Tom Moffatt

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A climate activist. Saving the biosphere is a precedence-taking activity. Author, song writer, vagabond, microgenerator. Ain't retirement grand?

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This decision (and every decision he’s been part of with regards to ANYTHING health or insurance related) has killed people. Full stop. This man turned on the American people for a fucking *RV* and he should be prosecuted but failing that, for fucks sake please dilute his power.

Clarence Thomas took $267,000 from a health insurance executive, then issued rulings that made health insurance companies more money, while harming millions of Americans. This is a bribe. This isn’t complicated. Expand the Supreme Court.

Clarence Thomas, a $267,000 RV, and Why American Health Care Suckswww.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got an RV from a top health insurance executive. Then he protected the industry.

A timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last glaciation. When people say 'the climate has changed before', these are the kinds of changes they're talking about xkcd.com/1732/ #ClimateChange

Earth Temperature Timelinexkcd.com

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Oh nice! The federal government just popped $140 into my bank account. Carbon Tax rebate, FTW.

If there was ever a time to push for gun controls in the U.S., this is it. Also, Pierre Poilievre's plan to distribute AR15 weapons in Canada is put in a bad light this morning. #uspoli #gunviolence #cdnpoli

Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes. Ed Miliband sets new rules on solar panels & approves three giant solar farms as Labour seeks to end years of Tory inaction #solar www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homeswww.theguardian.com Ed Miliband sets new rules on solar panels and approves three giant solar farms as Labour seeks to end years of Tory inaction

A much more advanced tomb at Knowth

In Ireland recently, we visited many Neolithic tombs, travelling from west to east. The tombs got more complex as the civilization evolved, which happened west to east because the Neolithic settlers in Ireland arrived from Turkey & first landed on the west coast due to prevailing currents

Neolithic population collapse likely caused by plague www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers saywww.theguardian.com DNA studies suggest disease was central to devastating collapse of northern European population 5,000 years ago

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Canadian #insurance companies invested at least $19.5 billion in #fossilfuels last year, increasing the very risks they’re on the hook for, as climate change makes #wildfires and #flooding worse, according to a new study www.nationalobserver.com/2024/07/10/n...

Insurance companies financed fossil fuels to the tune of $19.5www.nationalobserver.com The Canadian insurance industry continues to pump billions of dollars into coal, oil and gas companies wrecking the planet, according to new research from advocacy group Investors for Paris

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I love mink so much. 😍 I think this is my best capture yet. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/ame... #mammals #nature 📷

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Having fun with The Cool Down, debunking common climate misconceptions in my videos! Here's the latest on hurricanes and why these comments (from other platforms) are so off.

Climate scientist responds to commenter questioning changes to hurricanes: 'Putting us all at risk'www.thecooldown.com Renowned climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe expertly shuts down a dismissive social media commenter with hard facts about hurricanes and climate change.

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Finally a news item that makes sense www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canadawww.livescience.com A phallus-shaped iceberg hovered off the coast of Dildo, Newfoundland in Conception Bay before collapsing.

China is building two-thirds of all new wind and solar power globally www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

China is building two-thirds of new wind and solar globally, report sayswww.reuters.com Almost two-thirds of big wind and solar plants under construction globally are in China, where surging renewable capacity has squeezed coal's generation share to new lows, research released on Thursday showed.

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Wow, and it happened while the Sun was shining and the wind was blowing. That natural gas is so unreliable. 😉

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At BEST, like if it started working at maximum efficiency starting next week magically, and then every CCS project worked as well as industry promised it would forever, the most it could ever do is avoid 2.4% of global emissions.

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I have been working on a story about carbon capture for like three months because I keep thinking "it cannot possibly be THIS much of an absolute shit show" and figuring I must be missing something or misunderstanding something and then every new expert I talk to tells me it's even worse

Gas plant outage during heatwave causes electrical grid alert in Alberta calgary.ctvnews.ca/unplanned-th...

