@LaurenWitzkeDE 2/5》Garnet Harper was ineligible for transplant consideration for 2 reasons:
1. Poor health. He had severe heart & lung problems, and he'd nearly died from a staph infection.
2. His refusal to take essential steps to protect his own health, like masking and Covid vaccination.
@LaurenWitzkeDE 3/5》Because transplant recipients must be on immunosuppressants for life, it is critically important for them to take every reasonable precaution to protect against infections — and Mr. Harper had already almost died from an infection.
But he refused to take such precautions.
@LaurenWitzkeDE 4/5》Just as alcoholics are ineligible for liver transplants, people who are unwilling to get vaccinated against diseases which put them at high risk are not good candidates for organ transplants.
@LaurenWitzkeDE 5/5》People like Lauren Witzke, who spread deadly lies to dissuade people from protecting their own health, are responsible for hundreds of thousands of Covid deaths. Such lies contributed to causing Mr. Harper's death, as well. Lauren Witzke is an embarrassment to the GOP.
《1/12⟫ Someone asked how we can know the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO2 level is entirely from human emissions, since Earth's climate is so complex.
Fortunately, you don't need a climate model to answer that question. It's as easy as (steps) A, B, C:sealevel.info/co2.html
《2/12⟫ A. The bean-counters keep good track of production & use of fossil fuels and Portland cement, and simple chemistry tells us how much CO2 is produced from them. That's "fossil carbon." (Irrelevant side note: fossil carbon is almost completely depleted of radioactive 14C.)
《3/12⟫ There are also "land use change emissions" (e.g., clearing forests, draining swamps), which produce non-fossil CO2 emissions. They are poorly constrained, but certainly less then 15% of fossil emissions (probably about 10%). sealevel.info/carbon/Dohner2…
Absorption of IR by a body makes the body warmer than it otherwise would be:
👉regardless of the body's temperature,
👉regardless of the source or frequency of the IR, and
👉regardless of whether the body's temperature is rising or falling.
@EthonRaptor@ClimateOfGavin@NASAGoddard 2/6 Our CO2 emission rate is currently about twice the rate natural sinks (terrestrial greening, ocean uptake, etc.) remove CO2. But it's mere coincidence the ratio has been near 2:1 for a quite a while. If we halved CO2 emissions the ratio would be 1:1.
@EthonRaptor@ClimateOfGavin@NASAGoddard 3/6 Coincidentally, for several decades the trend in CO2 concentration has been about half of the trend in "cumulative emissions."
But if we were to halve emissions that correlation would disappear entirely. Cumulative emissions would continue to rise, but CO2 level would not.