Brian John

Pedro Santana mountains, curiosity, rural aqueducts, looking for good questions; faith grows with science.

[Localize - Farmers Market @Localizefoodapp]

America wastes roughly 40% of its food supply every year.

The USDA estimates the U.S. wastes 30 to 40 percent of its food supply, worth $161 billion in 2010 alone.

That waste includes the water, farmland, and fuel used to grow, process, and transport food that never gets eaten.

Centralized production adds distance and time between harvest and plate, a key driver of spoilage.

Shorter supply chains mean fresher food and far less waste.

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

We are losing much more than aesthetic landscapes! 🧊🔥

Argentière Glacier overtopped by Les Droites north face (4,000 m asl) yesterday!

At the moment of this video it was 32.3 °C in Chamonix (1,042 m asl)! 🥵

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

You could watch the news 24/7 & not know that:

Our planet’s at its hottest in 120,000 years.
Methane levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.
CO2 levels their highest in 3 MILLION years.

We're in a climate crisis. Denying it won't solve the problem.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #panelsnotpipelines

[Brian John @BrianJK14]

What does our "God" allow us to admire? Where is our "God" simply too tiny and closed in upon itself?

[Brian John @BrianJK14]

Just one child is worth more than entire galaxies with countless star systems. We suffer from a failure of imagination.

[Brian John @BrianJK14]

When my children are worth more to "God" than your children, then it becomes clear that my "God" is actually an idol of my own or my nation, religion, or sect's creation.

[Brian John @BrianJK14]

We lose our humanity or gain it, to the degree that we reverence the lives of all children, regardless of race, religion or nationality.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

This is a terrible statistic.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C).

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

We’re back to that whole history thing. As Rep Tim Kane explains with clarity, the history of Iran did not start in 1979, no more than the history of how Israelis treated Palestinians begin after October 7th 2023.

How politically expedient it is for those in power to rewrite history to satisfy a narrative. Just as a footnote, as I said at the very outset of this war of choice, Trump can’t and won’t win. He’s just chalked up another in a long line of defeats for the best funded and allegedly most powerful military on earth.

At what point are people going to wake up and smell the coffee?

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/s86tWohodl

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

7-year-old girl proves that it's not over until it's over

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is called the the bulging checkerboard illusion.

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

Sir #DavidAttenborough

“Things are going to get worse."

"This is the new extinction."

"We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get."

#ClimateCrisis
https://t.co/EfMrZh9RGB

[Brian John @BrianJK14]

Why should I care about "getting verified" and "standing out"?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God's generosity towards us is not naïve but wise. He sees within us the potential of a good that, at times, we ourselves might fail to recognize. For this reason, the Lord, who knows the soil of our hearts better than we, never ceases to believe in us—in who we are and in who we can become, day by day, if we entrust ourselves to him in faith. #GospelOfToday (Mt 13:1–23) #Angelus

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Why is AC so rare in much of Europe? Well, until recently it simply wasn't hot enough to need it. Here is the average number of days above 30C (86F) for major cities over time:

[Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde]

In the 20th century, many Europeans treated air conditioning as an optional luxury.

Thanks to global warming, in the 21st century many of the same areas will come to view it as a necessity.

[Brian John @BrianJK14]

@XFreeze And when they need replacement, will they just burn up upon reentry?

[Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center @Kennedy_HRC]

32 years ago, the world watched silently as members of the Bosnian Serb Army executed more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys and raped hundreds of women and girls in the town of Srebrenica. More than 25,000 people were forcibly displaced from their homes, and over 10,000 lost their lives in Europe’s deadliest genocide since WWII.

“When my fellow genocide survivors emerged from the woods of eastern Bosnia in July 1995, no one believed us. Our stories were so horrifying, so unimaginable, that everyone chose to disbelieve.” - @suljagicemir1, director of the @SrebrenicaMC and KHRC Human Rights Education defender.

Right now, in Sudan, Gaza, Congo, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere, survivors are telling us what is happening to them in real time. The question is the same Emir and other Srebrenica survivors asked in 1995: Will the world listen or will it allow impunity to prevail once again?

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

One way of seeing climate change in action is looking at 1200 year continuous data from Japan about cherry tree blossoming.