BWR
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BWR
@bjwlkrren.bsky.social
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👇
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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March 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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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
Thanks for sharing @katharinehayhoe.com! We're so excited!

Find solutions at sciencemoms.com

#SuperBowlSunday #SuperBowlLIX #SuperBowl2025
Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list!

Warning: do not watch without a tissue

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...
February 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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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