So in roughly three days of this war the US spent more on munitions than the combined annual budgets of the national science foundation, national endowment for the arts, and national endowment for the humanities (and the latter two's budgets were spent in about the first few hours of the war).
America and Israel are in essence waging chemical war in Iran, filling the air above its metropolis with toxic smoke after lighting its oil storage depots on fire.
How is anyone supposed to "rise up" when they can't breathe?
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“warming by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the baseline will spell the end of nearly all global glaciers & coral reefs & mark a dangerous red zone for damage & destruction of ecosystems, food supplies, human health & infrastructure” @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1301202...
As everyone talks about Greenland, don't forget its actual global significance--a two mile thick sheet of ice that if melted would raise the sea level 23 feet (and long before that choke off the currents of the Atlantic)
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International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable
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Excellent video - watch!
Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.
Hurricane forecasting has doubled in accuracy during the past 15 years thanks mostly to NOAA researchers at the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory in Miami.
Guess which scientific lab the new Trump budget is going to zero out entirely.
And not just this lab but *all* NOAA labs.
Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.
In the long run, this is actually going to be the important news of the day--co2 in the atmosphere passes another grim milestone
Gift link
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Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights.
Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
I so loved reading to my kids!
My guess is that Mark Carney will turn out to be the most important energy and climate leader in the world
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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
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I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like:
--Canada's cool, leave them be
--Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus
--We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it
--Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice
Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."
Welcome back!
Accelerating global sea level rise (1900-2024)
I hear you met my Portland cousin too
I was there too. It was a really special afternoon, wasn’t it?
same
same
And that was a quote from his mother. We were lucky ❤️
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Thank you. We are all heartbroken.
It's been one week since my dear cousin Pableaux Johnson passed away suddenly. Our family is astounded and deeply moved by the hundreds and hundreds of tributes we have seen. He was a true community builder. We needed more of that in the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/d...
I understand. We were lucky to know all sides of him, for so long, weren’t we?
Thank you for sharing these. I’m Paul’s cousin and also a Trinity Tiger. I am 100% sure our family has not seen these. Will share now. We miss him terribly.
Made me cry. You captured all of him so beautifully. We miss him terribly. 💔
