“The ordinary person believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.”
— George Orwell
Just so we are clear >>> Iran War costs so far = $10 Billion.
Given technology has far surpassed humanity's collective wisdom, perhaps we're witnessing the answer to the Fermi Paradox. The reply to 'Where is everybody?' (in the universe) could simply be no advanced civilization surpasses their primal adolescence and tendency toward self-destruction.
Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets.
The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is…
theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...
Polar stereographic map of 2-m air temperature trends for March from 1979 to 2025. Most areas are warming and the largest trends are in the eastern Arctic.
Most of the #Arctic is experiencing warming temperatures over the last four decades in March. This is largest in the Barents Sea region and corresponds to losses of sea ice cover (turbulent heat fluxes).
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5. For more info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
As a veteran, it's appalling that another veteran, or any human being for that matter, is treated in such violent and disrespectful way just for emotionally expressing himself in the land of the free and home of the brave. #SCOTUS
This is Iran. These are the people being murdered in our name.
“Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it.
Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse.”
— Carl Sagan
🧪March is #WomensHistoryMonth
Today is #InternationalWomensDay
Some highlights of women’s contribution in science.
Of note:
Kizzmekia Corbett was the scientific lead of the team that developed the Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
@jackiebrenner on IG
#Pinks
Decarbonization has always been inevitable.
Almost the entire climate fight has been about how quickly we can accelerate progress, and how long fossil fuel industries and their allies can delay progress.
And winning too slowly is the same thing as losing.
(ht/ Colin McCarthy)
BBC News >> This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left. www.bbc.com/news/resourc...
🔥Ex-CIA Ex-Marine congressional candidate @adamduniganva8 : “This is now a regional conflict involving 17 countries… incompetence, lack of planning, and an inability to understand the scale of the crisis they’ve created… Trump spent more time with Epstein than planning for war.”
“We want to make sure that science is not only well funded but is also used appropriately for the good of the public and to better the human experience across the world. That’s what publicly funded science should do.” - Colette Delawalla
"Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whether global warming is speeding up" via @laurapaddison.bsky.social for @cnn.com. [I'm critical of the study, but we all agree on key point that planet will continue to warm until we stop burning fossil fuels]: www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/c...
The future of humanity is far too important to be left up to politicians, billionaires, and imbeciles.
Line graph time series of change in global ocean heat content since 1955 over the 0-2000 m layer through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend.
Global ocean heat content continues upward and reached a new record high level - new update just in from the Japan Meteorological Agency dataset... 🌊
Graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought. apnews.com/article/sea-... h/t @sejorg.bsky.social
Given technology has far surpassed humanity's collective wisdom, perhaps we're witnessing the answer to the Fermi Paradox. The reply to 'Where is everybody?' (in the universe) could simply be no advanced civilization surpasses their primal adolescence and tendency toward self-destruction.
Trump says he gives the US a 15/10 grade for Iran war The president opened his remarks at an unrelated White House event on artificial intelligence that the U.S. is "doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly." Trump said someone asked him to rate on a scale of 10 how well he thought the U.S. was doing and said, "about a 15."
People who have the ability to send us to war should have to take drug tests first.
Drugs fuck with perception of reality. Simulate thoughts and feelings that aren't rationally supported.
Give false enthusiasm and a feeling of self-praise.
Hegseth, Rubio, Trump NEED TO PEE IN A CUP!
NEW: ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say
Despite spending 5000 years frozen in cave ice, this bacterial strain was found to be resistant to ten modern antibiotics, but, curiously, also demonstrated promising antimicrobial activity that could inhibit multidrug-resistant superbugs >>> www.biotechniques.com/microbiology... 🧪
Do you know what kind of energy isn't subject to price fluctuations when conflict erupts?
Clean energy.
Who should pay for the climate crisis that we're in? How about the climate arsonists who are lighting the world on fire?
I have read a lot of alarming technical papers about the dire implications of climate change.
This paper is a top five candidate for "Most Alarming!" Yikes.
