Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

Hello, worlds! read the inaugural issue of my newsletter, Countless Worlds: https://elakdawalla.beehiiv.com/p/22-nov-iss01

Photo: A view of Saturn's weirdly smooth egg-shaped moon Methone against black space, processed from Cassini (NASA/JPL/SSI) data by Jason Major

Meanwhile at #cop27 …

It's hard to overstate how much fuel the failure of the DOJ to hold the former WH occupant accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection & theft of classified documents (among others) causes the MAGA crowd to aggressively assert he's done nothing wrong. That is: No charges=No Crimes.

Edition 003 of The Polycrisis newsletter is out. It’s about COP27, of course.

But it’s really about: 1) climate finance is a north-south issue so it’s more about cost of capital than defining assets and aligning flows. 2) the economic advantage of RES means we can stop conceptualising collective action as the core problem of international action on cutting emissions. It’s domestic political economy that matters. https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/collective-action-and-climate-finance/

Eventually the entire petrol/gasoline sector will be stranded. Just like coal fired power plants they won’t suddenly stop, however, but will become less and less economic to operate, prompting calls for govt bailouts, buybacks, fights over remediation (those stations are very polluting), and no doubt lots of dumb recrimination. All very foreseeable. https://twitter.com/daveregrets/status/1593761982695763968?s=12&t=iq6JqUa-fuSn27qYAuJpgw

Through the burning of fossil fuels, humans have released more carbon into the atmosphere than is contained in all of the plants currently living on Earth.

More than half of this has occurred since 1990.

We are transforming the Earth and the atmosphere on a truly massive scale.

Reforestation, and other natural solutions, will never match the scale of the problem without substantial emissions reductions.

#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Carbon #CarbonDioxide

So far, it seems that #COP27 is an even bigger failure than COP26:
💀 25% more fossil fuel lobbyists than COP26 - the largest delegate group
💀 best outcome might be avoiding backslide from COP26
💀 even weaker language on ending fossil fuel subsidies
💀 sponsored by Coca Cola

Lots of great #climate #journalists on here, with more turning up all the time. #followfriday
@emorwee
@yessfun
@kateyoder
@rachelramirez
@Kmac
@adrs
@Trailanderror
@nijhuism
@katearonoff
@Teresalchin
@prosaaquino
@uprootproject
@brookejarvis

This is a great morning read by Gabrielle Kuiper on the need for effective science communication - and the need to go beyond science communication - in the age of climate crises.

#scicomm #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/19/time-is-running-out-we-must-call-out-the-vested-interests-propelling-the-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw

We're new here. Please keep away from the scaffolding while we paint and remodel. 😎

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.