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David A Johnson

@infpwriter.bsky.social

Veteran embracing reason, critical thinking, education, facts, and objective truth; insatiably curious. Main interests: science, climate change, education, cosmology, photography, and health. Longing for human progress.

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Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19h ago

Did Trump & his henchmen really imagine the more they attacked America and what it means to be a democracy—values & principles like equality & diversity, freedom of speech & self-governance—that most Americans would simply fall in line? They were sorely wrong. www.americaamerica.news/p/our-fate-i...

Our Fate Is Not Up to Trump

Revisiting nine facts that show what Trump can’t take from us. We are still Americans. We are still human. And we must not allow his deranged, dictatorial regime to decide our collective fate.

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 16h ago

Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster

Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster

Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions Nepal is demanding $20m in climate compensation for the recent devastating floods, as a senior minister called on the world’s most polluting countries to “wake up” and accept shared responsibility for a disaster that led to the death or disappearance of more than 6,000 people. Scientists believe the climate crisis had a role to play in the floods, which were triggered when a melting glacier partially collapsed and set off a deadly landslide and flash flooding through Chinese-controlled Tibet and Nepal in late August. So far, more than 1,300 are confirmed dead and more than 5,500 still missing, with hopes of their survival diminished after 12 days of rescue operations. Continue reading...

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David A Johnson@infpwriter.bsky.social · yesterday

Text of a cable sent to the State Department in 1933 by a U.S. diplomat posted in Germany: "With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere."

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d ago

Officials in Hawaii are urging residents to prepare for heavy rains and flooding as Hurricane Lowell, a major Category 3 storm, prompted forecasters to issue a tropical storm warning for two islands.

Hawaii residents told to expect tropical storm conditions as Hurricane Lowell passes to the west

Officials in Hawaii are urging residents to prepare for heavy rains and flooding as Hurricane Lowell, a major Category 3 storm, prompted forecasters to issue a tropical storm warning for two islands.

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Glen Peters@glenpeters.bsky.social · 6d ago

If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/

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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 6d ago

Timely to share this Wendell Barry quote ... "We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not — the only question we're entitled to ask is what the right thing to do is, and what the earth requires of us if we want to keep living on it."

The Moose That Roared 🍁🇨🇦🍁@alecausten.bsky.social · last wk.

Unlike the US, China fully acknowledges the climate crisis. “”The flood was “caused by glacier instability under the long-term effects of global warming”, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported, saying ​it was a “new and prominent feature of cryosphere ‌disasters” on the Tibetan plateau.””

Nepal-Tibet floods: rescuers race to reach 900 people believed trapped in hydropower tunnels

Workers thought to be trapped in the tunnels and underground areas of about half a dozen hydropower projects in Nepal following devastating flash floods

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Jocyle8@jocyle8.bsky.social · last wk.

Severe weather all over the globe. Fires all over the globe. Don't worry, though, climate change is just a libtard illusion, right? So let's do even more corporate development, data centers, use more fossil fuels. It's fine, really!

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.

Even if we are able to capture all CO₂ emitted at point sources with CCS and scale atmospheric CO₂ removal (CDR) to billions of tonnes per year (we can't and never will), continuing to burn fossil fuels means that millions of people will continue to die from air pollution each year.

James Dyke@jamesgdyke.info · 2w ago

Sorry for shouting but... THE ENTIRE POINT OF CCS IS TO ENABLE MORE FOSSIL FUEL USE. That it captures jack shit doesn't matter. All fossil fuel interests need to do is claim that the emissions their extraction produces will be removed from the atmosphere. At some point. Somehow.

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · last wk.

Breaking: We have lift off! NASA’s Roman Telescope is on its way to deep space, embarking on a mission that could solve some of the universe’s greatest and most enduring mysteries and discover new, alien worlds.

NASA’s Roman Telescope lifts off, starting a mission to explore the universe’s biggest mysteries

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will probe dark matter and dark energy, discover exoplanets and study stars

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The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.

Nepal's disaster agency says the death toll from catastrophic flash floods climbed to 626 with more than 2,400 people missing in the country, as poor weather hampers aerial rescue operations in devastated areas.

Rescuers search for thousands missing after floods at Nepal-China border

Poor weather hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal as the search for thousands of missing people in areas devastated by catastrophic flash floods along the border with China entered its fourth day.

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Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w ago

As SCOTUS prepares to hear arguments in Boulder, Colorado’s climate deception lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy, a new report by @consumerwatchdog.bsky.social exposes the network of fossil fuel companies, industry groups, and climate denial organizations coming to Big Oil’s defense.

Watchdog group, Congress call out fossil fuel influence in Supreme Court briefs | Center for Climate Integrity

Many organizations coming to Big Oil’s defense in Suncor v. Boulder are funded by the companies they are trying to protect, members of Congress and a watchdog group say.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w ago

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 17,180 cases across 48 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,700 measles cases (including 2 recent deaths) — a 35 year high. “Make America Healthy Again.”