Marci Baranski

Chappell Roan dolled up in a costume that makes her look like a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother

big pop culture news: Chappell Roan has undergone the spice agony, transmuted the Water of Life, and attained Reverend Mother status

food systems are the leading cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss on land, freshwater use, and overfishing, and the number two cause of climate change after energy use

Indonesia’s steel expansion risks a surge in greenhouse gas emissions JAKARTA — Indonesia’s steel industry is becoming one of the country’s fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, even as it receives far less public attention than other carbon-intensive…

Indonesia’s steel sector — already a major emitter — could grow far more polluting as global demand rises, a nonprofit report warns.

Coal-based production drives both climate emissions and local health risks, while current policies lack binding targets and enforcement.

Yes! I organized one for friends and family. I rented a space, ordered appetizers, and printed out a poster of my book cover. My friends brought a cake decorated like my book cover too. It wasn't for self-promotion, it was to recognize a milestone in my life. It was joyous and a great memory.

I never saw a street radiator in Chicago 😅

Also, I have questions 🤔

A street parking spot that's been shoveled out and someone has placed a patio chair and a metal radiator to reserve the spot. The radiator is on a wooden pallet.

Well that's a new one #DC.

excuse me, "croyons" ✅✅✅✅✅✅

It's been a longgggg two weeks to be stuck at home. Partner's been in Vietnam for most of it. Baby's been sick, I've been sick, it's been JUST GREAT 🙃🙃🙃

Going to attempt bringing the stroller outside after 2 weeks of near-impassable sidewalks on our walk to daycare. Still going to take the bus for most of it, but hopefully most of the intersections are clear enough by now.

But the other piece of evidence -- the point of this thread -- is that we now have an example of what it looks like when US political & corporate elites *really are* obsessed with and committed to something.

Namely: AI.

No owlettes. Just this adult with 2 Muppets. 🐣🪶

Good tips here!

One of the main things I've learned through experience and science is the difference between steaming and browning (by sauté or roasting)... Too many things in the pan = you only are cooking with steam and it won't get hot enough to brown.

Thinking more and more about how much certain actors are pushing us towards a post-truth, post-data world, a world driven purely by narratives and vibes

It's not good.

My husband watches football and I use it as an excuse to drink beer and eat snacks. I have no idea what's going on 🏈

My orchestra is having a makeup rehearsal on Sunday. When I realized it will be Superbowl Sunday, I also remembered that us orchestra people aren't really sports people 😅

What a week for my husband to be on work travel. Baby's first fever and now I threw out my back trying to clear some ice from our back steps 😩

The other day I put peanut butter on a raspberry bar. No one can stop me!

💻 Current bottom-up emission models for natural flooded ecosystems miss critical dynamics.
🌐 Many widely used models underestimated wetland and inland-water emissions and their dynamics during the surge, highlighting urgent gaps in monitoring wet ecosystems and microbial methane emission processes.

🌧️ Exceptionally wet conditions during a prolonged La Niña (2020–2023) boosted methane emissions from wetlands and inland waters, especially in tropical Africa and Southeast Asia, with additional increases in Arctic regions.

😷 COVID-19–related air pollution changes played a central role.
Reductions in nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) during pandemic lockdowns reduced OH levels, allowing methane to accumulate faster in the atmosphere.
🌿 Climate-driven wetland emissions amplified the surge.

The key findings are:
🧪 This early-2020s methane surge was mainly caused by a weakened atmospheric chemistry sink, not runaway emissions.
🌍 A temporary drop in hydroxyl (OH) radicals—the atmosphere's primary methane "cleanser" explains about 80–85% of the year-to-year variability in methane growth.

Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s The atmospheric methane (CH4) growth rate surged after 2019, peaking at 16.2 parts per billion per year (ppb year−1) in 2020 before declining to 8.6 ppb year−1 in 2023. Using multiple atmospheric inve...

The Methane spike in the early 2020’s has been explained in two new studies. A combination of weakened atmospheric removal and increased emissions from warming wetlands, rivers, lakes, and agricultural land are to blame.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 
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#methane

Philippines hosts new Asia-Pacific hub for sustainable agriculture, cuisine BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — For five days last November, the city of Bacolod in the central Philippine province of Negros Occidental became a crossroads of food cultures from across Asia and the Pacif...

Sent a freelance journalist for @mongabay.com to this event & his report is delicious

I'm seriously jealous ~ from forest honey to Taiwanese teas, he sampled so much goodness from around the Asia & Pacific region, which now has an #agroecology based @slowfoodhq.bsky.social hub in the #Philippines:

Jeffrey Epstein infiltrated science because it was ready to accommodate him What could “nerd tunnel vision” possibly mean?

From 2019: Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money.

As more of Epstein’s enablers are uncovered, it’s worth asking why it was so easy for him to infiltrate science in the first place.

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And just like that, got a message from daycare that baby has a fever 😩

I realized one reason I like being a parent way more than I expected is that I thrive in chaos. One reason I loved and miss Bangkok! ADHD life 😆

That pre-bus Diet Coke hits different.

Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth.

(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)