'Unplanned thermal generation outage' among issues leading to Alberta grid alertcalgary.ctvnews.ca The Alberta Electric System Operator declared a grid alert for the province on Monday evening, with officials saying a number of faults led to the bulletin.

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A few days ago, I got to watch two osprey trying to catch fish. The first two attempts were unsuccessful, but the third time was the charm. #birds 📷 laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/thi...

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I did it - I am now living in a 120 yo RR/highway tavern and rooming house - with decades worth of funky old shit (and deferred maintenance) everywhere.

Just put an offer in on an honest-to-god roadhouse on the highway to Edmonton - good chance they say yes, and I am gonna go keep an inn and tavern on the prairies. Feels good saying goodbye to the office job life, and switch to a job that is about as old as civilization.

England's Labour Party lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarmswww.theguardian.com Rachel Reeves says she will revise planning policy and decisions should be taken ‘nationally, not locally’

Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave causes deaths www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deathswww.theguardian.com Average number of heatstroke-related deaths each year has increased six fold since 1995

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There are so many yellow flowers blooming in the prairie right now. Some are even bird-shaped. 🪶

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“It is very simple: If you’re going to be making environmental claims, you need to be able to demonstrate that they’re true. This applies to anybody making environmental claims, and the only group that’s really freaking out about this is the oil industry.”

Facing New ‘Greenwashing’ Law, an Oil Industry Website Goes Darkwww.nytimes.com Oil sands companies pushing a carbon capture project shut down their website after a law banning misleading environmental claims was passed.

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Wedding dress library collection, because why not. www.today.com/life/relatio...

Need a wedding dress? This librarian has 100 — and she lends them out for freewww.today.com Brides-to-be visit the library in hopes of saying “yes” to a dress among the stacks.

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Disgusting 😡

Province Kills Solar Project Near Hays. Project in the M.D. of Taber was seeking approval since before the UCP #solar moratorium. Most of the project is now denied a permit. The turfed project would have provided 164 MW of power & included battery storage. #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql

More voices in B.C. call for apartments that don't kill people in heatwaves www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Calls increase for heat limits in B.C. rental housing | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca Ecotrust Canada is asking B.C. municipalities to adopt bylaws requiring rental units to maintain livable temperature ranges during periods of extreme heat.

Hydro-Quebec announces $9B wind power project www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hydro-Québec announces $9B wind power project, one of the largest in North America | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca Hydro-Québec has its sights set on building a massive new wind farm project in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region that includes partnerships with Indigenous communities.

Senior Alberta official — who pushed back on renewables pause — kicked out as CEO of electricity grid operator thenarwhal.ca/aeso-ceo-mic... #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql

Senior official who pushed back on Alberta renewables pause out at AESO | The Narwhalthenarwhal.ca In an announcement Friday, the Alberta Electric System Operator said CEO Michael Law would 'leave the organization' after 15 years and a new leader would oversee the grid operator's progress 'in paral...

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An assessment found eating an average of one meal a day of fish harvested from waters polluted by the company’s coal mines — an amount the Ktunaxa Nation considers to be sukiⱡ ʔiknaⱡa or eating good — could pose potential health risks due to selenium contamination.

Teck Resources’ mines: B.C. quietly releases health study | The Narwhalthenarwhal.ca Selenium risks depend on amount of fish people eat from rivers downstream of Teck Resources coal mines, health risk assessment finds

Hays solar project blocked in Alberta with provincial regulators claiming it's bad for wildlife. 164 MW of solar power and a battery storage facility killed by the province #yyc #yeg #yql #solar #abpoli #abndp #cdnpoli medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...

Only partial approval for major solar play near Hays - Medicine Hat Newsmedicinehatnews.com @@CollinGallant Alberta utility regulators have approved smaller portions of a proposed solar power facility near Hays, Alta., that was held up by an approvals pause last fall, but has denied the larg...