The world is entering an era of “water bankruptcy.” 💧 😪
People are now using so much fresh water amid the consequences of climate change that we're in an era of water bankruptcy, with many regions no longer able to bounce back from frequent water shortages. ⬇️
The world is entering “water bankruptcy,” UN researchers warn — draining rivers, aquifers and glaciers far faster than nature can replace them.
With 4 billion people already facing seasonal water scarcity, scientists say the crisis is now one of irreversible damage, not shortage alone.
Major #wildfires are breaking out across the Great Plains right now with a massive heat dome en route - a potentially disastrous combination. Re-upping this gift article as a PSA: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/o... @billmckibben.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @dwallacewells.bsky.social
Two police cars and two NT Emergency Service crews travel on the flooded Victoria Highway after assisting with the rescue of a man and his dog stranded in raging flood waters on a creek crossing west of Katherine. When roads are closed, only emergency services vehicles are allowed to proceed.
Protecting (and restoring) peatlands is a powerful climate solution.
Check it out!
«Le Devoir» de cité | Un Québec fou de ses VUS: ✱ Nos routes toujours en construction et congestionnées, ce n’est pas la faute des vélos.
A cool policy in the 1970s oil crisis in the Netherlands was the car free Sunday:
When you give kids the space to play, they'll take it
BUILD HOUSING YOU UTTER GOON
Une mise en garde utile: ce logiciel peut faire disparaître vos fichiers en un clin d’œil…
3/ But that's simply not true. CS/tech has a number of features that are completely unlike those in every other field.
Sometimes, other fields can learn from CS/tech. more often, CS/tech needs to STFU and listen to other fields.
WSJ: OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago
By Georgia Wells
ChatGPT maker opted against informing authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Dans ce contexte-ci, je ne pense pas que Mark Carney utilisait "truth" dans le sens de vérité, mais plutôt pour désigner les commentaires sur Truth Social: help.truthsocial.com/truth-social...
Looks we are in the same situation at McMaster. All schools closed in Halton, Hamilton and Niagara but the powers at Mac that be have until tomorrow morning to make an announcement. Nothing so far
If anyone still had any doubt about Windows 11 being nothing but clunkware: www.zdnet.com/article/wind...
I am a climate scientist and this is correct.
As the planet warms, storms like the one today are getting stronger… and as the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the mid latitudes, it increases the risk of the “freezer door” swinging open.
Technical explanation here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I'm currently looking for an MSc student to characterize water ages and storage in cold catchments. Several potential projects available, and I will support students who want to develop their own! If interested, please reach out soon at akgrewal@usask.ca, as Sept 2026 app deadlines are approaching!
None of this talk about a brain gain makes any sense unless funding for research is dramatically increased across the board in Canada.
Interesting read from Art Berman: " Climate change, overshoot, ... They’re symptoms of a single mistaken stance toward reality: the belief that we stand apart from the living world, entitled to treat it as backdrop, warehouse, and waste bin until it pushes back." www.artberman.com/blog/the-met...
This is 100% BS
A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
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And now NCAR. Science, on all fronts, is in tatters. The regression leaves the country and the world much worse off. Recovery from this damage to the United States will take decades.
And you *definitely* don't do it by *cutting* already poor funding at home.
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You *don't* do it by spending $1.7 billion to recruit internationally while funding continues to stagnate at woefully insufficient levels at home.
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The way to make Canada a top global science leader is to a) prevent brain drain, and b) make it a go-to for the best researchers from around the world. You do this by having very robust, stable, and internationally competitive funding across the board -- not by huge one-time recruitment efforts.
Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
J'imagine Bernard Drainville: "Lâchez-moi avec les normes environnementales!"
