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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bill Gates warns AI is powerful enough to cause "a billion deaths" And why would it stop at a billion But al least the billionaires got rich and they can happily escape to their billion dollar bunkers www.axios.com/2026/09/25/b...
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Bill Gates warns AI is powerful enough to cause "a billion deaths"
"There's never been a weapon as powerful."
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Utterly mad how most of society just bumbles along, ignoring the monstrous future realities being locked in place, day in day out.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, meltwater from a decaying Greenland ice sheet triggered a weakening of the AMOC. That weakening lasted about 1,000 years! Its happening again now but this time its down to fossil fuel induced climate change www.snexplores.org/article/amoc...
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the price of one acre of land, we get a yield of 250 pounds of beef. Yet the same amount of land can produce 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, up to 53,000 pounds of potatoes or 30,000 pounds of carrots www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandna...
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Shut the Front Door! If We Ate Less Meat, This Is What Would Happen to the Planet
Discover the shocking truth about meat consumption’s impact on our planet. Learn how reducing animal products can help solve environmental issues.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Plastic is now ubiquitous in the Mekong, Asia’s Mother of Rivers local people are struggling to contain the risks to human health, biodiversity and livelihoods. Plastic production has doubled over the past 20 years, with over 400 million tonnes produced annually www.eco-business.com/news/the-str...
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Human Cost Of Data Center Pollution Air pollution from data centers could contribute to roughly 600,000 asthma symptom cases, 1,300 premature deaths, and more than $20 billion in annual public health costs by 2028 Ban them now cleantechnica.com/2026/09/28/t...
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The Human Cost Of Data Center Pollution - CleanTechnica
As more data centers come online, more pollution gets added to the atmosphere and puts human health at risk.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ChatGPT maker OpenAI cancels release of newest AI model due to safety concerns It is madness investing trillions in a tech that is fueling the climate crisis and creating a superior intelligence that will most likely wipe us all out in years if not months www.thejournal.ie/openai-astra...
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI cancels release of newest AI model due to safety concerns
Astra 6.1 “didn’t quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and authorisation, and how it communicates back to the user about the type of work it’s done,” OpenAI’s head of safety systems sai...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? www.commondreams.org/news/ai-securi…
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AI Giants Probe 'Tens of Thousands' of Security Incidents—Some Involving Government Sites | Common Dreams
Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls fo
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even as profits soar, corporate tax payments are down 25% this year thanks to Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. One of the main beneficiaries? Big Tech — which is using the tax breaks to help fuel its AI boom as it spends a fortune on the midterm elections. Remember this...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait, was rolling out the red carpet for Xi a Chinese psyop too? I'm really confused about the GOP stance on China.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
“You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” How ChatGPT fueled the violent fantasies of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter, according to our new investigation.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
UPDATE: British Columbia’s attorney general is seeking Criminal Code changes to strengthen accountability for artificial intelligence companies in response to @markfollman.bsky.social investigation.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
“Our strategy is to create a competitive edge so steep, so insurmountable that no adversary or competitor can scale it. That’s why our goal is to make America the arsenal of AI in this century.”
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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
We see your Western Massachusetts lesbian KN-95 bar story. We raise you "bookseller tries to figure out if the company that posts close-ups of trout eggs that's trying to buy his entire inventory is actually AI scheming to slice up rare books to scan them" story.
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I spoke with @nbcnews.com’s Gadi Schwartz about my new investigation uncovering how ChatGPT fueled the violent fantasies and planning of a school shooter who killed eight people and injured dozens of others www.nbcnews.com/video/lawsui...
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Lawsuits alleges ChatGPT helped mass shooter plan attack
A lawsuit against OpenAI is alleging that an AI chatbot helped a mass shooter plan an attack at a school in Canada. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to Mother Jones National Affairs Editor Mark Follman a...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
“It’s very easy to judge things from the outside....They’re getting global sympathy by getting us to hit things."
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Could the bipartisan AI revolt help us prevent end-times fascism? Here's what my friends Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They’ll verify 750,000 insurance files overnight and still won’t put a limit on machines they admit they can’t steer. Pass the ban.
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Tell Congress: Stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control
Contact Congress today!
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump says the threat from AI like climate change a hoax and he is only "going to encourage it, not rein it in." One ignorant arrogant man has the power to destroy the world and that is what he is doing www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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WATCH: Trump dismisses concerns about AI risks at UN, says he won't rein it in
President Donald Trump said Tuesday at the United Nations that he is changing the term "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" because it's "more accurate," as he dismissed global concerns a...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/09/2026
Benedict Cumberbatch says his documentary "How to Live on Earth" platforms experts exploring humanity's connection to nature. #BenedictCumberbatch #HowtoLiveonEarth
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/09/2026
China's Alibaba has unveiled new plans for its AI model and new chip technologies, including what it claims is China's most powerful AI chip.
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China's Alibaba unveils new powerful chip and ambitious AI model plans
China's Alibaba has unveiled new plans for its AI model and new chip technologies, including what it claims is China's most powerful AI chip. This launch comes as U.S.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in unimaginable ways, as millions of Americans report being targeted and victims of AI scams. Take this AP quiz and test if you know how to spot what's real and what's AI.
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Could you spot an AI-powered scam? See if you can tell what’s real.
Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. Ninety-eight percent of Americans say they have been targeted by scammers — many on a daily basis — according to a poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
Scamming is now one of the largest and most lucrative crimes in the world, fueled by huge advances in AI and cryptocurrency. In a project by The Associated Press and FRONTLINE explain the world of scams, what can be done about them and how to protect yourself.
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World of Scams
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence researchers have warned of ways the technology could wipe out humanity. Debates inside the AI industry and beyond over the plausibility of these doomsday scenarios have heated up since several executives endorsed slowing the technology's development for safety reasons.
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A look at AI doomsday scenarios that researchers say could put humanity at risk
Artificial intelligence researchers have warned for years of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of Earth into paper clip factories, as one thought experiment goes.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/09/2026
OpenAI urges US to lead global standards push
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OpenAI urges US to lead global standards push
The company is calling for a common international approach to evaluating models and controlling self-improving systems.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/09/2026
FAA debuts its AI-powered tool for managing flight traffic
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FAA debuts its AI-powered tool for managing flight traffic
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the new system will not replace human controllers.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/09/2026
The Smithsonian Institution is embarking on a pivotal search for its next leader, who former Smithsonian directors say needs to navigate Trump’s attacks while staying true to telling a factual story of U.S. history.
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Trump wants to control the Smithsonian’s future. The organization’s next leader will be a big test.
Former Smithsonian directors say the institution needs the right leader to navigate the president’s attacks while staying true to telling a factual story of U.S. history.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/09/2026
OpenAI president and MAGA Inc. donor to attend Trump-Xi state dinner
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OpenAI president and MAGA Inc. donor to attend Trump-Xi state dinner
OpenAI President Greg Brockman is expected to join a host of other tech executives at the dinner.
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Politico @politico.com · 22/09/2026
Congress in the dark on Trump’s AI Force announcement
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Congress in the dark on Trump’s AI Force announcement
The tech industry was similarly surprised by the president’s announcement.
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Politico @politico.com · 22/09/2026
Trump, dragged down by Iran war, hits lowest approval ever on foreign affairs in new poll
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Trump, dragged down by Iran war, hits lowest approval ever on foreign affairs in new poll
It comes just over a month before voters head to the polls in the November midterm elections.
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Politico @politico.com · 22/09/2026
Trump rejects global entity for AI oversight
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Trump rejects global entity for AI oversight
In remarks at the United Nations, the president insisted the US is leading the world in AI innovation.
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Politico @politico.com · 22/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Bessent proposed a new AI safety “notification mechanism” during a Sunday meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng. But the proposal is far simpler than the term suggests: an open line of communication between the two officials.
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‘The scientific, technical term is BS’: Inside the new Bessent-China AI hotline
It is not, at least for now, a broader formal system for the two governments to report or jointly respond to AI threats.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/09/2026
This week's POLITICO Magazine cover story: The company Trump can’t ignore. The president wanted to unleash AI. Then came Anthropic. 🔗 politi.co/4cXgF2J Also in this issue👇🧵
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Obama just delivered a blunt warning about the AI boom, the money driving it, and the Trump administration’s response. Then he turned to voters with a message that deserves far more attention.
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Obama Calls for AI Regulation, Warns Tech Giants Can’t Police Themselves
At Colgate University, the former president called for federal AI regulation and urged voters to demand a serious plan from candidates.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can't crack down on corporate polluters. That would be tyranny. Can't make sure our food safety laws are adequate. That would eat into profits. Can't regulate dangerous AI. That would be intruding on the "free market." The "party of small government," folks.
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The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?
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FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.
The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy. Don't believe me? Look at this chart.
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The Hidden Danger of America's Wealth Gap
Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy.Don't believe me? Look at this chart.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What’s behind the AI doomerism? What’s up with Trump’s obsession with the Kennedy Center? And what does the Macklemore story tell us about power in America? I’m back to discuss all of this, and much more, on a new Coffee Klatch.
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What’s Behind the AI Panic? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
What’s behind the AI doomerism?What’s up with Trump’s obsession with the Kennedy Center?And what does the Macklemore sto
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026
An informal network of dialogues at think tanks and universities is bringing together experts from the U.S. and China to talk about the shared perils of AI — and possible paths forward. n.pr/4yQlMKB
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When Trump and Xi meet they will discuss AI. 'Track Two' talks are already buzzing
An informal network of dialogues at think tanks and universities is bringing together experts from the U.S. and China to talk about the shared perils of AI — and possible paths forward.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2026
Your local anti-AI organizer is probably not a CCP plant.
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Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard
Your local anti-AI organizer is probably not a CCP plant.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Just as not all communities are rolling over for data centers, not all newsrooms are sitting back and letting AI steal our content. Some of us are fighting back.
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We’re suing ChatGPT—and Trump just got involved.
Guess whose side he's on.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
US confirms it has weapons in space Trump is now preparing for war in outer space and starting an arms race in space More lunacy from a loony war monger www.dw.com/en/us-confir...
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US confirms it has weapons in space
The Space Force justified the weapons deployment by citing the US's two biggest geopolitical rivals: Russia and China. Beijing responded by urging Washington to "stop preparing for war" in outer space...
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Europe’s e‑waste is a valuable resource – let’s not throw it away For example, the amount of gallium in our e-waste is enough to reduce the EU’s import dependency of this metal by up to 40%. theconversation.com/europes-e-wa...
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Europe’s e-waste is a valuable resource – let’s not throw it away
Europe is not facing a scarcity problem but a recovery challenge, and one that can be solved.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Depression, poor sleep quality linked to worker exposure to EMF radiation www.ehn.org/depression-p...
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Depression, poor sleep quality linked to worker exposure to EMF radiation
A recent study published by Imène Kacem et al. in Frontiers in Psychiatry found an association between electric power plant workers’ exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF...
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
10 ways climate-change-altered hurricanes may come to bite us yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/09/10-w...
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10 ways climate-change-altered hurricanes may come to bite us » Yale Climate Connections
What happens if sea level rise, hurricane wind strength, or other factors turn out worse than expected?
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Humanity’s greatest risk - Triggering climate tipping points Humanity is increasing climate-heating gases at the fastest rate in the whole history of the planet . . What took centuries now occurs in decades. theraven.substack.com/p/confrontin...
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