Brian Beach @bwbeach@social.cleverlibre.org

Berkeley Earth's August 2023 Temperature Update

By far the warmest August since direct measurements began.

Warmest for both land & ocean.

Strengthening El Niño.

Nearly certain 2023 becomes the warmest year directly measured.

May see a +1.5 °C annual excess in 2023.

https://berkeleyearth.org/august-2023-temperature-update/

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Climate #Temperature

It’s a very human thing to fret about getting older. But we are as young as we will ever be! Our future selves want us to appreciate the age we are right now

#Colorado #BirthControl #ProChoice #ProLife #Abortion

Been around for a really long time.

Still relevant.

#ClimateCrisis

Big, wonky win for #FairUse in US #copyright:

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/5A2E1191A4B2D49785258A28004F2532/$file/22-7063-2016393.pdf

TLDR: If a tech standard becomes part of a legal standard, you can share it freely online without fear of liability for infringement.

“Many private organizations develop and copyright suggested technical standards ... We hold that the non-commercial dissemination of such standards, as incorporated by reference into law, constitutes fair use and thus cannot support liability for copyright infringement.

Mastodon will be our primary social media presence from now on

For archived tweets, please see:
https://qgis.github.io/QGIS-Twitter-Archive/

Oh, look at the cover of that sensationalist British tabloid: "Hotter air nudges tropical trees closer to photosynthetic failure"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06391-z

Probably no biggie, nothing to see.
#climate #heat @Nature

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people.

But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.

It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.

And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”

– David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

some people who make programming easier

(who am I missing?)

"It’s time for global leaders to start telling the truth. We will not limit warming to 1.5°C. We will not limit warming to 2°C."

That's from climatologist Andrew Weaver, a professor at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria in Canada.

He continues: "It’s all hands on deck now to prevent 3°C global warming — a level of warming that will wreak havoc worldwide."

This alarming statement comes as it is confirmed that Earth has just had its hottest three months on record.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/09/06/its-time-to-start-telling-the-truth-is-summers-record-heat-a-sign-of-climate-breakdown
CHART SOURCE -- https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/earth-had-hottest-three-month-period-record-unprecedented-sea-surface (title added by me)

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

"What if every journalist was a climate journalist, and every time they reported or edited a story they were thinking about our urgent global task of getting emissions to zero?"

Insightful text on how media's coverage of the climate crisis needs to change.

https://truestories.substack.com/p/we-need-a-climate-perspective-in?subscribe_prompt=free

Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.

But evolution is not linear. It branches & divides without an intended direction or endpoint through natural selection.

Illustration by @keesey #science #history

Well, to some extent, the whole society is partying in the dessert as though it never rains there.

9 states restoring universal free lunch: good.

ALL kids, nationwide, having guaranteed meals: BETTER. MUCH BETTER.

Make universal free lunch nationwide.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/these-states-are-restoring-pandemic-era-free-school-meals-for-all-kids.html

“… And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that.”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

– Terry Pratchett

Community member 'Kat Allison' made a post about the deepest of deep dives into the history of a seemingly trivial phenomenon: a footbridge over a suburban freeway south of Minneapolis. At the same time, an amazing piece of citizen research and reporting on a bit of pre-internet local history.

www.metafilter.com/200490/I-just-published-a-wildly-over-researched-article

#bloomfieldbridge #bridge #citizenresearch #footbridge #history #minneapolis #minnesota #reporting