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@Phil_Lewis_ uhhh

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I was lucky to see this hair ice recently. A beautiful intersection between the mycosphere and cryosphere (two of the best spheres IMO)

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@SMTuffy Begging on my hands and knees for a default paste function that doesn't retain style formatting.

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@ClimateDefiance The "climate activist" guy who yelled at them lobbies for fossil fuel exports.

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@Phil_Lewis_ Sounds like wildlife experts pose a public otter risk.

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@Noahpinion Here's the difference. As time went on, people had to borrow more money relative to their income to afford a home.

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@LA_Multi_Fam It makes sense that you want a laidback tenant, but as a tenant myself, I find that landlords who are laid back are the ones who don't take care of their properties...

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@MazMHussain They've been doing this for decades and it's disgusting. Entrapment is supposed to be illegal. Reminds me of this.

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I have accepted a position as a Publications Editor with the Washington Geological Survey. I am incredibly excited to serve the people of Washington in this role, while pursuing my passion for our state's fascinating geology!

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Ice streams of the Laurentide ice sheet source:

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@Phil_Lewis_ They'll do anything but issue new permits to build housing in a growing city.

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@robinsonmeyer @scottstgeorge @PatrickTBrown31 🤡

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@emorwee Technically he's not bought and paid for, he just has a massive financial stake in enacting pro-fossil fuel policies.

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@GovChristie Remember when you shut down a bridge because your'e a man-baby?

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@FossilLocator @celestelabedz Fastest way to communicate that you don't care about scientific accuracy is to use an AI image for your science communication.

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Just received my $0.10 Treatise on Geophysics. Print quality looks good. Not as much fun knowing that other people had their orders cancelled or back ordered … hopefully Elsevier can make good on all the orders

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A precariously-balanced granite boulder on the plateau east of Grand Coulee, Washington. It's been in this position for 15,000 years.

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@mkraju Mitt Romney worked hard in private equity to enrich himself and his investors at the expense of Americans.

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@EricHolthaus Eric, you know better than to spread misinformation. That plot shows melt exceeding the interdecile range, not record.

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@tomloverro So you're saying people who don't want to socialize the losses are linked to a prominent socialist politician?

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The best part of America is the wilderness areas:

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We're gonna need a Twitter book club for everyone who ordered the 11-volume treatise on geophysics for $0.10

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This tunnel channel network formed beneath the Okanogan Lobe during times of maximum glacial extent, and was later draped with eskers and moraines during deglaciation.

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@RnaudBertrand "we love free markets" *100% tariff on competitor that has a better product*

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Depth to the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary in the Western United States. (Black is Deeper)

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It's over. The treatise on geophysics that 100s, maybe 1,000s, of us ordered for $0.10, is back to the normal price of $6,500

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@Eric_Erins Starbucks is notorious for retaliation against workers who organize

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@majortominor It's a portable document format Gus, that's what it's meant for.

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@JosephPolitano Here's an easier way to show that wages have not kept up with inflation.

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Breaking open this quartzite erratic in Moses Coulee was an "Aha!" moment for me. Those red grains amidst the quartz crystals are garnet, an important clue about the metamorphic grade and likely location of the bedrock source.

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Three billion years of building the North American crust from 31,000 data-points (no attempt to correct for sampling biases or anything else) What patterns do you see?

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@TheLastFarm Seattle! It's a great fresh market and probably our most-visited tourist attraction

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A Missoula flood bed, between varves of glacial lake Columbia

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Geomorphic mapping by Dr. Jerome Lesemann and me indicates that subglacial floods eroded a tunnel channel network in the Columbia River Basalts in north-central Washington. Our paper on the topic is available now in Geology:

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Drumlins of the Cordilleran ice sheet — streaming ice everywhere

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While minor plagiarism is not great, much more damaging to science is the pervasiveness of fake data in peer-reviewed literature. Science is supposed to be an edifice constructed of solid findings. If we can't be confident in data quality, the building collapses.

