Dominique Bachelet

right. Who would have any confidence in federal agencies while the ruling fuhrer plays with them enjoying the chaos. Fired today, rehired today, re-fired tomorrow?

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Merci de la part des scientifiques Americains. Your gesture is well appreciated.

Merci pour le support des scientifiques Americains

Super! Merci les Lyonnais :-)

#standupforscience

Standing up for science today!

American scientists were getting support from French and Italian scientists also today standing up for Science. Good show in Corvallis, Newport and Salem in Oregon.

Trump fires hundreds working on weather forecasts, satellite data and radar systems The terminations come days before a potential severe weather outbreak in the southeastern U.S. — and just months ahead of the next Atlantic hurricane season.

The National Weather Service and other branches of NOAA are vital for ensuring public safety and sustained livelihoods and quality of life. Elected officials are not always aware of the practical consequences of changing the capacity of these agencies. wapo.st/4hX87ZQ

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#StandWithUkraine

Dangerous and so cruel

Shameful indeed. Humiliating and degrading. How can those people be in charge and represent America. At this point I think we need all the people in the street calling foul.

There are days when I am really proud to still be a French citizen. When did US Congressmen lose their backbones?

Teaching students climate change is happening and acknowledged outside the US

private funding?

Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

More true every day

words of wisdom.

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

"Recoup the costs" The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025.
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

The only war that Putin is winning is inside Trump’s head. Putin only wins the war on the ground by setting American policy, through Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Argentina withdraws negotiators from Cop29 summit Move adds to concerns about the stability of the Paris agreement after the election in the US of Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high Despite nations’ pledges at Cop28 a year ago, the burning of coal, oil and gas continued to rise in 2024

Reality check:
#climatechange
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This year has been masterclass in human destruction, UN chief tells Cop29 António Guterres says global heating is super-charging disasters while climate official warns of ‘inflation on steroids’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Survival of the richest: Trump, climate and the logic of the doomsday bunker | Jonathan Watts The climate crisis created the setting for Trump’s economy-first win and it’s the global south that will suffer most

Doomsday scenario becoming reality soon ...
#climatechange
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought Crops have failed in several countries, with 27m people at risk of hunger according to World Food Programme

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Bar chart showing the number of immigrants in several high-income countries — the total number of immigrants and the number without legal status. Immigrants without legal status are a small minority in most countries — though the US stands out, with an estimated 22% of its immigrant population lacking legal status.

Immigration: how do countries measure it, and how accurate is this data?