"Street protests are not enough " 1min
by OurChangingClimate Jan 18, 2025

"Data center power demand will double over the next five years"

Phys.org: How is Antarctica melting, exactly Crucial details are beginning to come into focus

The size of the ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 meters...

back in Britain, with rise in sightings from Kent to Isles of Scilly

"Traditionally, the move around the western side of Britain but some are now swimming through the Strait of Dover possibly re-establishing ancestral routes that were abandoned when so many humpbacks were slaughtered by 19th- and 20th-century whale-hunters... More sightings may be a positive sign for growing population but also indicative of effect of "

These States Will Keep Fighting for Climate Progress, Trump or No Trump Mother Jones

to the upcoming generation not having been able to learn or having been too ignorant on what it really means to be free

it is not normal nor is it okay and never will be to follow crooks and sexoffenders like musk trump putin netanyahu and so on and think you will have a good healthy and relaxed life

in every way

stop using X do not pay attention whatsoever on the inauguration of the sexoffender

Sifting the wheat from the chaff in our technological and social mess is an important challenge. This is why the approach of leveraging work across communities and utilising multi-tag aggregation is an elegant and powerful solution. It would be useful to look at this from a more prospective.

Aggregated work across communities of subjects, the first step in the path involves gathering and organising work created by various communities around specific subjects or interests. Subject-centric hubs, decentralised indexing, curating content based on subjects (e.g., , ). These hubs wouldnt rely on centralised algorithms, but instead draw from a network of community-curated sources. Community moderation by trusted communities who moderate and curate content within their subject interested. This ensures quality and reduces noise while resisting gatekeeping tendencies of centralised control.
Reputation by contribution by encourage subject-focused communities to reward contributions, promoting collaboration and surfacing valuable work naturally.

Dynamic and live updates, newsfeeds, can be feed by aggregating real-time updates from communities working on the same subjects using open protocols like ActivityPub. This would provide a live pulse of discussions, innovations, and trends across diverse groups and subjects.

Multi-tag aggregation, the next step is to create a system that enables the mash-up of multiple tags to filter and organise the aggregated content dynamically. Advanced multi-tagging allow people to filter aggregated work using combinations of tags, e.g., + + .

Visualisation of tag relationships, tag webs, implement visual tools that map relationships between tags, communities, and subjects. People can explore how different concepts connect and navigate the network intuitively. Trend overview, within tag intersections to help people identify emerging areas of focus and overlooked intersections.

Tools for aggregation and mashing, to make this work practically, we need powerful, accessible tools that build on the ethos. Open aggregators, open-source aggregators that collect data, metadata, and content flows from diverse platforms and formats, such as blogs, Fediverse instances, wikis, and video platforms that can be made compatible with the , we simply ignore the which are to to be worth plugging in to these flows, they will wither in the self-sustaining destruction of their own , sadly taking a part of our communities with them, we do not have the focus to rescue everyone as we push this shift.

Community buy-In and participation, To build the path in an effective and relevant direction, it must gain support and participation from the communities that create it. This needs: Simple, intuitive interfaces for tagging, curating, and contributing to subject hubs. Guides and incentives to help non-technical people engage with the paths. Decentralised decision-making, with democratic governance paths like the . Education and outreach, with educational campaigns to teach people how to use multi-tag aggregation and curated subject hubs that work.

Guarding against pitfalls, while the approach is promising, its essential to mitigate potential risks. We need to keep vigilance on balancing noise and redundancy. Centralisation risks, by keeping to decentralised and open paths to avoid reliance on any single platform, database, or organisation. Bias in curation is kept in check by the networks being inherently leaky, people will see other points of view we do not subscribe to the inherent in safety culture.

What would this look like, the end goal: Collaborative Knowledge Commons. The aim of the path is to create a living, breathing commons of human knowledge and action. By aggregating community work and enabling meaningful mash-ups through multi-tag aggregation, we create a powerful tool to cut through the noise, enabling better collaboration between communities, richer understanding of complex, intersectional issues, stronger foundations for the native .

