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Retired health law lawyer; feminist; believer in science; reader of literature and paddler on lakes. Views my own. None of it legal advice.🇨🇦🍁
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Perhaps the privileged white commentators of the rich world can hold their realpolitik hot takes on the #ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change for a few days & give the floor to the Pacific & Oceania communities who sought the AO

Fleur Ramsay, Blue Ocean Law👇
Screenshot of LinkedIn post by Fleur Ramsay of Blue Ocean Law "I am still digesting the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and I will have more to say. I am grateful that I got to work with a talented team of people at Blue Ocean Law for Vanuatu and Melanesian Spearhead Group. I am also grateful to have been able to work with Samoa too. The AO is a complete vindication of the approach that we took to frame the case, pushing the Court to take a wider view on what obligations apply (moving us away from the UNFCCC and Paris as the only focal point). The Court's approach towards human rights as applying was totally gratifying, especially because there was resistance from other international lawyers to our human rights arguments who said such an approach from the Court would never happen and not to put progressive ("radical") arguments. Samoa, Vanuatu and MSG took a strong approach to human rights arguing that a safe, healthy and sustainable environment is a precondition for all human rights but particularly the rights included in the Court's AO. We also said a right to a safe and healthy environment is a customary law norm. We pushed 1.5C in Paris as the operative temperature threshold and not 2C. We also took the view that fossil fuel production was part of the wrongful conduct. We took an approach to causation adopted by the Court. There is so much more. Most of our vision is in this AO. We knew after the oral hearing that the Pacific has changed the ICJ from the optics of our presence there and the submissions that most of the Pacific made." Screenshot of LinkedIn post by Fleur Ramsay of Blue Ocean Law ...cont'd "But most importantly for me, I get to go back to the communities in Melanesia who gave testimony of the devastation climate change is having on them to give them good news, even though many of these communities will still face devastation, they can know that they helped in producing a monumental shift. I was afraid of having to go back with news that yet again another court had failed to stand up for life and in the face of an emergency which is truly existential and had already caused so much destruction. But now I can tell them that their collaboration with us has shifted the dial substantially. I know that bringing these voices into the ICJ would have worked a magic on the heart and minds of the judges. The force of their testimony on the harm coupled with focused messaging on the science, particularly that 1.5C is already not safe for any community undoubtedly got us the key finding that significant harm has already occurred. Yesterday I heard from so many climate change lawvers who felt elated for the first time in a long time and that there is a significant tailwind behind us for once rather than a headwind and more tears. So many people - a village - are responsible for this outcome. I feel immense pride to have gotten to work with them. But I am most proud that this came from Oceania with so little resources but with so many worlds that mark us uniquely as sovereign peoples. More soon."
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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ddiamond.bsky.social
this is gutting

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak. By Erika Edwards On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles. By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world.
March 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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agawande.bsky.social
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Feb 8
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...
February 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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atrupar.com
Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
February 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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On December 29th, the global surface temperature anomaly hit 1.95°C above the 1850-1900 baseline.
December 31, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Reminder: High quality masks/respirators such as N95s protect against all airborne viruses including bird flu.
December 18, 2024 at 9:24 PM