Something future historians will struggle to explain is that, in the 21st century, all of human knowledge became instantly accessible to anyone in the world & the primary effect was to make everyone much dumber.

Mindscape 276 | Gavin Schmidt Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting our Climate. #MindscapePodcast

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'A group of billionaires and business titans' collaborating with government to use police power to suppress protests espousing opinions they disfavor. Someone should come up with a term for that kind of thing!

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A years-long Times investigation by Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti reveals how after 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.

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Far-right activists in the West Bank assaulted a Palestinian truck driver, believing his truck, along with another, was carrying aid to Gaza
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Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter:

HOW TO SURVIVE AN APOCALYPSE: All new climate comedy show landing at the St. Marks Comedy Club NYC in New York! Don’t miss amazing comedians
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#upwithhope #climatecomedy

Extreme heat in Asia made much much more likely & intense by climate change. Sounds like a broken record - yes! But heat is still underreported, underrecorded and extremely deadly! The world is not prepared for today's climate change, let alone the future. worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change…

The summer of 2023 was the warmest in the Northern Hemisphere extra-tropical regions in the past 2,000 years, according to a study published in nature. go.nature.com/4aASD9L

This is supposed to be a low pressure game!

A challenge to Jordan Peterson, Steve Milloy, Toby Young, Judith Curry, Bjorn Lomborg and every fossil fuel linked climate skeptic / climate sceptic on twitter: Name a climate model from the 1980s that didn't successfully project more warming with more CO2?

I saw the NYT opinion piece by Hari today, and instantly thought ‘wait, isn’t that the guy that made up a lot of stuff before? I wonder if they are fact checking him now?’.

The answer:

Students who are campaigning to get their colleges & universities to divest from arms manufacturers are doing a good thing, IMHO

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Juggling balls are mesmerizing to watch, but check what their movements look like when seen from above.

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If you download, read or analyse CMIP data for model evaluation and benchmarking please fill out this survey to improve ease of use in future!!

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Help climate scientists learn about how global lightning activity varies by transcribing measurements about atmospheric electricity taken at Lerwick on the Shetland Isles from the 1920s-1980s.

Anyone can help!

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E-bikes make it so much easier for people to leave the car at home for their local errands. Incredible potential for mobility freedom in the US, even in the sprawled out zones.
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Chart: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from fossil fuels | Simon Evans Tom Pearson Dr Verner Viisainen - vernerviisas.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/3y1YJ5a

Coauthors and I have a new paper (under review) that estimates the impact of Hunga Tunga volcanic eruption over the past two years. The net effect of the eruption has been to cool the globe.

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