Mark Vossler, MD (he/him)

40 years after we won a Nobel for warning of nuclear war, threat returns | Op-Ed Nuclear war creates the ultimate untreatable public health emergency. Prevention is not only the best option, it is the only option.

The threat of nuclear war still looms. Op-ed from my friends at WPSR www.seattletimes.com/opinion/an-o...

Another reminder that our continued fossil fuel use endangers human health & wellbeing

Northwest floods offer sneak peek of hotter climate's toll “The science is clear that floods are going to become larger and more frequent in the future,” Washington State Climatologist Guillaume Mauger said.

I talked to @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW about adapting to increasingly strong atmospheric rivers, and that reducing risk ultimately requires tackling GHG emissions.

"If we don't do that, atmospheric rivers are going to keep growing stronger...It's going to overwhelm our ability to respond.”

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The Environmental Movement was Built on Assumptions of Racism; the Way Forward is Telling the Truth… The NYT’s recent article on the Sierra Club offered more reductionist conclusions than facts about the evolution of one of the oldest…

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The obsession with the price of gas in this country. lol. People could be paying double for everything and losing their freedoms but if they fill up the F-150 on the cheap, it's all worth it. My household spends about $100 a month on gas...it doesn't even crack the top 10 spend.

Western Washington is currently experiencing record flooding from a series of strong atmospheric rivers. 12 rivers are at major flood stage. 100,000 people await evacuation orders.

Will some places see less severe climate impacts than others? Yes. Does anywhere promise safe haven? Absolutely not.

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TONIGHT: @adamsmith.house.gov joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

40 years after we won a Nobel for warning of nuclear war, threat returns | Op-Ed Nuclear war creates the ultimate untreatable public health emergency. Prevention is not only the best option, it is the only option.

The threat of nuclear war still looms. Op-ed from my friends at WPSR www.seattletimes.com/opinion/an-o...

Events | Congressman Adam Smith

REMINDER: Join my office for an Energy Efficiency Webinar on tomorrow, Wednesday December 10 at 10 a.m.

Violence over water resources reaches record levels The number of violent events over water resources reported in 2024 was nearly 20 percent higher than 2023 and nearly 80 percent higher than 2022.

My piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the rapid and widespread increase in violence over #water resources in the past several years.
Record levels reported in 2024.

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Libertarians: Desire all the comforts and benefits of civilization while advocating it is no one's responsibility to contribute to civilization.

Not seeing recommendations change for the better under the current know nothing administration but you have a valid point. Why wait? Why not vaccinate all adults.

Absolutely. Many of my older patients had shingles in the pre vaccine days. One guy told me once that at least the pain from his heart attack & kidney stone didn’t last for years. Shingles is awful

PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.

Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.

On FB? I get right wing political ads & constant updates from this guitar player group that was once good but now is a kindergarten for emotionally repressed middle aged men who don’t know jack about playing music

Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.

More details in the article below

The Ellison family has promised Trump that if they get to purchase Warner Bros then they will revamp CNN to make it more friendly to his administration.

It remains to be seen if Netflix can match that offer.

Hey the WA health care peeps. We could use your support

Thank you!

Health orgs wrote letters asking Sec. Noem to exempt health care workers from the new $100K H-1B visa fee. There's been no response.

Learn about a rural hospital that may have to pay the fee after it received job apps from international but no American lab techs.

My latest:

Any words of reassurance? @texaspsr.bsky.social @ttu.edu @katharinehayhoe.com

My daughter, who graduated w/degrees in aquatic biology & environmental studies, has just finished a brief research internship & has an opportunity to work as a research assistant at Texas Tech. She is worried about not fitting in as an Asian woman w/ somewhat progressive political views. Thoughts?

11. It’s not just that people are wasting their time. "Population concern” also distracts people from things we *can* change. And, in many cases, transfers blame for the huge consumption impacts of wealthy people to Black and Brown people in poorer nations. At worst it’s straight-up racism. 11/12

Instead of focusing on elitist issues, like affordability, Democrats need to focus on the issues that Americans really care about, like pictures of trans people on cases of light beer.

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

This is a good article about the relentless onslaught of climate disinformation that distorts US and global politics.

I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”

For example…

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

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Dear American Media. This is not that hard to do.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

“Why wait 15 years for the Sackler Family Cartel to pay out $6.5 billion in damages for the millions of lives they destroyed by getting patients addicted to painkillers like OxyContin when the world could have their $11 billion+ fortune now? Besides, we can’t put it all on orcas to take them down.”