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leonsimons.bsky.social
The total greenhouse gas forcing is now 4.1 W/m² (according to IPCC methodology), which equals about 33.2 Hiroshima bombs per second.

Aerosols cause cooling and lower the net forcing.

And a hotter Earth (about +1.5°C the past year) radiates more heat to space, as the above NASA CERES data shows.
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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leonsimons.bsky.social
I wish people understood the basic units that drive the climate to change:

-A forcing is what forces the climate to change.
-Leading to Earth absorbing more sunlight than heat is radiated to space.
-1.21 watt = 1.21 joule per second.
-Averaged over Earth's 510 TRILLION square meters area.

Or 👇
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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marwilliamson.bsky.social
You can’t just blame the thief who came in during the night if you opened every window and door, then went to sleep. www.transformarticles.com/p/democrats-...
DEMOCRATS, LOOK IN THE MIRROR
Nothing less will be sufficient
www.transformarticles.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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tsakraklides.bsky.social
“Hundreds of thousands of years into their history, humans are still trying to define happiness, forgetting that they were already happy when they appeared on this planet long ago”
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Is Happiness Possible In the Machine Age?
As the world of machines tries to turn our life into one big transaction, genuine forms of happiness give way to counterfeit versions: goods owned, GDP units earned, number of holidays remaining.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
thriveability.bsky.social
Time for a National Emergency Briefing in Australia,
See
This is not the video I had planned to make,
www.youtube.com/@nebriefing
The National Emergency Briefing
* The expert talks are being prepared now - weaving in key images from the presentations - and will be published in the coming days. * The National Emergency Briefing was held on in Westminster Centr...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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marwilliamson.bsky.social
Science - including quantum mechanics - isn’t debunking mystical truths today so much as verifying them. Science and mysticism aren’t at odds with each other; they're like long lost cousins. They explain the other to itself.
www.transformarticles.com/p/the-vastne...
"THE VASTNESS IS BEARABLE ONLY THROUGH LOVE"
A scientist's ultimate conclusion
www.transformarticles.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
thriveability.bsky.social
National Emergency Briefing
www.wedonthavetime.org/events/natio...
National Emergency Briefing – Nov 27, 2025–Nov 27, 2025
The first-ever National Climate Briefing in the UK — and one of the first of its kind globally
www.wedonthavetime.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Sunday Shot is about to start. Jo and I have @roycerk2.bsky.social, who is just back from COP in Brazil, and Lorena Allam, for a look at the world news of the week. Join us!
SUNDAY SHOT - November 30
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November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
thriveability.bsky.social
Once upon a time, human beings tended to agree that life involved overcoming selfishness to live in tune with the Heart of All Living Beings, the Tao.
Thus, a person tended to grow from child to adult to elder to become a wise and compassionate sage.
But not so much today.
Time to regenerate!
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
The UK COVID inquiry recently found a week's dithering in *one* incident wasted 23,000 lives.

That's the teeniest, tiniest tip of the iceberg.

Institutional medicine's strongest connection to science is greed to control it. When they 🤬 it up and kill people, there are zero consequences.

