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3 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“A report from Greenpeace, based on statistics from Russian fire services, estimates that 65,000 square miles have burned — more than six times the area burned in the United States so far this year.” grist.org/wildfires/you-…
“At their peak, in August, 190 blazes were spreading across Sakha and Chukotka, Russia’s farthest northeastern regions.”
“In July and August, wildfires in northeastern Russia released 806 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new report from Copernicus, the European Union’s satellite program.”
“‘That’s more carbon than the emissions of the entire country of Germany, one of the largest economies in the world,’ observed James MacCarthy. ‘And you are looking at a trend that’s increasing.’”

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"In assessing an individual’s risk of dying, age appears still as important—and maybe even more important—than vaccination status." Even in the age of vaccines and breakthroughs, age is a dominant, overlooked shaper of the pandemic. A long thread (1/x). nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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These ratios, though bigger than those found in other studies released in recent weeks, are nevertheless in line with an obvious emerging consensus in the data: Vaccines do clearly reduce transmission and dramatically reduce hospitalizations and deaths.
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“China is facing power issues on two fronts. Some provinces have ordered industrial cuts to meet emissions goals, while others are facing a lack of electricity as sky-high coal and natural gas costs cause generators to slow output amid high demand.” (1/x) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Residents in several northern provinces have already been dealing with blackouts, while traffic lights being turned off are causing chaos on the roads in at least one major city.”
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21 Sep
“We have shown that the onset of partisan polarization occurs early in the life cycle with very little change thereafter. Today, high levels of in-group favoritism and out-group distrust are in place well before early adulthood.” (1/x) marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
“In fact, our 2019 results suggest that the learning curve for polarization plateaus by the age of 11.”
“This is very unlike the developmental pattern that held in the 1970s and 1980s, when early childhood was characterized by blanket positivity toward authority figures and partisanship gradually intruded into the political attitudes of adolescents before peaking in adulthood.”
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In today's piece, @DLeonhardt makes the case for vaccines by usefully clarifying the risk of breakthrough infections (he estimates daily risk at 1-in-5,000). But he doesn't mention the equivalent risk for the unvaccinated (during Delta, probably 1-in-1,000). A short thread (1/x)
@DLeonhardt Five-fold is a meaningful reduction of risk, of course, though it is much less significant than the demonstrated effect of vaccines on hospitalization (last week, the CDC suggested in L.A. vaccinations had reduced those risks almost 30-fold). cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
@DLeonhardt As @DLeonhardt implies, the vaccines are remarkably effective at their most important job, preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death. They are by far our best tool in blunting the severity of the ongoing pandemic.
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6 Sep
“Ahead of these pivotal meetings, we call for urgent action to keep temperature increases below 1·5°C, halt the destruction of nature, and protect health.” An editorial published simultaneously by many of the world’s leading health journals. (1/x) thelancet.com/journals/lance…
“Targets are easy to set and hard to achieve. They are yet to be matched with credible short-term and longer-term plans to accelerate cleaner technologies and transform societies.”
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“We have vaccine abundance in the United States but not test abundance. Germany has test abundance. Tests are easily available at the supermarket or the corner store and they are cheap, five tests for 3.75 euro or less than a dollar each.” marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
“In Great Britain you can get a 14 pack for free. The Canadians are also distributing packs of tests to small businesses for free to test their employees.”
“In the United States, the FDA has approved less than a handful of true at-home tests and, partially as a result, they are expensive at $10 to $20 per test, i.e. more than ten times as expensive as in Germany.”
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