Ozer Khalid @ozer@qoto.org

#Democracy dies in the dark

Our #digital commons are de-democratized
#censorship reflects a society`s lack of confidence in itself

Censoring @telesurenglish @venanalysis @AbbyMartin & @EmpireFiles
#socialmedia`s Suffocating Sinister Suppression of voices must end

This is all part of an #Online Orwellian Complicity of Silence
We do not live in 2018
Welcome back to 1984 !

@arteteco ciao how is Italy under Salvini and what is your take on him, I believe his populism is toxic for #Italy @shitposter.club @augustus Augustus I came to #qoto as I have had it with #twitter their #shadowban #censorship & purges (for today at least) are you folks on twitter if so what are your handles ? Augustus do tell me more about shitposter.club as in how many subscribers there are ? ( for e.g. I know qoto.org has 2 million listed subscribers (though it seems much less ) and Augustus & Arteteco which other emerging #socialmedia platforms do you recommend for reasonable intellectual ideas exchange ?

The bitter (yet reversible) *reality* of #climatechange

Irrespective of ideological inclination and political predisposition:

It is high-time to scale back on industrialisation & #pollution to avert an #ecological meltdown

The planet's average surface temperature has risen by about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius). Extreme #weather conditions, alarming sea level rises, warming oceans, decreasing in the global snow cover, species extinction, lack of bio-diversity, glacial retreat are all indisputable *facts* not some *rhetorical confirmation bias*

A global convulsion owing to toxic pollution, radioactive elements, use of plastic, horrid chemical usage and spills, a non-organic carbon-based economy and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere and more.

We have no planet B
Let us preserve & protect the only planet we have
For ourselves and our coming generations

cc @arteteco & @augustus

#ecology #sustainability #renewableenergy #nature

@augustus @arteteco Augustus no where did you get the 0.04% figure from ? I dispute it. The planet's average surface temperature has risen about by 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century (Source: National Research Council (NRC), Surface Temperature Reconstructions For the Last 2,000 Years. National Academy Press) we are suddenly witnessing huge drastic weather fluctuations how else do you explain the extreme weather conditions eg fires in Greece California the scorching summer in London this year ? Sheer coincidence ? I do not think so. Let us look beyond our ideological spectacles and answer to the clear signals nature is sending us ? These are changes driven indisputably by industrialization, pollution, gases, chemical spills into our oceans unhealthy amounts of carbon dioxide these are all reversible Augustus these are all *human-made emissions* into the atmosphere.

@augustus
Augustus I enjoy our informed "discussions" (not even "debates") because your tone is mature and measured and yes incineration is bad because it catalyzes radioactivity. Ok here is non NASA/Energy Dept/non George Soros//NOAA proof of rising temperatures - the graph is based on the comparison of atmospheric samples contained in ice cores and contemporary direct measurements, provides ample evidence that atmospheric CO2 has increased since the Industrial Revolution how can you refute this Arteco and Augustus ? It is a study conducted by the totally Independent Vostok Institute of Ice core Data by the climatologist J.R. Petit et al.,

@arteteco I am not "judging" but making a logical "observation", learn to discern between the two, @augustus I can and will provide you with totally independent non NASA/Energy (non George Soros NGO funded) data - there is a lot out there trust me. Augustus casting politics and even this reasonable debate to one side, purely on a *moral basis*, climate change or otherwise, do you not agree and believe that our children do not Deserve the toxic air they breathe, the leaded water they drink #Flint which is all destroying our earth and us - does your conscience not believe in using clean responsible sustainable materials and renewable organic (non chemical/GMO products) ? I ask you all this as these are inter-related social movements which will lead to a greener and cleaner planet and people 👍

@augustus @arteteco I certainly do not "blindly believe" anyone, nor should any of us Augustus, but government is heavily lobbied by climate change deniers how do you square that circle ? Those seeking to push a carbon-fuelled economy of oil and gas they in turn get cozy high-up political appointments think of Rex Tillerson

@shpufeff @noyoushutthefuckupdad @augustus @arteteco not that "classic" tbh it is this sort of reductive over-simplistic binary left-wing/right-wing mentality that has irreversibly polarised us in a "post-truth" world

To all #climatechange deniers like @arteteco & @augustus this is not some infantile left-wing/right wing political binary. I agree that science and government should be separate.

HAARP sponsored weather alteration is sheer criminality.

I am an #environmentalist and dismissing climate change as "one big #corporate / #government hoax" - let us not get blinded by our deluded naïveté.

The "government" is most strongly lobbied/paid by the #oilandgas and #automotive industries which stand the most to lose from the climate change reality. Critically think about this reality without a biased lens.

We cannot, with a straight and sober face, deny NASA/other totally independent third party institutionally verified and certified #data that has been captured by scientifically-precise
earth-orbiting satellites and thousands of other #tech advances.

How can you point blank deny the heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide (C02) and other gases ? An inevitable, inescapable heat which will keep scorching us, keep subsuming us, with every passing day. Climate change deniers put forward a lazy simplistic blind blanket wholesale dismissal on the increase of greenhouse gases causing the Earth to warm as attested by many independent bodies.

