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This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

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Morning flood tide of people to #egu25

My poster is up now. Come on by, hall x5.182. #egu25

He must be looking at different numbers than Wall Street is

Bits of the earth for sale to earth scientists at #EGU25

A few people enjoying #EGU25

On my way to #egu25

Federal employees need to hear from Democratic members of Congress and from civil society that they will be defended for obeying Congress's orders and the Constitution when the order comes from Trump to break their oaths and violate the law.

Hundreds of thousands. Plus as many or more contractors

Oops. Didn't notice the 7 am start. My eyes don't open that early

"Oh lord", the judge replied.

Seems fair on both sides

Writers have a saying that if you really love a sentence you wrote, you should delete it. Only the author really loves it.

I can't run myself ATM, but course marshall or gear spotter is doable. Glad to help

Free atmosphere -- you burn the gasoline and populate the free atmosphere with the resultant CO2 at 425 ppm, with the atmosphere having been initially CO2-free. (trying to keep it simple)

Your take on the NCSE's 'Project Steve'?

Question from Friday's classroom visit about removing CO2 from the atmosphere. I'll ask a variant for the more highly educated crowd here:

What is the volume ratio between, e.g., 1 kg gasoline and the CO2 you get by burning it in the atmosphere at 425 ppm?

This has been studied -- people estimate percentages to be towards 50%. If the actual number is tiny, it produces a gross overestimate. If the actual number is near 100%, it produces a gross under-estimate.

Similar distortions occur for estimating % over 6' tall, iirc

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Thing was, our mother (not a scientist) raised us with the essentials for being a scientist -- an interest in learning more about the world, and a willingness to update what we think is true based on evidence.

Friday I took part in the Great American Teach In. Amusing to me: the teacher (jr high science) was my sister, the other guests were my other sister (nutrition) and my niece (recent PhD in computational evolution). No, being a scientist or science educator was not a family requirement. 1/2

My son and a few others

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First one I used was a Wang 8k -- 8192 bytes of ram with about 1800 of it taken up by the system. 5.25 inch floppy disk storing over 100,000 bytes! Who could use all that space !?

More seriously, I also wrote my first AIML program on it -- it learned to play '21 sticks'.

That isn't pessimistic so much as depression. Pointless, 'doesn't matter what I do', 'why bother' and many other common phrases in political discourse, are classic depressive statements.

Thanks Josh. Also here from sci.environment days is @mtobis.bsky.social

Got it. Still need a larger picture.

Recently did my first talk to a non-specialist audience since Covid. I still like doing so. What made this one particularly fun was an engaged audience with lots of questions.

If you're looking, or know someone who is looking, for a scientist to talk weather and/or climate, I'm often available.

Please add me to the list. I've already followed your starter pack.