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> New research suggests Sonoran Desert toads went into steep decline after stories of their mind-bending chemical properties began circulating among drug users.
LifeProTip: if you're seriously considering licking a toad to get high, you're doing it wrong.
People hear about the chemtrails conspiracy theory, look up, see contrails, and then blame them for their cat doing something weird, being attracted to the same sex, headaches, etc because of the conspiracy theory. Some basic knowledge helps avoid that, hence the website describing contrails.
I prefer to figure out what's true and not based on the strength of the evidence. Baseless conspiracy theories are baseless no matter who promotes or debunks them.
You could of course have a pricing policy that gives out enough to run a heat pump and normal household activities for each household for near-nothing, subsidized by industry.
This graph is why:
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Fireflies are vulnerable to climate change and habitat loss. A few landscaping tricks and turning off porch lights can make a big difference.
> Fireflies are vulnerable to climate change and habitat loss. Some simple landscaping tricks and turning off porch lights can make a big difference.
Not every article is going to cover everything
I recommend thinking about how to evaluate truth without depending on trust.
Border patrol and US Customs and Border Protection respond to protesters with chemical munitions
> The agency took the unusual step of creating websites debunking the conspiracy theory that chemicals are being sprayed in the sky to control the weather or do other things.
The websites are:
Apparently this conspiracy theory was too bonkers for even the Trump regime.
> The agency took the unusual step of creating websites debunking the conspiracy theory that chemicals are being sprayed in the sky to control the weather or do other things.
The websites are:
Apparently this conspiracy theory was too bonkers for even the Trump regime.
> The agency took the unusual step of creating websites debunking the conspiracy theory that chemicals are being sprayed in the sky to control the weather or do other things.
The websites are:
Apparently this conspiracy theory was too bonkers for even the Trump regime.
“Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk," writes Katharine Hayhoe.
A three-year transportation committee member says he could lose his role over his advocacy against highway widening projects.
The longest and rarest heat waves — which can last for weeks — show the greatest increase in frequency.
- Each fraction of a degree of warming will have a bigger impact than the last on lengthening heat waves, with the most extreme heat waves lengthening the most.
- Tropical regions will see larger changes than temperate regions, and summer heat waves will lengthen more than winter warm spells.
- Researchers led by UCLA and the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Santiago, Chile, developed an equation that has the flexibility to analyze one region or to gain additional broad insight by analyzing multiple regions as a whole.
The paper is here
By anti-government, they mean opposed to the idea that government can do positive things for people, not opposed to the current government.
Not if we don't try
Its on us to change out our government with one that is full of people who think that government exists to improve peoples' lives.
In leaked audio from a meeting last month, gas industry representatives acknowledged that extreme weather is getting wackier and more dangerous.
This is a national problem, not just a Texas one.
Nah. Deported before the event to ensure that somebody whiter wins
As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash...
> An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.
Yes. You can get a few hundred watts. It wont be enough to supply 100% of electrical needs, but its enough to make a meaningful difference
Also, a lot of burning stuff happens along the way during plastic manufacturing
A lot of them are quite intelligent and had a soul once. They just pledged it to evil.
I think they wanted it to be a bit less blatant — they took down this version and Yaccarino resigned
The kind of person who would use X
It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely
They're a small group that has been pushing the same lies for the fossil fuels industry for decades. The oldest got their start pushing cigarettes and denying that those cause cancer
There's a preview of that, but link points to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=c1JLM5vSU5FaaTvxtMmEpcpUxc9MKWWfcr6Ifc8rD3w
Im not sure, but its common for canyons like they were in to simply not have cell service, and Texas has a history of doing statewide alerts for local issues, so a lot of people simply disabled the alerts.
To be clear: DAC is at best a small and expensive part of what needs doing right now. Its basically an R&D project at this point, which gets marketed as the One True Solution by the fossil fuels industry because that marketing creates social permission to keep on extracting and burning.