Mark Abele

I love Jesus, my wife, clean tech, Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Huskers, space, investing, and good gluten free food; not in that order, except the first two. :)

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@MikeGrunwald @nytimes Thanks for writing this! So weird how the term carbon footprint is treated these days. I still think it's important enough, especially for the wealthy, that I created a nonprofit centered around the idea. At the risk of shilling: https://t.co/EkLz6QGFae (Loved your book!)

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@OurWorldInData Kramerica Industries

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@crayhaynes Bought! Excited to read it!

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@MikeGrunwald Thank you for writing it Mike! Literally just finished it a few hours ago. The section in the epilogue about carbon footprint fired me up (in a good way). Definitely agree with your sentiment! Enough so that my new nonprofit I recently started is based around those ideas.

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@KevinEspiritu Collectr app? Or TCG Player?

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@BigxRedxHusker Yes, I am as well. Per usual.

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@KevinEspiritu Say you're 45 and want to go back to 20 with the same knowledge...decent chance you will gain well over 25 years since you now have the knowledge and wisdom to not do stupid things to your body.

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@MikeGrunwald Pre-ordered!

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@NWSSiouxFalls Haha, I meant the social media app :)

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@Climatologist49 Stared at this map for like 10 minutes straight. Fascinating as someone that lives in eastern South Dakota. Curious how different it would look if you had average daily high (heat index) for the summer months.

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@Climatologist49 Actual @Nerd4Cities gonna be there? Ray, Anchorage city tour?

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@Climatologist49 Which means 101 days until Christmas music!!!

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How is this not covered more in the news?

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Wildfires have surged globally in August 2024, mainly in Africa.

The chart shows the weekly area burned by wildfires globally and in Africa from 2012 to 2024. This August saw an abrupt increase in the area burned by wildfires, with most of this rise coming in a single week.

This global weekly burn rate was 64% higher than any previous week during this period. This data comes from the Global Wildfire Information System.

This dramatic rise was mostly driven by severe wildfires in Africa, where approximately 22 million hectares burned in a week, accounting for around 80% of the global burned area.

Two countries have been particularly hard-hit — Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo — where 6% and 2.5% of the total land area have burned in just one week.

(This Daily Data Insight was written by Veronika Samborska.)

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@MikeGrunwald @TamarHaspel Great thread Mike! Question for both/either of you: In what order should we prioritize lessening beef consumption, biofuels, and organics? And are there any lessons/methods we can learn from organic that can justify having it be a small part of overall production?

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@SDSearchlight @JoshuaHaiar Would you mind going into more detail on what exactly this affects? I'm well versed in this space and since it's a federal rebate I don't know of anyone that is getting denied in SD. Is this just for low income rebates?

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@CanaryMediaInc Dude, please please please stop posting the same thing like 5 times a day. Other climate outlets I and others can follow these days.

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@dpcarrington Legit question: Wouldn't math say that the wealthier a person is the more their lifestyle/buying decisions matter even more than voting since in a capitalist society we also vote with our money?

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@CanaryMediaInc Again, why the multitude of tweets about the same story. I love your stories, but man you're clogging up my feed. Really don't want to unfollow but may have to soon.

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@KHayhoe Ya, pretty weird, especially considering they themselves recognize the contrail component and are trying to use AI to help the industry lessen the impact: https://t.co/QsEL6bZnfD