Patrick Rizzo

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Retired, Peabody Award-winning journalist. Former PhD student in Environmental Science (at 63 y/o). Born at 316ppm. Occasionally work for Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. Writer, surfer, father, husband, cat butler, atheist. Settler on unceded Lenape land.
#science #journalism #climatechange #naturebasedsolutions #sealevelrise #adaptation
Friends in the US, remember that there are politicians who believe in a government weather manipulation machine. Remind them who the actual weather manipulators are at the polls today. Good luck.
A group of Vietnamese immigrants was targeted in a voter-fraud scheme by the wife of an Iowa Republican county supervisor who wanted her husband to win “by any means necessary” in 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/22/iowa-voter-fraud-wife-husband-republican/
GOP official’s wife convicted in months-long 2020 voter-fraud scheme

Kim Phuong Taylor wanted her husband, Iowa county supervisor Jeremy Taylor, to win “by any means necessary” in the 2020 elections, prosecutors say.

The Washington Post
Ever wondered what the latest #IPCC report has to say about climate #TippingPoints? Quite a lot, but here's their handy summary table.
E.g. for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) there is medium confidence about a potential abrupt climate change.
When the hoomans are having fish for dinner.

AOC on removing Omar from committee assignments:

“Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of antiSemitic remarks when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body…

This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America.”

✅ Someone tell me how antisemitic Republicans are also pro Zionist ?! ✅

Children killed annually by mass education of Black history: 0

Children killed annually by mass book reading: 0

Children killed annually by drag shows: 0

Children killed annually by mass shootings & firearms: 4400

GOP: The only way to protect our kids is ban history, ban books, ban drag, and arm more kids with guns.

After raking in record profits, Chevron has announced that the company will buy back $75 billion of its own shares.

Oil and gas companies jacked up prices to line their own pockets at the expense of the American people.

1.5C is dead.

It pains me to say so and it doesn’t make me any less determined to stop runaway climate change.

But the truth is that the offerings from governments don’t add up and the direction of travel for oil and gas is not good.

We are balancing on suicidal tipping points with no safety harness.

Take permafrost, the carbon sinks are vast, the feedback loops could be terminal.

So everything is still to play for.

1.5C is dead, so long live 1.5C.

"Since the acquisition, the company's only actions have been to silence critics of Elon, to expose journalists and others to harm, and to violate basic ethical standards and privacy laws." https://futurism.com/elon-musk-twitter-leaked-messages-twitter #Twitter
Leaked Messages Seem to Show Elon Musk Using Twitter to Punish His Enemies

According to a scathing new report, Twitter's new Head of Trust and Safety has been breaking Twitter's rules on the whims of Elon Musk and his many feuds.

Futurism