The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than thisβ¦
15.10.2025 19:17 β π 1151 π 408 π¬ 22 π 7@mikebadzmierowski.bsky.social
Ph.D. in soil and climate change | systematic reviews | data hawk | science comm | PDX | he/him
The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than thisβ¦
15.10.2025 19:17 β π 1151 π 408 π¬ 22 π 7Calling all scientists and science supporters! You can help make Saturday's No Kings the biggest day of protest in modern American history. Find an event near you and raise your voice for the facts, evidence, and truth we need to protect our democracy. #NoKings
15.10.2025 15:00 β π 53 π 27 π¬ 0 π 2Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
14.10.2025 22:42 β π 2884 π 1574 π¬ 114 π 84The. FUCK.
15.10.2025 01:21 β π 82 π 17 π¬ 2 π 0Maybe crushed rock will pull carbon from the air. Maybe itβll poison the soil, the lungs, or both. Desperation is being cloaked as βclimate innovation.β Hubris and haste are starting to rhyme.
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you allππΎ) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and moreβ¦ all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
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Trump got his COVID and flu vaccines and so should you
11.10.2025 15:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Do NOT CAVE DEMS! Hold the line! @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
09.10.2025 17:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ok, this is just funny.
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A preliminary injunction hearing may follow later this month and the facts on the ground matter.
If a right wing influencer with a camera is trying to goad you into a fight, there is a reason for that, and the reason is we could lose our legal standing to stop the feds from coming in.
Just horrible
04.10.2025 02:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just a reminder, Portland is the best U.S. city to live in. Just my biased FACT
03.10.2025 19:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In the budget proposal for NASA submitted earlier this year, the Trump admin proposed cancelling more than 40 missions, including 14 Earth science missions.
Agency employees have already been instructed to do the preparatory work for ending these satellite and instrument programs
As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
27.09.2025 15:01 β π 7443 π 2387 π¬ 274 π 82Importantly, Portlanders, avoid violence!
27.09.2025 16:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βHe has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
βHe has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.β
-Declaration of Independence
IMPEACH THIS WANNABE DICTATOR (and keep the troops out of my city)
27.09.2025 16:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm not an expert here but Iβd be curious about what recycling at scale is? It shouldnβt just mean shredding factory scraps. I feel like Redwood was born where, real scale = taking old EV packs, refining them back into new battery-grade materials, and selling those in a true circular recycling.
26.09.2025 22:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβd ask if they can actually recycle a battery yet? Itβs good that they are extending the battery life for a second purpose, but billions has been invested for the purpose to recycle a battery. Where are they at on that?
26.09.2025 18:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0BREAKING ππ‘π
The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3Β°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050!
Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action
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@schumer.senate.gov please, please do NOT cave again!!
25.09.2025 05:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More importantly what is the stronger lever to reduce emissions from ammonia production!? REDUCE THE EXCESSIVE NITROGEN APPLICATIONS! Each lb of N you donβt apply avoids two things at once:
1. the soil NβO from that lb of fertilizer
2. the factory COβ from not making it.
The IEA recommends direct electrification wherever feasible. Until, wherever these green ammonia plants are sited have sustained excess energy, it would be a bad choice and likely lead to increased GHG emissions due to opportunity costs
24.09.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Because of the extra conversion steps using what is *currently* insufficient clean electricity (about to get worse with all the data centers coming online), you get less bang for your dollar/energy to put renewables towards βgreenβ ammonia compared to directly electrifying cars and heat pumps.
24.09.2025 00:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There are other more energy requirements for the βgreenβ approach (i.e., a little more drying and compression needed) but this is about a few more percent loss of energy. But the splitting of water is the biggest increase of energy needed to create ammonia compared to current methods.
24.09.2025 00:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βGreenβ ammonia usually needs more total energy than gas-based ammonia. Fossil gas supplies both hydrogen atoms and heat. Whereas βgreenβ route you must first split water with electricity, then run Haber-Bosch. Splitting water is like prying apart super strong magnets, it takes a lot of energy!
24.09.2025 00:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0First, βgreenβ ammonia will be notoriously difficult to prove in the short term (additional renewable power, directly sourced from nearby grid, production match 100% of renewable consumption hourly.
24.09.2025 00:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0While, eventually the U.S. should shift to βgreenβ ammonia for fertilizer production, it should not be viewed as a strong strategy in the near term.
24.09.2025 00:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Commercially available sensing technology to detect small parts per billion leaks are unavailable at this time which is needed to detect and quantify climate impacts. A 2024 U.S. DOE report notes most commercial βsafetyβ sensors bottom out at parts per million and that barriers exist for ppb sensors
23.09.2025 21:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Second, hydrogen gas is the smallest (size/weight) molecule in the universe. Preventing leakage across any sector in everyday use will be impossible. The question becomes how much? And what government body and third party verifications will we trust to ensure leakage remains near 0 to avoid warming?
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