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an emergency doctor desperately trying to save the future (and the present) for his children
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Calls increase for heat limits in B.C. rental housing www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁 The most important health news, in one place.
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Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1
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New from me: The UK election outcome is a rare (of late) win for a party promising to tackle climate change -- now the Labour Party faces an uphill battle to implement its green agenda. (No paywall!)
UK’s Election Is a Rare Win Against Anti-Climate Campaignswww.bloomberg.com Keir Starmer’s Labour Party promoted a green agenda — but now faces an uphill struggle to implement it.
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Always wanted a game set in Auckland
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weekly covid stats report positivity now 12.1% (up from 11.5%) inpts 167 down 4 from 171 ICU 6 down from 10 Deaths up by 10 (last week 10)
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ITER is in big trouble. The giant international fusion project under construction in France delayed nine years with €5 billion cost increase; not expected to produce any electricity until 2039 now. www.science.org/content/arti...
Giant international fusion project is in big troublewww.science.org ITER operations delayed to 2034, with energy-producing reactions expected 5 years later
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Important read on #covidisairborne. Please review, and consider. "Whether the emphasis on transferprocesses leads to more effective policy, or the creation of an umbrella term leads to confusion and bad policy, only time will tell."
New WHO proposed terminology for respiratory pathogen transmissionwww.nature.com Nature Reviews Microbiology - A WHO report suggests the terms ‘airborne transmission/inhalation’, ‘direct deposition’ and ‘infectious respiratory particles’ for...
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The media is still falling short on climate - HEATED analyzed 133 breaking news stories about recent climate-fueled weather in the United States. The results were dismal but there were some bright spots. heated.world/p/the-media-...
The media is still falling short on climateheated.world HEATED analyzed 133 breaking news stories about recent climate-fueled weather in the United States. The results were dismal—but there were some bright spots.
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This is increasingly my experience on Twitter/X as well, that replies are just rubbish and there's very little scope for discovery/learning/asking questions. Still one of the saddest outcomes about how I've spent my time over the last decade!
Since I had such a large sample (nearly a hundred), I analyzed X comments by category. 47% said climate wasn't changing, I was lying, ignorant, or not really a scientist 15% said I was in it for the $ 14% were insults Content warning: Please don't read the fine print if you're sensitive.
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“From oranges in Brazil to cocoa in west Africa; olives in southern Europe to coffee in Vietnam, permanently shifting weather patterns as a result of climate change are reducing crop yields »
Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central bankswww.ft.com Shifting weather patterns are reducing crop yields and squeezing supplies, creating what could become a permanent source of inflation
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Global temperatures were extremely hot in June 2024, at just over 1.5C, beating June 2023's previous record-setting temperatures by 0.14C and coming in around 0.4C warmer than 2016 (the last major El Nino event). Now 2024 is very likely to beat 2023 as the warmest year on record
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Burning coal is the most dirty, polluting, and inefficient way to get electricity. As early as 1306, Edward I banned Londoners from burning it, due to its noxious smog. So which countries are phasing it out the fastest now? Greece and the UK lead the way! Source: www.wri.org/insights/cou...
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Hub and Spokes, the Hub's 4th annual downtown bikepath tour/party is coming around again on Saturday July 20th from 10am - 1230pm. Spaces are limited so RSVP today! RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/hub_and_spok... #yyc
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Wow, @AHS_media, what's happening in Lamont? At the Foothills Hospital? Is this ok? Why not just do mask mandates in hospitals? The plan isn't working. Source: www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/...
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The chairman of reinsurer Swiss Re said insurance premiums still aren't high enough to force a reckoning with #climaterisk US home insurance premiums increased 33% over 2020-23 yet "homes are still being built in places they shouldn’t be"... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Home Insurance Still Priced Too Low for Climate Risk, Says Swiss Re Chairwww.bloomberg.com Jacques de Vaucleroy said despite recent increases, premiums will have to climb further to encourage risk aversion.
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“California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey have the most critical infrastructure that needs to be made more flood resilient – or be relocated to safer ground.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study findswww.theguardian.com Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades
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How cool is this? A hidden petroglyph on the family’s land on Gabriola. He’s so happy.
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It’s unprecedented the frequency of the use of the term unprecedented recently
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"The fossil fuel industry chases short-term profit and leaves longterm wreckage in its wake, both as the specific damage to extraction sites which may be gouged out or poisoned or both, and as climate chaos. It’s like this all over the world." There it is. From Rebecca Solnit.
I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com We’ve been making short-term decisions about our planet for a long time. The consequences are horrific to behold
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Doff Thy Gown—Shedding Contact Precautions for COVID-19 academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... 2/2
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two important papers out this week. Association of institutional masking policies with healthcare-associated SARS-CoV-2 infections in Swiss acute care hospitals during the BA.4/5 wave (CH-SUR study): a retrospective observational study aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/2
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Here's a different look at the two year change in global power generation. Have devoted quite a bit of time to this subject at @coldeye.earth and this next issue will be no different. 🔌💡1/2
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two important papers out this week. Association of institutional masking policies with healthcare-associated SARS-CoV-2 infections in Swiss acute care hospitals during the BA.4/5 wave (CH-SUR study): a retrospective observational study aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/2
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