Notices by Jorge Saturno :oa: (jorge@scholar.social), page 23

@dbaranger I really like the colorscale you are using. I hope the rainbow is not used anymore someday.

@mplouffe Congratulations! All the best! 🤞

Temperate crops will be strongly affected by #ClimateChange.

"Eleven European countries are predicted to see 75 percent or higher increases in insect-induced wheat losses, including the U.K., Denmark, Sweden and Ireland".

http://futureearth.org/news/crop-losses-due-insects-could-nearly-double-europes-bread-basket-due-climate

#FoodSecurity

I have used that abbreviation but I prefer the less common one: 'brC'.

As a chemist, I don't feel comfortable with the widespread way to abbreviate 'brown carbon' in atmospheric chemistry as 'BrC'.

300 Endangered Sea Turtles Found Dead Off Mexican Coast ☹️

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/300-Endangered-Sea-Turtles-Found-Dead-Dead-Off-Mexican-Coast-20180829-0009.html

Have a look to the #Trunk for Mastodon project. This is a project to make lists of different fediverse users to make easier for new users to find people posting on different topics of interest.

https://communitywiki.org/trunk

Cerrado ecosystem in Brazil has lost an area equivalent to the size of South Korea since 2008 to soy planting.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-deforestation/

@socrates Hi! I will be happy to contribute in the future. I think most people use Liberapay and Pleroma and I have recently seen people using Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/, which seems to me very friendly :)

So there are many options out there...

French #environment minister resigns: #France's Macron is actually doing nothing for the environment. His liberal government represents the 1% and obviously do not care about nature at all.

https://apnews.com/466c45ee248b4b19b74bff9cd173c033

Deforestation has increased after peace agreement in #Colombia

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colombia-rainforest-deforestation-lawsuit_us_5b58a5c3e4b0de86f492ab66

@syndikalista A low-cost is roughly <$2500. Although, the one that was studied in that project is a Plantower PMS1003 (~$20)

Low-cost sensors overestimate particle number concentration by 30-50% when measuring in the presence of fog. 💦

📄 https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/11/4883/2018/

#CitizenScience #AirQuality

¿Cómor?

Los expertos proponen a la Junta privatizar las oposiciones y despedir funcionarios en Andalucía

https://sevilla.abc.es/andalucia/sevi-expertos-proponen-junta-privatizar-oposiciones-y-despedir-funcionarios-andalucia-201808212340_noticia.html

Meet the 15-year-old Swedish girl on strike from school for the #climate

"The more you read, the more concerned you get," she says. "It's obviously worrying, but I think that instead of worrying about something that can happen, you should try to change it as long as it's possible to make a change."

https://www.thelocal.se/20180824/meet-the-15-year-old-swedish-girl-on-strike-from-school-for-the-climate

#ClimateActivism

The High Cost of Hot

"As temperatures continue to climb, so will the cost of associated electricity bills and the demand for air conditioning our homes and places of business increases".

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-the-high-cost-of-hot-21879

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

@bsod Amazing!

@bsod wow! really? Is this picture taken like that? What time was it when you took it?