Oceanographer and climate scientist.
Freelance consultant and science writer.
B.Sc. Physics, Ph.D. Oceanography.
#climate #climatechange #ocean #science
📍 Rimouski, Québec, Canada 🇨🇦
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Based on its "about" section, the mastodon.social server is based in Germany. However, according to https://fedidb.com/servers, the mastodon.social instance of Mastodon is listed as being based in the United States!
Is this wrong or is it due to the fact I live in Canada and the closest physical server for mastodon.social is in the USA?
NOAA operations are slowed by mandate for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to approve ALL contracts/contract extensions above $100,000. This nearly led to a significant deterioration of National Weather Service operations last night.
This is NOT efficiency.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/noaa-commerce-department-contracts-weather-climate
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The all-out war on science being waged by the Trump-Musk administration is hard to understand.
In early 2016, before #Trump won his first Republican presidential nomination, a prescient book by Shawn Otto described the three main components of this war on #science.
1) Industrial
2) Religious/Ideological
3) Identity Politics
Here's my review of Otto's seminal and still timely work:
This is for Americans who don’t agree with how Trump is threatening Canada.
Thank you.
Any ire that you see me (or, I believe, any Canadian) post here is not directed at you. I know there are millions of you. I know you are trying. I know some of you feel hopeless and maybe even despondent, but know this.
Canada loves YOU. We always will.
Yes we are very angry at your leader and the people around him, and even at your country, because the President, is the Country, in a sense, but we know there are good Americans who never wanted any of this.
We know you will stand up for us. And if you need us, we will stand with you too. Because that’s what friends do.
❤️ 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❤️
@Rasta In reality it's more like so-exhausted-I-just-avoid-announcements-and-news day.
One of the 3D printing companies I follow announced a new thing. Nevermind, that was a joke. One of the chess sites I love & follow announced a new thing. Nevermind, that was a joke. One of the IRC networks I love announced a sad thing. Nevermind, that was a joke.
My preferred search engine announced a thing. I don't know if it's real or not.
😜🤪🧐🥸😎🤔🤣😂
Don't accept any wooden nickels! 🤣😂
🤗💙💗💜💛💚🩵🧡🤗*I DON'T KNOW WHERE I LEARNED IT?*Just one of those memories that popped up!*Most likely from my Dad who was in the service*& I have a lot of vocabulary that I acquired from my Dad!*(Who was a writer!*& Yarn teller as well as a poet!)*I believe this is another old fashioned military saying👉"Time to hunker down!"*I hope you have a fantastic day!🤗💙💗💜💛💚🩵🩵🧡🤗
🤗✍️💁♀️*Awesome!*My Father had a lot of Yankee expressions too that every once in a while pop up!*& My Father wrote many poems!*& Whimsical Stories about the military sometimes with surprise comical endings!*I also was a kid that had almost once a month besides typical illnesses!*I would miss a week of school being an undignosed coughing Asthmatic from viruses!*& by the time Friday rolled around it was calmed down!*& My mother would say to me!*"You mind as well stay home*&👉
I remember a lot of detailed events in my life from very early age. Some of a traumatic nature, but otherwise, just haunting memories of places you grew up, and met friends and then moved away and never heard of them again. Only those in my teens, have kept in touch, somewhat.
🤗*Of course there is a reason for everything as growing experiences!*I have a lot of things I remember as far back as sitting in a high chair*& Remembering things my parents even said to each other when sitting there!*It's funny*& I am amazed most people don't remember?*& I wish my son's would?*but I don't think they do either?*Or don't realize they do!*But as you change through life you most likely would had grown out of those childhood friends anyway!*I know I did!👉
🤗*[Of course there is a reason for everything as growing experiences!]*It's funny*& I am amazed most people don't remember?*& I wish my son's would?*but I don't think they do either?*Or don't realize they do!*But as you change through life you most likely would had grown out of those childhood friends anyway!*I know I did!*So even though moving a lot might of been very hard on you!*You most likely would had grown out of a lot of those childhood friends anyway.*It's just part of life!🤗👉
🤗*[Of course there is a reason for everything as growing experiences!]*But as you change through life you most likely would had grown out of those childhood friends anyway!*I know I did!*So even though moving a lot might of been very hard on you!*You most likely would had grown out of a lot of those childhood friends anyway.*It's just part of life!🤗*Bless you DEAR One!*& I enjoy you!*& Think you are a blessing to me!🤗
🤗*Wow!*That's a great detailed memory!🤗
🤗✍️💁♀️*[Awesome!]*I also was a kid that had almost once a month besides typical illnesses!*I would miss a week of school being an undignosed coughing Asthmatic from viruses!*& by the time Friday rolled around it was calmed down!*& My mother would say to me!*"You mind as well stay home*& rest up over the weekend!"*So we only had a black*& white TV that only got one station!*& most of the day were soap operas playing to watch while I laid on the couch!*So I think I also learned a lot of my👉
🤗✍️💁♀️*[Awesome!]*So we only had a black*& white TV that only got one station!*& most of the day were soap operas playing to watch while I laid on the couch!*So I think I also learned a lot of my vocabulary from soap operas!*It's funny how somethings when you look back on what were struggles actually can be considered blessings in retrospect!*(Picture of my Dad in Uniform!*I miss him very much!)🤗
@Rasta *squints at the statement*
hhhmmm... I'm not sure....
@Rasta I was fooled by one video almost to the halfway point... but in my defense, it was still March 31 in my timezone 😋 so, as the patent post suggested no skepticism required 😉
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