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EUCommission, 2 days ago to random Spanish

🌟 Your Vote is Your Superpower 🌟

Use your superpower from 6-9 June and vote in the #EUelections2024.
Make your voice heard and drive the change you wish to see.

🎨 Get Out & Vote – a creative project led by 27 illustrators who design posters on the topic of democratic participation. ©️ Nadine Theuma 🇲🇹 for Fine Acts

#UseYourVote

danhon, 13 days ago to random

well fuck this

peterdutoit, 16 days ago to climate

What can individuals do about the #ClimateCrisis

In order of impact:

🚫Live car free
🚙 Shift to BEV
✈️ One less flight (long return)
☀️ Use renewable energy
🚋 Shift to public transport
🔨 Refurbishment and renovation
🥗 Vegan diet
🆒 Heat pump
⏲️ Improved cooking equipment
♨️ Renewable-based heating

Data:

1. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8589
2. Demand, Services & Social Aspects of Mitigation https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_Chapter05.pdf

#ClimateLiteracy

biancanogrady, 22 days ago to journalism

Another damning indictment of the state of Australian journalism: fossil fuel company Ampol is the platinum sponsor of our pre-eminent journalism awards, the Walkeys.
And the foundation that administers these awards is refusing to answer questions on that sponsorship, despite a growing threat of boycotts of the awards.
Good work by Nick Feik in Crikey: https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/07/walkley-foundation-awards-fossil-fuels-ampol-boycott/
#journalism #ClimateChange #TheWalkleys

Mastodon, 1 month ago to mastodon

Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, you will soon be able to have a #Mastodon in your home:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-stuffed-toy-coming-soon/

RSMacKinnon, 1 month ago to climate

Mar 31 EWE: Zimbabwe — Extreme drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry. The drought in Zimbabwe, neighboring Zambia and Malawi has reached crisis levels. Zambia and Malawi have declared national disasters. Zimbabwe could be on the brink of doing the same. The drought has reached Botswana and Angola to the west, and Mozambique and Madagascar to the east. #ClimateCrisis https://www.thespec.com/news/world/africa/extreme-drought-in-southern-africa-leaves-millions-hungry/article_f7553a0c-a6b8-5f4a-88fd-45a0f3ce8b07.html

davidho, 2 months ago to random

Here’s Northern Lights, the project to pump CO₂ into the seabed of the North Sea.

We should ask ourselves if we want to live in a world where we have to build one of these facilities everyday for the foreseeable future, or whether that world is even possible.

OceanTerra, 2 months ago to climate

Extremely excited to introduce Climate Pulse - the latest application from #CopernicusClimate to start #climate conversations giving users global temperature data two days behind real time.

👉 Check it out: https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

Time series and maps

Absolute temperatures and temperature anomalies.

Downloadable data and graphics

Understand the climate on daily, monthly and annual timescales

@CopernicusECMWF @CopernicusEU
#climatecrisis #climateaction #opensource

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liztai, 3 months ago to random

After dealing with postgres, aws the whole day I'm glad I didn't become a software engineer after all lol

vicgrinberg, 3 months ago to sustainability

1/x There is quiet a number of publications on #sustainability in astro out there - I want to introduce the ones I know and found useful here over the next days!

Let's start with the "The carbon footprint of large astronomy meetings", lead by @leo with contributions from yours truly, @didier_barret, @knud, @markmccaughrean and others - we compare the CO2 footprint of in person & remote meetings (the result is not surprising ...) using the EAS as example:

▶️ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1207-z

#astrodon

rahmstorf, 3 months ago to climate German

This is what #globalwarming looks like if you remove the effect of El Niño, volcanic eruptions and solar activity.

The author is a professional statistician with much experience in climate data analysis. The method is described here: https://tamino.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/adjusted-global-temperature-data/

therockyfiles, 3 months ago to climate

It’s a gas,gas,gas: “the infrastructure used to produce, store, distribute, transmit, and burn gas leaks like a sieve, making gas as bad as coal for the climate.” @ElliottNegin @UCSUSA https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/ask-a-scientist-gas-plants-disproportionately-harm-marginalized-communities/ #climate #climatechange

davidho, 3 months ago to CDR

It’s not: if we don’t decarbonize fast enough, we’ll need more CO₂ removal (#CDR).

