Scott Akenhead
@scottakenhead.bsky.social
Canadian! Ecologist. Analyst. Pro-civilization.
Temple: Pacific Biological Station
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1218-3118
https://www.zotero.org/scottakenhead
Temple: Pacific Biological Station
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1218-3118
https://www.zotero.org/scottakenhead
Pinned
Global warming in North Pacific.
The Y axis is standard deviations (SD), related to chance of being observed given historical temperatures.
2 SD: 2.3 times in 100 years
3 SD: 1.3 in 1,000 years
4 SD: 3.2 in 100,000 years
5 SD: 2.9 in 10,000,000 years
6 SD: 1 in 1,000,000,000 years
Now is new.
The Y axis is standard deviations (SD), related to chance of being observed given historical temperatures.
2 SD: 2.3 times in 100 years
3 SD: 1.3 in 1,000 years
4 SD: 3.2 in 100,000 years
5 SD: 2.9 in 10,000,000 years
6 SD: 1 in 1,000,000,000 years
Now is new.
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NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
make #COP30 the “Cop of Truth”, the moment we demonstrate the seriousness of our shared commitment to the planet.
COPs cannot be mere showcases of good ideas or annual gatherings for negotiators. They must be moments of contact with reality and of effective action to tackle #climate change.
COPs cannot be mere showcases of good ideas or annual gatherings for negotiators. They must be moments of contact with reality and of effective action to tackle #climate change.
The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Canada was measles free from 1998.
The loss of measles elimination status is the result of declining trust in public messaging about science and health, which has led to decreased vaccination rates.
The consequences of being anti vax spread far and wide.
We are not too far behind.
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The loss of measles elimination status is the result of declining trust in public messaging about science and health, which has led to decreased vaccination rates.
The consequences of being anti vax spread far and wide.
We are not too far behind.
🧪
Canada loses its official ‘measles-free’ status – and the US will follow soon, as vaccination rates fall
Decreased vaccination rates have led to measles outbreaks in Canada and other countries.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Canada was measles free from 1998.
The loss of measles elimination status is the result of declining trust in public messaging about science and health, which has led to decreased vaccination rates.
The consequences of being anti vax spread far and wide.
We are not too far behind.
🧪
The loss of measles elimination status is the result of declining trust in public messaging about science and health, which has led to decreased vaccination rates.
The consequences of being anti vax spread far and wide.
We are not too far behind.
🧪
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Happy "Lights All Askew" Day to all who celebrate! (Headline in the New York Times from Nov. 10, 1919, brings Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity -- along with its alleged incomprehensibility -- to the public.) 🪐🔭🧠📰 #physics #science #histsci #lightsallaskew
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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global temperature:
now rising 0.027 °C/year
1 °C every 37 years
sea level:
now rising 4.5 mm/year
1 metre every 222 years
irreversibly.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#climate #cop30 #globalwarming
now rising 0.027 °C/year
1 °C every 37 years
sea level:
now rising 4.5 mm/year
1 metre every 222 years
irreversibly.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#climate #cop30 #globalwarming
COP30: The latest in climate science, from faster warming to coral collapse
With the pace of climate change speeding up, extreme weather and other impacts are taking an increasing toll on populations and environments across the globe. Here are some of the developments this year in climate science:
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
global temperature:
now rising 0.027 °C/year
1 °C every 37 years
sea level:
now rising 4.5 mm/year
1 metre every 222 years
irreversibly.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#climate #cop30 #globalwarming
now rising 0.027 °C/year
1 °C every 37 years
sea level:
now rising 4.5 mm/year
1 metre every 222 years
irreversibly.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#climate #cop30 #globalwarming
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Canada is run for the good of the country and Canadians. We don't have shutdowns.
#proudto_becanadians
#TeamCanadaStong
Canada is run for the good of the country and Canadians. We don't have shutdowns.
#proudto_becanadians
#TeamCanadaStong
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
bsky.app/profile/broa...
Canada is run for the good of the country and Canadians. We don't have shutdowns.
#proudto_becanadians
#TeamCanadaStong
Canada is run for the good of the country and Canadians. We don't have shutdowns.
#proudto_becanadians
#TeamCanadaStong
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Evan Balgord of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network said the Exiles conference is more proof that white nationalism is on the rise in Canada.
This gives me the creeps. These people must be stopped.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This gives me the creeps. These people must be stopped.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Evan Balgord of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network said the Exiles conference is more proof that white nationalism is on the rise in Canada.