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mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 10d
The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈
The focus on handwashing over ventilation 12.32. As 2020 progressed, it was increasingly understood that airborne transmission of Covid-19 was a substantial risk and, by 23 July 2020, SAGE had endorsed the importance of good ventilation. ON AIR-BORNE INFECTION.* STUDY II. DROPLETS AND DROPLET NUCLEI. BY W. F. WELLS, t (Beceived for publication June 14, 1934.) The infective range of droplets expelled from the nose or mouth depends primarily upon the time interval spent in the atmosphere. The unresisted falling time from mouth to ground can be readily shown by Newton's Law to be less than a second. Air resistance becomes a negligible factor in determining the time of fall of droplets larger than a tenth millimeter through the height of a man. As droplets decrease in diameter the volume and weight, or gravitational pull, decrease more rapidly than the surface area which determines the resistance to fall through air. Particles smaller than a tenth millimeter diameter soon reach a velocity which remains constant. This fact is expressed by Stokes' Law % which says that the velocity is proportional to the surface area of the droplet or to the square of its diameter. droplets would reach the ground in less than ten seconds (table 1). Whether droplets falling two meters obey Stokes' law or Newton's law, therefore, the time they spend in the air would be small, and their radius of spread would be limited to a few feet. Infection caused by such droplets would therefore appear to be limited both in time and space to the immediate vicinity of the source. TABLE 1. Settling of water droplets in saturated air. Diameter of droplet Falling velocity Time in seconds of Millimeters Centimeters per second falling two meters > 1.0 981 X time in seconds .6 .1 30. 6. .01 .3 600. = 10 minutes .001 .003 60,000. = 16.6 hours It would be incorrect to conclude merely from this, however, that air receiving infected droplets cannot convey such infection long distances. To do so would be to neglect a most important characteristic of liquid droplets, namely their tendency to evaporate. Evaporation causes the volume of water droplets to change, and this change becomes more rapid as the droplet decreases in size. Careful determination of the rate of evaporation has proved that at constant temperature and humidity the rate of change of surface is constant. The life of droplets in unsaturated air is therefore proportional to the square of their diameter. It becomes quite short for small droplets, in fact much shorter than their time of fall if they settled without evaporation. Approximate evaporation times for droplets of different sizes are tabulated below. We find, therefore, that minute droplets settle slowly and evapoTABLE 2. Evaporation time of water droplets in unsaturated air at 18° C* Diameter of droplet Evaporation time Millimeters Seconds 2 660. 1 165. .5 41. .2 6.6 .1 1.7 .05 4 * Computed from data given in chapt. 15, "Evaporation of Droplets." Smoke: A Study of Aerial Disperse Systems; R. Whytlaw-Gray and H. S. Patterson, page 176 Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1932. A chart from Wells (1934) showing that particles smaller than 100 microns shrink (via evaporation) to a size small enough to remain airborne indefinitely before they have time to fall to the ground. Associated text reads: "This is an important difference since it produces a complete change in state of small droplets in comparison with large drops. On chart 1 the curves of evaporation time and falling time (to fall two meters in saturated air) are seen to be almost similar in shape but opposite in direction. The point of intersection gives the size of droplets which would evaporate and particles which would fall two meters in the same time. Somewhere between .1 and .2 mm. lies the droplet size which identifies droplets of mouth spray that reach the ground within the life of the droplet as against droplets that evaporate and remain in the air as droplet nuclei with attached infection."
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
thriveability.bsky.social
European Sustainability Week, organized by EUPD Group, offers a platform for discussing the latest national and international sustainability developments.
Ralph Thurm works in sustainable and regenerative innovation and strategy, transformation and collapse resilience.
www.r3-0.org/wp-content/u...
November 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Victorian Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 28 Nov 2025

From 16 Nov – 22 Nov 2025

🔸COVID positivity rate: 3.2% (+0.8%)

🔹COVID: 515 (+9%)
🔹Influenza A: 2,283 (+26%)
🔹Influenza B: 41 (+24%)
🔹RSV: 171 (-11%)