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As a Brit, when I think of the effects of climate change, all of the worst disasters seem to be abroad - floods in Europe, wildfires in America, extreme heat in India, desertification and conflict in Africa - but nothing here. Am I forgetting something, or have we got off lightly thus far

Terra (2015) , now 10 years old:

IIAR: IIAR Releases Tool to Compare Refrigerants. The International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration said it has released a Refrigerant Evaluator Tool to help IIAR members and others assess their refrigerant choices and evaluate their options as the Environmental Protection Agency phases out high global warming potential refrigerants.

There is no planet B

there is no planet B -e

Thai sugar farmers, squeezed by climate change and health concerns, face bitter outlook .5

16C in Winter. The weather is crazy.

Picking and choosing what's convenient for you in a given argument is a self-rebuttal in itself. I've thought on this for quite a few years. It's even what prompted me to try and become more unbiased and play devil's advocate more.

When you choose what's more convenient for you or your standing despite how untruthful it is, that's toxic.

A lot of people play the wool over eyes and in ears trick. It's been more noticeable since the Covid pandemic started.

I'm calling that out wherever it's necessary. And likewise, I'm calling out governments in this too.

Since 1980, persistent multi-year have become longer, more frequent, & more extreme, covering more land, and causing enormous damage to ecosystems, & energy production. Extreme droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate:

Life-history adaptation under climate warming magnifies the agricultural footprint of a cosmopolitan insect pest

Morning wake up idea upgrade the European 2 years garentee up to 20 years

Europes banks rethink climate collaboration as alliances struggle ahead of Davos

For more on the LA wildfires and the way they impact the disability community, my recent article is about canaries in the coal mine.

Whether its wildfires, pandemics, climate change or other extreme weather events we are hit harder and faster than our non disabled peers.

Were also often the first to be left behind.

That needs to change. Plan around us and everyone would be better taken care of.

We arent expendable. Dont leave us behind

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On Monday, the US will have a new president. He will keep us all busy.

Short-term profit humanity's most expensive currency .

What role does play amid global challenges like and political instability shaking the world

It is becoming clear: Short-term economic interests and lobbyist decisions are setting the course.

Has anyone considered turning parking lots into actual parks, you know, the ones with trees and grass

Carlo Buontempo: Director of Copernicus Climate Change Service: Its likely that 2024 was the hottest of the last 100,000 years Climate

Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2

is significantly altering our planet's ecosystems, creating conditions that can lead to the resurgence of .

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What #2025 Holds for the : Time

is now a source not a sink of : New Sci

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If the LA wildfires have taught us anything, its that government are ill equipped for disasters and are probably not going to save you.

Covid, disability & clean air activists are the ones doing the work. They were boots on the ground handing out respirators and air purifiers.

The Mayor of LA had been contemplating a mask ban, and when the fires hit the government asked the activists for help providing masks.

These are folks whove been vilified, taunted, excluded from public spaces and left behind yet they showed up. Because they understand the serious risk the air poses to everyone right now.

If you can support a local mask bloc, please do so. We need them now more than ever.

Cara Daggett, a political science professor at Virginia Tech, examines how fossil fuels have shaped cultural relationships, work, capitalism, and power. She explores the concept of petro-masculinity and advocates for a feminist energy system to address ecological violence and create democratic, community-controlled energy systems.

Life-history adaptation under climate warming magnifies the agricultural footprint of a cosmopolitan insect pest

Net zero hero myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study finds Climate crisis

Ah, !

Responsibilizing the Net-Zero Hero Creation and Implications of a Tragic Subject Position

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"Home" includes the seen and unseen that sustain us.

Flood modeling prior to the instrumental era reveals limited magnitude of 1931 Yangtze flood

The global flood risk urges an improved understanding of flood magnitude and its mechanism, which needs insights from pre-instrumental flood investigations

An important point pithily made... But why do I feel the CoP ain't gonna bother

Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored