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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 6h

Cream of celery soup

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 7h

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 16h

Also, to wind up the #3 favorite post, for people following along with the database open in Google Earth, the two Devastator Creek slides are LS01466 and LS01467.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 16h

We saw so much other weird stuff during that fieldwork summer I'm still trying to process 32 years later. A whole large airplane wing lying in Meager Creek at NoGood Creek. People shooting the tops off beer bottles with a shotgun to open them. Apparent obsidian rinds from heating on landslide clasts

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 16h

So really I'm picking Devastator Creek just as #3 based on my personal history and emotional connection to it, nothing more.
Also it may be that the glacier has retreated so much that it doesn't even buttress the unstable slopes anymore? Not sure on that. It's melted back a long way since 1930

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 16h

Both of those Devastator Creek failures were caused by heat waves and rapid glacial retreat.

Anyways, as an undergrad in 1993 I spent a summer supporting Mats Jakob's PhD research and we spent a whole month camped at Meager Hot Springs. Here we are at Devastator Creek looking up the drainage

A beat up old 80s truck at a logging road ford crossing looking up at the sharp spire of The Devastator far overhead. Pylon Peak visible to right

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 16h

So back to Devastator Creek... why these ones? Devastator Creek is really neat. The volcanic peaks are so young that they are (or were) actually BUILT ON TOP OF GLACIAL ICE.
Can you guess why this is a bad idea? Cause we're killing the climate is why.
Glacial ice retreats. Retreat saps volcano side

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 16h

And on the north side of Plinth Peak the 2000 m north face is the cone of a very recent volcanic eruption, when one side of the volcano fell off and blocked Lillooet River, making the river cut down through it and create Keyhole Falls

Plinth Peak north face with Meager behind and to the left

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 17h

If you look around the Meager Group you'll have no trouble seeing recent evidence of immense landslides like the 2010 Capricorn Creek landslides and debris flow

the Capricorn Creek slide path and debris flow from above Lillooet River in 2013

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 17h

Why these two? It's a hard choice. Qw'elqw'elusten (the Mount Meager group) is *the most hazardous place in all of Canada*. Full stop. Immense landslides and volcanic flows have poured off these peaks for thousands of years, with many deaths.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Líl̓wat oral traditions of Qw̓elqw̓elústen (Mount Meager): Indigenous records of volcanic eruption, outburst flood, and landscape change in southwest British Columbia

Indigenous oral traditions of the Líl̓wat Nation recount observations of Qw̓elqw̓elústen (Mount Meager), a Garibaldi Volcanic Belt volcano in southwestern British Columbia, Canada; and associated erup...

cdnsciencepub.com

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 17h

It's kind of a cheat because there are *two* separate large landslides here in the same drainage - Devastator Creek. 1930 and 1974. Both resulted in fatalities, and in 1930 debris flows which ran long distance down Meager Creek and then Lillooet River (moreso than 2010 Capricorn Cr slide)

Google Earth screenshot of Devastator Creek, with the two red dots being 1930 (left) and 1974 (right) start zones

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 17h

I'm going to add #3 tonight because I'm out in the woods for work tomorrow....

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 19h

El Rey

Vlad Guerrero Jr quote: I like to play in New York I like to kill the Yankees I would never sign with the Yankees not even dead.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 20h

'cause you always want to mass your troops in Kamchatka before you pass the sewer budget?

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 23h

like, mechanically grinding up wet limestone in the enormous blender of a major rock avalanche's path seems like a great way to make lime-rich mud deposits to me.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 23h

idk about other landslides but Cheam slide scarp has that limestone unit with the Timber Camp linears and potential karst developed in it, and that's close to the failure plane. wouldn't be surprised if weathered, karstified limestone both contributed to slide and made marl in deposit

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 1d

This is great investigative journalism.

Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 28d

They desperately want Albertans to forget the very well-documented ‘hustle in the oil patch’: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Hustle in the oil patch: Inside a looming financial and environmental crisis

Just a few years after the boom, energy companies are shedding distressed wells for next to nothing. It’s a brisk trade in junk assets — and it’s going virtually unchecked by regulators. Who will pay ...

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 23h

I was just talking about that with some folks last weekend! We don't have many such aqueducts or canals in BC, and it's the only one I can think of off the top of my head. It's a much more common thing in Europe.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I missed out including this in the post above, Cheam Slide is LS01509 in the database.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

this is perhaps the best fake article this fake news site has ever posted 5138008

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

Alberta government to ban the number 58,008 in schools

CALGARY — With the province's teachers on strike, Danielle Smith’s UCP government has tabled new legislation banning the use of the number 58,008, in order to “protect Alberta’s most precious resource...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

nah.

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

The Cheam Lake wetlands, in the restored quarry, are a great bird sanctuary. It's also a no-dogs zone so I don't go there much these days.

birds and birders at Cheam Lake wetlands. specifically some swimming mergansers

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

(Also there's some potential hang fire off to the east side of the existing slide scarp so buying property down below is not a good idea no matter what price it's offered at)

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