Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

Flu is spreading early and extraordinarily quickly, please go get your vaccine. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23453765/flu-season-2022-2023-winter-influenza-shot-vaccine

Zombie fires and soaring temperatures: What happens when it gets to 100ºF in Siberia.

Satellite data shows that blazes swept through nearly 12 million acres in the Siberian Arctic between 2019 and 2020, resulting in unprecedented carbon dioxide emissions.
#climate #climatechange #science
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-11-04/the-year-of-38-degrees-in-siberia.html%3foutputType=amp

New cool thing I just learned about #Mastodon ! On the profile of the people you are following, click the little bell next to FOLLOW and you will receive notifications for/from that person in your timeline. You can make sure you see posts from the people YOU want! #ChoiceNotAlgos

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A Good Week in Worrying Times

Watching American politics from Ottawa is like having a balcony seat in a theater. Looking down at a stage below us to the south feels like watching a classic drama where good and evil challenge each other.

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Adapt or starve: #cop27 spotlights agriculture challenges and solutions in the face of climate change.
Small-scale #farmers from developing countries produce one-third of the world’s food, yet they only receive 1.7 per cent of climate finance even as they are forced to cope with droughts, floods, cyclones and other disasters.
#climate #climatechange
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/11/1130517

Talking climate change …with the kids.
These resources provide practical insights on discussing climate change with the kids.
#climate #climatechange #globalwarming #environment
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/11/talking-climate-change-with-the-kids/

How is Europe tackling the climate crisis? | DW Documentary
The climate emergency and shrinking biodiversity have taught us that we need to change our relationship with nature. People across Europe are looking to find to a new balance with nature in their lives.
#climate #climatechange #COP27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9K42Tl-n2k

This news doesn't lack a hint of irony:
Former Twitter workers create their own instance on Mastodon https://macaw.social/about

#Mastodon

Using this platform made me realise how I came to accept exposure to cruelty & hostility as part of the deal of being able to talk to you. The clicks algorithm is not necessarily our connection master. How refreshing to be reminded of that.

Are concerns about climate change in decline?

The report finds that since 2019 the world, in general, has become less concerned about climate change. Here, concern has dropped by 1.5 percent to 48.7 percent. It is of further concern that regions exposed to the highest levels of ecological threat are, on average, the least concerned with climate change

https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/are-concerns-about-climate-change-in-decline/article

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #COP27

Stop all negotiations on marine geoengineering

For example, with ocean fertilization that will cause algae bloom,
research has showed that there could be the problem of harmful algae bloom which can cause toxicity and death of marine organisms or even render the aquatic ecosystem hypoxic by creating dead zones

https://www.blueprint.ng/cop27-stop-all-negotiations-on-marine-geoengineering-fishnet-alliance/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #COP27

This has been a bad week for authoritarianism.

A good week for democracy.

New report from InfluenceMap: The 25 most influential companies blocking climate policy action globally

1. Chevron
2. Exxon-Mobil
3. BASF
4. ConocoPhillips
5. Sempra
6. American Electric Power
7. Southern Co.
8. Nippon Steel
9. Gazprom
10. Toyota

https://influencemap.org/EN/report/Corporate-Climate-Policy-Footprint-2022-20196

So Dems keep control of the Senate, and the House may end up 1 or 2 votes down (or up). If this isn’t a repudiation of Trumpism — its belligerence, bigotry, nastiness, and election-denying dangerousness — I don’t know what is.