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SO OVERDUE: Why journalism schools need to incorporate climate science reporting into their standard curricula.

"Research shows that news outlets that do not have dedicated climate reporters and editors on staff made the connection between heat extremes and climate change less often than those that employ specialized climate journalists."

h/t @heyjohnryan
https://niemanreports.org/articles/climate-change-journalism-education/

Despite the turmoil at the company, Mr Musk tweeted on Friday: "And... we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol."

Satirist Frank Lesser replied: "'Rome has never been this brightly lit at night!' - Nero" - a reference to the Roman emperor who is reputed to have fiddled while Rome burned.
#twitter #quotes
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63672307

@mastodonusercount Fairly constant now at over ten thousand registrations per hour.

For comparison back in October there used to be only about 50 registrations per hour.

#twitterexodus #riptwitter #Mastodon

This year's 10 New Insights in #Climate Science was launched at the COP - I helped write insight #1: The Myth of Endless Adaptation.

check out all ten insights here: https://10insightsclimate.science

#climatechange #adaptation #resilience

The last two years are tied for the hottest August-October periods on record across global land areas.

(Still not able to get GIFs working here, but will keep trying!)

+ Data from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

Journalist @KlasfeldReports
is live-posting closing arguments in the Oath Keepers trial.

Convictions for seditious conspiracy would be hugely important.

Because of how treason is defined in the Constitution and interpreted by courts, seditious conspiracy is the closest we have to a charge of conspiracy.

18 November 1913 | A Czech Jew, Walter Pollak, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.

#history #Holocaust

We have a new paper out:
“The impacts of coastal flooding and sea level rise on critical infrastructure: a novel storyline approach”
This is from a really multidisciplinary European project @RECEIPT_eu

We develop a storyline framework to tie together sea level rise, coastal flood and infrastructure damage

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23789689.2022.2142741

JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.

Fun with Appellate Law.

The DOJ filed its reply brief in the special master case.

It's here: https://documentcloud.org/documents/23311103-221117-doj-reply-brief…

Fun fact: in these filings, Trump calls himself "President Trump."

The DOJ calls him "Plaintiff."

The introduction gives an overview.

To summarize:

Initially, Trump brought this suit purportedly to protect his interests in asserting executive privilege and attorney-client privilege but those claims went nowhere. . .

1/

So I guess it wasn't a hoax.

GOP operative Jesse Benton found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump's campaign.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/17/benton-trump-russian-vasilenko-guilty/

I just noticed that Mastodon has Semiphemeral-like features built in, like in your preferences. So fucking cool

We're hiring for six positions on the editorial side of Scientific American right now: opinion editor, health editor, science reporter, copy editor, multimedia editor and engagement editor. The first five are listed and the sixth should be posted soon. You can see those openings plus some business and engineering jobs here. Thanks for considering these jobs yourself or recommending them to others! https://careers.springernature.com/search/?createNewAlert=false&q=&optionsFacetsDD_country=US&optionsFacetsDD_location=&optionsFacetsDD_customfield1=Scientific+American&optionsFacetsDD_customfield2=&optionsFacetsDD_customfield3=

Compelling before-and-after satellite photos of climate change.
#climate #climatechange #photography
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/compelling-before-and-after-satellite-photos-of-climate-change/

New Study: People with neurologic diseases like headache, dementia, multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease may experience worsening symptoms due to climate change, according to a scoping review of research. The review also found that stroke may become more prevalent due to climate change.
#science #climatechange #climate #health
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221116164916.htm