, including molecular to global aspects of the carbon cycle, energy and social transitions, new and old technologies for sustainability, forests and biodiversity, local to international climate policy, and the systems thinking approaches we need to make progress.
Too much of a news and politics junkie than is healthy.
I share my homestead with a partner, a dog, several felines, two donkeys, plants, and occasional uninvited critters.
#science #LakeSuperior #Keweenaw #Michigan #GreatLakes #Climate #books #yurt #garden #cat #dog #donkey