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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2025-01-27 at 07:16

Gwynne Dyer: “Trump Can’t Hurt Climate Much”

" “Drill, baby, drill”, exulted the new President of the World (American branch), but he will find that the oil and gas industry isn’t listening. As Darren Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil, tactfully put it in November: “I’m not sure how ‘drill, baby, drill’ translates into policy.” "

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/trump-cant-hurt-climate-much/

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Shared by Douglas Patriarche on 2025-01-16 at 02:19 (original by Cory Doctorow)

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-12-22 at 19:59

Holiday confessions: I have never watched "It's a Wonderful Life”. I'm on a roll I guess. Should I break the streak this year?

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-12-01 at 15:13

Late fall camping in Frontenac Provincial Park

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-11-20 at 04:47

America’s strategic reserves of “OMG can he actually do that?” are running dangerously low. At the current rate they will be exhausted before January 20, when they will be needed most

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-11-16 at 23:02

I forget the names of people that I just met, and yet I still remember the IP address of my Sun workstation at my job 30 years ago 🙄

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-09-26 at 20:05

Speaking of measuring and mitigating deadly risks (on another thread), I just saw that Kurzgesagt published a video this week on this exact topic: https://youtu.be/oTx-GSF3cts

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-09-24 at 21:07

Note that you will need to take the mask off for a short time when talking to customs officers, when showing your NEXUS card to the TSA person in the TSA Pre security line, and (in Canada) when showing ID to the gate agent when boarding the flight.

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-09-24 at 21:04

I’ve traveled a lot by air recently. I wore an N95 mask (3M Aura) on all flights and in airports. A couple of things: (1) N95 masks work really well! Even with the current high levels of COVID I remained healthy, despite twice sitting beside individuals who clearly had "summer colds”. (2) Nobody was weird about the mask, it was a non-issue. If you want to travel and not get sick then mask up. About 5% of travellers are masking, so you'll have company.

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-09-21 at 04:46

Gwynne Dyer: “No sirens are blaring, nobody even looks frightened, but they should be. Last week the world moved into uncharted territory. The ‘aspirational’ goal of never allowing the average global temperature to rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial norm (+1.5°C) has been breached for a whole year – and probably for ever.”

https://gwynnedyer.com/2024/uncharted-territory/

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Written by Douglas Patriarche on 2024-08-13 at 18:15

A cheery update on our heating climate from Gwynne Dyer:

“By August, if we’re still looking at record-breaking temperatures, then we really have moved into uncharted territory,” said climate scientist Gavin Schmidt in April. Well, 22 July was the hottest average global temperature ever recorded – and 23 July promptly broke that brand new record. Here we are in August, and it is not looking promising.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2024/climate-change-the-august-deadline

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