Brian Rowe

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Japan has been in a long heat wave this summer and fall. Water temperatures have increased so much that salmon are disappearing, leading to 8 out of 10 bear cubs starving to death.

https://t.co/TpprGr16Zw

#climatechange #ClimateAction #heatwave #japan #DataVisualization

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An overlay from https://t.co/1eTGdz2p08 of rain extent following the heavy rains in the Northeast. While NYC gets most of the attention, many other place received similar amounts of rain.

#climatechange #ClimateWeekNYC #weather #weatherdata #datascience #datavisualization

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Are weather stations a luxury? What does it mean when a country doesn't have accurate forecasts? Read what I uncovered in Hotter Times #3

#weather #climate #climatechange #resilience #data #datascience #datavisualization

https://t.co/qKweNLA0rU

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Hotter Times #2.1: The wandering cyclone and the missing data trail https://t.co/CjB4RQyAs8

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@ProfBillMcGuire Wondering if Bay of Fundy will see 15m waves + 30m tide

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I just published the inaugural edition of the Hotter Times Digest. Read about recent extreme weather across the globe and it's impact on people, based on https://t.co/1eTGdz2WPG.

https://t.co/VAbzulpSKc

#Weather #heatwave #rain

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How does this week's storm compare to Hurricane Irene? This chart I made shows rainfall totals for different places in the Hudson Valley and Vermont.

#HudsonValley #Floods #VermontFlooding #VermontFlood #climate

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@DreadOKnights @BenNollWeather Based on GHCND dataset for Cornwall (other side of Storm King), previous record was on September 2, 2021 with about 5.8" rain and then 31 July, 2016 with 5.5" rain.

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Using wallets as a reward and penalty mechanism https://t.co/sDEeDD3ThV

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Latest casualty of shrinkflation is coffee going from 12 oz to 300 g. That said, if that's the cost of moving to metric, it might just be worth it!

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@Helios_Movement Crazy that study is over 100 years old. I do wonder why they didn't hold the oil/fat percentage constant. Wouldn't a diet of 5% oil be signif worse than one with just 1.5% butter fat?

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Crazy to think 30 years ago polarization and extremism were already a problem

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Already knew cement is bad for environment. Now we see cement companies like to finance terrorism bc profits.

https://t.co/Dc2d2DU4hr

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And here is the rest of the toxic social media feedback loop: extremist views are amplified and rewarded, which induces politicians to pander extremist views and sanction bad behavior. The result? Failing democracy.

https://t.co/aTmfJ5UWF1 by @jbview

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This is cool. Parkour crews turning off lights in cities to conserve electricity and help bring back dark nights.

https://t.co/YZ2LLnYIbV

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@pettertornberg If the incentive structure for social media changed (eg penalize outrage), would this intensification still exist?

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@mauraball @furman_josh I just did this. 26 acres.

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@TobiasRose @elonmusk There's plenty of research showing that status quo incentive structure promotes polarization and outrage. So why not change the incentive structure and introduce negative feedback so users can self-regulate.

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@TobiasRose @elonmusk If you start with a different set of starting assumptions about how social media incentives work, these tradeoffs can go away.

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@ProfessorGeraci Initial results seem promising. Personally I like the idea of an alternative narrative to AI apocalypse and instead AI that helps us be better.