Source: health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...
A page from the Victorian Respiratory Surveillance Report dated 28 November 2025 titled “Laboratory surveillance.” It explains that COVID-19, influenza, and RSV cases confirmed through lab testing are only part of the total infections in the community, and results may be influenced by testing changes. A summary states: In the past week, COVID-19 notifications increased by 9%, influenza notifications increased by 26%, and RSV notifications decreased by 11%. Three info boxes follow: COVID-19: 9% increase with an orange upward trend arrow Influenza: 26% increase with a purple upward arrow RSV: 11% decrease with a blue downward arrow A page from the Victorian Respiratory Surveillance Report dated 28 November 2025, focusing on COVID-19. A bar chart titled “COVID-19 notified cases by week, Victoria, 24 November 2024 to 22 November 2025” shows weekly case counts. Cases were high around December 2024 and peaked again mid-2025, then declined into spring before slightly rising again in November. Below the chart are three information boxes: 472 notified COVID-19 cases two weeks ago (9–15 Nov 2025) 515 notified COVID-19 cases last week (16–22 Nov 2025) 9% increase with an upward orange trend arrow A page from the Victorian Respiratory Surveillance Report dated 28 November 2025, focused on Influenza. A bar chart titled “Influenza notified cases by week, Victoria, 24 November 2024 to 22 November 2025” shows weekly infections separated by Influenza A, Influenza B, and combined categories. Cases are low over summer, peak strongly around mid-2025 near 5,000 weekly cases, then decline but rise again in November. Below the chart are data panels: Influenza A: • 1,808 cases two weeks ago (9–15 Nov 2025) • 2,283 cases last week (16–22 Nov 2025) • 26% increase with a purple arrow trending up Influenza B: • 33 cases two weeks ago • 41 cases last week • 24% increase with a purple upward arrow A page from the Victorian Respiratory Surveillance Report dated 28 November 2025 focusing on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). A weekly bar chart titled “RSV notified cases by week, Victoria, 24 November 2024 to 22 November 2025” shows low case levels through summer, followed by a steep increase in winter peaking around July 2025 at roughly 2,000 cases per week, then falling toward late 2025. Below the chart are three data boxes: 193 notified RSV cases two weeks ago (9–15 Nov 2025) 171 notified RSV cases last week (16–22 Nov 2025) 11% decrease with a blue downward arrow
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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scitalkofficial.bsky.social
First video to cross 10K views. Thankful to all those who have supported me so far throughout this journey.
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁🍽
@djspratt.bsky.social @climatenews.bsky.social
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The Worst Outcome of Systematic Collapse I Cascading Climate Tipping Points I Climate Emergency
YouTube video by Science Talk
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November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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jasonhickel.bsky.social
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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3wombats.bsky.social
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The Moral Duty Australia’s Media Can No Longer Ignore
What does it mean to give someone a platform? Not the right to speak, every Australian possesses that, but the power to amplify a message to millions. A platform is no neutral megaphone. It confers [....
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November 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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djspratt.bsky.social
Science Talk podcast: My take on The Worst Outcome of Systematic Collapse, Cascading #Climate Tipping Points, and thebClimate Emergency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVZ... and a big thanks to Muhammad Ittefaq for a no-holds-barred conversation.
The Worst Outcome of Systematic Collapse I Cascading Climate Tipping Points I Climate Emergency
YouTube video by Science Talk
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November 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"Starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest and wars are among the risks we face if we don’t take decisive action to limit further global warming and preserve nature, leading experts in #climate, food, health and security warned today in London"

@nebriefing.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter:

The devastating global toll of Long Covid, Culture of coerced infection, Outsmarting the immune system, and more

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The devastating global toll of Long Covid, Culture of coerced infection, Outsmarting the immune system, and more
Bonus Demanding more of public health!
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November 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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leonsimons.bsky.social
Even with very high global temperatures, Earth's Energy Imbalance is reaching record high levels again.

See the most recent 3 months of NASA CERES (climatology corrected) data:
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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castltrastondrs.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧨 Cog-PASC encompasses a broad spectrum of neuropsychiatric & neurocognitive symptoms
- Brain fog,memory impairment, attention deficit, executive dysfunction,
Research progress of post-acute sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection - Cell Death & Disease
Cell Death & Disease - Research progress of post-acute sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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lenoret.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This speech at the Walkleys last night was a fist-pumping table thumping boomer
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Anthony Albanese promised to end the ‘culture of secrecy’. With freedom of speech under attack globally, it’s past time he delivered
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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moritherapy.bsky.social
Then as now ...
A cartoon from May 21, 1960. Boy coming home from school saying "our current events teacher keeps bursting into tears." Artist: Chon Day
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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williamripple.bsky.social
SETTING: SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE: We were hurtling towards climate chaos which ended up really hurting the economy. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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globalcommonshq.bsky.social
📢 Last September, the Earth Commission’s flagship report—A Just World on a Safe Planet—was published in The Lancet. Since then, it’s been accessed over 28,000 times, helping shape the next generation of sustainability targets. 👇

🔗 Read the summary: lnkd.in/dYfAGjXR

#SafeAndJust #ClimateScience
August 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM