Notices by David Ho (davidho@mastodon.world), page 2

Adding the flamethrower-wielding robot dog to my wish list because what could go wrong? 🤷🏻♂️

https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/

You’re not closing the street to cars, you’re opening it to people.

“A new study of more than 45,000 water samples around the world found that ~31% of groundwater samples tested that weren’t near any obvious source of contamination had #PFAS levels considered harmful to human health by the Environmental Protection Agency.

“High levels of exposure to some PFAS chemicals have been linked to higher cholesterol, liver and immune system damage, hypertension & pre-eclampsia
during pregnancy, as well as kidney & testicular cancer.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01402-8

Behold the longest tunnel specifically built for biking and walking.

I'm fascinated by who operates MethaneSAT and how it's funded. Is this the future?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090025/methanesat-satellite-launch-spacex-bezos-fund-google-map-methane-edf

Instead of fixing the gun problem, we have active shooter drills.

Instead of fixing infrastructure and car bloat, we have this 👇.

Did I do this right?

This line from Don’t Look Up perfectly encapsulates what is special about Earth, and why we should fight for it.

Evolution of intelligent life requires a planet that’s continuously habitable for 3 or 4 billion years.

That such a planet exists is a miracle.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00057-8

If capitalism is so perfect, why do we have to give so many subsidies to corporations?

"A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of 'nanoplastics' — plastic particles so small they can potentially gum up the machinery of human cells." 🧐

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4395725-bottled-water-nanoplastics-potential-health-risks-study/

Because I needed another reason to never fly on a 737 MAX.

Read every word. Decarbonization has to come first. #CDR is only for legacy and residual emissions.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/12/1085178/two-former-department-of-energy-staffers-warn-were-doing-carbon-removal-all-wrong/

Breaking: Natural intelligence solves problems in a similar way to artificial intelligence made to mimic natural intelligence. 🙄

This bonkers story about how a former DJ sold thousands of airplane engine components with bogus documentation that are installed in airplanes worldwide might be a good inspiration to fly less. 😬

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-11/fake-parts-found-on-boeing-airbus-jets-plague-airlines

Climate denier: 2000 years is not enough to see a trend!

Also climate denier: There's been no warming for 5 years!

Anything that makes a city a worse place to drive makes it a better place to live… 👀

https://xkcd.com/2832/

It’s a universal axiom that if you have an unprotected bike lane, a motor vehicle will use it as parking.

“I know how this information looks—when taken out of context, it seems bad,” Exxon CEO Darren Woods said in response to the Wall Street Journal’s inquiry about the documents that show Exxon executives strategized over how to diminish concerns about warming temperatures, and they sought to muddle scientific findings that might hurt its oil-and-gas business.

Lol. In what context does this look good?

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/exxon-climate-change-documents-e2e9e6af

What every climate scientist will tell you:

Record-breaking extreme weather events of 2023 are expected at this level of warming.

The impacts on people are more severe than expected.

To keep things from getting worse, we need to stop burning fossil fuels and speed up adaptation.

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as during the pandemic lockdown, we wouldn't achieve our climate targets.

While individuals made huge sacrifices, the system remained. This shows that individual action will not solve climate change. We need the system to change.