Be realistic and practical. Entire samples of Ice cores drawn from #Greenland #Antarctica and tropical mountain glaciers show that the #Earth ’s #climate responds to alterations in toxic greenhouse gas levels. Independent (non-governmental) scientific testimony demonstrates this to us in ocean sediments, tree rings, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks.

Let us, as one collective humanity, not sleep-walk into our own denial and obliterate ourselves in the process. Any globally eminent climatologist worth their salt knows that by 2030 if we do not reduce the global climate by 2 degrees celsius we are in for an even ruder awakening.

Look everywhere around your alert and open eyes: from Hurricane Harvey to Rita, Katrina, the #California & Greece fires, to #Japan `s tornado, #Pakistan floods #Afghanistan earthquakes.
Mother Nature is showing us signs and we ignore Her signs at our own peril.

Just critically ask yourselves, why are entire global cities reducing their carbon footprint ? Logically all this can`t be reduced to a "corporate/government/NASA mafia conspiracy" that is lazy rhetoric/"whataboutery" here is why - remember the oil and gas and automotive industry stand the most to lose from these bitter realities.

Paleoclimatologists testify that current #globalwarming is mathematically occurring 10 times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming. In light of all the above and so much more evidence (melting of the glaciers, species extinction, warming of the oceans etc) are you dismissing all this data as "weather channel fake news" ? I know we live in a "post-truth" world but common !

@augustus @augustus Augustus if #climatechange is all "one big corporate hoax" as your #toot inherently implied, how do you/we/humanity account for the NASA verified and certified data that has been captured by scientifically-precise
earth-orbiting satellites and other tech advances. Augustus are you point blank denying the very heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide (C02) and other gases ? An inevitable, inescapable heat which we witnessed at the dawn of what you termed the "industrial revolution" (i.e. middle of the 19th century). Do you put forward a blind blanket dismissal on the increase of greenhouse gases causing the Earth to warm as attested by NASA/other bodies ? Let us be realistic and practical. Entire samples of Ice cores drawn from #Greenland #Antarctica and tropical mountain glaciers show that the #Earth ’s #climate responds to alterations in toxic greenhouse gas levels. Scientific testimony demonstrates this to us in ocean sediments, tree rings, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. Globally eminent climatologists are reminding us, time and again, that if by 2030 we do not reduce the global climate by 2 degrees celsius we are in for a rude awakening. Why are entire cities reducing their carbon footprint ? Augustus logically all this can`t be reduced to a corporate mafia conspiracy here is why - remember the il and gas and automotive industry stand most to lose from these bitter realities. Paleoclimatologists testify that current #globalwarming is mathematically occurring 10 times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming. In light of all the above and so much more evidence (melting of the glaciers, warming of the oceans etc) are you dismissing all this data as "weather channel fake news" ? I know we live in a "post-truth" world but common Augustus...... ?

@augustus Augustus if #climatechange is all "one big corporate hoax" as your #toot inherently implied, how do you/we/humanity account for the NASA verified and certified data that has been captured by scientifically-precise
earth-orbiting satellites and other tech advances. Augustus are you point blank denying the very heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide (C02) and other gases ? An inevitable, inescapable heat which we witnessed at the dawn of what you termed the "industrial revolution" (i.e. middle of the 19th century). Do you put forward a blind blanket dismissal on the increase of greenhouse gases causing the Earth to warm as attested by NASA/other bodies ? Let us be realistic and practical. Entire samples of Ice cores drawn from #Greenland #Antarctica and tropical mountain glaciers show that the #Earth ’s #climate responds to alterations in toxic greenhouse gas levels. Scientific testimony demonstrates this to us in ocean sediments, tree rings, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. Globally eminent climatologists are reminding us, time and again, that if by 2030 we do not reduce the global climate by 2 degrees celsius we are in for a rude awakening. Why are entire cities reducing their carbon footprint ? Augustus logically all this can`t be reduced to a corporate mafia conspiracy here is why - remember the il and gas and automotive industry stand most to lose from these bitter realities. Paleoclimatologists testify that current #globalwarming is mathematically occurring 10 times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming. In light of all the above and so much more evidence (melting of the glaciers, warming of the oceans etc) are you dismissing all this data as "weather channel fake news" ? I know we live in a "post-truth" world but common Augustus...... ?

@augustus Augustus no I will not unfollow you for I too am against criminal profiteering. We can be tolerant of each other`s views without the schoolyard tactics of following/unfollowing each other 😜 However I will now constructively, scientifically and intellectually challenge your views give me a minute to furnish you with evidence

@augustus speaking of #Japan `s #typhoon meteorologists now forecast that Mother Nature is lethally next set to devastate the entire U.S. East Coast anywhere from Savannah, #Georgia to #Richmond #Virgina and beyond! This is very close to the world's largest Naval Base. Meanwhile reality deniers like Trump merrily tore up the Paris #climate #agreement

Interesting to note that bots are active on #qoto for instance the #mastodon #bot account @Seebee gathers data necessary to compete social engineering experiments. Invasive and intrusive #data and #privacy breaches are likely to ensue. Merely a matter of time before the next #cambridgeanalytica fiasco unfurls. All part and parcel of the #socialmedia landscape in 2018. #cyberwarfare #artificialintelligence #social #engineering