@katkadav.bsky.social
Wisconsin writer and native plant gardener. Kept by birds. katherineanndavis.com
Northern Lights tonight
13.11.2025 04:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Given Trump's destruction of the White House, was thinking, "Maybe Dems should propose that when President OAC takes power they'll move the Capitol to Denver, make DC and PR a state, and rebuild from the start."
Just as a way to use Trump's destruction as a way to talk about HOW to rebuild.
Wildfire activity has increased in the US and is projected to accelerate under future climate change. However, our understanding of the impacts of climate change on wildfire activity, smoke, and health outcomes remains highly uncertain, due to the difficulty of modeling the causal chain from climate to wildfire to air pollution and health. Here we quantify the mortality burden in the US due to wildfire smoke fine particulate matter (PM2.5) under climate change. We construct an ensemble of statistical and machine learning models that link climate to wildfire smoke PM2.5, and empirically estimate smoke PM2.5 mortality relationships using data on all recorded deaths in the US. We project that smoke PM2.5 could result in 71,420 excess deaths (95% CI: 34,930 - 98,430) per year by 2050 under a high warming scenario (SSP3-7.0) - a 73% increase relative to estimated 2011-2020 average annual excess deaths from smoke. Cumulative excess deaths from smoke PM2.5 could reach 1.9 million between 2026-2055. We find evidence for mortality impacts of smoke PM2.5 that last up to three years after exposure. When monetized, climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US. Our research suggests that the health impacts of climate-driven wildfire smoke could be among the most important and costly consequences of a warming climate in the US.
In the US, PM₂.₅ from wildfire smoke already kills about the same number of people as guns and cars (~40k each), but this will increase significantly with climate change. 😐
19.09.2025 12:41 — 👍 124 🔁 49 💬 4 📌 4
You have just 3 weeks to object to the Roadless rule rollback.
Link to USDA public comments here:
A fluffy cat sits on the back of a sofa
Happy Caturday from Rosie-bug and all her fluff
21.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Public lands are just that: public, and owned by the taxpayer. Republicans want to auction them off to the highest bidder to pay for their billionaire tax cuts. Hell no.
16.06.2025 18:37 — 👍 1059 🔁 327 💬 43 📌 18You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway.
I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many
Vescovo part 1: Deep sea mining is an untried, technically difficult, very expensive and financially risky experiment to secure only two scarce metals produced from seabed mining: nickel and cobalt….
Vescovo part 2: The US, defender of the world’s ocean for the past 80 years, should not itself become a rouge maritime state just for the sake of seafloor mining which is not needed.
Vescovo part 3: Do the math, look hard at the actual need for sea-derived nickel and cobalt, the major difficulty of executing it at depths greater than where the Titanic lay, and save America from the inevitable embarrassment, waste, and destruction of deep sea mining’s inevitable FAILURE.
Thankful to my friend & colleague Victor Vescovo for his important statement on #DeepSeaMining in light of all the recent attention, including US efforts to pursue it outside of international law. In short, DSM will NOT achieve the economic or national security goals people think it will!!! 🌊 🦑
28.04.2025 01:34 — 👍 113 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 2Excited to see this effort getting more traction, and we can't wait for the outcome!!
Just a note to everyone -- Data rescues are not "stealing" data. U.S. federal data is in the public domain for all to use, reuse, and re-package. So ... Have at it.
IT IS YOUR #DATA! It is the people's data!
Today I am planning a new flowerbed for butterfly and moth host plants, plus supporting public lands however I can. I'm also going to contact my reps re: the destruction of planet and public safety for profit.
22.04.2025 15:24 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0If you receive one of these bizarre, unethical, poorly written letters from Ed Martin, please send it to me so that I can write about how bizarre, unethical, and poorly written it is.
Signal: annabower.24
Email: anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
I was proud to vote for Crawford today 💙
02.04.2025 03:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for doing that.
31.03.2025 17:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I received it too and reported it to Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and Law Forward. I was just searching Bluesky to see if anyone else had gotten it.
31.03.2025 17:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A monarch butterfly freshly emerged from its chrysalis. It flew away, healthy, a couple hours later.
A thing helping me cope right now: planning to plant more host plants for butterflies & moths
Local host plants: nativeplantfinder.nwf.org
Local native plant nurseries: wildones.org
www.xerces.org/milkweed/mil...
As a caterpillar, this monarch ate butterflyweed & eclosed on sweet black-eyed susan
A cat with her toes stretched out in front of her
Rosie toes on this Caturday
29.03.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you help Judge Crawford win this race, it'll make Republicans much less scared of Elon Musk.
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Easing my way in here with another cat post. Anyway, she's adorable
07.03.2025 06:09 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I call that her little smudge!
03.03.2025 06:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rosie bug, or the world's cutest cat
03.03.2025 05:47 — 👍 35 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
