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Guy's latest analysis, of peer reviewed studies on micro-plastics, mentions that "people living in areas with higher levels of microplastic pollution also have a greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and stroke."

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Science Snippets: Microplastics in Glass Containers Exceed Those in Plastic
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It makes ''common sense," not that that's very common anymore, that there is a link between Peak Oil and Peak Food when most of the food in the West is grown on industrial scales, with industrial machinery used for harvesting and transportation to markets.

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Science Snippets: Peak Food Production Draws Near
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"A retired atmospheric physicist at the University of Washington in Seattle is then quoted: “the Arctic basically didn’t have lightning at all. Now it’s got a lot more. It’s easy to see that.”

Science Snippets: More Thunderstorms in Our Warming World
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Science Snippets: More Thunderstorms in Our Warming World
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I'll drop a link below of the late great Albert Bartlett describing the exponential function, it's critical to understand where our trajectory is taking us.

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Exponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett
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"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to truly understand the exponential function", Albert Bartlett.

The Rate of Environmental Change
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The Rate of Environmental Change
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Guy points out that the article mentions our need to reduce emissions, there is no mention of emissions pertaining to the plethora of wars being waged currently.

The war on the children of Palestine has higher emissions that Aotearoa NZ.
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Carbon footprint from Israel's war on Gaza exceeds 100 countries
Study estimates that Israel’s destruction of the Palestinian enclave has generated over 31m tonnes of carbon dioxide
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Guy's latest analysis of the threats on our oceans quotes a remarkably forthright corporate article from NBC News, itself based on peer reviewed literature.

Science Snippets: Mass Extinction Event Targets Ocean Life
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Science Snippets: Mass Extinction Event Targets Ocean Life
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Added to my blog post titled; "Full Earth System Sensitivity to CO2 has been Grossly Underestimated". The comments section has a comment from Peter Wadhams, possibly the world's leading scientist on Sea Ice, on the reality that 10C minimum is locked in.

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Full Earth System Sensitivity to CO2 has been Grossly Underestimated
In this one hour long presentation by Professor David Wasdell of the Apollo Gaia Project he explains that we have no available carbon budget and that we are on a trajectory of well over 10 degrees …
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We’ve been arguing amongst ourselves, about to what degree, pardon the pun, that we can destabilize the atmosphere and the living biome.

Science Snippets: Scientists Admit Mistakes About Climate Change Timeline
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Science Snippets: Scientists Admit Mistakes About Climate Change Timeline
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“Hyperscale facilities operated by companies like Google demonstrate the true scale of the challenge. Google’s data centres average 550,000 gallons (2.1 million litres) daily, totalling approximately 200 million gallons (760 million litres) annually per facility.

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Is AI Consuming Your Water and Power?
I’m intrigued about everything AI, how could I not be?My professional qualifications in analyzing AI focus on the power consumption issue.As a youth I did an electrical apprenticeship in Aote…
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I think the most salient issue is that records aren't 'just' being exceeded they are being destroyed, as you framed it.
That is a product on 6 dozen feedback loops that we know of being triggered.
The rate of change is critical.
“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite…”

Jules Verne.

Science Snippets: Why We Must Protect the Global Ocean Forever
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Science Snippets: Why We Must Protect the Global Ocean Forever
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I seem to be on a dinosaur roll atm.
I 'hope' that's not GAIA sending me a hint :)

A Hidden World, Untouched for More Than 34 Million Years
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A Hidden World, Untouched for More Than 34 Million Years
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This loss of insects will domino through bird populations, which will mean less seeds spread.

"Half the Tree of Life" Balances on the Brink of Extinction
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"Half the Tree of Life" Balances on the Brink of Extinction
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