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Brett Favaro
@brettfavaro.bsky.social
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Conservation scientist. Tweets about climate, oceans, & sustainable development. Views my own, and do not necessarily reflect views of employer. He/him.
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If I have a choice -- one one side, middle-aged academic author with grand 3-volume tome on How to Create the Perfect World (I get two or three of these *a week*); on the other side, someone who boosted heat pump uptake in midsized NYC multifamily buildings by 17% -- I choose the latter every time.
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One thing I've really come to appreciate over the course of my career is how easy it is to write a big article or book about How Everything Should Change and how difficult it is to actually change any single thing.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
What if I need to get a refund
#DecaebonizeBC

Only thing I'd add is the rate of change now exceeds the rate back then
Periodic reminder of why we must decarbonize. The Permian extinction was the planet killer. It was caused by - wait for it - greenhouse gas warming: >90% of all species went extinct.
Under business as usual we're 20% the way there by 2100, 35-50% by 2300.
sustainability.stanford.edu/news/what-ca...
What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction?
Scientists have debated until now what made Earth's oceans so inhospitable to life that some 96 percent of marine species died off at the end of the Permian period. New research shows the "Great Dying...
sustainability.stanford.edu
So I was cleaning up and found this relic - my ticket stub for star wars episode 1 back in 1999!
No I haven't - its hard to imagine using NuTrek as the point of entry tho. Do you think it would work?
Question for blue sky: it's time to introduce the six year old to the world of Star Trek.

This may seem unconventional... But would starting with Star Trek 4 be a good point of entry? (Wacky whales, environmental message, etc)
The books techniques make a lot of sense to me in the context of peer or near-peer relationship dynamics

Not at all if there's a power dynamic, or if one party is objectively doing harm to the other
(I recognize it's not exactly a hot take to comment on a book that came out decades ago)
Imo he really flattens relationships between oppressors and oppressed, and then reaches weird conclusions about how if you're mad about the oppressing, then that's a you problem. "If only everyone listened to each other better!"

It comes up in a few of his stories and it's off-putting to me
I'm reading "nonviolent communication" by Rosenberg (someone recommended it in a workshop I was in).

The notion of listening to people, being attentive, etc is all good but boy does he go into weird places when he fails to acknowledge power dynamics or harm.
Aside, the IPCC said basically everything needs to change or consequences will be atrocious. They based this on mountains of evidence. It's irrefutable

So VSPs have to stop getting excited by every random statement some billionaire comes up with. The fundamental science hasn't changed one iota.
Useful thread #DecarbonizeBC
So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
Missed this one when it came out

Clean the air.
Important Study from Canada 🇨🇦
👏👏👏

Risk mitigation of shared room ventilation and filtration on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a multicenter test-negative study | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core
Risk mitigation of shared room ventilation and filtration on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a multicenter test-negative study | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core
Risk mitigation of shared room ventilation and filtration on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a multicenter test-negative study
www.cambridge.org
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This paper showed the large majority of shared-room COVID transmission events are preventable by good ventilation. The fact that it was published by some of the people who had most strenuously insisted COVID *wasn't* airborne (albeit only after they sat on the data for years) is meaningful as well.
So...sounds like we can say that if you got COVID in a 1 ACH hospital room, odds are at least 50% it would have been prevented if ventilation had been merely adequate, rising to 75% if infection control had done their jobs properly and listened to actual experts even just about ventilation?

Noted.
Here's what you'll find at the other end of that link. Now think about the roles those signatories hold, the decisions they've made over the last 5 years, and the fact that hospitals *still* choose not to practice good infection control for bioaerosols.

laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...
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We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.

Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
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“Why has virtually every country in the world seen an abrupt rise in extremist politics, especially on the far-right, starting at approximately the same date the iPhone was released”

The most important question in politics but maybe not a hard one
I'm deeply disturbed by the disinformation campaign being waged.

Both the province and feds need to be clearly and assertively communicating actual reality, and municipal govts shouldn't be stoking fear
Cowichan, other FNs, courts have said that when land is unavailable, it is on *gov* and FN to negotiate: compensation, land swaps, etc — ie they are not about to come seize your land. But at Tues meeting, some felt very worried that their homes would soon be taken and they would be left with nothing
Fascinating subject that challenges some of my core assumptions about open data
In v2 of our preprint on "Adversarial Reanalysis," Kelsey Ichikawa, @nicolecnelson.bsky.social, & added our take on Gold Standard Science as an example of how #OpenData challenges science's existing tools for self-governance

osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience