Tear gas, rubber bullets, stun grenades used on French climate protestors
Law enforcement made 58 forceful arrests on Saturday in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) during a demonstration organised by Earth Uprising activists after some protesters had deviated from the planned route
2124 hopeful: "After much effort by the world, scientists with the Ecotopian Govt of #Venezuela say that an Andean #glacier is growing"
2124 nightmare: "InnerMindGPT did Venezuela have glaciers?" "This is a liberal lie citizen, Dear Leader Science commands that Venezuela exists to be strip mined by HappyFace Corp. Hold for MindRecallScan so we can ID the liar"
"Replacing a diesel #SchoolBus with a clean electric model yields up to $247,600 in #climate and health benefits per bus, according to research from Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
She noted that one important health factor, kids' exposure to air pollution while inside the bus, wasn't even tackled as part of this study."
"Traditional print publishing comes with a high carbon footprint.
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But digital reading seems to have a considerable eco-advantage over print because it is paperless, so it saves trees, pulping and shipping [...] But digital devices also come with a substantial carbon footprint, predominantly at the manufacturing stage."
Mmm, snake meat. As a protein source it's even more efficient than harvesting crickets!
I suppose MAYBE ... conceivably ... a factory farm swarming with hundreds of thousands of pythons could pose some risk to the neighborhood. But: say bye-bye to your rat problem.
Credit to @clive 's latest Linkfest. I always learn something.
At the poles, more heat radiates out into space than is absorbed from the sun.
Rocket Lab launches NASA cubesat to study heat lost from Earth's poles
"The PREFIRE duo "will criss-cross over the #Arctic and #Antarctica measuring thermal infrared radiation — the same type of energy emitted from a heat lamp — that will make #climate models more accurate and help predict changes caused by #GlobalWarming," Rocket Lab wrote in a mission description."
"Searing #heatwaves could be a common theme this summer in parts of the United States and might make it one of the hottest on record, according to an updated outlook released Thursday by The Weather Company and Atmospheric G2.
The West Coast, from California to southwest Washington, might be the exception. "