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Peter Gleick

1 Monat her •

Peter Gleick
1 Monat her •

First they came for the #climate scientists...
Oh crap. That's me.

Good post by Peter Sinclair https://bsky.app/profile/peterwsinclair.bsky.social

https://thinc.blog/2025/01/26/first-they-came-for-the-climate-scientists/

First, They Came for the Climate Scientists…

First they came for the Climate Scientists – with bullying, threats of physical and financial harm, even prison. Their emails were hacked, and their reputations dragged in the media. But I di…

^{This is Not Cool}

#climate

SellaTheChemist 1 Monat her •

A reminder that we should all re-read Primo Levi's Periodic Table (Il Sistema Periodico). I recommend it students in public talks. It's very much a book for our time. (more details in Alt text)

My office bookshelf with a copy of Il Sistema Periodico lying on its side above its English translation. The Italian copy was given to me when I was a teenager by my grandmother, who had been an ardent anti-fascist during Mussolini's regime. She helped italian partisans during the war and provided safe passage to Jews fleeing towards Switzerland over the mountains of Piedmont.

Denis Buckley hat dies geteilt

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