This gives me the creeps. These people must be stopped.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This gives me the creeps. These people must be stopped.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 208 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report.
The U.S. freedom score is 84/100
Here is a list top score receiving countries in the latest report 👇
freedomhouse.org/country/scor...
The U.S. freedom score is 84/100
Here is a list top score receiving countries in the latest report 👇
freedomhouse.org/country/scor...
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 208 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report.
The U.S. freedom score is 84/100
Here is a list top score receiving countries in the latest report 👇
freedomhouse.org/country/scor...
The U.S. freedom score is 84/100
Here is a list top score receiving countries in the latest report 👇
freedomhouse.org/country/scor...
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
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Humpback whale calf entangled in shark nets dies off NSW coast – video
focusingonwildlife.com/news/humpbac...
focusingonwildlife.com/news/humpbac...
Humpback whale calf entangled in shark nets dies off NSW coast – video | Focusing on Wildlife
A juvenile humpback whale has been found dead after becoming entangled in a shark net off the New South Wales coast.
focusingonwildlife.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Humpback whale calf entangled in shark nets dies off NSW coast – video
focusingonwildlife.com/news/humpbac...
focusingonwildlife.com/news/humpbac...
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Ukrainian Defender Taras met Viktoriia on social media during a break between combat missions. Exactly one year after they started dating, he proposed to her. Viktoriia said, "Yes!"
Taras Levkovych defended Ukraine in Donetsk region for over a year in the ranks of the KORD special police unit.
Taras Levkovych defended Ukraine in Donetsk region for over a year in the ranks of the KORD special police unit.
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ukrainian Defender Taras met Viktoriia on social media during a break between combat missions. Exactly one year after they started dating, he proposed to her. Viktoriia said, "Yes!"
Taras Levkovych defended Ukraine in Donetsk region for over a year in the ranks of the KORD special police unit.
Taras Levkovych defended Ukraine in Donetsk region for over a year in the ranks of the KORD special police unit.
Reading a person’s mind…
now one step closer to reality.
‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
now one step closer to reality.
‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Reading a person’s mind…
now one step closer to reality.
‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
now one step closer to reality.
‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Just in case you were thinking,
“To hell with it. Let’s move.”
OK, maybe a temperate rainforest island in the Pacific Ocean?
This is Tofino.
In Canada.
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Pretty good, actually.
“To hell with it. Let’s move.”
OK, maybe a temperate rainforest island in the Pacific Ocean?
This is Tofino.
In Canada.
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Pretty good, actually.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Just in case you were thinking,
“To hell with it. Let’s move.”
OK, maybe a temperate rainforest island in the Pacific Ocean?
This is Tofino.
In Canada.
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Pretty good, actually.
“To hell with it. Let’s move.”
OK, maybe a temperate rainforest island in the Pacific Ocean?
This is Tofino.
In Canada.
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Pretty good, actually.
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If you get an email today asking you to sign a Stop the CRA petition, know that the Canadian Taxpayers Association is connected to Americans for Prosperity, the Koch think tank. 🤬🇨🇦
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If you get an email today asking you to sign a Stop the CRA petition, know that the Canadian Taxpayers Association is connected to Americans for Prosperity, the Koch think tank. 🤬🇨🇦
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Mark Carney’s plan is not about nationalism or ideology; it’s about ownership with purpose. It’s the idea that a country as rich and resourceful as Canada should act like it knows what it’s worth.
If we continue to give away our inheritance, our children will inherit the bills.
If we continue to give away our inheritance, our children will inherit the bills.
The National Trust: Are We Owners or Tenants?
Mark Carney and the new stewardship of Canada’s national trust
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
💯💯💯💯💯💯
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The US has become despotic and dangerous.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The US has become despotic and dangerous.
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One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....
Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.
She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.
She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.
October 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....
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WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!
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YOU NEED TO READ THIS!
Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
YOU NEED TO READ THIS!
Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“… democratic systems can indeed help expose and reduce corruption. And there is also a causal impact running the other way: corruption can weaken democratic institutions, for instance by lowering voter turnout.”
ourworldindata.org/data-insights
ourworldindata.org/data-insights
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“… democratic systems can indeed help expose and reduce corruption. And there is also a causal impact running the other way: corruption can weaken democratic institutions, for instance by lowering voter turnout.”
ourworldindata.org/data-insights
ourworldindata.org/data-insights