Human-caused climate change is making extreme heat waves around the world more likely.
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The Climate Shift Index® (CSI) Global Map shows the influence of climate change on local daily temperatures around the world.Climate Central
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#Gaza We watched this last night. It was the most traumatic thing I hsve ever seen. It shows how systematically Israel has destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system and killed doctors. This is ongoing - just yesterday many killed at Indonesian hospital.
I feel irrevocably alienated from all the lovely people around me who choose to just ignore all this. Not watch, not see. For almost two years the most barbaric slaughter, aided by our governments here.
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave youStuart Heritage (The Guardian)
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What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2…
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Long ago I heard a truism that stuck with me. The circumstances were oddly relevant. It rose up in my mind today:
“There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there's the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public."
I have a new 'climate viz of the month' blog posted, which dives into a visualization and description of future Arctic sea ice cover: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-th…
#SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData #ClimateChange
Climate Viz of the Month
On a temporary pause – sorry! More blog changes soon. Archives of my older blogs can be found below. Other Blogs (Monthly): Blog Archive – 2025 Blog Archive – 2024 Blog Archive …Zachary Labe
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Capture the Atlas project published their anual collection of the Milky Way photos from the enthusiatic photographers from all around the world 😍 Look at this beauty!
capturetheatlas.com/milky-way-…
Capture the Atlas is a project that is aiming to provide guidance, knowledge and adventures to the photographers around the world to elevate their picture-taking skills, travel the jaw-dropping locations on Earth, build long lasting communities and friendships to learn, being amazed and grow together.
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2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year - Capture the Atlas
The 2025 Milky Way photographer of the year. Discover the best Milky Way images taken around the world in 2025!Dan Zafra (Capture the Atlas)
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New instance, new #introduction !
Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.
One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!
We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy
And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!
📷 ESO/G. Vecchia
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Look forward to what you'll share here!
Perhaps you know this already, but if not then, Mastodon has the ability for accounts to verify who they are by way of their domains (in your case esa.org). Think of this as Mastodon's version of the blue checkmark from other platforms.
It is easy to set up, and would signal to everyone that your account is in fact the official ESA account.
I love those drums...
#music
#series
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#lovedeath+robots
#video
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Deepin 25 launches as an immutable Linux system, featuring a revamped desktop, AI assistant, and universal app packaging with cross-distro compatibility.
linuxiac.com/deepin-25-launche…
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Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. They don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product).
On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself."
Choose carefully: cyclist or McDonald's? It is worth considering.
P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles.
P.P.S. If you have read this far and still don't get it, this post is SATIRE. Reread it with this in mind.
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@MathieuP @stekopf
Not only that. Energy is also a very important input, which comes back nicely to the gasoline for a car vs digital subscription example.
It's hard to avoid news like these nowadays:
cnbc.com/2025/06/21/why-electr…
or:
npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-51205…
Or even a cursory browse of @gerrymcgovern feed will give you a good idea of how much input the digital world requires.
Why electricity prices are surging for U.S. households
Electricity prices are outstripping the pace of inflation by a wide margin — a trend likely to continue in coming years, experts said.Greg Iacurci (CNBC)
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While it is obvious that more energy is needed to move a car than to stream an album over the internet, it becomes much less obvious once the whole system is taken into account. Just like roads have costs, so does the internet infrastructure. Storing and streaming data requires data centers, routers, switches and cables that not only need to be constantly powered, but also periodically replaced.
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In fact, diesel-powered trucks visit data centers every day to replace old and broken equipment.
Given all that, can we be sure that $100 of digital goods requires smaller resource input than $100 of gasoline?
Our world becomes increasingly digitized and yet our resource use is only going up. How would you explain that?
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Firstly, because I have recent lifecycle analysis under my eyes. We are talking differences by one or two orders of magnitude, there.
Secondly, the increase of resources consumption at world level is overwhelmingly the effect of development. In the Western world, resource consumption per capita is stable or decreasing in most countries (the US are, as for health, the embarrassing outlier).
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"We are talking differences by one or two orders of magnitude"
Could you share a link to that research?
"In the Western world, resource consumption per capita is stable or decreasing in most countries."
That is surprising. Is this accounting for trade?
For energy use, this chart (not trade adjusted) is a good place to start : ourworldindata.org/grapher/per…
ourworldindata.org/energy-offs…
How much energy do countries consume when we take offshoring into account?
How do energy footprints compare across the world when we adjust for the goods that we import from overseas?Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
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This is energy only, and the claim was about all inputs.
It may be hard to find good estimates from the production side, so we may as well look at the waste side:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/pla…
Europe went from 2.11m tonnes of plastic waste ending up in the ocean in 2000 to 5.05m tonnes in 2019.
Similarly, according to:
globalewaste.org/statistics/co…
Europe went from 15.6kg of e-waste per capita in 2015 to 17.6kg in 2022.
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I live in Europe and wherever I look I see more *stuff*. There's no way we are using less resource inputs per capita than 20 or even 10 years ago.
A current BMW consumes half as much as a 1990's Ford Sierra.
There has also been bounds in energy efficiency of most home appliances and heating devices.
You'll also notice that there is more stuff, but most of it is so much lighter than it used to be.
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Yes, but there were less cars when I was young. The playground next to my parents' house has been converted into a parking lot. 🙁
The car sizes also changed drastically. Our family of five drove on vacation in Fiat 126p. Now my two parents drive alone in Toyota RAV4.
The lighter stuff may still have a bigger environmental impact / material input. Just ask yourself: how many kilograms of raw materials must be mined to produce a single cell phone?
@jackofalltrades
A single cell phone? Last time I checked up, it was about 60 - 90 kg of mining waste for that 140 grams of specialness. And about 14,000 liters of water. Not to worry, we've only made and dumped about 16 billion of them since 2007.
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Excellent points. Bigger and worse. Lighter and more throwaway. Planned obsolescence and all that. Driven by the corrupted concepts of innovation and efficiency.
There's more materials in a modern tire than there used to be in an entire car. What that means is that tires are toxic time bombs, with a car’s four tires generating one trillion toxic nano particles of dust for every kilometer driven. But, heh, innovation and efficiency!
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No, I'm arguing that deriving a marginal cost for digital goods is not as straightforward as one could wish. Unless we externalise pretty much everything, which would make your original point about "less inputs" moot.
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To give an example of what I mean:
If 10 more subscribers to Amazon Prime causes Amazon to run an additional server, is that part of their fixed cost or marginal cost of the new subscriptions?
If 10 more people are streaming movies every day causing the ISP to upgrade their routers is that part of their fixed cost or marginal cost of the new subscribers?
Etc.
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Prior to getting my Masters and PhD in Nuclear Engineering at Berkeley I was a nuclear trained officer on a submarine. After graduating I worked in reactor core design at a nuclear company. I now work as a nuclear physicist at a national lab.
I just wanted to establish my bona fides before assuring you that yes, your assumption is correct that bombing any kind of nuclear infrastructure is dangerous and reckless as fuck.
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We've had experience mixing radioactives and high explosives for almost exactly 80 years now and in all that time we have not solved the problems of atmospheric dispersion, aerosol transport, inhalation and submersion dose. We quibble over details but the fundamentals remain - if you do not want radioactive material all over, you should not blow it up.
I've been working on this problem professionally on and off for 30 years on the civil nuclear side; power plants, legacy defense waste. Your assessment is spot on - bombing nuclear facilities is reckless, dangerous, and egregiously irresponsible. There's no other way to spin it. (diagram from osti.gov/biblio/4743102)
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Euro notes contain a pigment which includes (very appropriately!) the rare earth metal Europium. It glows red under UV light.
On this week's Rare Earth on BBC Radio 4 we dug deep into the environmental benefits & costs of rare earths and other critical minerals. Do listen!
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dlh3
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And I think they're in other banknotes, including pounds, though I've never got round to recording the spectra. 1/2
To my astonishment, I got the fellowship. 😜
@sellathechemist haha, brilliant :)
Recording banknote spectra would be an interesting task... just to identify the list of elements included. With a sweepstake beforehand to guess the number.
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un dimanche de fête des pèresJakob Grosse-Ophoff
tags : automate, #sculpture #fathersday
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