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Lynne Quarmby
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Cell biologist, snow algae researcher, climate watcher, and author of Watermelon Snow: Science, Art, and a Lone Polar Bear.
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Solidarity with #handsoff from a tiny island off the west coast of Canada.
April 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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"Meanwhile the difference between reducing and eliminating all the leased space seems more or less like the difference between a haircut and the guillotine." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-sh...
Maybe You Should Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater (If It's On Fire): The Coup Continues Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit 05 Feb 2025 — 8 min read Yesterday the Associated Press ran a story with this sentence in it: "Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee." That sentence came a little after after the opening sentence which declared that Musk and Trump were moving "to cut down on office space." So far as I can tell this means largely eliminating the federal government--for example the federal government has in my region (California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, some Pacific US territories) 170 government-owned buildings and leased space in 827 buildings. Meanwhile the difference between reducing and eliminating all the leased space seems more or less like the difference between a haircut and the guillotine. And the story, which seemed clear to me if not the AP, clarifies that Musk's apparent goal isn't to reduce the size of the federal government; it's to eliminate it. Especially if you relate it to all the other stories out there about what Musk is doing, though there's often a notion in mainstream journalism that connecting things to other things is editorializing, that the audience should be delivered facts stripped of context in the name of objectivity.
February 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Hydrogen won’t protect pensions from gas utilities' death spiral www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/15/a...
Hydrogen won’t protect pensions from gas utilities' death spiral
Pension funds are gambling with Canadians’ retirement savings by placing multi-billion dollar bets on hydrogen's ability to rescue old, polluting gas pipelines from terminal decline, according to a cl...
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January 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Rosetta gen. nov. (Chlorophyta): Resolving the identity of red snow algal rosettes - Engstrom - Journal of Phycology - 180 year old mystery solved https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpy.13438
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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Given today's atmospheric CO2 levels relative to those of the Eemian, and the temperature then, it would seem we would be locked in to much more than a 3 degree rise. But the models don't say that. Can you help me understand? @AndrewDessler @hausfath @MichaelEMann @ClimateOfGavin
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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The Climate Dice are Loaded. Now, a New Frontier?: https://mailchi.mp/caa/the-climate-dice-are-loaded-now-a-new-frontier
The Climate Dice are Loaded. Now, a New Frontier?
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December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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I just signed the @350Canada petition calling on @JustinTrudeau and Cabinet to strengthen the Sustainable Jobs Act. Add your name! #ClimateEmergency #cdnpoli https://act.350.org/sign/sja-petition/?source=twitter
Don’t let Big Oil write Canada's sustainable jobs plan
The draft legislation has no specificity, no urgency, and...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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I support @thenarwhalca. You should too.
https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=thenarwhal @fundjournalism
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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Twitter abruptly suspends more than half a dozen journalists https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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Congratulations to @CaseyEngstrom on his exciting recent publication
#RemoteSensing #WatermelonSnow
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425722002784?dgcid=author
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December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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Oops. I gave you the subtitle, but dropped the actual title.
GOOD ENERGY: A Playbook for Screenwriting in an Age of Climate Change.
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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Correction, the name of the project is: GOOD ENERGY: A Playbook for Screenwriting in an Age of Climate Change.
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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Congratulations, @CarmielBanasky, lead writer on an awesome new resource for #climate action by writers: A Playbook for Screenwriting in an Age of Climate Change. https://www.goodenergystories.com/playbook
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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Check out this exciting new resource: "A Playbook for Screenwriting in an Age of #Climate Change." Spread the word to your writerly friends. Let's get more climate action in TV & film. (And yes, I am chuffed to be a guest writer - thanks @CarmielBanasky). ...
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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COVID-19 in B.C.: Why the politics of the pandemic could ...
To paraphrase Alfred E. Neuman, "What, me worry about air...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID https://ja.ma/3eWwmJ1 via @JAMA_current part of @JAMANetwork
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Happening this weekend on Gabriola!
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Thank you @AmitaKuttner for stepping up to serve as interim Leader of the #GPC. You will rock the job and Canada will benefit.
Much love & support to you!
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Clear cutting to expand fossil fuel infrastructure with a new pipeline for dilbit. What could go wrong? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-how-bcs-string-of-natural-disasters-are-connected/
How B.C.’s string of natural disasters are connected
While weather is naturally variable, events such as extre...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Join me in calling on @marcomendicino to stop illegal arrests of journalists and protect press freedom in Canada
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December 3, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Oops! It is the 33rd Annual!
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32nd annual Headwaters Conference. On-line and free, but requires pre-registration. https://western.edu/school/school-environment-sustainability/32nd-headwaters-conference/
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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32nd annual Headwaters Conference. On-line and free, but requires pre-registration. https://western.edu/school/school-environment-sustainability/32nd-headwaters-conference/
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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This isn’t the time to humour their irrational beliefs, or cater to their selective interpretation of our Constitution and its contents, writes columnist @maxfawcett for @NatObserver. #Elxn44 #COVID #antivaxxers...
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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#cdnpoli @NorthShoreNews
December 3, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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@avilewis If you want us to believe you can get #NDP to #ActOnClimate, do the work now: Explain to @theJagmeetSingh why we don't need more studies to know #TMX is climate negative. We need a solid statement BEFORE the election. Ditto...
December 3, 2024 at 3:45 AM