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Reino Ruusu

@rruusu.bsky.social
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Computational software developer. News addict. Husband. Father of two.

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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
France's 10-year borrowing costs touched 4.9%, trading at wider yields than Greece, Italy, and 38% of French corporate bonds. With a 2.9% primary deficit and 44% tax burden, Prime Minister Lecornu's 43 billion euro budget faces student strikes and opposition deadlocks ahead of 2027 elections.
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The Bond Market Has Singled Out France
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Max Fisher details how Israel's governing triumvirate seeks an undefined "Total Victory" across Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Lebanon. State-backed settler violence, infrastructure razing, and forced displacement reveal it constituting an orchestrated campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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Israel isn’t stopping at Gaza
YouTube video by Max Fisher
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a close-up of the absolute sea surface temperature at the El Niño 3.4 index region in the Pacific. We just broke through 30°C for the first time since 1982, and the heat is expected to keep accumulating well into November.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
See those two measurements at the blue highlight? They are known as "Super El Niños." I don't know what this one is supposed to be called. We are in uncharted waters (literally).
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration is gutting institutional expertise, firing over 1,300 State Department officials and dismantling tech and Asia bureaus countering China. Meanwhile, chasing debunked conspiracies backfires as official reviews on Epstein and Social Security uncover zero evidence of fraud.
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Surviving Trump's Age Of Stupid
YouTube video by Mallen Baker
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Global trade is quietly realigning as allies move to "acceptance" on US tariffs. With Trump slapping 35% on Canada and 30% on the EU, Brussels signed a zero-tariff pact with Indonesia, while Brazil and India expand trade by 70%—deliberately building alternative networks to bypass Washington.
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Trump Broke the World Order — He Won't Like What Comes Next
YouTube video by Mallen Baker
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK 30-year gilt yields breached 6% for the first time since 1998 as 10-year yields topped 5.5%. With 750,000 households facing mortgage hikes averaging £170/month in 2026 and house prices slipping, PM Andy Burnham moved to curtail the pension triple lock by 2030 to fund a National Care Service.
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UK in Deep Trouble
YouTube video by Joe Blogs
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Donald Trump threatened to halt trade with all deficit partners, claiming the US would gain $1.5T a year by ending trade deficits, while demanding the Fed slash interest rates to 0.5%–1% to achieve 20% GDP growth. Economists warn the moves would spark severe inflation and factory shutdowns.
theguardian.com
Trump’s recent statements on the economy are even more bonkers than usual | Steven Greenhouse
Our ‘genius’ president is revealing his ignorance of economics, fueling concerns about the threat he poses to the world
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Global food prices hit a 4-year high in September, with the FAO index at 136 points. Vegetable oils rose 18%, cereals 17%, and sugar 15% over last year. Compounding conflicts in the Black Sea and Hormuz, soaring fertilizer costs, and El Niño weather shocks threaten severe food inflation worldwide.
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Global Food & Inflation Crisis Is Brewing
YouTube video by Joe Blogs
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Hormuz crisis has highlighted the vulnerability of fossil fuel chokepoints, permanently accelerating global adoption of alternative energy sources. By actively pushing back against renewables, the US increases its own fragility and reduces its ability to compete in the future energy technology.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As Washington withdraws from the World Health Organization and United Nations agencies, Beijing steps into leadership vacuums by boosting voluntary financial contributions and expanding its diplomatic influence.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This historical framework draws an analogy to the late Roman Republic during the second century BCE, when tribunes Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus challenged constitutional traditions to advance populist grievances regarding agrarian inequality and disenfranchisement.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rather than external displacement, America is succumbing to the ‘Gracchi Trap:’ imperial unraveling driven by internal factional warfare, norm-shattering, and abandonment of alliances.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Instead of helping his supporters, Trump demolishes these systems in favor of personalized transactionalism and kleptocracy.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bremmer argues that Trump is a symptom of persistent structural decay, like hollowing out of communities, eroding class mobility and unresponsive political systems, resulting in seeking disruption of the professional civil service and international order.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ian Bremmer joins Ezra Klein to argue that America is succumbing to the ‘Gracchi Trap’—internal decay and norm-shattering rather than external conquest. As the Hormuz blockade squeezes Asian energy and China wields mineral export controls, US unilateralism drives global instability.
