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Stéphane Bilodeau
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Engineer, PhD, FEC, CTO Smart Phases
Adj.Prof. Bioengineering @mcgill.ca
#Climate #Health #CleanAir #IAQ #Resilience #Science #AI #COVIDisAirborne #ClimateEmergency #Renewables #Green #Quebec #Sustainability #IBEC #WHN
Fighting Entropy Continuously!
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Stéphane Bilodeau @smbilodeau.bsky.social · Nov 13
My new book has been published and is now available on @Amazon! 😀
🌌 The Arrow of Time: #Entropy and Everyday Life reveals the beauty of #Life’s interplay between order and disorder, showing us how to embrace #change and create #meaning amidst #chaos.
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marklemley.bsky.social
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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davidctomkins.bsky.social
Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels.
#climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...
We’re Touching 1.9°C - And It’s Only 2025
Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate by climate scientist Dr Karsten Haustein shows that, this week, the Earth ...
www.lyrebirddreaming.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America’s Great Lakes
theconversation.com/warmer-weath...
Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America’s Great Lakes
Warming winters are impacting lakes globally. However, most monitoring in the Great Lakes occurs during warmer, calmer weather. A new report highlights how policymakers can improve winter monitoring.
theconversation.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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dailygrail.com
Farewell to one of the good ones - we need more people like Jane Goodall.

www.dailygrail.com/2025/10/vale...
Vale Jane Goodall: Protector of Chimps and Believer of Bigfoot (1934-2025)
This one really hurts. The Jane Goodall Institute has just announced that Dr. Goodall passed away this morning, in California, during her speaking tour through the United States. She was 91. Jane Good...
www.dailygrail.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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thomascottinet.bsky.social
Sont de plus en plus fréquentes :

👉 "Les #canicules
« plus de 70 000 morts en 🇪🇺 liées à la chaleur en 2022 »

👉Les #inondations :
12 % de la population,
11 % des établissements de santé
et 15 % des installations industrielles
sont en zone inondable"

V.Malingre
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
« La dégradation de notre environnement naturel met en péril nos modes de vie », prévient l’Agence européenne de l’environnement
Dans un rapport publié lundi 29 septembre, les experts européens s’inquiètent du retard ou de l’abandon des efforts de l’UE pour protéger son environnement et des conséquences de l’accélération du réc...
www.lemonde.fr
September 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
Utilities are doing even worse on climate than they were 5 years ago grist.org/energy/utili...
Utilities are doing even worse on climate than they were 5 years ago
Major U.S. utilities earn an ​“F” on a new report card because they’re planning to build far too little clean energy and far too many gas-fired power plants.
grist.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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wired.com
The vaccine advisory group ACIP, not all members of which seemed to know what the group does, recommended to the CDC that combined MMRV shots not be given before age 4. www.wired.com/story/vaccin...
Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization
The vaccine advisory group ACIP, not all members of which seemed to know what the group does, recommended to the CDC that combined MMRV shots not be given before age 4.
www.wired.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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ehnsquared.bsky.social
‘This is one of the most productive periods in the history of cancer research. At the same time, my colleagues are experiencing something between malaise and terror.’ Norman Sharpless

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don’t?" @naomioreskes.bsky.social provides some answers
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179001/why-trust-science
August 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Most-viewed Guardian articles last night. Editors shouldn’t think that the public doesn’t want to know more about climate change.
Or about ocean science 🌊!
Read the article about our paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
August 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
Research reveals global increase in wildfires due to climate change despite human interventions #ClimateChange #wildfires
www.pressenza.com/2025/08/rese...
Research reveals global increase in wildfires due to climate change despite human interventions
Researchers have made a direct link between climate change and the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires around the world, while also linking it
www.pressenza.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
Thanks to climate change: Insurers are worried the world could soon become uninsurable share.google/SqRhgCVqsivM...
Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable
Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.
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August 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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momscleanairforce.org
A growing body of research is reinforcing the knowledge that wildfire smoke is much more than an inconvenience — in fact, it’s actually killing far more people than the flames themselves. grist.org/health/calif...
As California burns, new research shows smoke is wildfire’s silent killer
The official death count from the Palisades and Eaton fires was 30 — the real number may be 15 times higher.
grist.org
August 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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samillingworth.com
😷 Airborne risk in queues

