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Building Science Engineer + Climate Resilience Geek. Of the 347ppm generation. He/him.
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Great news. This is what we've been asking for here in Canada, to have climate impacts meaningfully assessed in the EA process, and getting ignored or brushed aside. I guess court is the next option.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Crazy thing that happens when you let thousands of cases of a disease with a 1/1000 case fatality occur: eventually kids do indeed die Thoughts and prayers are nice, but doing your job is nicer news.ontario.ca/en/statement...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

Happy #wildfire #smoke season to all those who observe. Fun fact, PM2.5 are particles so tiny they seep into your blood through your lung alveoli. These particles then oxidize the inside of your blood vessels causing all sorts of damage. Wildfire smoke is a major source of heart attacks and stroke.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Politics: #COVID is over, the pandemic is over, go live and celebrate! Science: Calm down, there is much more that COVID can do to the body.... Scientists: This is bad, I think we can use COVID-19 as a prototypical disease model for ischaemia injury. 🙄🙄

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I will be hiring a short-term program manager soon. * Flexible location in Canada * Salary range will be included in the ad (~$80k/yr TBD) * Must be already legally allowed to work in Canada * Start ASAP Please watch @ncccnc.bsky.social's job board: www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

These are all draw bridges...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As wildfire season begins, re-sharing my piece on the pressing need to establish better indoor air quality standards and practices in Ontario schools. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-scho...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

In the latest issue of Top 40 under 40, we found all the rising stars started out as grunts before rocketing to C-suite positions. When asked, the CEOs exclaimed how amazed they were at their employee's ambition: "I'm so proud of my son!"

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Wildfire resilience is all the rage. The problem is that wildfire damages are extremely non-linear. For it to be effective, you need to do _everything_, and even then, it relies mostly on luck... And not having a neighbour's house catch on fire. www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/a-ne...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

It’s genuinely hard to believe these articles aren’t satire at this point. It’s not a puzzle. It’s not a mystery. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’re still in a global pandemic. It’s a mass disabling event that society is ignoring because they wanted to go “back to normal”

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

I'll be on the Weather and Climate Livestream today at 7:15 PM Pacific (10:15 PM Eastern) to talk about how anomalous recent global temperatures have been, and address the question of whether warming has accelerated. Join here! wclivestream.com/watch/

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

An interview with Prof. Tim Snyder, international expert on fascism, with Eli Glasner of the CBC. youtu.be/7PcxC1p-Z-g?...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is, sorry to say, obvious to the point of insipid. Could have been written by a chat engine. What Canada and the world need to come to understand is the role of propaganda and of social media enabling it. We had better figure out how to resist it.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Welcome to the Age of Disenlightenment. It is not just simply that we don't know, but rather it is that we _don't_ want to know...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪 - PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands - PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems - REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods - RESTORE degraded lands

submitted 229 days ago • 49 comments

This is hyper relevant.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

Even 6 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, 22.8% of pediatric patients still had long-COVID symptoms. Some of these symptoms were similar to those of ME/CFS, potentially affecting children's QOL. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This is true.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments