Brent Ward
@geobrentatlarge.bsky.social
SFU Earth Sciences, Quaternary Geologist, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, purveyor of Natural Hazards, Climate Change of the past and the future, Long suffering Canucks fan, loves woolly mammoths (he, him, his)
Just hanging out!
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Just hanging out!
Thanks US for letting your politics leak up here! P_lease keep JD focused on couches and other issues in the US. We definitely need a better border. Interestingly, the Ice Cap Management company that made the graph is very pro-fossil fuels! Coincidence? I think not!
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
JD Vance blames immigration for Canada's 'stagnating' living standards | CBC News
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all th...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thanks US for letting your politics leak up here! P_lease keep JD focused on couches and other issues in the US. We definitely need a better border. Interestingly, the Ice Cap Management company that made the graph is very pro-fossil fuels! Coincidence? I think not!
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Yesterday was two year since my heart attack! What better way to celebrate than having whisky with 36,000 year old ice wedge ice from Eureka Creek, Yukon with colleagues from the Pacific Geoscience Centre! From left to right, Taimi, Randy, Tark, me. Picture of the slightly dirty ice.
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Yesterday was two year since my heart attack! What better way to celebrate than having whisky with 36,000 year old ice wedge ice from Eureka Creek, Yukon with colleagues from the Pacific Geoscience Centre! From left to right, Taimi, Randy, Tark, me. Picture of the slightly dirty ice.
Wildlife encounters on my walk today at the Pacific Geoscience Center. Many seals on a dock. A blue heron and a kingfisher on a breakwater, and a seal frolicking at the end of the big dock. What a great place to work!
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Wildlife encounters on my walk today at the Pacific Geoscience Center. Many seals on a dock. A blue heron and a kingfisher on a breakwater, and a seal frolicking at the end of the big dock. What a great place to work!
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This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
Is this like years ago tobacco companies giving free cigarettes to people?
Amazon's Zoox opens free robotaxi rides for early users in parts of San Francisco reut.rs/49W6jze
Amazon's Zoox opens free robotaxi rides for early users in parts of San Francisco
Amazon's self-driving unit Zoox started offering free rides to some early users in parts of San Francisco, it said on Tuesday, as it steps up expansion amid rising competition in the autonomous ride-hailing sector.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Is this like years ago tobacco companies giving free cigarettes to people?
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person woman man two all beef patties special sauce camera TV lettuce cheese Hannibal Lecter pickles onions Arnold Palmer's schlong shark electricity on a cofveve sesame seed bun
Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
person woman man two all beef patties special sauce camera TV lettuce cheese Hannibal Lecter pickles onions Arnold Palmer's schlong shark electricity on a cofveve sesame seed bun
Really good article on the whole ostrich fiasco in central BC. Not surprising the connection to the "freedom convoy people". Hopefully it is accessible to non-subscribers:
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Who Would Want to Kill 314 Ostriches?
How the plight of a few hundred birds in Canada became an all-out fight for freedom
www.theatlantic.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Really good article on the whole ostrich fiasco in central BC. Not surprising the connection to the "freedom convoy people". Hopefully it is accessible to non-subscribers:
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
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On Nov. 18, 1929, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Newfoundland.
It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
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It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On Nov. 18, 1929, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Newfoundland.
It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
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It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
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As usual, an excellent well researched article by Tyler.
STORY: 4 years after the 2021 floods and landslides, major promises linger. There is no federal money to stop a future Nooksack Flood of Sumas Prairie. There is no national flood insurance program. And BC's new Flood Strategy lacks the funding to actually see it through.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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BC’s Flood Prevention Promises Remain Unfulfilled | The Tyee
After the 2021 atmospheric river, governments preached averting over recovery. Locals remember. Do politicians?
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
As usual, an excellent well researched article by Tyler.
Congresswoman in leopard face eating party surprised when the leopards eat her face.
Irony is so, so dead.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Irony is so, so dead.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump for 'vicious' attacks after saying her company received a pipe bomb threat
The Republican congresswoman warned that Trump and other conservatives calling her a traitor "could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome."
www.nbcnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Congresswoman in leopard face eating party surprised when the leopards eat her face.
Irony is so, so dead.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Irony is so, so dead.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Friends got some new kittens! So we had to drop by and visit!
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Friends got some new kittens! So we had to drop by and visit!
Leah watching birds outside the window reminds me of a far side cartoon….1.2
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Leah watching birds outside the window reminds me of a far side cartoon….1.2
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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Seems like the Christian Nazi thing to do.
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Seems like the Christian Nazi thing to do.
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One of the reasons why this weekend's storm system is looking so impressive is that the associated airmass will be among the moistest on record for November in SoCal, with record or near-record column water vapor and integrated vapor transport in some areas. #CAwx
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
One of the reasons why this weekend's storm system is looking so impressive is that the associated airmass will be among the moistest on record for November in SoCal, with record or near-record column water vapor and integrated vapor transport in some areas. #CAwx
And so it begins!
An unusually strong storm system will bring widespread rain to southern California through Sunday. The period of most concern is tonight through Saturday night when a large area of heavy rain and isolated but potentially severe thunderstorms will bring a moderate risk of...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
And so it begins!
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The new 2025 Global Carbon Budget finds that fossil fuel emissions will reach a new high in 2025. Total CO2 emissions (including land use) remain flat at 2024 levels.
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The new 2025 Global Carbon Budget finds that fossil fuel emissions will reach a new high in 2025. Total CO2 emissions (including land use) remain flat at 2024 levels.
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
But they had not been fed in life forever! Forever!
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
But they had not been fed in life forever! Forever!
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So on Remembrance Day remembering some of the original anti-fascists. My dad was in the navy for 25 years starting in WWII based in the Atlantic including the Caribbean and down to South America. Uncle Walt was in the army and saw active duty in the Netherlands. Miss em both!
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So on Remembrance Day remembering some of the original anti-fascists. My dad was in the navy for 25 years starting in WWII based in the Atlantic including the Caribbean and down to South America. Uncle Walt was in the army and saw active duty in the Netherlands. Miss em both!
So on Remembrance Day remembering some of the original anti-fascists. My dad was in the navy for 25 years starting in WWII based in the Atlantic including the Caribbean and down to South America. Uncle Walt was in the army and saw active duty in the Netherlands. Miss em both!
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So on Remembrance Day remembering some of the original anti-fascists. My dad was in the navy for 25 years starting in WWII based in the Atlantic including the Caribbean and down to South America. Uncle Walt was in the army and saw active duty in the Netherlands. Miss em both!
On Hornby and reconnected with friends from my teenage years, Geoff, Steve and Doug. We met through working at McDonalds! I made a nice prime rib roast with Yorkshire puddings!!
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
On Hornby and reconnected with friends from my teenage years, Geoff, Steve and Doug. We met through working at McDonalds! I made a nice prime rib roast with Yorkshire puddings!!
But of a rough ride to get to Hornby today! Had to go into the wind towards Fords cove and then cut hard once we were in a bit of the lee of the island. Quite the rocking and rolling for a while
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
But of a rough ride to get to Hornby today! Had to go into the wind towards Fords cove and then cut hard once we were in a bit of the lee of the island. Quite the rocking and rolling for a while
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️