Demokritos
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Environmental Science / Climate Change
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A new article is now live on Glaciers & Whatnot! We're breaking down the slight increase in total mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet and exploring how climate change deniers abuse authentic data 🥼❄️ ⚒️
open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
May 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A new article is now live on Glaciers & Whatnot! We're breaking down the slight increase in total mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet and exploring how climate change deniers abuse authentic data 🥼❄️ ⚒️
open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...
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OMG did y’all see this over at other place? Bunch of climate deniers wrote a “scientific paper” rebutting climate science basics (published in a BS fossil fuel industry front “journal”) and claimed *Grok* as the First Author.. BUT then, they were completely ripped to shreds by…Grok! Like a symphony👌🏻
March 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
OMG did y’all see this over at other place? Bunch of climate deniers wrote a “scientific paper” rebutting climate science basics (published in a BS fossil fuel industry front “journal”) and claimed *Grok* as the First Author.. BUT then, they were completely ripped to shreds by…Grok! Like a symphony👌🏻
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"Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump would most likely not find $2 trillion in savings, backtracking on a goal he set earlier as co-head of a new advisory body, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE."
Elon Musk says DOGE probably won’t find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts
Musk previously said his Department of Government Efficiency would be able to recommend cuts to the federal budget of “at least $2 trillion.”
www.cnbc.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump would most likely not find $2 trillion in savings, backtracking on a goal he set earlier as co-head of a new advisory body, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE."
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Senator Murphy is 100% correct here ⬇️
January 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Senator Murphy is 100% correct here ⬇️
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How it started. How it’s going
January 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
How it started. How it’s going
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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
www.noaa.gov
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
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“Downtown LA has received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 6 of last year, making it the second-driest period on record for May 6 to Dec 31, according to the National Weather Service.”
www.axios.com/2025/01/08/c...
www.axios.com/2025/01/08/c...
LA's wildfires sparked by rare collision of climate factors
Extremely dry conditions and an hurricane force winds are overlapping unusually late in the year.
www.axios.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“Downtown LA has received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 6 of last year, making it the second-driest period on record for May 6 to Dec 31, according to the National Weather Service.”
www.axios.com/2025/01/08/c...
www.axios.com/2025/01/08/c...
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Incredible precision by the helicopter crew dropping water on the LA firea 🎯
January 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Incredible precision by the helicopter crew dropping water on the LA firea 🎯
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A reminder that climate change makes the fire season longer, dries vegetation, and increases the severity of fire. See also www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A reminder that climate change makes the fire season longer, dries vegetation, and increases the severity of fire. See also www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This is grotesque. Should dominate headlines. Won't.
Findings from the Senate Judiciary Committee's probe into the Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis':
• Scalia accepted lavish gifts from billionaires and others with business before the Court for over a decade, in violation of federal law, including 258 personal trips, dozens of which weren't disclosed.
• Scalia accepted lavish gifts from billionaires and others with business before the Court for over a decade, in violation of federal law, including 258 personal trips, dozens of which weren't disclosed.
December 24, 2024 at 7:10 PM
This is grotesque. Should dominate headlines. Won't.
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“Toyota of North America is donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after Detroit's Ford Motor and General Motors said they would give the same amount.”
Toyota is donating $1 million to Trump's inauguration
Toyota Motor of North America is donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after Detroit's Ford Motor and General Motors , said they would give the same amount.
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2024 at 7:08 PM
“Toyota of North America is donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after Detroit's Ford Motor and General Motors said they would give the same amount.”
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Oh the populist right-wing authoritarian is interested in territorial expansion you say? Well that’s a new one !
December 24, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Oh the populist right-wing authoritarian is interested in territorial expansion you say? Well that’s a new one !
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Chris Murphy: "I read the headlines about the Liz Cheney criminal referral and almost every single one of them in mainstream media played this straight as if it was a normal function of legislative power, instead of telling the truth, which is that this is made up out of thin air."
December 18, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Chris Murphy: "I read the headlines about the Liz Cheney criminal referral and almost every single one of them in mainstream media played this straight as if it was a normal function of legislative power, instead of telling the truth, which is that this is made up out of thin air."
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he's posting at 3am about annexing Canada but ok
December 19, 2024 at 12:39 AM
he's posting at 3am about annexing Canada but ok
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America, wake up!
It’s happening before our eyes—eyes wide shut.
It’s happening before our eyes—eyes wide shut.
December 19, 2024 at 5:44 AM
America, wake up!
It’s happening before our eyes—eyes wide shut.
It’s happening before our eyes—eyes wide shut.
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This is the story. This is clearly, overwhelmingly a big fat social panic. I've looked at lots of these videos. Even to my pretty untrained eye these are mostly airplanes viewed by idiots. There are probably some drones too. They ARE an issue. But it's mainly a social/moral panic.
'Indeed, Nelson Delgado, acting special agent-in-charge of the Newark FBI office, issued a video Monday warning of an increase in pilots “of manned aircraft being hit in the eyes with lasers because people on the ground think they see a drone.”' www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
In online drone panic, conspiracy thinking has gone mainstream
Authorities are urging calm. But with trust in media and other institutions at all-time lows, fringe theories are winning the day.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:12 PM
This is the story. This is clearly, overwhelmingly a big fat social panic. I've looked at lots of these videos. Even to my pretty untrained eye these are mostly airplanes viewed by idiots. There are probably some drones too. They ARE an issue. But it's mainly a social/moral panic.
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Meanwhile in New Jersey...
December 17, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Meanwhile in New Jersey...
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Russian general is killed in Moscow.
- Top Bluesky searches produce media sources (NYT, Guardian)
- Twitter algorithm results: Crazypants conspiracy tweets
Twitter's advantage used to be breaking news. No longer.
- Top Bluesky searches produce media sources (NYT, Guardian)
- Twitter algorithm results: Crazypants conspiracy tweets
Twitter's advantage used to be breaking news. No longer.
December 17, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Russian general is killed in Moscow.
- Top Bluesky searches produce media sources (NYT, Guardian)
- Twitter algorithm results: Crazypants conspiracy tweets
Twitter's advantage used to be breaking news. No longer.
- Top Bluesky searches produce media sources (NYT, Guardian)
- Twitter algorithm results: Crazypants conspiracy tweets
Twitter's advantage used to be breaking news. No longer.
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Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
December 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
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If this singer can risk her life to oppose tyranny, our media can risk their profits.
December 15, 2024 at 3:06 PM
If this singer can risk her life to oppose tyranny, our media can risk their profits.
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Easily the best description of him I’ve ever read.
December 14, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Easily the best description of him I’ve ever read.
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THIS is how it’s done, folks.
December 14, 2024 at 1:49 PM
THIS is how it’s done, folks.
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Nothing to see here, folks. No special favors to anyone we know.
December 14, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Nothing to see here, folks. No special favors to anyone we know.