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David J. Atkinson<a href="https://mastodon.social/@misc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@misc</a> Agreed. We need <a href="https://c.im/tags/disruptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disruptive</a> civil <a href="https://c.im/tags/disobedience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disobedience</a> on a massive scale. A general strike is great example. The first step is our personal commitment and willingness to accept the cost, individually and collectively, in service of the greater good. I believe the price of inaction would be far greater, but I worry that others might (reasonably) come to a different conclusion.

O=C=OSome warnings about weather data when using --> <a href="https://earth.nullschool.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://earth.nullschool.net</a>Text is:<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weather</a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> data shown on this website and countless others are at risk.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NOAA</a>) is the U.S. agency responsible for global weather <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/forecasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forecasting</a>, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/hurricane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hurricane</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/prediction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prediction</a>, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocean</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#observation</a>, and many other services vital to public safety. Its <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#satellites</a>, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/supercomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#supercomputers</a>, and research teams provide essential <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> that help us understand our <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planet</a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/protect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protect</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/lives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lives</a>.On February 27, the new U.S. administration initiated mass firings at NOAA. These actions are <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/unethical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unethical</a> and deeply <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/disruptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disruptive</a> to the talented <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientists</a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/engineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#engineers</a> who dedicate themselves to the public good. The firings, along with expected budget cuts, have serious implications for the availability and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quality</a> of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WeatherForecasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeatherForecasts</a> produced by the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>. They must be reversed immediately.Much of the data on this website is downloaded directly from NOAA's servers. In this environment of uncertainty, access could be <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/disrupted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disrupted</a> at any time. While I'll strive to keep all features on this website functional and switch to alternative data sources if necessary, some datasets have no substitute if they go offline.If this concerns you, speak up. Share on <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a>. And if you're in the U.S., contact your representatives.

Nick Rogers<a href="https://mastodon.social/@asymco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@asymco</a> The best selling “cars” in Australia are the Ford Raptor and Toyota Hilux dual cabs.Partly due to Australian tax regulations and partly due to “keeping up with the Jones’s”. (Who doesn’t need 3.5 tonnes of towing capacity to take the kids to school!?)Curiously, BYD pre-sold 5500 Shark 6s in Australia, before a single one had been driven anywhere.Not <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/disruptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disruptive</a> for transportation, but very <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/disruptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disruptive</a> to US car exports, and most particularly, the Japanese and German economies.

Asymco$18k in UK gets you a new electric car. The base Spring Expression 45, with a 26.8kWh battery, 44bhp electric motor, 0–62mph time of 19.1 seconds, a top speed of 78mph and a range of 140 miles. You get 14in wheels, a 7in digital instrument cluster, electric front windows, AC, cruise control and rear parking sensors. No infotainment display though, instead an app for your phone that operates the multimedia. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disruptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disruptive</a>? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeoplesCar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeoplesCar</a>? Of course not.

Chuck DarwinGovernment bureaucracies need occasional overhaul and rejuvenation. Trump’s motivation is more about <a href="https://c.im/tags/punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punishment</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/retribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retribution</a>. His Cabinet choices point to that. At the Justice Department, he is prepared to fire the team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith on two indictments of the president-elect. More broadly, he looks to dismantle what he regards as an unresponsive and oppositional administrative state.Experts say what Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy are talking about — both in terms of money saved and workforce reductions — is unrealistic and that they will soon bump into political and economic realities that will leave them far short of what they claim. That doesn’t mean, however, that at the outset the president-elect should not be taken seriously about how <a href="https://c.im/tags/disruptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disruptive</a> he will try to be in his efforts. Musk has claimed he can cut the budget by roughly $2 trillion, but analysts say that would require drastic (and unpopular) cuts in entitlements programs, defense or other vital services.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Elaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elaine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kamarck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kamarck</a> of the Brookings Institution, who oversaw Gore’s reinventing government initiative, offered counsel to the incoming administration in a piece on the Brookings website entitled, “Cut the government with a scalpel, not an axe.” That was the approach taken during the Clinton administration, which resulted in the elimination of 640,000 pages of internal agency rules and a reduction in the federal workforce of 426,000 employees.Kamarck, however, questioned whether the federal bureaucracy is truly bloated, as Ramaswamy and the Trump team claim. There are, she noted about 19,000 Border Patrol agents. How many of those would Trump cut while still making good on his promise to secure the border and deport millions?There are about 1,800 air traffic controllers, she said. Would Trump’s team cut that workforce significantly, causing potential flight cancellations and disruption? “It will take about a week and Congress will say, ‘Hey, you can’t do this,’” she said.  And how deeply would he try to cut the workforce at the Social Security Administration, at the risk of checks not being sent out promptly or other breakdowns in a program that he has otherwise vowed not to touch?  Kamarck offered other examples of where the Trump team could produce only symbolic victories. Trump has targeted the Department of Education for elimination. Kamarck said the department could be eliminated but two key programs likely would remain — the student loan program and Title 1, which adds to state and local governments for low-achieving students in areas of higher poverty.  The student loan program could be shifted to the Treasury Department and Title 1 to the Department of Health and Human Services, she said, which means a portion of its budget would be shifted rather than cut. Its workforce is the smallest of any Cabinet agency. Kamarck’s point is that after programs are shifted, the money saved might not be significant and the number of workers eliminated would be tiny. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/24/doge-trump-musk-ramaswamy-budget/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/24/doge-trump-musk-ramaswamy-budget/</a>

NonilexThese proposals would go far beyond the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disruptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disruptive</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a> wars of his first term even if they are only partially implemented. They would wrench the nation out of the system of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#global</a> interdependence that arose in recent decades, making the US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> much more isolated & autonomous, like it was in the late 19th century. (Trump last week falsely claimed that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> was never richer than in the 1890s, when it had high trade barriers.)<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisWalz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarrisWalz2024</a>

CelloMom On Cars"These core elements – grievances, demands, disruption, confrontation and spectacle – are present in nearly all protests.[But] time and again, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coverage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coverage</a> tends to headline the parts of the protest that are sensational and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disruptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disruptive</a>.And this neglects the political substance of the protests."<a href="https://theconversation.com/media-coverage-of-campus-protests-tends-to-focus-on-the-spectacle-rather-than-the-substance-229172" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/media-coverage-of-campus-protests-tends-to-focus-on-the-spectacle-rather-than-the-substance-229172</a>This kind of coverage also plays into the false narrative that protesters are "radicals" or even "terrorists". It enables that framing.

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