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My latest on why I'm voting No to the Nine and Lead Not Leave. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/ten-questi...
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Thinking about the #firefighters of the #Summerland #fire and had to play "Cold Missouri Waters" by Jimmy Keelaghan.... youtu.be/Dztj4X3fQps?...
My goodness the stupidity. In 1980, we showed that spraying pesticides by helicopter could lead to over 50% loss of the spray to the atmosphere from the recirculation of the air in the prop wash from a helicopter. We were studying Spruce Budworm Spray drift. Bad idea www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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If there are any First nations, Inuit, or Metis geoscientists in my sphere who are interested in grad school, the Indigenous Scholars Awards and Supplements Pilot Initiative is being expanded to include doctoral and postdoctoral levels. Repost! 🧪⚒️ sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2026...
A sad loss for Canada. What kind of nation will we be if we choose purely economic interests over the environment? Right. Texas. Carney will have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to the COP process and stop his flatlining ECCC.
Carney thanks Steven Guilbeault for his service ahead of MP’s resignation #cdnpoli #ipolitics
Ok and let’s get rid of RCP 2.6 because that will also never be achievable with morons in power. “What we could have had” or “Pollyanna” scenarios are also no longer relevant. Just reintroduce them in the future if we smarten up. We’ll have plenty of computing power while burning up.
Climate scientists are retiring RCP8.5, the worst-case emissions scenario that some have argued was never plausible in the first place. eos.org/research-and...
Proponents should have to generate an equal amount of power and cooling from renewable energy sources. Why should the consumer face brown outs for these capitalists to get rich?
If the federal government and Telus hoped to avoid public opposition simply by renaming data centres to “AI factories,” they will be disappointed. The announced project raises more questions than answers — particularly for the residents of Vancouver, write three researchers. #vanpoli #canpoli #AI
Sorry, what did Hoover do in 1952? What did Nixon do in 1974? The hypocrisy of FBI Directors and ex-Directors avoids the history of the FBI.
Comey: “The president of the United States cannot use the Justice Department to target people because he wants to retaliate against them. We just can’t operate as a republic if that happens.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Cutting Medicare for 39 Million Americans should be the “third rail of politics”. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
The myopia is staring at the future though a pipe instead of hearing the winds of change in the light of day.
Facts: Cdn taxpayers bought pipeline boosting price for AB crude! Oilsands are among world’s most expensive & carbon-intensive barrels. If sector can’t compete after massive public subsidies, problem isn’t climate policy. Global capital is moving to clean energy because that’s where growth is!
And a reminder that WaPo estimates that Trump had dumped 14 years of NOAA budgets into the deserts of Iran. And now he wants 30 years of NOAA budgets as a supplemental.
Check out this fabulous infographic on the impacts of the FY27 budget request on NOAA. Kudos to its creator!! CC: @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social
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