#yay climate change

[etakeh]

It's supposed to be up to 97°+ this next week in the Portland Metropolitan Area - try to be safe. Tuesday's expected to be the worst, so it's a great excuse to ditch the annoying celebratory activities!

The Washington County website says "When it’s extremely hot, be sure to check on your friends, family and neighbors and share these resources with them", and guess what that's *you*!

There's a lot of other good info on that site, including pro tips and symptoms of heat stroke. Also, cooling center info and financial assistance info (we're not used to having an AC season) for locals in Washington County (OR).

Also there's a comic. It's pdf on the site though. Boo.

[apprenticemockingbird]

Wintry mix? In *my* NYC January???

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[m-a-d-e-l-e-i-n-e]

It’s totally normal that every February, the weather makes it feel like it’s June

[territorial-utopia]

Ah, another year, another midsummer's eve. At least this year I'll be out and about celebrating, even if forest fire warnings mean that there will be no bonfires this year either 🥲

Happy Midsummer’s Eve!! Tonight is a night of bonfires, booze and magic consisting of 7 different flowers that’ll grant you dreams of your future spouse. Sadly I’m still recovering from covid so I’m at home drinking and drawing this.

I’d like to imagine that tonight is a night these two dream of eachother <3

[angesaurus]

Can we just get some coat weather, please?

[liebelesbe]

Can we kill Shein and Temu and everything like it forever please? <3

[yayornaypolls]

paper straws - yay or nay? (for me its yay for the environment but nay because of my sensory issues)

I agree, they disintegrate really fast but they’re better than using plastic straws

[doodlepede]

ohhh thats why it doesn't feel like december, its the 17th and it has yet to hit 32° even overnight lmfao

[girlivealwaysbean]

this is the same feeling i had when i read about the kerala case...

[yakulmybestfriend]

if I have to consume one more piece of media today about the impending downfall of earth due to overpopulation/climate change/etc I think I may just have to drink windex til I keel over

[arcticarthropod]

It finally snowed in Wisconsin!

[arolesbianism]

Anyways incorporating new saint hcs into my semi au Sliver lore means that now saint gets to continuously experience ascending Sliver forever 👍

[fancykraken]

A state of emergency has been declared for the entire province I live in because of the wildfires. I'm in a safe area so I'm okay, but over 15 thousand people have already been evacuated and more than 23 thousand on alert is fucking scary.

[knicks-knacks]

i understand where people are coming from when they advocate for clean energy and say that there's plenty of space for solar panels/wind farms etc but it ticks me off when people say that the perfect place for it is the desert because "it's just empty dirt" or say that it'd be the perfect place to convert vast swaths of land into flat solar panel cities.

the desert is also an ecosystem. its an incredibly FRAGILE ecosystem at that. the environment is already rather extreme, and things have adapted to survive in extremes, but that is what makes it even more delicate. Many of the things here have adapted to survive on the bare minimum, but when you take that bare minimum away, it doesn't stand a chance.

please learn to care about the places you don't think are "pretty" or "appealing" or that look empty to you because your pea-sized brain doesn't see trees. that's harsh, yes, but I am so tired of seeing people who claim to be environmentally conscious just hand-wave away desert ecosystems because they don't consider them pretty enough or worth saving.

[cryptidscorvidsandcoffee]

SHE IS OUR FEMALE PROTAGONIST CANT YOU ALL SEE. THIS IS A POST APOCALYPTIC YA NOVELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.