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Ian Bremmer on the Risks America Poses to the World | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Makers of the documentary NAZA and The Guardian pushed back against Israeli military attempts to discredit their film, revealing they interviewed over 100 sources including senior IDF commanders involved in strike authorisations, backed by leaked classified targeting documents.
theguardian.com
NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza
Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Baker derides Pete Hegseth as a caricature of a "manly man's man" whose address to junior officers sounded scripted by the South Park writing team, while contrasting Hegseth's militarized Christian nationalist rhetoric ("full armor of God") with biblical accounts of Jesus as a peacemaker.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A U.S. diesel export ban would devastate refining-poor Latin American countries entirely dependent on U.S. fuel supplies and trigger global bidding wars.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mallen Baker doesn’t hold back his sarcasm taking a look at Pete Hegseth's concrete steps towards theocratic lead in the DoD, Trump administration attempts to rule NATO with divide and conquer strategies under threats of a diesel export ban. Allies are elevating stockpile decisions to the IEA.
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Trump Just Used NATO To Punish Britain and France — Here's The Strategy
YouTube video by Mallen Baker
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Donald Trump downplayed North Korea's nuclear weapons program, claiming Kim Jong Un's arsenal is fine because the dictator likes and respects him. Trump differentiated Pyongyang from Iran, pushed for a 2026 summit at APEC, and defended curtailing joint military exercises with South Korea.
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Trump says it’s fine for Kim Jong Un to have nuclear weapons because ‘he likes me’
US president claims he’s ‘about the only person in the entire world’ the North Korean leader likes
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told an industry-backed MAHA summit that AI is better informed than any doctor in the US and can free patients from medical tyranny, citing Sam Altman on checking AI for diagnoses. The corporate-sponsored event drew backlash from grassroots MAHA activists.
nytimes.com
A.I. Is ‘Better Informed’ Than Doctors, Kennedy Tells Industry-Backed MAHA Summit (Gift Article)
The health secretary, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials addressed a conference sponsored by corporations, including A.I. companies and others with business before the government.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Netanyahu made a secret trip to Abu Dhabi to ask UAE President MBZ to deny giving him a pre-Oct 7 warning about Hamas, per AP sources. The PMO dismissed the report as fake news while Shin Bet demanded a censor probe after Israeli TV leaked the visit. Netanyahu also met regional officials on Iran.
timesofisrael.com
Netanyahu flew to UAE to ask MBZ to deny giving him pre-Oct. 7 warning of Hamas attack – sources
Both sides confirm trip one day later, but PMO denies it had anything to do with trying to quash report about Emirati leader's alert; Shin Bet files complaint to military censor, claiming network that...
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The CDC has lost 30% of its staff and 10 of 11 center directors under the Trump administration and Health Secretary RFK Jr. Operating under acting heads and political minders, the hollowed agency faces severe backlogs responding to measles at home, Ebola in DR Congo, and seasonal vaccines.
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Economist Jeffrey Sachs warns Trump's bilateral tariff formula breaks the global division of labor established over 80 years. Trade deficits reflect national spending exceeding income, not foreign cheating. Halting trade destroys wealth, as shown by $10 trillion wiped from markets in two days.
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Jeffrey Sachs Slams Trump’s Tariffs: ‘The Whole World System’ Is Being Broken Apart | US NEWS
YouTube video by The Financial Express
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump allies including Peter Ticktin, Wayne Allyn Root, and Tina Peters are lobbying him to declare martial law or emergency powers for the midterms. Meanwhile, White House advisers, the Joint Chiefs, and DOJ push back, denying any plans for federal takeovers of state election systems.
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Economist Dean Baker warns the AI bubble faces eventual collapse as customers lack income for sufficient revenue. Faced with a wall of data center lease commitments and CDS spreads widening by 60 bps, fund managers face severe asymmetric downside with strong incentives for herd mentality.
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Frontier AI is getting rejected by businesses | Dean Baker
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Before resigning over the White House ballroom, architect James McCrery warned Donald Trump his design lacked fire exits and containment, prompting Trump's response: 'I am the code.' To bypass GSA and safety standards, Trump routed the project via the Executive Residence.
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel faces political turmoil over the documentary NAZA, which reveals "factory-scale" targeting protocols approving up to 20 or even 500 civilian casualties per strike. With officials demanding citizenship revocation and treason charges, the film shatters long-standing domestic denial over Gaza.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At the 81st UN General Assembly, Donald Trump threatened to annihilate Iran, declared Cuba a failing state facing collapse, defended a 100-year Venezuelan oil deal, attacked the International Criminal Court, and ordered federal agencies to rebrand artificial intelligence as super intelligence.
