they said it couldn't happen, but land and sea have finally united for playtime

#dogs #dolphins

Toxic PFAS absorbed through skin at levels higher than previously thought.

Absorption through skin could be ‘significant source of exposure’ to toxic forever chemicals, study shows. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/30/pfas-absorbed-skin-study

If you can’t handle me at my struggliest,
you don’t deserve me at my snuggliest.

Happy Thorsday!

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Thorsday #ThorToots #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Cat #Caturday #CatsOfFediverse #RagdollCats

Around 50 years ago, our rulers chose to begin a massive project, essentially conducting a unique scientific experiment, one with potentially foreseen but possibly unpredictable outcomes.

They decided to go all out in (1) extracting fuels buried deep in the Earth, energy from the sun stored via photosynthesis and animal metabolism over a span of 500 million years as coal, oil, and gas, and then (2) burning all of this they could find in the brief period of a few decades.

Our rulers were warned by scientists that their project involved serious risk, but they figured the power they could gain and the money they could make was worth any cost. They didn't care about the negative consequences, and/or foolishly believed that future technologies (still a fantasy in the year 2024) would somehow be able to fix whatever problems their actions caused.

And now, guess what — we're seeing signs that this experiment might be out of control. Feedback loops are kicking in, causing "natural" emissions which could trigger cascading effects, breaking down the ecosystem. It also appears that Earth's climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than first believed. Yet our rulers *still* continue to recklessly burn fossil fuels, always drilling and fracking for more, hungry for power and compelled by greed.

#History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

And then there were four.... four Tories under investigation for using inside information to bet on the date of the election before Sunak announced it;
they are:

Nick Mason, the Tories’ chief data officer;
Craig Williams, Sunak’s closest parliamentary aide;
Laura Saunders, a party staffer;
& her husband, Tory campaign director Tony Lee.

This is small beer compared to the damage done by the Tories over the last 14 years... but is also compelling emblematic of their corruption to many!

#tories