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19 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"If no one is getting sick and spread is controlled since the first event, then in some ways a re-exposure may not be a bad thing but rather can be seen as immunological training." (1/x) nymag.com/intelligencer/…
"Is it ideal? No, of course we want this damn virus to be eliminated..."
"But, frankly, if I am entirely vaccinated and those around me are vaccinated and I was asked in a few months 'Do you want to be asymptomatically exposed?' there is a world where I might say 'Yes.'
"Getting exposed while otherwise protected can boost the depth and breadth of my immune response for years to come and might even improve my ability to deal with variants." (x/x)

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"For all the admirable sophistication of its targeting, there is one outstanding and all-important question: is the investment program big enough, and will it actually reduce emissions?" The great @adam_tooze gives the Biden Jobs plan a close read. (1/x) newstatesman.com/world/north-am…
"At a generous estimate, half of the $2trn to $2.7trn is devoted to tackling the climate crisis. Spreading $1trn to $1.3trn over eight years comes to around 0.5 per cent of current GDP annually. That is far short of any reasonable estimate of the investment needed."
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“The scientists call for the state to reduce its emissions nearly 80% by 2030, rather than the currently mandated 40%, through what they describe as a ‘a wartime-like mobilization of resources.’ Why should the Golden State double its efforts?” (1/x) latimes.com/business/story…
“The paper rattles off a dizzying series of facts about the climate consequences already confronting Californians: 4.3 million acres burned in 2020, about 4% of the state... “
“... Nearly $150 billion in health and economic damages from smaller firestorms two years earlier, and conflagrations so bad experts didn’t expect to see them for another 30 years.”
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Yesterday, I had the humbling privilege of testifying before the Senate Budget Committee on the cost of climate inaction. Recent net-zero commitments show the world finally understands the gains to be seized through decarbonization, I said. "Do we?" (1/x) budget.senate.gov/hearings/the-c…
Because a five-minute opening statement can only contain so much, I wanted to thread together some of the major points of my written testimony, which can be found here: budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
First, the impacts of climate change are already here and already enormous. This fact should be clear to anyone watching a television, and yet some of the present estimates are astonishing even to those of us paying close attention.
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“In May 2011, the government-appointed Climate Commission released its report The Critical Decade. The report’s final section warned that to keep global temperature rises to 2℃ this century, ‘the decade between now and 2020 is critical.’” (1/x) theconversation.com/failure-is-not…
“As the report noted, if greenhouse gas emissions peaked around 2011, the world’s emissions-reduction trajectory would have been easily manageable: net-zero by around 2060, and a maximum emissions reduction rate of 3.7% each year.”
“Delaying the emissions peak by only a decade would require a trebling of this task – a maximum 9% reduction each year.”
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