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Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran to UN general assembly is stunning, even for him
US president may have upstaged the ghost of Soviet leader Khrushchev by musing destruction of fellow member state
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pacific ocean temperatures at the heart of El Niño have reached +3.05C, breaking the all-time 150-year record months before its expected winter peak. With forecasts projecting a 4.0C anomaly, the 1,000-year event threatens to blow apart planetary heating records and trigger cascading global crises.
theguardian.com
‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outspoken Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse warns against "climate hushing" ahead of the 2026 midterms. He argues that rising insurance costs and electricity bills must be tied directly to "the villains"—the denialists and fossil fuel dark money pushing regulatory rollbacks and bending SCOTUS ethics.
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Whitehouse: Call Out the Corruption Propelling the US Climate Retreat - Inside Climate News
The Rhode Island senator, who could lead the Judiciary Committee if Democrats win in November, urges stronger messaging and a focus on Supreme Court reform.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I like this take by @weatherprof.bsky.social from July.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The few curves between this year and the bulk of the measurements are known as "Super El Niño." So what should we call this one?
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m starting to suspect that "they" is his preferred pronoun.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Nobody knows there’s a T in fart"
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
First day with lifts?
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bingo!
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The White House is drafting an executive order to create an outside panel with veto power over NIH research grants, escalating clashes between OMB Director Russell Vought and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya over spending cuts, academic purges, and federal control over biomedical science.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Asian governments are racing to adapt as the 2026 "supersized" El Niño threatens acute hunger for 50M people. With monsoon rain down 50% in India, record drought in Sri Lanka, and compound fertilizer inflation from the Iran war, regional rice yields are projected to fall 8-10%.
theguardian.com
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Russians vote in tightly controlled Duma elections with anti-war Yabloko barred and United Russia unchallenged. Behind the lifeless campaign, pervasive anxiety mounts over an imminent second wartime mobilization once the compliant parliament is sealed, driving young men to flee abroad.
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Russians go to polls against backdrop of Ukraine war and Putin’s tightening grip
President’s United Russia party faces no meaningful opposition after liberal anti-war party barred from ballot
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Russia is coercing tens of millions of citizens onto state-backed super-app Max after banning Telegram and WhatsApp. University of Michigan research reveals Max grants authorities a backdoor into its mini-app ecosystem, enabling silent screen captures, user impersonation, and code injection.
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Revealed: how Russia uses mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens
Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Clear-headed (and snarky) analysis from Mallen Baker of Canada's EU associate membership offer. US reliance blocks Trump acting on threatened severe tariffs, while considerable hurdles remain within the EU. Watters' hurt reaction to rejection as an anecdote of ridiculous nationalist propaganda.
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Why Canada and Europe's Move Just Sent Trump Into a Fury
YouTube video by Mallen Baker
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Third: Enact a voting system amenable to a multi-party system. In a two-party system, it is too easy to lobby and bribe both parties and take a stranglehold of the entire system.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Copernicus reports Earth's atmosphere held record water vapour in August 2026 at 27.35 kg/m², beating July 2024 by 20 trillion litres. Driven by record heat and a super El Niño, higher moisture fuels severe storms via latent heat release and blocks nighttime cooling during heatwaves.
theguardian.com
Planet’s atmosphere breaks record for water vapour levels increasing risk of extreme heat and rainfall
Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canadian PM Mark Carney addressed the European Parliament to embrace the EU's historic associate membership offer. Amid Donald Trump's threats of punitive tariffs on Europe, Carney championed middle-power collective resilience and strategic autonomy across defense, critical minerals, and AI.
theguardian.com
Canada’s Carney embraces EU associate membership proposal
After Trump describes the tie-up as ‘laughable’, PM says majority of Canadians support closer ties with bloc
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Greg Jaffe reports on Pete Hegseth's Pentagon upheaval: purging or blocking up to 80 generals and admirals, banning officers from Ivy League grad schools, vetting master's theses for loyalty, and polygraphing staff, all while the extended Iran war triggers acute missile interceptor shortages.
nytimes.com
In Hegseth’s Pentagon, Top Leaders Battle Turmoil (Gift Article)
Persistent distractions are feeding a climate of mistrust as the U.S. military faces a series of wartime issues, including shortfalls of missile interceptors.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anne Applebaum details how MAGA transformed US foreign policy into a transactional empire of private grift and far-right patronage: bullying Brazil, Greenland, and Canada while allies accelerate structural decoupling from Washington.
theatlantic.com
MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There's basically one figure that makes that relationship clearer than anything: the +7% of moisture per °C. Unfortunately people are not inherently built to understand exponential relationships.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Instead of asking "why experts think climate change will cause more frequent and extreme weather events," the press should be asking why anybody would ever think that it doesn't. Understanding the causal chain from warming to extreme events doesn't require much expertise.
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