#Burning

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

2M acres of California have burned so far this yearBut *4.4 - 12M* acres (!) burned each year in *pre-industrial* timesIt is gross misinformation to blame climate change for our

clark 🍄🌲

bogspectre

Some thoughts on the way history is taught, the way history is understood, and a 15th century axe head that nearly moved me to tears Teaching history from the top

Tom Le

profTLe

Recently my family became the faculty-in-residence at Pomona College. It's a big deal not just because of the opportunity to get to know students at a deeper level, but also

कौसल्या सुप्रजा

KausalyaSupraja

Why christians and musIims shouldn't and can't be celebrating Pongal?Short answer: Pongal is strictly a Hindu festival. In other states, it is known as Makara Sankranti, Lohri, etc among Hindu

BoozyBarrister

BoozyBarrister

In 1954 Carl and Anne Braden purchased a home in Shively, a suburban community of Louisville, Kentucky, for the Wade family. The Wades, an African-American family, were "color-lined" out of

colinpurrington

colinpurrington

Thanks to @Cataranea's questions on Spartan Mosquito's Facebook page, it seems confirmed that for the Pro Tech's @EPA registration, efficacy data from experiments conducted outside were not submitted. It's unclear

Detention Solidarity Network

detsolnet

Hello, we are @aimanjkhan & @GuneetKaurAhuja. Today, we will discuss how #UAPA gives wide powers to the government to facilitate prolonged incarceration of human rights defenders, & gives the police

ロコちゃん - hereticalupdate.substack.com

RokoMijicUK

The UK is clearly in decline. Many ordinary people are being charged ruinous sums of money for in-person patrols by fire wardens due to risks from flammable cladding, installed by

Whit 🦄

whit4th

"If you want to learn how to juggle, you have to drop an enormous amount of balls.If you want to learn how to be creative, you have to show me

Peter Apps

PeteApps

Lunchtime update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:President of French company which sold cladding for Grenfell accepts company told a "misleading half truth" by concealing serious fire test failure from certifiers

Siim Kuresoo

SiimKuresoo

ThreadA common industry claim is: only trees that “have no other use” are used in bioenergy. Difficult to counter if we don´t know the actual trees we are talking about.

Christopher Bingham

helloiambing

Woke up to discover this new #stopDMCA outrage. You can’t ‘stop’ DMCA. It’s a piece of legislation that was passed 20 years ago, not a band of street toughs. I’ve

Regina N. Bradley, Ph.D.

redclayscholar

You doing the academic book thing? Dope! A thread.1. Do your homework. Sometimes the most prestigious academic press that (more) established scholars fawn over ain't meant for your research. Peep

Eve Tushnet

evetushnet

Oh hey, it's a saint-statue controversy I have opinions about. Short thread.https://www.jta.org/2020/06/29/united-states/catholic-archdiocese-defends-statue-of-king-louis-ix-the-namesake-of-st-louis-who-persecuted-jews Canonization is n

Sierra Club Virginia Chapter

vasierraclub

There’s some confusion about our opposition to @Emmett_Hanger’s SB1164 (about chemical conversion but falsely referred to as “recycling”). So we’re happy to clarify why the bill has serious consequences and

Pauline.

kot_hacker

It's always in our best interest to blame social norms on the upcoming youth. After a bit of web scrapping I am convinced Kenyans Generation X and millennials shouldn't blame

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