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Uggh. I reported concerns about this 2013 @PLOSNTDs paper to the journal in October 2015, when the paper was just 2y old. Last week, the journal issued an Expression of Concern, stating that the original data was no longer available.

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@Khyle927 @Phil_Lewis_ Absolutely nothing whatsoever

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I still can't believe how lucky I was to explore the literal ends of the earth during my PhD. Here we are, doing glacial geology at the mouth of Liv Glacier in Antarctica.

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@paulkrugman The difference is that incomes were rising at the same rate as housing prices in the 80's and 90's.

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Check out the submarine canyons offshore the Washington coast!

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@Austan_Goolsbee The data show that housing prices have decoupled from incomes.

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When you clearcut the rainforest to grow crops for the global market, but then it no longer rains because you clearcut the rainforest (which stored and cycled water).

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I traveled 2300 km in the State of Mato Grosso Brazil and the scenario of soybean crops is the same, entire crops dying, the rains did not arrive and those that did arrive were in low volume or in indigenous reserves, in this stretch that I covered I did not see any beautiful

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@Phil_Lewis_ Someone should look into how Ackman acquired so much money while providing nothing of value to the world.

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To build on this, I identified the substation and manually traced the burn area from Maxar satellite imagery. As suggested by Peter, it appears that the fire originated at or near what appears to be an electrical substation and was spread by winds out of the NE.

Peter Forister 🍁🍂🍁

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Per this imagery, you can track where the Lahaina grass/brush fire started and moved downwind into the city. To me it looks like the terminus is at/near this electrical substation 👀

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@liron Depends whether you value saving $4 or avoiding carcinogens, hormone disruptors, neurotoxins, and developmental toxins.

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Ragged Butte, a glaciotectonic feature, depicted on newly available lidar data for northern Washington.

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@RobinBrooksIIF Help me understand what "winning" means in a context where more than half a million human beings have paid the ultimate price amidst a military stalemate.

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@LA_Multi_Fam Just my anecdotal experience... one of my favorite quotes, after a massive internal flood due to a plumbing failure, itself caused by cheap parts and lack of maintenance: "it's called dry wall because it dries itself"

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@arpitrage Maybe those are two sides of the same coin. America is where capital gets its way: disinvestment from public services with strong investment into highly profitable tech.

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@Sketchy_raptor @BrandonTBishop 💯 Plus they almost all propagate scientifically incorrect information.

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@dominicgates Have they considered investing in long-term safety and excellence rather than optimizing for short-term profit?

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@cojobrien Let's just accept that these offsets probably increased the tour's carbon footprint, but that all things considered, live music is a low carbon intensity economic activity.

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@WeatherProf This is some next-level weather graphics and communication 😲🙏

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@BillAckman @BankofAmerica What have you ever done that is good for America other than enriching yourself at the expense of others?

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Exploring flood-eroded potholes below Dry Falls in Grand Coulee, Washington

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anyways, here are some megaflood deposits in Moses Coulee

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@AndrewYang Money is the base layer of politics. The financial system is always a political argument.

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@quantian1 if we had believed harder it would have worked

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@JStein_WaPo This is only wages — but the top 10% generate their wealth from return on capital.

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One aspect of #elseviergate is that most of us who ordered their $0.10 Treatise on Geophysics had already donated $10,000's of labor and data to Elsevier via submitting articles, reviewing, and/or editing for their for-profit journals, helping to generate their 40% profit margin.

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@AmyVulpecula374 @BlueRepublik This one makes sense — destabilize the region via war and chaos to prevent it from growing too powerful.

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I seem to be one of the lucky ones. Elsevier's order status shows that two packages are slated to arrive at my house on Thursday, containing my 11-volume Treatise on Geophysics. My credit card was charged $0.11. I'll keep you guys posted😅

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@USA_Polling Indicating that Swifties lean Biden — no surprise there.

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@JackKrone This is crazy tho

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@chamath @wmcintyre84 @tiltwave Sounds like you stole money by lying to people.

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@roybahat VCs could use the cash they stockpiled from carried interest tax treatment to bail out the depositors themselves.

