Gill Raker
@branxpina.bsky.social
—a politically unaffiliated and agnostic iconoclast… a skeptic and asocial lone-wolf with perhaps a spicy dash of intermittently explosive personality disorder…
💥 The Antarctic Peninsula cooled -2.2°C (-1.2°C/decade) from 2003-2021:
Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…
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Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…
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November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
💥 The Antarctic Peninsula cooled -2.2°C (-1.2°C/decade) from 2003-2021:
Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
✅ Bottom Line: Gates’ shift is driven less by conscience than by pragmatism. His climate-driven ventures have underperformed, the alarmist narrative is fraying, and he’s repositioning himself as a “reasonable centrist” to preserve influence. It’s not repentance —it’s survival…
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
✅ Bottom Line: Gates’ shift is driven less by conscience than by pragmatism. His climate-driven ventures have underperformed, the alarmist narrative is fraying, and he’s repositioning himself as a “reasonable centrist” to preserve influence. It’s not repentance —it’s survival…
⛓️💥 Bill Gates rejects the “doomsday view of climate change,” but he’s still too alarmist, says an influential climate scientist:
More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…
“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…
“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
⛓️💥 Bill Gates rejects the “doomsday view of climate change,” but he’s still too alarmist, says an influential climate scientist:
More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…
“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…
“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
Under (Financial) Pressure - Barnes - Financial Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Under (Financial) Pressure
We examine how financial pressure influences rule enforcement by leveraging a novel setting: NFL officiating. Unlike traditional regulatory environments, NFL officiating decisions are immediate, tran...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Under (Financial) Pressure - Barnes - Financial Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
—Just like it’s fair to say that the DOE'S author team was likely curated to have a particular perspective, it’s also fair to say that the response’s author team likely has certain overrepresented perspectives on contested interpretive and normative…
guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/my-respons...
guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/my-respons...
Livestream with the "blue team"
A team of 85+ scientists organized on Bluesky to respond to the DOE climate report. I joined journalist Andy Revkin and three of these scientists to discuss this on Sustain What.
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September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
—Just like it’s fair to say that the DOE'S author team was likely curated to have a particular perspective, it’s also fair to say that the response’s author team likely has certain overrepresented perspectives on contested interpretive and normative…
guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/my-respons...
guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/my-respons...
—The Colorado River powers over 16 million families, 5 million acres of farmland, and $1.4T in economic activity, and this year it’s collapsing at an ALARMING rate:
Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵
x.com/KenBerenger/...
Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵
x.com/KenBerenger/...
September 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
—The Colorado River powers over 16 million families, 5 million acres of farmland, and $1.4T in economic activity, and this year it’s collapsing at an ALARMING rate:
Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵
x.com/KenBerenger/...
Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵
x.com/KenBerenger/...
—Electorally speaking it's more important for Democrats to avoid Blueskyism than leftism…
Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…
If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…
If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
September 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
—Electorally speaking it's more important for Democrats to avoid Blueskyism than leftism…
Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…
If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…
If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
—This is an amazing analysis, based on semantics, of a very opinionated discussion that goes inside the current DOE push to recast climate reality and weaken the EPA’s authority, following Trump's administration agenda…
When Power Rewrites the Science
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When Power Rewrites the Science
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When Power Rewrites the Science
Inside the DOE push to recast climate reality and weaken the EPA’s authority Reto Knutti warns that the U.S.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
—This is an amazing analysis, based on semantics, of a very opinionated discussion that goes inside the current DOE push to recast climate reality and weaken the EPA’s authority, following Trump's administration agenda…
When Power Rewrites the Science
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-p...
When Power Rewrites the Science
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-p...
💥 “The extreme scenario of >3 °C till 2050 is > 4 billion deaths and breakdown of human civilization is conservative… What hasn't been realized is that current humans might likely reach this mark by 2040 as too many feedbacks are now mutually synchronizing and reinforcing...”
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August 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
💥 “The extreme scenario of >3 °C till 2050 is > 4 billion deaths and breakdown of human civilization is conservative… What hasn't been realized is that current humans might likely reach this mark by 2040 as too many feedbacks are now mutually synchronizing and reinforcing...”
