Macca
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Macca
@johnmac58.bsky.social
Retired environmental scientist, wildlife and landscape photographer and tragic Waratahs and bears supporter.
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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Arp 321.
a compact group of five galaxies located in the constellation Hydra. It's a fascinating object for astronomers because these galaxies are in close proximity and interacting with each other.
Processed Hubble data by Dr. Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç.
www.flickr.com/photos/mhozs...
🔭 🧪
February 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Says it all about the state of Australian media that literally every week this Liberal Party flunky is able to write essentially the same biased crap and pass it off as "political analysis" when it's out & out propaganda. And poorly written propaganda at that. Just garbage.
February 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share

Don't let science be hidden
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Australian Annual Climate Statement for 2024 released
www.bom.gov.au/climate/curr...
•Aus second-warmest year on record
•Aus eighth-wettest year on record
•reduced water storage levels in the south
•Aus sea surface temperatures warmest on record
•Globally warmest year on record
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Memo to everyone:

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require the CO2 rise to be slowing, but the opposite is happening. keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2025/01/17/n...
New Record for Annual Increase in Keeling Curve Readings
In 2024, the yearly average level of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) rose faster over the prior year than ever before in the 67-year-old Keeling Curve record. When researchers took the average...
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
February 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Very well put!
We say it every time there's a great Test, but in a world of instant gratification & where substance takes a back seat to sensation, how great is it to still have at least one sport which twists, turns, unfolds gradually & is as gloriously unpredictable as Test cricket! #AUSvIND
January 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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How the fuck do we live in a world where huge numbers of people can’t get a job or even a volunteer post without a valid Police Check but a 34-count convicted felon and adjudicated rapist can run one of the biggest countries on the fucking planet?

#NewsCorpse
January 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Anthony Albanese has called for fixed four year terms. Makes sense to me.
If you agree, RT.
Disagree, "like"?
#auspol
January 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM