#Climate experts

[africaindustrializationday]

For a just transition in adaptation: The role of social protection in the Global Goal on Adaptation.

This event will dive into the role of social protection in reducing vulnerability, increasing resilience and adaptive capacity. It will present the latest global data on social protection coverage, including in the countries most vulnerable to climate change. This will set the scene for a discussion among parties, experts, and observers around the usefulness and gaps of existing indicators on social protection for measuring progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation.

Watch For a just transition in adaptation: The role of social protection in the Global Goal on Adaptation!

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Risk takers and rule breakers to the front. As Peter Kalmus has said, he and Rose Abramoff disrupted the AGU meeting that day because they “believe that climate scientists have a key role to play in breaking society out of the ’normalcy bias’ or bystander effect that still has most people thinking ’this is fine.’” I couldn’t agree with this objective more. And I see, in the price they have paid and the attention it has received, some small but perceptible movement toward it.

The bolder tactics of activism carry real risks—including for scientists the risk of eroded credibility as a widely-trusted messenger. Yet, the greater the risk, the greater the potential reward. If the reward is actually breaking society out of our collective trance and into a state of real, transformative action, what professional—and even personal—risk wouldn’t be worth it? Climate scientists, what would you risk for that reward?"

[bookwyrminspiration]

"we call these trees the Pures because their leaves filter the air" all trees filter the air dipshit it came free with its fucking being a tree

[mokeonn]

Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.

[deservedgrace]

something that i've been struggling to articulate but has been bothering me for a while is how some christians engage and interact with science and what i'm realizing is they have a like... almost love-bombing/discarding relationship with it. and i recognize science isn't a person and that's not literally happening but the christians that i grew up around have this relationship with science where it's real/valid/correct if it supports their side and fake/invalid/wrong if it doesn't. it's this like... engaging with science to get something from it when it can prove their point and condemning it when it doesn't. and this also ties into the belief that you, a layperson with no background in science, are more knowledgeable than actual scientists simply because you have god on your side, and therefore you can use science in whatever way you see fit, which means engaging with it in a way that is ultimately anti-science (but that also doesn't matter because god said it was okay). and it's exhausting engaging with these people for me because it's not that they believe all science bad, it's that they believe most science bad but some science good and they have the authority to determine what is bad and what is good, despite, again, not having a background in science (because what is a "background in science" to an all-knowing god that you have a personal relationship with?). the thing that is so frustrating to me is how these people recognize science is valued and use it to strengthen the validity of their points and to gain credibility while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge the validity of science as a field at all or put in any effort to understand/respect it.

[gender-euphowrya]

spell of explode all transphobes Activate

[faithfromanewperspective]

i think the problem with the expectation of activism and saying the exact right thing is that people aren't always as intelligent as we think they are. and there's nothing wrong with having lower skills in the area of critical thinking and being able to figure out who is right and wrong in a seemingly grey (or highly misrepresented) situation. your intelligence cannot be conflated with your morality. if you're a little bit gullible it doesn't make you a bad person. but, yes, to some extent you need to be a little self aware so you don't spread misinformation to people who trust you to know what you're taking about.

still, the real villains are and will always be the people who are twisting the truth for their own gain. they did it in order that some people will fall for it, and some people always will. it doesn't make you a bad person. in fact thinking it does is classist and a colonial way of thinking that values intellectualism over basic things like on the ground kindness (which doesn't require massive amounts of critical thinking). it tells people everything from the idea that they're morally weak if they ever get sucked into a cult to the idea that actual real delusions are their fault and some kind of shortfalling. you can say that critical thinking is a vital skill to learn on a mass level in order to preserve society and prevent oppression, while at the same time not be ableist and expect every non-expert to understand (and say the right thing about) things they probably have no idea about.

[zatyrlucy]

¨Tell me, the fandom you are in is very dramatic?¨

The fandom:

[ladyelainehilfur]

interesting trend I've noticed is that celebrity voice actors are steadily becoming less big deals? Unless it's an actor or actress people actively dislike (Chris Pratt, Awkwafina), the characters or media itself vastly overshadows the voice actors. That's good, I think. The pay discrepancy for celebrity VAs is still present, but maybe it'll go away as studios also note people are watching animated movies and shows for the story, not the famous person voicing them.

[combinecremator]

looking at solarpunk art and concepts for reference and like as awesome as it is i feel like so many of these people don't super understand the reality of what would make this kind of solarpunk/ecofuturist future a reality

[nerdyenby]

The way I go for a ten minute walk without headphones and wind up deciding that the solution to climate change is a combination steampunk and reforestation

[walrusmagazine]

Ask an Ecology Expert: How Is the Climate Crisis Changing Our Seasons?

Early springs and long, hot summers are disrupting migration and mating patterns

Over the past few decades, climate change has been driving what scientists refer to as “season creep” in some parts of the world: winters are getting shorter, spring is coming earlier, and summers are longer and hotter. Besides disrupting human life, these changes to the seasons are having a profound effect on animals. We asked Madhur Anand, a professor of ecology at the University of Guelph’s school of environmental sciences, what rising temperatures mean for our ecosystems.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Irma Kniivila (irmaillustration.com)

[demigirl-demigod]

To everyone who is suffering from the smoke from the fires in Canada, I am truly sorry and please stay safe. But I haven’t seen anyone talking about this and I want to point out that this is what happens in California every year. Entire neighborhoods have to be evacuated not because of fire danger but because breathing the air will kill you. We live under a dark, eerily orange sky for weeks. This did not happen when I was a child. This is our new reality due to climate change and it seems it is now beginning to happen in other places as well (I do acknowledge it already was happening in some other places, but I mean places it wasn’t before). And maybe it won’t happen again next year but it will happen again eventually and it will keep happening because the earth is not as it once was. Please stay safe and remember capitalist greed did this.

[thewilful]

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[perfectlyvalid49]

If Trump wins, and I hope to G-d he does not, the only possible way to keep him from enacting all the shitty things he wants to do is to have congress stop him (hypothetically the supreme court could, but this particular supreme court won't). We've seen a Republican congress shut down Democratic presidents - heck, look at the stuff Republicans refused to pass this year alone. A Democratic congress could help mitigate a Trump administration, and help a Harris(?) administration, y'know, actually do stuff.

And as for down ballot races - Minnesota had a blue state senate by the slimmest of margins last year (34 to 33) and they managed to pass laws providing paid family leave, free breakfast and lunch to ALL K-12 students, protections for women's health care, protections for trans healthcare, requiring employers to give paid sick leave, and so much more. If you don't care about the president, you should still vote locally, as it can have a HUGE impact on your own quality of life.

even if you're resigned that trump is going to win, 1/3 of the country lives in states with competitive senate elections. if democrats win the senate, there is very little that trump can do (can't even appoint supreme court nominees)

the following states all have competitive senate elections:

arizona

florida

maryland

michigan

montana

nevada

ohio

pennsylvania

texas

wisconsin

even if you don't think your state is competitive at all, THESE SENATE RACES STILL ARE, SO IF YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THESE STATES, MAKE SURE TO VOTE

and even if you don't live in one of those states, you could live in a competitive house seat. if democrats win the house, then trump can't pass any bills

and even if you don't live in a competitive state or district, your local elections matter even more than federal ones because they have a much more direct impact on your life

so VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE