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Christoph Sieber gibt Geschichtsnachhilfe für die nützlichen Idioten der Faschisten.

"Still No Miracles Needed" is out Describes how to solve the climate crisis, and at the same time eliminate air pollution and safely secure energy supplies for all - without using miracle technologies. web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… Video youtube.com/watch?v=JTDNXW…

I want to thank our courageous friends in Minnesota who — in below freezing temperatures — are standing up to ICE. The American people want democracy and justice, not authoritarianism.  When we stand together we win.

AOC just exposed the whole play: Keep America divided so they can loot the economy, gut healthcare, and funnel billions into ICE and surveillance contracts for companies like Palantir.

249 yr of homogenized temperature at Innsbruck (Tirol) 📈 Climate of the 21st c. is impressively consistent in its rate of warming (esp. last 40 yr) and has nothing to do with 20th c. climate! 🔥 Spoiler: Solar activity has nothing to do with it! 🤡 zamg.ac.at/histalp/datase…

The fossil fuel industry gets 11 million dollars in subsidies every single minute: buff.ly/3BmwdIh How many more disasters does it take before we stop funding the problem? #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal #go100re

Das hatte ich noch nie: Ein LinkedIn-Post erreicht nur mich selbst. Liegt es möglicherweise an meiner Kritik an US-Plattformen mit Hinweis auf Mastodon? Werden Inhalte zurückgehalten – wer beeinflusst künftig unsere digitale Meinungsbildung? #Europa braucht digitale Souveränität.

Trump is just the trigger. There are deep historical forces: The dismantling of the FCC fairness doctrine by Reagan, the resulting emergence of Fox News, conservative talk radio, and other propaganda outlets, the removal of guardrails for the influence of money in politics (e.g. Citizen United), the continuous reduction of taxes on high incomes, the ever-increasing wealth and income inequalities enabled by the above, the stagnation of working class income despite continued increase in productivity (and corporate profits), the total lack of social protection and benefits compared to other developed countries. People in the middle class and below have been screwed for 40 years and are angry. They should be angry at Republicans. But the Republican party has managed to deflect their anger towards immigrants, non-Christians, non-whites, liberals, LGBT, China, academia, intellectual "elites", scientists, journalists, and non-existent scarecrows like Antifa.

Unsurprising…

NEW: China is testing a megawatt-scale airborne wind system that captures stronger high-altitude winds, potentially producing up to 10× more energy with 40% less material and 30% lower costs. It could also be quickly deployed to supply emergency power after disasters.

In a sane world, this would be front page news everywhere. But it will hardly be covered anywhere. The North Pacific Ocean surface warmed over twice as much over the past 15 years than it did over the preceding 156 years. That's an increase in warming rate of >2000%!

Using old coal mines to heat homes? Gateshead is doing it. Their mine-water project—the UK’s largest—draws 15°C water from boreholes, uses heat pumps to boost it to 80°C, and sends that heat through an underground network. The system now warms 350+ homes and 23 buildings.

🚨NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus: ‘WE ARE ON A PATHWAY TO LOSING BASICALLY EVERYTHING’ @ClimateHuman #climatebreakdown #Climatecrisis

It's been quite something to see one of the world's leading climate scientists, James Hansen, being vilified the past six years for presenting data showing the rapid acceleration of global and regional warming, associated with continued greenhouse gas emissions and rapid reduction of (dimming) particulate air pollution. Loud voices in the climate community ignore the actual science and constantly use cherry-picking, strawmann arguments and ad hominems to try and deny the undeniable. Pretending that we have been exaggerating, while it's likely even worse than we feared (again, based on data). False hope and vested interests will get a lot of people killed, as it has for centuries.

Insects have declined by 75% in the past 50 years – and the consequences may soon be catastrophic. Rachel Carson warned the world back in 1963 She was ignored and pesticide industry continue to make billions wiping out Bees and insects Without Bees many food crops will vanish

Hört über Geschichten und Manipulationen im Wirtschaftsleben! Die ehemalige Staatsanwältin Anne Brorhilker bringt Licht in die #CumEx Affäre. Und keiner will es wissen! Es ist wirklich hochinteressant, wie #Steuerkriminalität funktioniert und anschließend hocheffektiv verschleiert und gerechtfertigt wird. Dagegen ist #Bürgergeldmissbrauch nichts! swr.de/swr1/leute/ann…

Armin Wolf verklagt "X": Ein Nutzer verbreitete auf Elon Musks Plattform "X" jahrelang Hass. Auch Österreichs bekanntester Journalist, der ZiB-Anchorman Armin Wolf, wurde von dem Account beleidigt. Er meldete den Vorfall und es geschah: nichts. 1/

„Ich glaube nicht mehr länger, dass Demokratie und Freiheit miteinander vereinbar sind.“ Dieser Satz kommt von Peter Thiel, dem Mitbegründer von #Palantir. Von solchen Typen sollten wir uns gerade mit Blick auf unsere Sicherheit niemals abhängig machen.

@safe_breathe @airspothealth When I realized #covid is airborne

🎉Win a free CO2 monitor! 🎉 I am very happy to announce that I will be giving away another two monitors this week in collaboration with @airspothealth! To enter, just repost this post and reply to it with your answer to the question below! When did you first realize how important indoor air quality is? We will also give away a second monitor, so to double your chances of winning, please read the comments!

You’ve probably heard this one before: “But the climate’s always changed!” And it’s true—Earth’s climate has changed before. But not this fast, and not for this reason… Watch the full episode of Cold Facts, Hot Takes to see how I take even more troll comments and give evidence-based comebacks. 👉This is just one of THREE new video series I've launched on Substack and Patreon, available exclusively to subscribers. I’m excited to share with you what I’ve been working on. Subscribe on Substack: talkingclimate.ca Subscribe on Patreon: patreon.com/cw/TalkingClim…