Snowball
@snowballeod.bsky.social
Former Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician and Mass Communications Broadcast Specialist. Disabled Combat Veteran. BS in Environmental Sciences with a concentration in Fish and Wildlife Management.
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Global sea levels have already risen by over 10cm between 1993 and 2024
There was an unexpectedly fast rising of the global sea level in 2024
Scientists were anticipating a rise of 0.43 centimetres, but instead recorded a rate of 0.59cm.
www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
There was an unexpectedly fast rising of the global sea level in 2024
Scientists were anticipating a rise of 0.43 centimetres, but instead recorded a rate of 0.59cm.
www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
Sea level rise: Everything you need to know
The climate crisis is causing sea level rise at unprecedented rates. Where are sea levels rising fastest, and what can coastal communities do to adapt?
www.weforum.org
July 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Global sea levels have already risen by over 10cm between 1993 and 2024
There was an unexpectedly fast rising of the global sea level in 2024
Scientists were anticipating a rise of 0.43 centimetres, but instead recorded a rate of 0.59cm.
www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
There was an unexpectedly fast rising of the global sea level in 2024
Scientists were anticipating a rise of 0.43 centimetres, but instead recorded a rate of 0.59cm.
www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
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Our oceans are dying right in front of our eyes
"Warmer waters hold less oxygen, leading to mass fish die-offs such as those seen in Tuscany in 2024. And, as fish dive deeper to escape the heat on surface, they can’t be reached by seabirds, then die off in their masses, too"
Awaken up people
"Warmer waters hold less oxygen, leading to mass fish die-offs such as those seen in Tuscany in 2024. And, as fish dive deeper to escape the heat on surface, they can’t be reached by seabirds, then die off in their masses, too"
Awaken up people
July 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Our oceans are dying right in front of our eyes
"Warmer waters hold less oxygen, leading to mass fish die-offs such as those seen in Tuscany in 2024. And, as fish dive deeper to escape the heat on surface, they can’t be reached by seabirds, then die off in their masses, too"
Awaken up people
"Warmer waters hold less oxygen, leading to mass fish die-offs such as those seen in Tuscany in 2024. And, as fish dive deeper to escape the heat on surface, they can’t be reached by seabirds, then die off in their masses, too"
Awaken up people
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and rate has doubled in 20 years
Burning coal, oil gas has added more than 2 trillion tonnes of c02 and other greenhouse gases to atmosphere
These trap more and more heat, preventing it from leaving
theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
Burning coal, oil gas has added more than 2 trillion tonnes of c02 and other greenhouse gases to atmosphere
These trap more and more heat, preventing it from leaving
theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
theconversation.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and rate has doubled in 20 years
Burning coal, oil gas has added more than 2 trillion tonnes of c02 and other greenhouse gases to atmosphere
These trap more and more heat, preventing it from leaving
theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
Burning coal, oil gas has added more than 2 trillion tonnes of c02 and other greenhouse gases to atmosphere
These trap more and more heat, preventing it from leaving
theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
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Trump to remove protections from nearly 59 million acres of the National Forest System, including most of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, one of world’s last remaining temperate rainforests, storing vast amounts of carbon in its centuries-old trees.
www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...
www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...
Trump administration moves to reopen 59 million acres of protected national forests to logging
The Trump administration announced it will begin dismantling a rule that has preserved tens of millions of acres of roadless national forest from logging and roadbuilding for over two decades.Anna Phi...
www.dailyclimate.org
June 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Trump to remove protections from nearly 59 million acres of the National Forest System, including most of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, one of world’s last remaining temperate rainforests, storing vast amounts of carbon in its centuries-old trees.
www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...
www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Context note: DOJ doesn’t turn over evidence to Congress if they have a viable investigation in the works.
June 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Context note: DOJ doesn’t turn over evidence to Congress if they have a viable investigation in the works.
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The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding.
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
White House Launches Another Assault on Science Funding, Targeting NSF, EPA
The Trump administration is targeting still more federal science funding, this time more than $30 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and other agencies
zurl.co
June 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding.
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
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A report on ending deforestation is now being used to justify more deforestation in Brazil. Industry will distort anything—studies, science, policy—to keep the extraction machine running. Collapse isn’t a bug. It’s the business model.
insideclimatenews.org/news/3006201...
insideclimatenews.org/news/3006201...
US Forest Report May Fuel More Deforestation in Brazil - Inside Climate News
Brazilian agribusiness interests are igniting a firestorm in their national Congress that may end up eroding a vital rainforest protection law, and for tinder, they’re using a months-old report writte...
insideclimatenews.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A report on ending deforestation is now being used to justify more deforestation in Brazil. Industry will distort anything—studies, science, policy—to keep the extraction machine running. Collapse isn’t a bug. It’s the business model.
insideclimatenews.org/news/3006201...
insideclimatenews.org/news/3006201...
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These RFK Jr hires have MASSIVE conflicts of interest.
Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR.
@aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.
Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR.
@aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.
Learned some more about a few of these dangerous new ACIP people
June 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
These RFK Jr hires have MASSIVE conflicts of interest.
Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR.
@aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.
Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR.
@aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.
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A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
June 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
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Climate.gov being purged: The purge spared two web developers, which Di Liberto says is a concerning sign. The contractor said: “My bigger worry, long-term, is I would hate to see it turn into a propaganda website for this administration, because that’s not at all what it was.”
June 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Climate.gov being purged: The purge spared two web developers, which Di Liberto says is a concerning sign. The contractor said: “My bigger worry, long-term, is I would hate to see it turn into a propaganda website for this administration, because that’s not at all what it was.”
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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I think Trump wants violence.
June 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I think Trump wants violence.
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Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician.
He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.
He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.
June 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician.
He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.
He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.
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From "Let This Radicalize You" by Hayes+Kaba
Food for thought on the issues with how violence vs peace/obedience/order is framed by the state and why we should not thoughtlessly let them define it for us. We need to be able to explain the issues with their definitions and provide our own.
Food for thought on the issues with how violence vs peace/obedience/order is framed by the state and why we should not thoughtlessly let them define it for us. We need to be able to explain the issues with their definitions and provide our own.
June 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
From "Let This Radicalize You" by Hayes+Kaba
Food for thought on the issues with how violence vs peace/obedience/order is framed by the state and why we should not thoughtlessly let them define it for us. We need to be able to explain the issues with their definitions and provide our own.
Food for thought on the issues with how violence vs peace/obedience/order is framed by the state and why we should not thoughtlessly let them define it for us. We need to be able to explain the issues with their definitions and provide our own.
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Microplastics are turning up everywhere, especially the Great Lakes.
Ripples of Plastic is a documentary that investigates how plastic pollution enters the lakes and what it’s doing do wildlife, water and people.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/06/how-...
Ripples of Plastic is a documentary that investigates how plastic pollution enters the lakes and what it’s doing do wildlife, water and people.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/06/how-...
How much plastic is in the Great Lakes? | Great Lakes Now
A new documentary explores the impact of microplastics in the Great Lakes.
www.greatlakesnow.org
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Microplastics are turning up everywhere, especially the Great Lakes.
Ripples of Plastic is a documentary that investigates how plastic pollution enters the lakes and what it’s doing do wildlife, water and people.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/06/how-...
Ripples of Plastic is a documentary that investigates how plastic pollution enters the lakes and what it’s doing do wildlife, water and people.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/06/how-...
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'At 4C scientists predict 90% of the world’s population could die.
We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.'
via Climate Dad [X]
#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #Collapse #Extinction
We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.'
via Climate Dad [X]
#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #Collapse #Extinction
June 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
'At 4C scientists predict 90% of the world’s population could die.
We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.'
via Climate Dad [X]
#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #Collapse #Extinction
We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.'
via Climate Dad [X]
#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #Collapse #Extinction
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Collisions with wind turbines in USA killed about 1.17 million birds in 2021
Wind farms in South Africa already kill an average of 3.8 endangered black harriers per year
Through new tech and painting parts of blade black, these numbers can be reduced
e360.yale.edu/features/win...
Wind farms in South Africa already kill an average of 3.8 endangered black harriers per year
Through new tech and painting parts of blade black, these numbers can be reduced
e360.yale.edu/features/win...
Birds vs. Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths
Window collisions and cats kill more birds than wind farms do, but ornithologists say turbine impacts must be taken seriously. Scientists are testing a range of technologies to reduce bird strikes — f...
e360.yale.edu
June 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Collisions with wind turbines in USA killed about 1.17 million birds in 2021
Wind farms in South Africa already kill an average of 3.8 endangered black harriers per year
Through new tech and painting parts of blade black, these numbers can be reduced
e360.yale.edu/features/win...
Wind farms in South Africa already kill an average of 3.8 endangered black harriers per year
Through new tech and painting parts of blade black, these numbers can be reduced
e360.yale.edu/features/win...
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Am I the only one that finds it absolutely wild that the US would rather tear it's country apart & destroy democracy than accept basic human right & basic science that have been around since the 50's?
Absolutely wild.
Absolutely wild.
June 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Am I the only one that finds it absolutely wild that the US would rather tear it's country apart & destroy democracy than accept basic human right & basic science that have been around since the 50's?
Absolutely wild.
Absolutely wild.
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June 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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“I think that mistakes were made,” said Sahil Lavingia, who worked at DOGE for nearly two months, about the AI tool he developed. “I’m sure mistakes were made. Mistakes are always made.”
By @bxroberts.org and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
By @bxroberts.org and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health
Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...
www.propublica.org
June 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“I think that mistakes were made,” said Sahil Lavingia, who worked at DOGE for nearly two months, about the AI tool he developed. “I’m sure mistakes were made. Mistakes are always made.”
By @bxroberts.org and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
By @bxroberts.org and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social