Rachel Marie

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

If the projected super El Niño materialises, global temperatures could surge toward ~1.8°C above pre-industrial levels over the next 18 months.

If that happens, 1.5°C isn’t a guardrail anymore — it’s in the rearview mirror. We’re not approaching 2°C...we’re speeding toward it.

[Rachel Marie @RachelMarie404]

@GosiaGasperoPhD Are you on Blue Sky or Threads?

[Rachel Marie @RachelMarie404]

@KStateTurk Are you on Blue sky or threads?

[Rachel Marie @RachelMarie404]

@TristanSnell Are you on Blue Sky or Threads?

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

We aren’t hearing about it for a number of reasons, but this is a bad look & it doesn’t inspire hope among the suffering & struggling American population. Maintaining order & keeping people working & consuming uninterrupted is the ONLY goal now. Like 2% of NC homes had flood insurance. There are tons of videos from the last few years floating around where people excitedly explain they’re moving to Asheville to escape climate collapse.

“‘There is no truly safe place,’ Keenan, who previously listed Asheville as one of the better places to move amid the climate crisis, acknowledged.” https://t.co/LmsCdwnMu8

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Katie Ledscky wins Gold with POTS - and now those of us with POTS are being told we shouldn’t be “so disabled”.

I’m proud of what she’s accomplished while dealing with this dreadful condition - but concerned about how it may impact perception of our level of function 🧵 /1

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

Dear lawd, where is my fellow nurses? This drivel is from truth social .

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

I want to quickly highlight a completely bonkers part of Trump's Project 2025 agenda relating to your salary and faith. You have to see this stuff in text to understand the degree to which these extreme MAGA types want to control your life.

[Rachel Marie @RachelMarie404]

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[Rachel Marie @RachelMarie404]

@LauraMiers I had episodes like that and it turned out to be SVT supraventricular tachycardia. It was found because I got an implanted loop recorder. You would need to see a cardiac electrophysiologist

[Jess @MeetJess]

Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic

« The virus is rampant. We’re still in a pandemic. There’s a lot of complacency at the individual level, and more concerning to me is that at the government level » https://t.co/C8aduuxuuP

[S Blitshteyn MD, FAAN, FANA, Dysautonomia Clinic @dysclinic]

As a neurologist specializing in #Dysautonomia, I see patients with #LongCovid every day. Most of these patients were vaccinated and had either no or minimal health problems prior to #Covid. I am going to be honest: even those Long Covid patients that have improved are at risk of getting worse with recurrent Covid infections. Additionally, every healthy person is at risk of getting Long Covid and numerous other post-Covid neurologic, cardiovascular, metabolic and immune complications. Of course we don't want to scare the public, of course things are definitely better now than in 2020, of course treatment of acute Covid is a lot better now, of course hospitalization rates are down now compared to 2020, but... what is NOT better is us dropping all of the mitigation strategies that we had for Covid starting in 2020, what is NOT better is our lack of FDA-approved therapies for Long Covid, what is NOT better is the general health of Americans because of the ongoing Covid #pandemic and the ongoing shadow pandemic of #LongCovid.

#LongCovid and all post-Covid complications are a major threat to public health in the United States and worldwide. We can pretend that things are fine and that we are "back to normal" pre-pandemic state of affairs, but it's not our reality, it's wishful thinking. Our "new normal" should not include at last 7-10% of population falling chronically ill with Long Covid and post-Covid complications. Our "new normal" should not include billions of dollars in economic loss and disability payments to previously employed people who are too sick to work. Our "new normal" should not include children having Covid every year and long-term neurologic and cognitive dysfunction as a result of the repeated Covid. Our "new normal" should not include adults with brains 20 years older than their age because of Covid. Our "new normal" should not include a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, blood clots and stroke for every person, young and old, who has had Covid once and a higher risk with every repeated Covid infection.

So... it's not a good time to deny and dismiss the gravity of #Covid pandemic. What we need:
✔️ Bring indoor masking back during the months with high Covid rates
✔️ Improve ventilation at schools and all crowded buildings
✔️ Require at least 7-days of quarantine for students and employees with Covid before returning to school/work.
✔️ Provide free Covid testing everywhere and to everyone
✔️ Require all healthcare facilities and clinics to have indoor masking for heatlhcare providers and patients
✔️ Invest in developing better Covid vaccines
✔️ Make Paxlovid free and available to most Americans
✔️ INVEST IN REAL LONG COVID THERAPEUTICS (not exercise or psychotherapy trials)
✔️ INVEST IN REAL LONG COVID CLINICS (not the ones that gather data and have nothing to offer to patients)

#MedTwitter #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

[Raj Rajnarayanan @RajlabN]

@CDCgov @HealthNYGov @CAPublicHealth @TexasDSHS @Salon @hlavinka_e @WHO @Mary_Walrath @USATODAY "For years, public health officials have said society would need to “learn to live” with COVID. But doing so should have included guidelines on when to mask, based on levels of community transmission"

H/T @ErinMPrater @FortuneMagazine @WellatFortune

https://t.co/AW7z4NdH2U

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

No, air conditioning is not a solution to climate change. The more we run air conditioners, the more electricity we use. The more electricity we use, the more greenhouse gases we emit into the atmosphere. The more greenhouse gases we emit, the more climate change accelerates.

[tern @1goodtern]

Yep.

Worth reading this one.

They know what's coming.

https://t.co/uU5hXsSF8u

[Dubious @DubiousCA]

“This is normal on the West Coast”

IT IS NOT FUCKING NORMAL HERE EITHER.

GETTING CHOKED OUT BY WILDFIRE SMOKE EVERY SUMMER IS A RECENT PHENOMENON FOR MOST OF THE WEST COAST TOO

STOP NORMALIZING EVIDENCE OF A CLIMATE CATASTROPHE

[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

[Lynda Carter @RealLyndaCarter]

Reminder that disability is a spectrum. It is sad to see so many disabled people accused of "faking" because they can walk, type, or engage in physical activities sometimes.