Scott Wahlstrom

Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are an increasingly common pediatric public health problem Electric bicycles (e-bikes) achieve higher speeds than pedal bicycles, but few studies have investigated the impact on injury rates specific to the pe…

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Kids who don’t even have a learners permit riding busy roadways on motorized vehicles without the experience or training to safely do so is exactly the kind of problem government should take note of, especially in the face of accumulating evidence of increased rates of injury to children.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

Are we turning the corner?
Proud
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There are enough chargers available in the northeast, that rates like this get a pass.

I see a lot of irresponsible behavior from younger riders just fooling around with friends and not very aware of the traffic around them in a setting that is not bike friendly and heavily traveled by motor vehicles.

To be clear, I bike the area frequently both recreationally and formerly to work.

This is more recent. Section 3.3.2: net zero emissions and implications on page 51 is relevant.

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I guess you don’t have to deal with roving packs of adolescents driving class 2 bikes on roads as if they were motorcycles. I’ve never seen one of them pedal.

White House to issue false report on Trump‘s health and mental state on Monday, October 13..

If we could even get to those benchmarks, we would’ve made significant progress compared to our current trajectory. The public might complain when temperatures don’t magically drop, but we would be so committed to cheaper,cleaner renewable energy that it may not matter.

Grim truth here.

That’s the way I remember it.

I believe that more recent work showed that temperatures could stabilize considerably faster than that, but I haven’t been able to retrieve the source. That said, the caveat you noted leave a lot of gray area.

Agreed on both accounts. But, that’s where we need to be in order to stabilize temperatures. As long as we rely on the oceans to absorb a significant amount of our emissions, we’re going to see that carbon again.

The IPCC discussed this in its 2001 synthesis, but the information is dated.

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My understanding based on recollection from earlier post by Zeke Hausfather is that once we hit net zero, the ocean and other system will begin to achieve a net absorption of CO2. This will result in a (slow) temperature reduction. Perhaps a couple of decades lag…

It’s a great story. Here’s a video that tells it in half an hour.

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Rediscovered by Alvarez in 1989. Discovered by Chevron in 1978 which kept the information proprietary because…well, you know…oil.

When you do the math, China is exporting 150% in energy products compared to what the US does.

And, those energy products deliver energy to their customers for decades. Ours are burned up in a moment.

Donald Trump is playing a losing game with US citizens dragged along as victim.

A pattern that is likely to change in future years.

They’re starting to feel that way, which is why there’s talk of an agricultural bail out to buy them back into the fold.

The best way to get beyond the "it's just politics" mentality is to avoid framing our current crisis as left vs. right and instead frame it as decency vs. indecency.

It’s part of the disease that advanced stage capitalism has become. All participants in society are trained from birth to serve the machine, while the machine returns less and less to them. That’s the profit motive driving the Ponzi scheme we live in.

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Educators saw damage from smart phones back when they were still flip phones. We watched it play out in schools in real time.

We’ve been ringing alarm bells for more than a decade, and the response has been to demonized education for “its” failures. It’s blaming the victim to benefit the wealthy.

Not Ai.
It has been on my roll forever.
The photog wrote a blog post about it.
You can find it.
Wild.

The Soviet Union fell once, in a time before social media, in the early nineties. The nuclear weapons were not used. We did not get a huge migration mess in Finland then.

What are we afraid of this time? History is on the correct side with the Ukrainians. Give them more support.

#SlavaUkraini

“If we lose the ability to treat TB with existing drugs, the whole world, including the United States, is at risk.”

Trump shooting executive orders from the hip is not a good substitute for thoughtful medical research policy.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Renewables overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year, a think tank analysis shows.

“Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use.”

U.S. and E.U. Holding back this trend with growing FF use.

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Nearly half of drivers killed in crashes had THC in their blood Over 40% of fatal crash victims had THC levels far above legal limits, showing cannabis use before driving remains widespread. The rate didn’t drop after legalization, suggesting policy changes haven’...

Canbabis Kills

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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Renewables overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year, a think tank analysis shows.

“Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use.”

U.S. and E.U. Holding back this trend with growing FF use.

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