It’s: If we don’t decarbonize fast enough, we’re screwed.

CDR is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.

CDR is for residual emissions, not luxury removal.

OceanTerra, 3 months ago to climate

January 2024 was the warmest January on record.

New data from @CopernicusECMWF shows that we've now had

• the eighth record breaking month in a row and

• twelve months (Feb 23-Jan 24) with global temperatures more than 1.5ºC above the pre-industrial reference baseline.

#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis @ECMWF @CopernicusECMWF

zoom_earth, 4 months ago to random

⚠️ Tropical Cyclone #Belal could make a direct landfall over Réunion Island on Monday with winds equivalent to a category 3 major hurricane.

The effects of the cyclone will also impact the main island of Mauritius on Tuesday, and Rodrigues Island later in the week. #CycloneBelal

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sandofsky, 4 months ago to random

Men will start a PR war with Apple over an app rejection instead of going to therapy.

Climatehistories, 4 months ago to greece

📈 December 2023 was the hottest December of the past 15 years for most large regions in #Greece.

Data from the network of 52 meteo.gr weather stations that have been operating continuously since 2010 until today.

Article (in greek)👇

https://meteo.gr/article_view.cfm?entryID=3070

#climatechange #extremetemps

zoom_earth, 4 months ago to random

Tropical Storm #Alvaro has developed near #Mozambique.

Track in real-time here: https://zoom.earth/storms/alvaro-2024/

primonatura, 5 months ago to climate

"Facing a near unprecedented ‘rainfall deficit’, the Panama Canal has been forced to restrict the number of vessels passing through it"

#PanamaCanal #Climate #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/22/changing-climate-casts-a-shadow-over-the-future-of-the-panama-canal-and-global-trade

mosseri, 5 months ago to random

Fediverse update thread 🔔🧵

For those of you who don't know, @Threads is being built on the ActivityPub protocol, which means that it will be interoperable with other apps/servers like Mastodon over time. This week we took a small, but important, step by allowing people in the Fediverse, who don't use Threads or even have an Instagram account, to follow my Threads account as well as a few others. Content is starting to flow from Threads to the Fediverse.

Powerfromspace1, 5 months ago to climate

@extremetemps New brutal and historic heat wave in SOUTH AMERICA specially in Argentina,Paraguay,Uruguay and Brazil.
Extremely hot days,nights and high humidity will be a deadly combination
PARAGUAY can record 6 CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS ABOVE >30c OF min. temperature, never happened in South America #climatechange

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1734988346403836165?s=46

OceanTerra, 5 months ago to climate

2023 is the warmest year in human history

We can now say this with complete certainty (barring an asteroid hitting in the final three weeks of 2023)

2023 has now had six record breaking months and two record breaking seasons (June-November).

More: https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-november-2023-remarkable-year-continues-warmest-boreal-autumn-2023-will-be-warmest-year

#Climate #CopernicusClimate #COP28 #ClimateAction

OceanTerra, 6 months ago to climate

Provisional ERA5 global temperature for 17th November from @CopernicusECMWF was 1.17°C above 1991-2020 - the warmest on record.

Our best estimate is that this was the first day when global temperature was more than 2°C above 1850-1900 (or pre-industrial) levels, at 2.06°C.

#CopernicusClimate #ClimateCrisis

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thejapantimes, 6 months ago to environment

Warmer winters, less food and an aging society all play a part in why wild animals are increasingly venturing into human-populated areas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2023/11/13/wildlife/boar-bear-attacks-japan-cities/?utm_content=buffer5586a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #environment #wildlife #animals #climatechange #depopulation #animals #bears

EyeOnAlaska, 6 months ago to Alaska

Back home in Bear Valley to a completely different landscape than when we left on Saturday. #alaska #anchorage #BearValley #FirstSnow #Snow