Kamil Kisiel

Looks wicked!

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. 😐

Hah that’s funny. People in America on the east coast have the tendency to drop the “New” and just call it Jersey as well so I assumed…

That makes a lot more sense though :)

I’ve only been to New Jersey a few times when I was younger but somehow never had any exposure to seafood there. Looks great though!

Portraits of a woman with a lot of grit.

I gave my family in Poland some indigenous art prints. They really cherish them and it’s something extremely unique to have on that side of the world. Also supports first nations artists.

Can’t Rx that out?

They were not interested in solving the problems we identified as the biggest issues we had, they wanted to use AI to "solve" problems we basically don't have.

I am involved in a project where one party wanted domain information for a possible hackathon: they asked for problems we would like to solve, so we sent them a bunch.

They came back to us and said "how can we reword this so we can use AI in the hackathon"

Why must the NDP be such villains.

Why is the video private?

The industry lost a legend today

Oh no...RIP Paul T Schrieber. He was the man behind Synthesis Technology, an important synth module maker for both #Eurorack and Moog/5U formats. He was REALLY good to me as a customer, and funny as hell. Heck, he bought one of my DOOM/Moog t-shirts.

Sympathies to his friends and family.

Went to a gathering of musicians at someone’s house today. Brought an empty guitar case and forgot the stand for my partner’s cymbals. Still managed to play, but definitely left our brains somewhere else today.

As a Canadian of Polish / Ukrainian background… yeah..

I think the US has already lost Canada. Generations of trust wasted in a few months.

Period.

Oops, that’s in Vigilante

Love the samples from „Falling Down” in this.