A new study found that when people wait in line, breath clouds can linger due to hidden air currents, especially at certain temperatures. Distance alone may not cut it.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SciComm #AirQuality 🧪
Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line
Waiting and walking in lines (queues) can create unexpected air currents that can either heighten or suppress infection risks.
www.science.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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crfoundationus.bsky.social
This week's Top Fan is our friends at
@airsupportproject.bsky.social . Their VP, Melissa Smallwood, built CR boxes to be placed in heat relief centers around Phoenix, AZ.
These cooling & respite centers ease one public health crisis. Happy to minimize the impacts of other crises.
July 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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ianhall.bsky.social
Climate change is a collective-risk dilemma: we pay a personal cost, unsure others will act, but everyone shares the benefits.

New study finds that even under added risks, people still cooperate when goals are clear and impact is real.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cooperative climate action under background risk - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Cooperative climate action under background risk
www.nature.com
July 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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ncse.bsky.social
Many followers of NCSE have a similar story, so perhaps some of you can relate to Ella Al-Shamahi, a former devout Muslim who is now a paleoanthropologist. In this article, she reflects on coming to terms with her understanding of evolution, and the struggle of leaving her religious community.
‘People can change their minds’: the evolutionary biologi...
Ella Al-Shamahi is the erudite presenter of a breathtaking new series about our 300,000-year history. But her own evolution story isn’t short of drama ei...
observer.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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volts.wtf
UN Secretary‑General António Guterres:

"Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
Secretary-General's remarks on Climate Action "A Moment of Opportunity: Supercharging the Clean Energy Age" [as delivered; scroll down for All-French] | United Nations Secretary-General
Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Friends joining us from around the world,   The headlines are dominated by a world in trouble.  By conflict and climate chaos. By rising human suffering. By growing...
www.un.org
July 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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momscleanairforce.org
Red states could see a sharp jump in power prices under new law : NPR
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Power prices are expected to soar under new tax cut and spending law
In states without policies to drive renewable energy, power prices could surge as federal tax incentives for clean energy disappear, according to Energy Innovation, a think tank.
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July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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instascience.bsky.social
Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.
July 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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healamerica.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/immi... 
How US views of immigration have changed since Trump took office, according to Gallup polling

#FuckTrump
How US views of immigration have changed since Trump took office, according to Gallup polling
A Gallup poll shows a substantial jump in the share of Americans who view immigration as positive for the U.S. since President Donald Trump took office.
apnews.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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nowtoronto.bsky.social
An advertisement encouraging tourism in eastern Quebec has gone viral after showing sympathy for our American neighbours.

#Quebec #USA

nowtoronto.com/news/ad-for-...
‘Hug it out,’ Ad for Quebec tourism has Americans in their feels - NOW Toronto
An advertisement encouraging tourism in eastern Quebec has gone viral after showing sympathy for our American neighbours.
nowtoronto.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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alexandreshields.bsky.social
Il fait très chaud aujourd'hui dans certaines régions du Canada. Voici, en un graphique, la trajectoire climatique actuelle, qui découle essentiellement des émissions de GES imputables à l'activité humaine, dont notre dépendance aux énergies fossiles.
Lien: showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...
June 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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momscleanairforce.org
Alaska just hit a climate milestone — its first-ever heat 🔥 advisory grist.org/extreme-heat...
Alaska just hit a climate milestone — its first-ever heat advisory
The heat bearing down on central Alaska "could feel like 110" in a state where the sun shines 20 hours a day.
grist.org
June 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM