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Katrin Swindells

@kswindells.bsky.social
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Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. Scientific. Started at 325ppm CO2. Fact based nerd. Never give up. Animal lover. Mother. Living on Noongar land.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/02/2025
"Oil and gas companies are the most active acquirers of climate tech startups. According to research by Sightline Climate, Shell made the most acquisitions globally between 2020 and 2024, buying up 8 companies. That was followed by BP, which snapped up 7" sifted.eu/articles/cli...
a graphic showing who bought the startups - mostly og companies
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Katrin Swindells @kswindells.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
It appears that politicians are the weak point for action on climate change. Hoping Australians can share or donate to my funding drive to help more Community Independent politicians get into Parliament. 🙏 Australia doesn't want billionaires owning our politicians. vets4climate200.raiselysite.com
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Animal Lovers for Climate 200
Animals can't vote. Help us to support Politicians who care about our climate and environment into Parliament.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/01/2025
Climate science never said "we only have 12 years until we fall off a cliff" - but sadly, many thought it did; and even more sadly, that misleading message fed right into the script for Trump's WEF remarks today. Here's what the science has always said:
The conclusions of the IPCC's 1.5C report: every action matters, every bit of warming matters.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just reporting in. I managed to get through the whole of today without making a Nazi salute. I suspect I'll achieve the same tomorrow.
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Adam Bandt @adambandt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today we've announced our plan to make public school truly free. The Greens will abolish school fees & deliver 'back to school payments'. This will put nearly $2500 a year back in the pocket of a family with 2 kids, funded by making big corporations pay their fair share of tax.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/01/2025
What turns a wildfire into a disaster, and where does climate change come in? I break it down here ...
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons
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Emily Cassidy @enviroem.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Several folks (170+) at NASA JPL affected by fires, including @bhamlington.bsky.social who wrote about it on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/pulse/altade...
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Altadena Wildfires
My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly.
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Sophie Gilbert @sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
As we watch the #wildfire tragedy in SoCal, I'm thinking about root causes, and solutions. I'm sure I'll be writing lots more reflections going forward, but for now, posting this @volts.wtf episode here on insurance. Is this the event that breaks the FAIR plan's back? www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...
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Climate change and insurance: a growing fustercluck
Climate change is breaking the insurance market, and state governments can't afford to pick up the pieces
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
As LA is on fire thanks to Exxon, now is as good a time as any to say that climate disaster costs are increasing 30% each year And yet the right still insists we can’t afford climate action on.ft.com/4a6WJYp
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Catastrophes cost the world $320bn in 2024, reinsurer reports
Losses rise by 30 per cent as climate change takes its toll
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/01/2025
"the fact that these fires are burning in unusually dry winter months has highlighted how climate change is reshaping fire seasons around the world" Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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What does climate change have to do with California's fires?
As Los Angeles battles catastrophic wildfires, experts say there are signs climate change is already reshaping fire seasons around the world.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Here’s the thing. There is a neat pyramid of wood, and a pile of kindling soaked in gasoline at the base. I’m telling you it will burn, and they are telling you “there’s no evidence yet”.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/01/2025
PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/01/2025
As climate change increases the risk of dry conditions and fire weather, fires across western NAm are bigger, more dangerous, and burning greater area. It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.
A pie chart showing the area burned by the 20 largest wildfires on record from 1900 through 2021 in California.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Brilliant cartoonist Ann Telnaes is quitting the Washington Post because the paper killed her cartoon about billionaires in tech and media kowtowing to Trump. Sadly, the Jeff Bezos-owned Post proved her point. Support the media truth-tellers. Reject the media cowards.
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Alaa Al Khourdajie @dralaaclimate.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Climate scientists be like..
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I remember reading an early draft of this @fastlerner.bsky.social story and having to stop several times out of disbelief, anger and disappointment. Reading it again nearly a year later, my reactions are no less visceral.
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
On track for record-low Arctic sea ice this year. Climate change was not a major theme in this year's election, but it should have been. Luckily for humanity, no matter how vilified, maligned, and mistreated we are, we will keep doing the work needed to stop climate crisis. 🧪
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
New York State is the twelfth-largest economy on earth, and now it's going to demand that Big Oil pay for the climate damages it has caused. This is how the tobacco industry met its match billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-successf...
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A (successful) test of the state-by-state approach!
A day-after-Christmas present for the planet from Albany, New York
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Katrin Swindells @kswindells.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Pet owners. Your vet did not give your pet cancer, we just diagnosed it. We understand that you may jump straight to the anger stage of grief, but directing that anger to our staff isn't going to help your pet. The risk factors for veterinary suicide are increased by a small subset of pet owners.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
ABCNews, an otherwise good story about the health implications of intensifying summer heat in Western Sydney, but not one mention of climate change! Why do you self censor? Speak truth to power. Its actually your job. Your only job.
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Peter Dynes @pdynes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It is remarkable to observe the substantial expenditure of fossil fuel energy and carbon in constructing infrastructures that, within this century, are predicted to be submerged due to rising sea levels. A huge waste of resources and a lack of strategic foresight. #ClimateChange
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Peter Dynes @pdynes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Here is a fantastic model illustrating the protective role of mangroves
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Peter Dynes @pdynes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Mangroves in #Florida are losing their resilience, but they're vital for our coasts. These thick, natural buffers protect against coastal flooding, waves, storm surges, and tsunamis. The increasing frequency and intensity of storms are threatening their resilience.
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Tony Breu @tonybreu.bsky.social · 31/12/2021
1/17 [Why] is furosemide susceptible to malabsorption from "gut edema"? When a patient with heart failure is hospitalized with congestion I often hear "let's use IV furosemide; they're probably not absorbing the PO." It's a comment unique to furosemide. But is it accurate?
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Jon Corsiglia (he/him/el) | Eco-Economy Insider @ecoeconomyinsider.com · 09/12/2024
In Rwanda, farmers often watch their harvest spoil before it can reach the market. A fleet of simple, efficient trucks is changing that. reasonstobecheerful.world/nimble-elect...
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Nimble Electric Trucks Are Supercharging African Trade
In Rwanda, farmers often watch their harvest spoil before it can reach the market. A fleet of simple, efficient trucks is changing that.
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Rod Benson, PhD @ethicl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#media #bias #fake #murdoch
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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"What's happening with this mystery illness in the Congo" I've gotten this text dozens of times in the past few days. Here's what we know. What we don't. And what really matters 🧵
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology. And a tough one for antivaxx crowd. Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
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Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine
Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 05/12/2024
Cool and normal!
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Katrin Swindells @kswindells.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Babysitting ferrets is like watching over a pair of mischievous minor demons. I understand why 'weasel ' is not a complimentary description. Lucky they are cute to make up for all the trouble they cause!
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Chlorination
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Climate 200 @climate200.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"Paul Fletcher - a nullity of a politician who has occupied Bradfield for 15 years - is panicking over being replaced by a community independent ... Alarmingly, his own voters want someone who represents them, not himself, and he’s outraged." @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/p...
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Paul Fletcher's grand conspiracy theory is the most interesting thing he's ever said
Paul Fletcher — a nullity of a politician who has occupied Bradfield for 15 years — is panicking over being replaced by a community independent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/12/2024
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. By @abrahm.bsky.social
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The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
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Monika H @monikah.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
When the data show harm, just hide the data. Same with firearm death statistics.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Spoiler Alert: The Answer is "E"
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Fiona J Beck @fjbeck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"the students settled on an idea: Ask the World Court to issue an advisory opinion on the obligations of states to protect the climate against greenhouse gas emissions." One to watch www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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The 'David and Goliath moment' at The Hague that could change future climate talks
A landmark case that began in a Pacific classroom and could change the course of future climate talks is about to be heard in the International Court of Justice.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The art, and the artist. (My own work today feels like it is going similarly).
A photograph, take from a second story window, shows a small patch of snow that has been repeatedly walked over by a pigeon. The trails of tracks are erratic and all over the place, but also naturally artistic.
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Climate 200 @climate200.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
ICYMI: The gov & Coalition are on the cusp of passing legislation that will give the major parties 10s of millions of dollars more in funding - from the taxpayer. Annabel Crabb nails it: “We’re asking the public, in a cost of living crisis, to fund a narrowing of their choices.”
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Climate 200 @climate200.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Farrell told a small group how the Climate 200 convenor had approached him to complain that his proposed changes to election donation laws would entrench the two-party system and lock out challengers. “I mean,” Farrell quipped, “that’s the fucking point!” Ugh. Cool bro. Petition link in our bio!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/11/2024
fucking hell I am excited to read this when I get the chance
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased. If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/11/2024
People often claim that scientists are soft-pedalling the issue. Here is the proof that we’re not.
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Climate Scientists Are Not F&%KING With Us
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/11/2024
Worried about the climate convo with your uncle at Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow? Jimmy and I have you covered.
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Dr. Katharine Hayhoe Teaches Us How to Talk to People Who Don’t Believe in Climate Change
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A few years ago, prior to Australia’s ‘Black Summer’, I began capturing extreme events as I became aware of them escalating to a frequency of becoming annual events - some type of disaster of unprecedented scale occurring somewhere where such an event was previously unheard of. 🧵
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