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—I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation…
August 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
—I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation…
🖇️ There’s a graveyard of false stats —buried by statistical rigor, not forgotten: And standing tall above their intended resting places are these two enduring tombstones… 😏
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
🖇️ There’s a graveyard of false stats —buried by statistical rigor, not forgotten: And standing tall above their intended resting places are these two enduring tombstones… 😏
💥 A week of fear porn:
The media promised mass escalation of the climate change messaging after COVID messaging had done its dash…
They weren’lying…
All of these headlines are from the past few days: My favorite is heat waves are making people age faster… ☺️
The media promised mass escalation of the climate change messaging after COVID messaging had done its dash…
They weren’lying…
All of these headlines are from the past few days: My favorite is heat waves are making people age faster… ☺️
August 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
💥 A week of fear porn:
The media promised mass escalation of the climate change messaging after COVID messaging had done its dash…
They weren’lying…
All of these headlines are from the past few days: My favorite is heat waves are making people age faster… ☺️
The media promised mass escalation of the climate change messaging after COVID messaging had done its dash…
They weren’lying…
All of these headlines are from the past few days: My favorite is heat waves are making people age faster… ☺️
🖇️ Explaining the Wheel of Knowledge… ☺️
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🖇️ Explaining the Wheel of Knowledge… ☺️
—Who else is using AI to read papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals? I tell the Grok Lady to describe the paper in a way that a 5th grader can understand, then I then ask her questions about the papers,and now I think I will no longer go to seminars not presented by AI… 😏
August 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
—Who else is using AI to read papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals? I tell the Grok Lady to describe the paper in a way that a 5th grader can understand, then I then ask her questions about the papers,and now I think I will no longer go to seminars not presented by AI… 😏
—This study supports the theory of the intergenerational epigenetic transmission of violence trauma in humans by identifying novel DNA methylation sites and evidence for epigenetic age acceleration: These results indicate important directions for future research…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees
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March 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
—This study supports the theory of the intergenerational epigenetic transmission of violence trauma in humans by identifying novel DNA methylation sites and evidence for epigenetic age acceleration: These results indicate important directions for future research…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
—Is it transitioning to green energy only accelerating the destruction of the living world by the industrial economy, or is it the industrial system itself that is the problem, not the energy source sustaining it? 🤔
February 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
—Is it transitioning to green energy only accelerating the destruction of the living world by the industrial economy, or is it the industrial system itself that is the problem, not the energy source sustaining it? 🤔
🧪 Google unveils new AI co-scientist…
• Based on its Gemini 2.0 platform to speed up scientific research by formulating new hypotheses, drafting proposals, and refining experiments, albeit with questions about its performance and scope… 🤓
www.computerworld.com/article/3829...
• Based on its Gemini 2.0 platform to speed up scientific research by formulating new hypotheses, drafting proposals, and refining experiments, albeit with questions about its performance and scope… 🤓
www.computerworld.com/article/3829...
Google’s new AI co-scientist aims to speed up the scientific discovery process
The multi-agent system built on Gemini 2.0 shows early promise but faces scrutiny over claims.
www.computerworld.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
🧪 Google unveils new AI co-scientist…
• Based on its Gemini 2.0 platform to speed up scientific research by formulating new hypotheses, drafting proposals, and refining experiments, albeit with questions about its performance and scope… 🤓
www.computerworld.com/article/3829...
• Based on its Gemini 2.0 platform to speed up scientific research by formulating new hypotheses, drafting proposals, and refining experiments, albeit with questions about its performance and scope… 🤓
www.computerworld.com/article/3829...
—A provocative new book delves into the way humans, and elephants, evolved to manage risk: We might do better to think more like elephants… 😏
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
How humans evolved to think about risk may cost Earth dearly
A provocative new book delves into the way humans – and elephants – evolved to manage risk. We might do better to think more like elephants
www.newscientist.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
—A provocative new book delves into the way humans, and elephants, evolved to manage risk: We might do better to think more like elephants… 😏
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
“We are witnessing an all out assault on federal science in the US” 🔬🇺🇸
President Trump has launched what’s being described as an all-out assault!
www.newscientist.com/podcasts/
#sciencepodcast, #science, #climate, #TrumpScience, #USScience, #WarOnScience, #sciencefacts, #newscientist, #podcast,
President Trump has launched what’s being described as an all-out assault!
www.newscientist.com/podcasts/
#sciencepodcast, #science, #climate, #TrumpScience, #USScience, #WarOnScience, #sciencefacts, #newscientist, #podcast,
New Scientist Podcasts
<p>A news podcast for the instatiably curious by the world's most popular weekly science magazine. Everything from the latest science and technology news to the big-picture questions about life,...
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February 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“We are witnessing an all out assault on federal science in the US” 🔬🇺🇸
President Trump has launched what’s being described as an all-out assault!
www.newscientist.com/podcasts/
#sciencepodcast, #science, #climate, #TrumpScience, #USScience, #WarOnScience, #sciencefacts, #newscientist, #podcast,
President Trump has launched what’s being described as an all-out assault!
www.newscientist.com/podcasts/
#sciencepodcast, #science, #climate, #TrumpScience, #USScience, #WarOnScience, #sciencefacts, #newscientist, #podcast,
—It’s natural to think back on fond memories and feel the slight ping of regret or what if… As humans, I think we like torturing ourselves a little bit, when things aren’t going well in the present, we reflect on what was and decide that must be better…
February 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
—It’s natural to think back on fond memories and feel the slight ping of regret or what if… As humans, I think we like torturing ourselves a little bit, when things aren’t going well in the present, we reflect on what was and decide that must be better…