Jake Lowe

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans, per Rutger Bregman:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Infrastructure can be beautiful, too.

So from Switzerland to Iran and Colombia to Korea, here are some of the world's strangest and most wonderful bridges...

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Wow - The Great Lakes typically have an ice coverage of 55% during the winter months, causing at least half of their surfaces to freeze. As of yesterday, they had a combined ice cover of just 0.2%. Lake Superior 0.5%, Lake Michigan 0%, Lake Huron 0%, Lake Erie 0%, Lake Ontario 0%

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The market is now the least affordable in four decades, with about 40% of the median household income required to purchase a typical home, per Intercontinental Exchange

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Gaza is a 'textbook genocide'.

This is according to Raz Segal - an Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University in the US.

Listen carefully to what he says.

It's based on facts, law and precedent - and it should terrify you.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!

Well humanity, we did it, even if just for one day. Yesterday, Nov. 18, was the first time in recorded history that the global 2m surface temperature breached 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline.

The long-term average remains below 1.5°C. But not for long.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

$BMO bank has disclosed that mortgages worth $32.8-billion were negatively amortizing in Canada in the third quarter ended July 31, per the Globe.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The top 10% of earners (estimated average income of $174,000 – $176,000 Canadian Dollars) in Canada do not qualify for a mortgage to purchase the average Canadian home at its current cost of $754,700, per DollarWise.

The minimum income required is $180,075.

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

A few personal notes:
I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. The scientific findings are so fucked up. Experts on tropical rainforests told me privately that they think the Amazon has already passed its tipping point. Let that sink in. The world needs to know

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Over the last 20 years, Canadian home prices have quadrupled while overall inflation in Canada has increased 49%, per Charlie Bilello.

Canadian salaries have only increased 4.2% on average yearly.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: scientists show rates of Antarctic melt are now sufficient to cause rapid ice sheet collapse 🧵

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

BREAKING: A new report by Ontario's Financial Accountability Office has found the Ontario government is underspending on healthcare by $21.3 billion.

They're underfunding our public healthcare system so they can implement private for-profit healthcare.

Don't let them fool you.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

ice climatologists: we've lost Earth's ice sheets and it's just a matter of time before we see many metres of sea level rise so society has to now brace itself for a catastrophe 🧵

[michael mezz @michaelmezz]

listen to her explain the Van Gogh soup protest.

she’s got a point, no?

[Joe☭🔻 @ScottishCommie]

An incomplete list of US interventions in the world from 1945 - 2001 part 1 🧵

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

[James McLeod @jamespmcleod]

Maaaaaan, this graph. https://t.co/KU9gtrRghu

[Amy G Dala MD @AmyGDalaMD]

Flu prevention recommendations from 1918 newspaper 😳😢😭

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

Last week I was in a thread where someone wondered about heat, human survivability/habitability, and climate change. I've done some technical work on this specific question, so, quick thread on basics, and what to worry about.

Key term to know: The "wet bulb" temperature.