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Earth Scientist, living on the shore of hypertidal Minas Basin in Nova Scotia; writing a book about it. Born at 312ppm. Widow, (grand)mother, leftie. Fossil fuel burning causes global warming. I had 3k followers on the other site. 🌈
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14 June 1885 | Dutch Jewish woman, Rebecka Bloemendal-Zilverberg, was born in Coevorden. In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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Trump's attack on research, science and academia is red meat to the MAGA base. But the damage he has inflicted will be irreparable. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-manchu...

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

Rhône Glacier ca 1860 and tonight ! 😢

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 180,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,350,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,790,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... ⚒️🧪

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

The recent WMO 5-year temperature projections suggest that we might firmly pass 1.5C a few years earlier than expected. I explore the details in a new piece over at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink....

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🧪⚒️🚨 job alert!

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Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) for every January to May period since the 1850s... Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).

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#ProudBlue Bravo! 👏 More of this, please.

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Here is the fascist Los Angeles Police Department assaulting and violating the rights of a peaceful citizen, a woman who is clearly unarmed and just happens to walk the street. #Nazis

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They buried the lead: "Even with the efficiency improvement, total emissions rose to the equivalent 80.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, up from 78.8 million in 2022, the data show. That’s the highest (ever)" calgaryherald.com/business/ene...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

today's essential read for all Canadians. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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#ProudBlue From Andy Borowitz: "Mr. President, Elon gave you 250 million dollars, and you haven't said ‘thank you’ once." www.borowitzreport.com/p/zelenskyy-...

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Excellent 🧵 W better understanding, ppl can get out of harm’s way before disaster strikes (Blatten); property is often the one item that enables retirement bc of its guaranteed value growth. Now insurance companies will no longer cover homes at risk of climate-change-induced disasters

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This is exactly what you voted for ms Llana Garcia but you allowed yourself to sleepwalk into Armageddon. You owe your electorate an apology

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He didn't call out the National Guard or the Marines for this somewhat much more serious event. Can you say dirt bag?? See, I knew you could.

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Razzias is what they are Don't know the term? That's what Hitler's Nazi enforcers carried out: raids on innocent citizens: jews, queer folks, the mentally challenged. These are Trump's razzias. And this is only the beginning.

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Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

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I for one am not going to be surprised if and when it’s proven that Tr*mp was a sexual predator of under-age girls.

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