David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

7346

Followers

623

Following

2061

Posts

Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, [C]Worthy; Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. https://linktr.ee/david_ho

Posts Replies Media Lists

Reposted by

David Ho

"A group of D.C journalists who worked at a local news site that was abruptly shuttered by NPR affiliate WAMU earlier this year are launching their own nonprofit devoted to covering community news of Washington...It will be operated as a worker-run newsroom" www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtonwww.washingtonpost.com The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

Reposted by

David Ho

Congrats, Kathy Hochul.

Up to $1 Billion May Go to Waste After Hochul’s Congestion Pricing Haltwww.nytimes.com Transit leaders had already allocated hundreds of millions of dollars before Gov. Kathy Hochul’s last-minute reversal on the long-awaited tolling plan.

Reposted by

David Ho

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/c...

What Trump 2.0 Could Mean for the Environmentwww.nytimes.com If Donald Trump returns to the White House, he would likely face fewer legal and bureaucratic obstacles to dramatically remake the E.P.A.

Comically long shoehorn in Iceland.

Reposted by

David Ho

Vance is an anti-environmentalist, climate change denying shill, writes Lisa Friedman. In the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/c...

J.D. Vance Is an Oil Booster and Doubter of Human-Caused Climate Changewww.nytimes.com He once said society had a climate problem but changed his position sharply while seeking Donald Trump’s endorsement in his Senate race.

Emailed someone on an urgent matter and got this automated response. It’s the kind of vacation message I aspire to.

They're just recycling the same headline for EVs now.

When healthy corals calcify, they decrease ocean alkalinity and release CO₂. How long before someone counts the destruction of corals as carbon dioxide removal?

Monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) for marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) in a nutshell.

Trump was saved by immigrants. 😉 www.nytimes.com/2024...

Trump Credits Chart for Saving His Life, His Former White House Doctor Sayswww.nytimes.com The former president said he would have been struck “right in the head” if he hadn’t turned and pointed at an immigration chart, Dr. Ronny Jackson said in an interview.

Whenever I hear Cole Palmer… #EURO2024

Cole-Parmer US, an Antylia Scientific company - Lab equipment and supplies for life sciencescoleparmer.com Cole-Parmer, an Antylia Scientific company, provides the widest range of lab equipment and supplies for pharmaceutical, biopharma, healthcare, and environmental.

Streets aren for cars; streets are for people.

It seems like it's only a matter of time before everyone at #TDF2024 has COVID-19. 🤨 www.cyclingnews.com/...#TDF2024 has COVID-19. 🤨 www.cyclingnews.com/...

Tom Pidcock abandons 2024 Tour de France with COVID-19 symptoms, Geraint Thomas continues despite positive testwww.cyclingnews.com Ineos Grenadiers take hit as another rider fall to illness at the 111th edition of the race

Count a CTD rosette among things that you don't need a pickup truck to move.

The most important tool in oceanography. #NewCTDRosetteDay

"It is not just in the UK that climate defenders are facing persecution…but the problems in this country are particularly acute…the UK is a nightmare for climate activists…in the sense that the sentences imposed in other countries are neither that harsh, nor that widespread."

Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trialwww.theguardian.com Prosecution of five Just Stop Oil activists over M25 protest led to chaotic scenes in court and concerns about ‘judicial persecution’

This is a disingenuous argument from environmental groups against researching climate solutions. Fossil fuel companies will use the potential of CO₂ removal (CDR) for greenwashing, so if scientists can't study the efficacy and potential side effects, greenwashing will continue.

Climeworks's Orca facility in Iceland, currently the world's largest direct air capture facility, was designed to remove 4000 tonnes of CO₂ per year. In 2023, it removed just 921 tonnes. That's a time machine that takes us back 0.7 seconds in a year. 🥲 climeworks.com/news/...

The reality of deploying direct air capture in the fieldclimeworks.com This article provides an opportunity to look behind the scenes of Climeworks’ field deployment journey

I’d vote for someone who can’t finish a sentence over someone who should be serving one.

We should remember how good Wally Broecker was using just simple tools. More than four decades ago, in 1982, Wally predicted that atmospheric CO₂ in 2025 would be 419.5 ppm. Measured global average atmospheric CO₂ was 419.3 ppm in 2023. 👀

Pro tip: When in Iceland, get these.

Meanwhile, Election Day is still not a federal holiday in the US. www.theguardian.com/...

Staff and pupils allowed late Monday starts after England play in Euros finalwww.theguardian.com Some supermarkets closing early before game and opening late and at least one school expecting delayed arrivals

If raw milk was bad, why do baby cows drink it? 🙃

Potentially unpopular opinion: Drinking baby cow juice is stupid, but doing it with unpasteurized milk is next level. Louis Pasteur worked this out in the 1800s.

Dozens were sickened with salmonella after drinking raw milk from a California farmapnews.com Dozens of salmonella illnesses have been linked to raw milk from a California farm. The outbreak is far wider than previously known.

The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris ahead of the Olympics. The immigrants said they were promised housing elsewhere, only to end up living on unfamiliar streets far from home or flagged for deportation.

France Is Busing Homeless Immigrants Out of Paris Before the Olympicswww.nytimes.com The government promised housing elsewhere. We followed the buses and found a desperate situation.

Reposted by

David Ho

Some lovely news to share this morning: Blue Machine has been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for writing on conservation, alongside 11 other books (and there really are some fabulous books on this list). wainwrightprize.com/...

Written by someone on a deadline at midnight. 🙃 www.theguardian.com/...

Night owls’ cognitive function ‘superior’ to early risers, study suggestswww.theguardian.com Research on 26,000 people found those who stay up late scored better on intelligence, reasoning and memory tests

Adding alkalinity to wastewater as a CO₂ removal (#CDR) strategy shifts CO₂ to carbonate and bicarbonate, potentially decreases CO₂ flux to the atmosphere. 👀 www.nature.com/artic...#CDR) strategy shifts CO₂ to carbonate and bicarbonate, potentially decreases CO₂ flux to the atmosphere. 👀 www.nature.com/artic...

Magnesium hydroxide addition reduces aqueous carbon dioxide in wastewater discharged to the oceanwww.nature.com Communications Earth & Environment - Alkalinity enhancement of wastewater through addition of magnesium hydroxide greatly reduces aqueous CO2 on discharge to the ocean, according to experiments...

Lab van setup is about 75% done.

Ding dong!