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Scott Akenhead
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Canadian! Ecologist. Analyst. Pro-civilization.
Temple: Pacific Biological Station
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1218-3118
https://www.zotero.org/scottakenhead
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Global warming in North Pacific.

The Y axis is standard deviations (SD), related to chance of being observed given historical temperatures.
2 SD: 2.3 times in 100 years
3 SD: 1.3 in 1,000 years
4 SD: 3.2 in 100,000 years
5 SD: 2.9 in 10,000,000 years
6 SD: 1 in 1,000,000,000 years

Now is new.
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Who needs enemies when you have allies like the United States?

Denmark is preparing for war with the United States over Greenland.
Denmark Sets Up 'Night Watch' In Response To Trump's Threats To Annex Greenland: Report
The U.S. president has not ruled out taking the island by force.
www.huffpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Grey Apocalypse
Yet another emerging crisis.

Birth rates almost everywhere are now far below 2.1 children per woman (stable population).
As populations shrink, there is a disproportionate abundance of old people and too few young people to support them.

👺 May you live in interesting times. 👺
China’s fertility rate has fallen to one, continuing a long decline that began before and continued after the one-child policy—

The 1970s were a decade shaped by fears about overpopulation. As the world’s most populous country, China was never far from the debate.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Dah hurray science
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Wild mammals once dominated the mammal kingdom. Not anymore. Today, humans and our livestock account for 98% of the world’s land mammals by weight, while wild land mammals are just 2%.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Wherever its actual birthplace, what remains of Theia is buried on the Moon and as giant undigested slabs inside Earth’s mantle.
The Moon-forming impactor Theia originated from the inner Solar System
The Moon formed from a giant impact of a planetary body, called Theia, with proto-Earth. It is unknown whether Theia formed in the inner or outer Solar System. We measured iron isotopes in lunar sampl...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.

Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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How to interpret the COP30 outcome?

Nobody ever said the Dead Thrall of the world's most profitable industry will be pretty.
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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For no reason remembering Plato’s argument that our rulers - the Philosopher Kings - should be prohibited from owning private property in order to avoid corruption.
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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PM Carney: "Overall, we've announced almost a dozen new economic and security partnerships across four continents in less than six months."

🎥 Credit CPAC Live / YouTube
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
One implication of the increased growth rate of
greenhouse gas forcing in the last 15 years
is that the goal to keep global warming under 2°C
is now implausible.

www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin...

#climate #globalwarming
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We do not have the data to assess deaths from heat waves … except in rich countires. www.monbiot.com/2025/11/21/g...
#globalwarming #climate
Gulf of Understanding
What the governments of the Global North don’t care about, they don’t measure.
www.monbiot.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’

George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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The corrupted CDC website refers to a Danish study (Andersson et al) and "a statistically significant 67% increased risk of Asperger's syndrome per 1 mg increase in aluminum exposure among children born between 2007 and 2018 (Supplement Figure 4)." It's worth putting this into context. Short 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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We Can See Where He Gets His Inspiration
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
OK, got it.
Money outweighs human rights.

www.reuters.com/world/us/beh...

“Trump's remarks, which contradicted U.S. intelligence findings, threw into stark relief just how far his administration has shifted away from the traditional U.S. support for human rights globally.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM