Lucky me! #Polarlicht am #Ritten#Südtirol zumindest bei Langzeitbelichtung am Pixel4a zu sehen! Mit freiem Auge ist der Himmel etwas heller, ganz leicht rötlich.
Today @WilliamJRipple et al released the 2023 report on the terrifying state of our #climate.
It should be read by every policymaker, decisionmaker, and journalist on the planet.
Here is a thread of some key takeaways.
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Stop whatever you are doing. Drop it. Nothing else matters. Nothing matters besides this graph.
We could lose it all. We could have bloodshed and suffering at scales never seen.
It doesn’t matter you got promoted to associate analyst at fucking Deloitte. Don’t you see?
Das Erdklima bewegt sich gerade in einer Freakzone extrem unwahrscheinlicher Ereignisse.
Das bekommen zu wenige mit, deswegen kommen hier all die krassen Klima-Charts, die ihr sehen solltet 🧵
@WienerZeitung Auf der Webseite war ich schon. "Gewohnte" Qualität von gut recherchierten, außergewöhnlichen Stories? Nope: Ich sehe fade Inhalte, die auf beliebigen anderen Regierungsplattformen thematisiert werden. Im Editorial steht übrigens "Burgermenu" - hä? Alles Gute, ich bin raus
@lebt_in_wien Ich bin traurig. Alles Gute und DANKE für jede einzelne #wienerzeitung, die mich (als ehemaligen Zeitungsmuffel!!) ein Jahrzehnt begleitet, mir unzählige Stunden Allgemeinbildung - und Glucksen beim Lesen von so einigen Konzert-und Plattenkritiken geschenkt hat.
*Mind-blowing* new NASA video showing CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels...
...as if they were visible to the human eye
h/t @ClimateOfGavin
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
An update through 2022 for this alarming climate change animation...
"The motion has led to this visualization being nicknamed 'the climate jellyfish'" 🪼- https://t.co/P2Ft7IYDQQ
Animation by @NASAHyperwall. Data from GISTEMPv4 using a 1951-1980 baseline.