Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

A new European heatwave dubbed Nero has raised the temperature above 0C at all of Italy’s glaciers, hastening their disappearance, and set a record for high-altitude heat in the Swiss Alps.

A weather balloon launched from Payerne in Switzerland registered the “zero-degree line” — the altitude at which the temperature falls to zero — at 5,298m, beating a previous record of 5,184m set last year.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alps-temperatures-rise-italy-heat-storm-2023-6rs950brd

#Italy #Switzerland #Alps #Heatwave

A Giant Black Hole Destroyed a Star and Threw the Pieces into Space

A pair of X-ray telescopes have observed the messy aftermath of a star that came too close to a supermassive black hole 290 million light-years away. It's believed that the star had three times the mass of the Sun, so this was one of the largest tidal disruption events ever seen. Although the black hole consumed some of the star, most of its guts were thrown into the surrounding space, polluting the region with the chemicals that allowed astronomers to estimate its stellar mass.

https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2023/tde/

Some autistic people find making phone calls extremely stressful and unpleasant and will avoid them at all costs.

Please don’t try and force your communication preferences on others.

image: anon
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

"How wealthy "super emitters" are disproportionately driving the climate crisis — while blaming you" by @MatthewRozsa for @Salon https://www.salon.com/2023/08/22/how-wealthy-super-emitters-are-disproportionately-driving-the-climate--while-blaming-you/

This summer’s floods have ransacked cities from Slovenia to India, while Iran, Spain, & elsewhere broil in record heat.
Experts agree: super-hot summer has morphed into a planetary crisis bc of human-made CC, created largely by: burning of FFs. The dry conditions on Maui & the Canadian forests, the record ocean temps. that topped 100 off FL, & the thermometer readings are all triggered by our own carbon pollution, the kindling for these weather disasters🚨. #ClimateCrisis https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/manchin-climate-change-fulton-county-jail-trump-20230822.html

https://pixelfed.social is on its way to reach 100K users in the next month or two!

We'll be joining Mastodon, Lemmy, Misskey and micro.blog as projects who reached this milestone ✨

Big/flagship instances allow smaller ones to thrive by providing a home to the less tech friendly 🥰

A wildfire on Tenerife that is causing evacuations of thousands from their homes is "beyond our capacity to extinguish," according to the regional government: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/19/tenerife-thousands-more-flee-their-homes-as-out-of-control-wildfires-rage Fires that civilization cannot extinguish indicate a new level of disaster, caused by global heating.

TESS Has Found Thousands of Possible Exoplanets. Which Ones Should JWST Study?

JWST has demonstrated how well it can analyze the atmosphere of exoplanets, revealing carbon dioxide, water vapor, and sulfur compounds. The hope, of course, is that it might be able to find evidence of biosignatures. Astronomers have found over 5,000 confirmed exoplanets, and TESS has turned up 4,000 candidate exoplanets. With this enormous catalog of confirmed and potential planets, which are high priorities that JWST should be pointed at?

http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09617

Madness, killing someone, actually ending their life, because they are different from you or support people different from you. This woman was hurting nobody.

California store owner, mother of 9, fatally shot over a Pride flag displayed in her shop-
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/california-store-owner-mother-nine-shot-killed-pride-flag-displayed-sh-rcna100849

An Online Prophet With a Huge Following Has Been Convicted of Child Abuse https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7b99y/an-online-prophet-with-a-huge-following-has-been-convicted-of-child-abuse?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Linn of Dee embodies the essence of Scotland's natural beauty, a cherished escape where one can immerse in the untouched majesty of the land.

I put the best #Scotland shots on my gallery:
https://www.franzgraf.de/the-beauty-of-scotland-23/

#schottland #photography #fotografie #nature #naturephotography #landscape

Canada Wildfire Update!

B.C. Premier David Eby is joined by cabinet ministers and officials from the B.C. Wildfire Service to provide an update about wildfires in the province.
#AureFreePress #Canada #kelowna #GlobalWarming

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2256936515640

Are you alarmed about the state of the climate and worried about what might be coming down the pike? Are you ready to take action to build your local resilience?

Then you might be a lifeboat builder - people working to create their own place-based resilience network with the practical skills necessary to face an uncertain future and insecure supply chains.

If you’re ready to get to work, we want to help. Drop us a line: friends@lifeboat.academy

#climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction

Hydrogen combustion, led by Toyota, gains as EV alternative tech

Hydrogen-burning engines are still in development, but they're certain to take root as Toyota leads the industry in exploring this EV alternative technology. #hydrogen #Hydrogen https://kbin.social/m/Hydrogen/t/366373

All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

Amazing! 😀

("Classic Space Guild Navigator" made by @AngusMacLane)

#Dune #FrankHerbert #LEGO #LegoMOC