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Can't get over the lidar of these moraine ridges near the maximum extent of the Okanogan lobe. I had been calling these recessional moraines (each moraine a different age), but I'm starting to think they are actually subglacial crevasse-squeeze ridges formed at the same time

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@GRomePow Firefighters are at higher risk of cancer due to the carcinogenic fumes and materials they're exposed to on the job. That's a big tradeoff for some money.

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@KSeattleWeather On the way to a stormy fall and a snowy winter 😊

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@vintagemapstore Of course the Spanish destroyed this system, creating water quality problems that exist to this day.

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@NWSSeattle Creating a hazardous air quality event to celebrate freedom 🇺🇲🦅

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@ErinBrockovich @elonmusk @SpaceX By creating environmental disasters?

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@LauraJanespoon @ClimateDefiance He literally helped to lock in more warming for a future that he won't have to face personally.

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@mike_sell Ask if a 17-year extension is possible due to unforeseen circumstances?

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@markwarschauer I always though authors were listed in order of contribution size to the paper.

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@USSpaceLawyer @BlueRepublik Important to remember that the fracking revolution occurred a few years *after* the Iraq invasion, decreasing American dependence on middle East oil. But U.S. did not know this at the time of the invasion, when U.S. was increasingly reliant on imported oil.

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The Sanpoil arm of Glacial Lake Columbia, located beyond the ice margin, and in a generally quiet back-water of a proglacial lake, was in the perfect setting to faithfully record time with annual precision, via varves *and* events like glacial advances & the Missoula floods.

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New video! Filmed last weekend before the winter weather arrived... Brian Atwater in the Sanpoil - w/ Jerome Lesemann & Joel Gombiner via @YouTube

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@Noahpinion 2023: -Highest CO2 level in human history -Hottest month on record -Highest oil demand ever -Highest coal demand ever -Highest natural gas demand ever

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Here's what evenings in central Washington actually look like this time of year 😉

Will Rogers is saving my life

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A wonderful evening spent in Moses Lake, WA.

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@pushtheneedle It always amuses me to see people obsessing over the ecological health of land that was recently clear-cut, destroyed, and is now completely overgrown with invasive plants.

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🥶 New map of the southern Cordilleran ice sheet during maximal glacial conditions, incorporating the subglacial flood-eroded channels of the Okanogan lobe into the bigger picture

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@dwallacewells They were always unregulated narratives, rather than anything serious about reducing atmospheric CO2.

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@Guay_JG Climate risk + $34 trillion real estate bubble = 😬

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@BlueRepublik What is the alternative explanation other than oil?

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@NewsLambert Only problem it was racist AF

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@concodanomics Do I have this right? Shadow banks are once again creating ungodly amounts of money claims so that hedge funds can gamble with massive leverage? But it will eventually blow up and the Fed will have to back the money claims?

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Top contender for my most insane-looking map of the year.

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@devahaz Business idea: hotel-booking site that auto-generates ridiculous Airbnb invoices for the same dates/places to make you feel better about your hotel purchases.

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@StrikeDebt The noted pro-methane activist Michael Stratton weighs in on climate issues.

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WOW! Near North Bend, WA. First time seeing Aurora. Truly magical and so soothing.

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@jake_gotta Density and walkable cities is the solution.

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@ModeledBehavior "local housing costs at least fully offset local pay premiums" Expensive housing is crushing us.

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Fossil fuel CEOs have publicly stated that CDR is a PR move to prolong the life of the industry. Take them at their word!

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There were thousands of people driving around North Bend last night looking to view the Northern Lights. It was great to be a part of the mass hysteria 😅

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@MazMHussain He would have been in prison long ago were it not for his political standing.

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@TheStalwart @rcwhalen @Rasmussen_Poll They historically overstate Trump's strength in Trump-Biden matchups due to a Republican bias

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@ConnorMEwing Who among us hasn't downloaded the same file 300 times rather than locate it in the downloads folder

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@SMTuffy So what's stopping someone from buying 100 cheesburgers right before dinner and then selling them out front the Wendy's at a markup to the original price but a discount to the the surge pricing you just triggered?

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