Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

George Monbiot with some thoughts on the ineffectiveness of #COP climate summits...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/09/leaders-cop27-livestock-farming-carbon-budget-governments

There are just two actions needed to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown: leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop farming animals. But, thanks to the power of the two industries, both aims are officially unmentionable. Neither of them has featured in any of the declarations from the 26 climate summits concluded so far.

Astonishingly, the sectors themselves are seldom mentioned. I’ve worked through every final agreement produced by the summits since they began. Fossil fuels are named in only six of them. Just one hints at using less overall: the others propose only to improve efficiency (which, as we have known since the 19th century, can often paradoxically increase fossil fuel use), attempt technical fixes or, in the case of last year’s agreement in Glasgow, phase down “unabated” coal burning, while saying nothing about reducing oil or gas. Not one of them suggests extracting less. If fossil fuels are removed from the ground, they will be used, regardless of governments’ vague declarations about consumption.

The other omission is even starker. Livestock is mentioned in only three agreements, and the only action each of them proposes is “management”. Nowhere is there a word about reduction. It’s as though nuclear non-proliferation negotiators had decided not to talk about bombs. You cannot address an issue if you will not discuss it.

#COP27 #ClimateCrisis

This is 100% the start of an episode of X-Files...

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RT @IntEngineering
Pleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost are alive and eating well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/siberian-worms-buried-in-arctic-permafrost-for-42000-years-come-back-to-life?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Nov15
https://twitter.com/IntEngineering/status/1592661224797442049

@Ruth_Mottram @bobkopp @BassisJeremy So on that note, the other most influential paper that that's crossed my desk on thinking about applied climate risk and decision-making was this one: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-00984-6

I know I've been yammering on about it on Twitter for awhile now, but this is so far the best encapsulation I've seen of the complete disconnect between how scientists and #financial sector approach #climate #risk.

Very cool that #NASA has a blog, for #Artemis -->

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/

And I note that it has #RSS -->

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/feed/

Any enterprising coder out there that can route that into a Mastodon bot to update on the #Fediverse every time they post an update?

I'd follow that right away!

WIRED just published my beginner's guide to Mastodon! Thank you to the 100+ people who responded to my request for tips and advice for understanding the culture here. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/

Looking back at temperatures over the last 6 months - another game of trying to find any blue patches aside from La Niña...

Temperature anomalies:
🔴 warmer than average
🔵 colder than average

+ Data available at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

...meanwhile over at #Twitter HQ: What staffing crisis? Here is the #twittermigration #poll.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63648505

Which option offered by Elon Mush would you take?

Maybe I'm imagining it but #Twitter seems to be getting worse. I tweeted something last night and awoke to a stream of rightwing reality denying from complete strangers whom seem to think I have any interest in wasting my time explaining where they're wrong.

It was always bad but Elon's ascension appears to be worsening matters, so I'll probably end up here more often.

#twittermigration

The piece in today's Guardian by @zoesqwilliams on her experiences moving to Mastodon is hilarious. Best take yet! https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/16/could-this-be-twitter-without-the-toxic-slurry-my-week-on-mastodon

Few months ago, together with @RaphaelGrandin and J.M. Lalande from MeteoFrance, I participated as a scientific advisor to the making of this amazing scientific illustration 👇 #scicom #sciart

It summarizes scientific observations on the Hunga #Tonga #volcano explosion, associated global #tsunami and atmospheric waves.

French newspaper Le Monde published these 2 pages in September 2022. Great work by the journalist and the graphic designer, Vahé Ter Minassian and Audrey Lagadec.

DM if you would like a higher resolution PDF 😉

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
- John F. Kennedy
9/12/1962

@TonyPrep I think that's backwards. We get the population we get and then desperately try to figure out how to provide the food, water, energy, and other resources they need. And we do it unevenly, inequitably, and poorly. Very few countries or societies have ever had any kind of explicit, fair, or women-centered family planning policies.

Given that we are rapidly trying to build community here…

Can I ask you to do two key things:

1) Reshare other people’s posts - so your timeline is rich with other people’s posts for anyone browsing your content to discover.

2) Follow, follow, follow. That goes for following those posting good stuff - and also following those that follow you (as much as practically possible/sensible).

If you do these things, you’ll help us all network up at fast pace - and we all grow our voices & reach. ✌️

Today, the global population reached 8 billion.
Here's a reflection on what that means.
https://www.gleick.com/blog/8-000-000-000

Artemis 1 is now in Earth's orbit

#artemis #moon #mission #nasa #esa

Characteristically thoughtful on sharing a planet with #8Billion from @petergleick

https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/109348688011205300

Fedified.com is a list of Twitter-verified accounts that have moved to Mastodon. This is a hand-curated list, so it's updated a few times a day. https://fedified.com/

Hello! Long time no see!

And welcome to the new users, of which there are... quite many, aren't there?

As you may have noticed, this project has been on a bit of a hiatus for a while. This is something I work on in my free time, and I got a bit burned out on working on it, and wanted to use my free time for other stuff. But with this recent influx of so many new users, I figured I do need to come back to this.

So I am planning to at least release some smaller updates in the near future!