Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

@girls_can we can do it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!

Antarctica’s heart of ice has skipped a beat. Time to take our medicine:
https://theconversation.com/antarcticas-heart-of-ice-has-skipped-a-beat-time-to-take-our-medicine-202729
#ClimateDiary

I’ve written an open letter asking organisations that engage online with the blind community to come to Mastodon in light of the significant #accessibility regressions at Twitter.
If you agree, please sign it and share it as widely as you can. This is one occasion where if we can show how many of us care about this issue, it will make it clear that it’s worth companies putting in the effort to be here.
I would also be very grateful for the support of our sighted friends.
Thank you.
https://bit.ly/BlindMastodon

This blogger gets it:

""Most importantly however: the fediverse is a movement, presently engaged in the woefully under-reported fight for an equitable and just internet, and it needs the champions of the fourth power in its corner to stand a chance of winning.

This is no time for editorials and opinion pieces. What we civilians need from you at this time is your attendance at the gathering space....

Grow the garden-like town square together with everyone else."

https://blog.erlend.sh/fediverse-is-social-media-unionization-for-journalists

My latest: For the past few years, Antarctic sea ice has been in rapid decline. And now there are worrying indications that its loss will speed melt of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and slow the ocean's carbon-absorbing overturning circulation.

And this will happen, unfortunately, no matter where emissions go from here. (Though more emissions *will* make it worse in the long run!)

https://www.science.org/content/article/dwindling-sea-ice-may-speed-melting-antarctic-glaciers

#climate #antarctica #ocean

These two bright bois are off to their homes on Monday.

Yellow isn't typically a color I surround myself with. But I am really loving the spring-time feel of them both. Hopefully their new homes will enjoy them as much as I have!

#FrogFriends #Knitting @knitting #Frog #KnittedFrog #DotPebblesFrog

Judge Who Blocked Abortion Drug Did Not Disclose Controversial Article.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/judge-who-blocked-abortion-drug-did-not-disclose-controversial-article/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@girls_can @DemocracyMattersALot as long as Fox News is allowed to keep pumping bs into people’s heads, the chance of any major changes on the right is virtually zero. Just like you pointed out with Covid. These people all watched their friends and families die from it but still disregard the virus and believe the vaccine is more dangerous bc that’s what fox told them. Unreal

👀​ "Doug Ford is a vulgarian who worships at the altar of a plastic pro-development Jesus. He is in thrall to the Vegas-i-zation of Toronto’s public spaces and the urban sprawl of this metropolis"
- @rdimanno

The cartoon by Graeme McKay depicting Ford's "Vegas Vision" for the public park at #OntarioPlace is from..2019.

At the time, Ford's wish-list included a gambling casino, a 1.6-million-sq-ft “megamall", and an amusement park, with the world’s largest ferris wheel.

#dofo #topoli #Toronto

Same thing goes for Canada. Boggles the mind that in the 2020s we don't have frequent high-speed electric rail from #Quebec City to #Windsor. 50% of Canada's population is in the red zone below. People fly and drive instead. Such low-hanging fruit, but no government grasps it.

In Europe, I go everywhere by passenger rail, on high-speed electric trains. In Canada and the US, I'm stuck on slow, late diesel trains. I explore this sad situation—and offer a little hope for the future—in my latest Straphanger dispatch on Substack

https://straphanger.substack.com/publish/post/114788812

“Eliminating parking requirements can have this huge impact on the quality of life and sustainability of a community,” said Sara Bronin, an architecture professor at Cornell University. “It is among the most significant changes that a local government can make.”

#TheWarOnCars #parking #cars

https://www.wsj.com/articles/parking-problem-too-much-cities-e94dcecf

When you're right, you're right.

The only thing I miss about Twitter is that I followed enough/the right accounts to give me both the news as it breaks and a broader look at emerging narratives. I want to stop even reading Twitter. Which means I want to follow more great people/accounts. Who are you really enjoying following here? Which accounts bring value to your life?

the other moral of this story is that if you are the parent of a white teenage boy, online stranger danger isn't about pedophiles. It's about making sure your son isn't getting radicalized into a violent far-right ideology.

This is especially true if your son is a "gun enthusiast," because that is not a fucking normal thing for any human being, let alone a child, to be.

They knew. They lied. They need to pay for this.
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"Oil Giant Shell Knew About Climate Impacts Even Earlier"

Following explosive revelations about what ExxonMobil knew about fossil fuels driving global heating, investigations in 2017 and 2018 uncovered that Shell Oil's scientists privately warned about the impact of its products in the 1980s.

However, newly unveiled records show that "Shell began collecting knowledge about climate change in the 1960s. The company not only kept well abreast of climate science, but also funded research. As a result, Shell already knew in the 1970s that burning fossil fuels could lead to alarming climate change."

Faced with a global oil crisis, rather than using its climate information to publicly sound the alarm and shift to cleaner practices, the company "focused instead on a nonsustainable profit model."

The following year, a study Shell was involved with warned that "increases in the CO2 content of the atmosphere could lead to the so-called greenhouse effect... which would be enough to induce major climatic changes." Three years later, another report warned that "the continued burning of fossil fuels will lead to a manifold increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration."

Duncan Meisel, executive director of the campaign Clean Creatives, which targets advertising and public relations firms that work for fossil fuel companies, declared Monday that "what these new documents show is incredibly disturbing."

"In the 1980s, Shell scientists laid out two pathways for the planet: one where energy companies undertook a smooth transition to clean energy and one where fossil fuel demand continued to rise, creating 'more storms, more droughts, more deluges,'" he summarized. "Since the publication of that forecast, Shell has pushed at every turn to create more fossil fuel demand, creating exactly the devastating outcomes they predicted."

The Center for Climate Integrity said the records provide the world "more damning evidence" that the company knew its business model was having disastrous impacts on the world and its people. As the group put it: "They knew. They lied. They need to pay."
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FULL STORY -- https://www.commondreams.org/news/shell-fossil-fuels-climate-1970s

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Shell

THROWBACK THURSDAY:

A look back to our Munich campaign last year when tropical ecologist Dr Lauranne Gateau and others took action against climate failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLV1AmIjXc8

The next On The Reg pod was recorded in a proper studio - @jasondowns and I sound GOOD! Here's a taste. Full ep drops this Sunday ✅ https://onthereg.buzzsprout.com/

The impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide

➡️primary vegetation was least invaded except when having high land use intensity

New #GloNAF (http://glonaf.org) study on plant invasions led by @DaijunLiu & great team
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RT @DaijunLiu
Our latest paper on NC @NatureComms is out: Thanks for all of co-authors. @FranzEssl1, @Bernd_le_ , @TimBlackburn66,@WayneDawsonEco, @sMarten_Winter,…
https://twitter.com/daijunliu/status/1646406368704831489