Zonibel Woods
Zonibel Woods
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Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:

- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats

- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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New podcast! To fight rising authoritarianism and, indeed, fascism, we must build collective power, challenge the union of corporate and state power, and imagine new, just tech. Dan McQuillan is the author of Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence:
Is an Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Possible? | TechPolicy.Press
A podcast conversation with Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, published by Bristol University Press.
www.techpolicy.press
March 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🌡️🌍 Climate Exposure and Prolonged Pregnancy

A new study found that air pollution & extreme heat/cold increased the risk of prolonged pregnancy (≥41 weeks).

Urban, older, and first-time mothers were most affected.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SciComm 🧪 #ClimateHealth #Pollution
Maternal climate-related exposures and prolonged pregnancy: Findings from a statewide population-based cohort study in Western Australia
Unlike other pregnancy outcomes, climate-related exposures, and prolonged pregnancy (PP) (≥ 41 gestational weeks) have not been investigated. Space-ti…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Please check out our new @sustainablefutures.org report examining state capacity to address extreme heat in India. Combining projections of future heat vulnerability and detailed interviews across 9 cities, the report highlights how climate impacts bring new challenges for the Indian state.
1/15 NEW PUBLICATION: Our report assesses India’s readiness for the extreme #heat of a +1.5 degree world. We examine the implementation of extreme heat policies in 9 major Indian cities - Bengaluru, Delhi, Faridabad, Gwalior, Kota, Ludhiana, Meerut, Mumbai, and Surat -
March 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Extreme heat seems to speed up biological ageing in older people, suggesting that it could raise the risk of age-related diseases.
Extreme heat may speed up biological ageing in older people
Spending more days in extreme heat seems to be linked to markers of increased biological ageing in people aged 56 and over, suggesting that it could raise the risk of age-related diseases
www.newscientist.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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A new study by Australian researchers finds that the risk of cardiovascular disease increases with higher temperatures, and the burden could double by 2050 if extreme heat continues.
Extreme heat could double impacts of heart disease by 2050, study finds
A new study by Australian researchers finds that the risk of cardiovascular disease increases with higher temperatures, and the burden could double by 2050 if extreme heat continues.
www.abc.net.au
March 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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'... one in five people globally experienced the effects of climate change every day from December 2024 to Feb 2025. Around 394 million people endured extreme heat for at least 30 days during this period. Africa was the most affected, with 74% of the people exposed to these risky heat conditions.'
March 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A UN World Meteorological Organization report “lists 151 unprecedented extreme weather events in 2024, meaning they were worse than any ever recorded in the region.” Heat, floods, storms — all made worse by global warming. [theguardian.com]
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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2/2 Aditya Valiathan Pillai, @tamannadalal99.bsky.social, Ishan Kukreti, Alexandra Kassinis, Lucas Vargas Zeppetello, @escandita.bsky.social, @ndubash.bsky.social write in @carbonbrief.org article about our new report that assesses India’s readiness for extreme heat. Read more here: bit.ly/4ifELX5
Guest post: Why action on extreme heat in Indian cities is falling short - Carbon Brief
In a new report, we analyse how prepared India is for the heat extremes projected under 1.5C of warming
bit.ly
March 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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RECORD HEAT IN THE CARIBBEANS
Extreme heat continues unabated in Mexico (46C again !),Central America (39C on the Caribbean coast of Guatemala) and Caribbean

Historic: Minimum 27.0C in the CAYMAN ISLANDS
HOTTEST MARCH NIGHT IN HISTORY

All tropics are destroying heat records
March 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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1/15 NEW PUBLICATION: Our report assesses India’s readiness for the extreme #heat of a +1.5 degree world. We examine the implementation of extreme heat policies in 9 major Indian cities - Bengaluru, Delhi, Faridabad, Gwalior, Kota, Ludhiana, Meerut, Mumbai, and Surat -
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to try and get to these levels in extreme heat in a few years if we don't do something now. Stop letting the right globally gaslight you into thinking this isn't happening, they're a death cult

www.commondreams.org/news/wmo-war...
'Never Happened Before': WMO Finds Past 10 Years Have Been 10 Hottest on Record | Common Dreams
"While a single year above 1.5°C of warming does not indicate that the long-term temperature goals of the Paris agreement are out of reach, it is a wake-up call," wrote the secretary-general of the Wo...
www.commondreams.org
March 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
wrd.cm
March 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM