Sam Kaufman
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Sam Kaufman
@uhwuhna.bsky.social
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This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India.

It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s
‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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My latest: with the surge in #flu and #Covid, re really should be using N95, KN95 or similar, rather than baggy surgical #masks.
With thanks to the #WorldHealthNetwork, @adamfinkel.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for calling attention to this issue. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
Experts Call For N95s Over Surgical Masks As Flu, Covid Viruses Spread
World Health Network experts urge WHO to make N95, KN95, or FFP2 respirators the standard for protection for healthcare workers, not inferior surgical masks.
www.forbes.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Because the ocean absorbs >90% of the heat trapped in the climate system due to human enhancement of the greenhouse effect, the best and most steady measure of global warming is the change in ocean heat content.

It continues to break records every year:
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Fixed it for you:

“This flu season has been rough. Clean air and respirators can help.”

Because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Antivirals for influenza aren't miracle cures, but they can make the flu less miserable. Americans aren't taking enough of them—including a lesser-known drug that is better than commonly prescribed Tamiflu. @sarahzhang.bsky.social reports:
The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking
This flu season has been rough. Antivirals can help.
bit.ly
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Last year was the third hottest on record, despite the fact that 2025 was a La Niña, a cooling phase in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that suppresses global temperatures.

Translation: heating is accelerating like never before.

(Climate change has not gone away, despite the results of one election.)
January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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A canny political and media strategy from @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Immediately he defuses climate delayers’ favourite cynical attack lines, and avoids headlines like “Polanski says you should never go on holiday, drive a car, or eat meat”.

But, crucially, he's leading by example...
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People can still be an environmentalists if they drive, fly and eat meat, said @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the leader of the Green Party.

He also talked about social media, whether talks about the environment enough, nuclear power, IHT and farmers, Rosebank & more
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: You can fly, drive, eat meat and still be green
The leader of the Greens wants to widen his party’s appeal and has triggered a surge in membership since his election
www.thetimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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The @uwofa1 - University of Western Ontario Faculty Association - is quickly becoming a leader in post-secondary education messaging about the equity implications and importance of masking as an integral layer of C19 and flu mitigation.

Let’s show them some love, folks!
❤️🙏
January 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Great to see @uwofa1.bsky.social leading on this. #COVIDisAirborne and #longCOVID are hugely important workplace safety issues, and we need more unions to speak out about it.

Enough is enough.
The @uwofa1 - University of Western Ontario Faculty Association - is quickly becoming a leader in post-secondary education messaging about the equity implications and importance of masking as an integral layer of C19 and flu mitigation.

Let’s show them some love, folks!
❤️🙏
January 11, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Does clean air matter to you?

Please help push this agenda by signing this petition to the Toronto Board of Health to direct Toronto Public Health to adopt Health Canada’s new IAQ Guidance!

You don’t need to live in Toronto to sign! Takes less than 1 minute.

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Clean Indoor Air Toronto
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January 7, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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No matter how many awful things come out of this White House, you can organize your community at the state and local level to fight back against the oligarchy.

Kudos to everyone who organized and won against Big Tech last year. Let’s keep up the fight this year and beyond.
January 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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I am fucking begging all of you to wear masks. Please don't be one of the hundred thousand people to die a year.
January 7, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Carney isn't just failing Canada, he's failing the world. If we don't stand for democracy and a rules-based international order, why would any other country come to Canada's defence when we need it?
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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CDC data show ~11% of U.S. pediatric flu deaths in 2024–25 occurred despite full vaccination.

This shows vaccines certainly help, but without clean air, masking and sick-leave policies etc, some kids are still left vulnerable.

Pediatric flu deaths are a policy choice

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Influenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths ...
This report describes pediatric deaths during the 2024–25 influenza season.
www.cdc.gov
January 3, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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❤️Open to all signatories❤️

Deadline Jan 12

Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

🙏✍️&share

Thank you
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
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Clean Indoor Air Toronto
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January 4, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.

If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...
edition.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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❤️Open to all signatories❤️

Deadline Jan 12

Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

🙏✍️&share

Thank you
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
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January 4, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Please sign. Petition to adopt Health Canada’s new IAQ guidance. 👇
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
cleanindoorairto.ca
January 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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❤️Open to all signatories❤️

Deadline Jan 12

Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

🙏✍️&share

Thank you
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
cleanindoorairto.ca
January 4, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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❤️Open to all signatories❤️

Deadline Jan 12

Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

🙏✍️&share

Thank you
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
cleanindoorairto.ca
January 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Sam Kaufman
❤️Open to all signatories❤️

Deadline Jan 12

Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

🙏✍️&share

Thank you
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
cleanindoorairto.ca
January 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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This is a great tool for estimating the impacts of air cleaners in nat vent UK schools. Unlike most air cleaner selection tools which just size on clean air delivery rate CHEPA also considers the energy aspects depending on local climate.
📢 Introducing CHEPA: a free tool for #schools and local authorities.

Calculate how a #HEPAfilter would affect your classroom #AirQuality and energy use.

✔️ Co-designed with schools
✔️ Easy-to-use
✔️ Evidence-based
✔️ Classroom-specific results

Try it today: buff.ly/wBy4wGV

#CHEPAcalculator #EduSky
CHEPA (Classroom HEPA) impact calculator
CHEPA is an easy-to-use calculator that helps schools assess how a HEPA filter impacts classroom air quality and energy use.
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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❤️Open to all signatories❤️

Deadline Jan 12

Petition to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance:
bsky.app/profile/mama...

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

🙏✍️&share

Thank you
Clean air for kids & staff in schools & daycares shouldn’t be controversial

No IAQ policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean & safe to breathe atm

Petition to Toronto Board of Health to direct TO Public Health to adopt Health🇨🇦's new IAQ Guidance
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Clean Indoor Air Toronto
cleanindoorairto.ca
January 4, 2026 at 12:42 PM