Notices by kim_harding ✅ (kim_harding@mastodon.scot), page 2

Don't make fun of kids who still believe in Father Christmas, there are adults out there who think trickle-down economics is real...

How forests smell – a risk for the climate? https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/12/13/how-forests-smell-a-risk-for-the-climate

Of course, the climatic effect is tiny compared with that caused by the release of fossil carbon, which is the real problem...

Helsinki, Amsterdam Named Best Cities for Urban Transportation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-04/best-cities-for-transportation-public-transit-evs-cycling-networks
The Finnish capital’s investments in electric vehicles, bike lanes and public transit landed it the top spot in a new ranking of urban mobility.

Scotland's pavement parking ban is finally underway https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/pavement-parking-ban/

And the best way to educate drivers about it, it to enforce it. They know they are not supposed to park on the pavements, but they just don't care...

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

Ice in Crisis: Greenland Glaciers Melting 5x Faster Than 20 Years Ago https://scitechdaily.com/ice-in-crisis-greenland-glaciers-melting-5x-faster-than-20-years-ago/

A reminder that e-cars are about saving the motor industry, and not about saving the planet...

#FuckCars

Can Indigenous knowledge and Western science work together? New center bets yes https://www.science.org/content/article/can-indigenous-knowledge-and-western-science-work-together-new-center-bets-yes
NSF commits $30 million for “two-eyed seeing” to combat climate change, food insecurity, and the loss of traditional culture

Silent disaster: Eni's Nigerian subsidiary accused of causing major oil spill
https://theferret.scot/eni-nigerian-subsidiary-causing-major-oil-spill/
An oil spill in Nigeria that polluted rivers and destroyed crops was allegedly caused by a firm owned by an oil multinational with billions invested in the North Sea.

Scientists find evidence that Vlad the Impaler shed bloody tears https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/vlad-the-impaler-may-have-shed-tears-of-blood-study-finds/

Letter from 1475 contains proteins suggesting he suffered from hemolacria, respiratory problems

Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon in historic decision https://infotel.ca/newsitem/lt-ecuador-amazon-oil-referendum/cp575021927
Democracy can work, when allowed to do so...

Predatory journals entrap unsuspecting scientists. Here’s how universities can support researchers https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1
Training from institutions on publishing norms could help to thwart predatory publishers

For decades now, we have spent trillions to retrofit our cities, our public spaces and our society to cater for cars. It just hasn't worked. If only we had an alternative. If only... 🚲

(Video credit, London by Peter Stuart)

@aral
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How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/
A logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change

I don't want to know what I can do to reduce my estimated 0.00000005 percent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions. I want to know what Big Oil is going to do to phase out the 73 percent of GHC emissions that they empower — which was 37,190,000,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2021. Of course, the fossil fuel industry would rather send me nosing into the compost in my backyard, than sniffing under the closed doors of political dealmaking that props up the hegemony of the fossil fuel economy.

Asylum seekers in UK to lose basic housing protections in move to cut hotel use
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/16/asylum-seekers-to-lose-basic-housing-protections-in-move-to-cut-hotel-use Ministers plan to exempt asylum seekers’ landlords from rules including minimum room sizes

Just when you thought they couldn't get more inhuman, they find new ways to make money out of the misery of others…

A brilliant cartoon from Anne Derenne https://annederenneillustration.com/project-type/ecologie-ecology/