A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

Most people aren't on social media for information.

They are here to make a bubble of support for w/e they think, regardless if it's correct or not. This includes educated people who should clearly know better but choose to feign ignorance instead.

Our species is regressing.

Food supply disruptions from #ClimateChange are here and will only increase.

Brazilian oranges in their fourth straight year of declining harvests: https://www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/disease-and-climate-change-slash-brazils-orange-output/260342.article

The Japanese National Agriculture and Food Research Organization finds that climate change will reduce rice crop yields and quality: https://www.dailysabah.com/life/climate-change-threatens-rice-harvest-quality-study/news

Increased temperatures mess with winemakers' ability to control the fermentation process, especially if they're all artisanal and rely on wild fermentation: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/05/cellar-techniques-as-climate-change-impacts-yeast-behaviour/

#Climate #FoodWeb #FoodSupplyChain #ClimateCrisis #Agriculture

Legal expert: Judge may hold contempt "hearing" over Trump "surrogates" circumventing gag order - Trump was reportedly seen in court editing the statements that his surrogates would later make outside the court

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/15/legal-expert-may-hold-contempt-hearing-over-surrogates-circumventing-gag-order/

It's not about living in fear. It's about adapting to the actual reality. I experience *less* fear when I go out in a respirator because of what I understand about #covid. The pre-2019 world is not coming back, and we either process that, grieve it, and adapt, or slowly succumb to a virus far more dangerous than we have been led to believe. It doesn't matter what you think of me. It matters what you think of *that.* I am just a messenger (like messenger RNA, you know?)

#FunFact
The same N-95, KN-95, and equivalent respirators that protect you from airborne contagious disease also provide protection from wildfire smoke.
#MaskUp #AirQuality #CovidIsNotOver

Is there a way to reverse the decision by five Republicans on the Supreme Court that it’s OK for billionaires and big corporations to bribe politicians?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/bribery-unleashed-the-supreme-courts-fe8

NC anti-mask bill HB237 approved by committee. Still contains an exemption to allow seeking permission to wear one -- not for medical reasons, but for the KKK

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?si=jXaJp_jSj4s4L2MF&v=UIft1R9Ltvw&feature=youtu.be

It's REALLY weird to me when people in software mine research papers for their content and say "researchers" instead of naming the scientists who actually did the work they're using. We're human beings and our work is our livelihood (at a fraction of yours I might add). Name us.

Blessed for the community around me that has this value, side eye at the content engine that doesn't.

"Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow’s milk have ticked up 21% to as much as 65% compared with the same periods a year ago."

This is why we can't have nice things.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu

US to raise tariffs on EVs, batteries, solar cells, and computer chips from China https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156249/us-biden-china-tariffs-ev-solar-battery-semiconductor-critical-minerals

North Carolina Representatives trying to make it illegal to wear respirator masks 😷 in public.

Sign a petition against the bill here: https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-passage-of-nc-bill-237-banning-masks-in-public

#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid

"There is currently “no realistic or scalable alternative” to standard kerosene-based #JetFuel, and touted “sustainable aviation fuels” are well off track to replace them in a timeframe needed to avert dangerous climate change, despite public subsidies."

“It’s a huge #greenwashing exercise by the #aviation industry. It’s magical thinking that they will be able to do this.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/sustainable-jet-fuel-report

"The rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is currently 10 times faster than at any point in the past 50,000 years, research in Scotland and the US has shown.

[They] identified a pattern that showed the jumps in #CarbonDioxide occurred alongside North Atlantic cold intervals known as #HeinrichEvents that are associated with abrupt climate shifts around the world."

https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/co2-increasing-ten-times-faster-than-any-point-in-last-50000-years-study-finds-4626886

,,Het maakt echt niet uit waar de monsters vandaan komen. Of dat nou uit Groningen, Tholen of Zwolle is: overal kan #PFAS voorkomen. In twee derde van de gevallen worden de normen overschreden. In de helft van de eieren zit zelfs dubbel zoveel PFAS als volgens de normen veilig is. We hebben echt een probleem in dit land.”
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/vijf-keer-meer-giftige-stof-dan-verstandig-wordt-geacht-nelleke-schrikt-van-uitslag-test-kippeneieren~aeb9778a5/