AndrewHenry

AndrewHenry, 2 days ago to random

Fort McMurray: be ready to evacuate

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-evacuation-alert-1.7201442

AndrewHenry, 4 days ago to random

I despair that Canadian first nations might put equity into unconventional nuclear. They are being poorly advised.

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“It’s not going to happen twice. So, we demand to be a part of the small modular reactors opportunity. We see tremendous opportunity and growth with this new technology.”

— Jim Ward, general manager, North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council

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#energytransition
@chrisnelder
https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/small-modular-reactors-game-changing-technology-says-north-shore-mikmaq-gm

AndrewHenry, 6 days ago to random

If only there was a way to prevent this.

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"What we are seeing is we have people being admitted for other things and then becoming infected with COVID in the hospital because of visitors or sharing a room," she said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/high-risk-albertans-covid-vaccine-1.7195855

AndrewHenry, 6 days ago to random

Insurance will become unaffordable.

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Climate, like a preexisting medical condition, has become uninsurable. It is now a risk of substantial loss that is growing – and increasingly certain, frequent, and correlated – and so insurance’s spreading and pooling qualities don’t work. If the annual known climate loss is $150bn and rising, yearly premiums cannot be much less without direct or cross-subsidies that no one is budgeting. It’s insurance, not magic.

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https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/05/03/seismic-shifts-are-underway-to-find-finance-for-loss-and-damage/

AndrewHenry, 10 days ago to random

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That connection, however, was not lost on U.S. Senator Ed Markey, a veteran Democrat and one of the co-authors of the Green New Deal. He introduced legislation earlier this year proposing stringent environmental rules designed to check the escalating carbon, water and land impact of the data centres required to handle the vastly more intensive processing requirements of applications powered by generative AI and large language models

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https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/canada-environmental-impact-ai/

AndrewHenry, 14 days ago to random

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Alberta's respiratory virus dashboard shows 25.1 per cent of Albertans received their flu shot this season, the lowest vaccination rate in the last decade.

“As a result we see unfortunately a record loss of life in the province."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-flu-death-toll-highest-in-15-years-1.7186261

AndrewHenry, 15 days ago to climate

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Normally, Evans said, his hunting spot is "teeming with wildlife," with three feet of water in some places. Now, it's dried up, with burns still obvious on the trees and ground.

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#drought #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/no-water-nwt-fort-smith-hunter-duck-hunting-no-ducks-1.7186313

AndrewHenry, 16 days ago to random

Having been extremely sick with Salmonella when I was a very fit 24 year old these rules are a very good step for public health.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/chicken-frozen-salmonella-usda-1.7186282

AndrewHenry, 18 days ago to random

Police Seek Criminal Charges Against Journalist

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The 27-year-old journalist was arrested on April 15 while covering a sit-in at the Scotiabank on McGill College Ave. Now, in what may be a first for the city, Montreal police are pursuing a charge of criminal mischief against her. It is the same charge facing 44 protesters who staged the sit-in to protest Scotiabank’s investment in Elbit — an Israeli defence contractor that is profiting from the war on Gaza.

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https://therover.ca/police-seek-criminal-charges-against-journalist-covering-gaza-protest/

AndrewHenry, 19 days ago to random

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"We know in the U.S. about 40 per cent of police families experience intimate partner violence, compared to about 10 per cent of the population," she said, noting a lack of Canadian statistics on the matter.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/paid-to-stay-home-one-third-officers-accused-gender-based-violence-1.7181385

CelloMomOnCars, 21 days ago to Batteries

"#Batteries the biggest player again as renewable records smashed in #California, reach 156 pct of load

Last week battery storage became, for the first time, the largest supply source in the evening peak of what is one of the world’s largest grids. On Tuesday, it discharged more than 6 GW for the first time, providing up to a 25 per cent share of supply, and was the biggest provider on the grid for two hours."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/batteries-the-biggest-player-again-as-renewable-records-smashed-in-california-reach-156-pct-of-load/

AndrewHenry, 25 days ago to random

Wrote something for the local, "Let’s call it the ‘climate inaction’ tax"

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Canada’s premiers have been riling up Canadians lately about the wrong climate tax. Stirring up anger over a tax on carbon pollution, a tax whose revenue is largely rebated back to Canadians, while the cost of climate inaction rises dramatically is something else, particularly when those premiers offer nothing in terms of policy or legislation to rapidly decarbonize their own provinces, ...

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https://www.lowdownonline.com/post/let-s-call-it-the-climate-inaction-tax

AndrewHenry, 28 days ago to random

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The residual blazes underscore how Canada’s energy industry -- underpinned by an oil-sands sector that produces some of the world’s dirtiest crudes — is increasingly imperiled by climate change. Hot, dry weather contributed to the country’s worst-ever wildfire season last year, darkening skies over New York and other US cities. And with over 65% of Canada abnormally parched or in drought at the end of March, the nation is bracing for another smoke-filled summer.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-15/-zombie-fires-smoldering-near-oil-and-gas-wells-threaten-canada-s-drillers

sos, 29 days ago to infosec

So, Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 systems and this is a disaster.

How can you push a tool that siphons data to a third party onto a security-critical system?

What privileges does it have upon install? Who thought this is a good idea? And most importantly, who needs this?

#infosec #security #openai #microsoft #windowsserver #copilot

AndrewHenry, 29 days ago to random

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For manufacturers, plug-in hybrid provides a way to keep selling heavy, capacious SUVs while remaining compliant with governmental emissions standards.

On paper PHEVs boast low emissions, but only if recharged daily as intended. However, a European Commission study found last month that they pollute much more than advertised because they are often not driven in electric mode, as regulators had assumed.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-12/electric-cars-plug-in-hybrid-suvs-are-in-vogue-but-watch-their-emissions?srnd=opinion

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to random

‘Not even a sound.’ Silent waterfall encapsulates NWT’s low water

#drought

https://cabinradio.ca/177574/news/environment/climate/not-even-a-sound-silent-waterfall-encapsulates-nwts-low-water/

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to random

An Iowa Fertilizer Plant Purchase Spurs Antitrust Concerns

Koch Industries is making a multi-billion-dollar play to purchase a massive fertilizer production facility in the state; some farmers and lawmakers are raising concerns about monopolization and high prices in an effort to halt the sale.

https://civileats.com/2024/04/08/an-iowa-fertilizer-plant-purchase-spurs-antitrust-concerns/

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to Ottawa

This park along the Rideau River in #Ottawa is usually flooded at Easter. In some years the floodwaters can be three to four feet deep in the park. This Spring after a short, warm winter with little snow the river is four feet below the river bank.

Sets the region up for #drought

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to random

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Over time, I started to better understand the intergenerational pain of being Palestinian. About why my dad, who moved from Jerusalem to Italy to study medicine in 1964, never graduated. This had always been a mystery to me, ---. Now, I saw that he could not function properly. Even at a geographic distance from Gaza, knowing what is taking place there places a huge toll on the emotional and cognitive resources of Palestinians in the diaspora.

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Paywall: https://www.ft.com/content/ded4cf0a-81ac-4caf-8977-e10dfe87ec2a

AndrewHenry, 2 months ago to random

Maybe electricity generation should be publicly owned.

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"Our government is committed to Alberta's unique and investor-driven energy-only market. However, the market's rules were designed 25 years ago, and some are no longer optimal for the system today," said Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf in a news release.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-government-announces-new-rules-for-power-generators-aimed-at-lowering-utility-bills-1.7140686

AndrewHenry, 2 months ago to climate

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At the end of the month, 71% of Canada was classified as Abnormally Dry (D0) or in Moderate to Exceptional Drought (D1 to D4), including 85% of the country's agricultural landscape.

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#drought #climatecrisis

https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions

stdevel, 2 months ago to linux

I was today years old when I learned that #sudo actually changed their logo (https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/) because of #XKCD 149 (https://xkcd.com/149/).
Love it.

#Linux

XKCD Comic Strip number 149. A person is sitting on the couch and talks to another person. Dialog: Make me sandwich. What? Make it yourself. sudo make me a sandwich. Okay.

AndrewHenry, 2 months ago to random

And so it begins...

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A large part of Île-Bizard and Île-Mercier are included in those areas, which were heavily flooded in both 2017 and 2019.

Desjardins said the risk is too high to continue offering mortgages to homes that have a five per cent chance or more of flooding each year, with some exceptions.

"The impacts of climate change, including water damage, are growing in importance and causing substantial damage," Desjardins said in a statement.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/desjardins-cuts-off-mortgages-1.7125435

AndrewHenry, 2 months ago to random

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The Colorado-based property owners allege that HRM Resources, a company backed by private equity group Kayne Anderson, bought uneconomic wells from Chevron and other producers and used a corporate restructuring and bankruptcy scheme to dodge its liability to properly close them down. ClientEarth, the non-profit legal group that filed the suit on Wednesday, said it was aimed at industry practices broadly.

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https://www.ft.com/content/00af1e5f-4120-4630-9053-d09296ad8d22