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petergleick , 17 hours ago to Random stuff

The International Criminal Court's recent request for an arrest warrant for Israeli officials is consistent with international law and precedent.
In 2010, an arrest warrant was issued for Sudanese President Al Bashir partly on the grounds of using starvation and denial of food and #water as a weapon of war, clear violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute's "crimes against humanity" and "war crimes" categories.
#ICC

revndm , 1 day ago to Random stuff

Most crime has fallen by 90% in 30 years – so why does the public think it’s increased?
https://theconversation.com/most-crime-has-fallen-by-90-in-30-years-so-why-does-the-public-think-its-increased-228797

petergleick , 1 day ago to Random stuff

This bipartisan US criticism of the ICC request for arrest warrants for Israeli officials for crimes against humanity is embarrassing. These critics are basically saying they support gross violations of international humanitarian law, if it's our "friends" who do it.
Enforcing these international laws is critical; it's not done enough; and the evidence suggests it's warranted here.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4677609-speaker-johnson-eyes-legislation-to-sanction-icc-officials-over-arrest-warrant-requests/

petergleick , 2 days ago to Random stuff

Trump floats more Nazi themes by posting a clip saying he'd create a "unified Reich." Another ho-hum media response.

Here is the case for amplifying Trump's clear calls for fascist, authoritarian power.

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-case-for-amplifying-trumps-insanity

petergleick , 2 days ago to Random stuff

More detail from the International Criminal Court re. arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and Israel. Among the war crimes categorized & defined for Netanyahu & Gallant of Israel are:

"cutting off supplies of electricity and water" and "attacks on facilities that produce food and clean #water".

The explicit war crime is "intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare."

This conclusion comes from the unanimous report from the Panel of Experts to the ICC Prosecutor.

petergleick , 2 days ago to Random stuff

I suspect I'm not the only one sorry that Trump isn't taking the stand. I would have dropped everything to listen to the cross-examination...

[Add your own popcorn meme here...]

petergleick , 2 days ago to Random stuff

How nutso does it have to get for Boebert to sound semi-rational compared to MTGreene?

https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-blasts-marjorie-taylor-greene-after-viral-hearing-1902193

petergleick , 2 days ago to Random stuff

Are you in northern California and free on Thursday? Come to this Napa Green event on "The Future of Water" -- I'll be speaking! #water https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-water-workshop-tickets-873971972697

petergleick , 2 days ago to Random stuff

No one (should) dispute Israel's right to security and defense.

But this from the International Criminal Court is relevant:

"Israel, like all States, has a right to take action to defend its population. That right, however, does not absolve Israel or any State of its obligation to comply with international humanitarian law. Notwithstanding any military goals they may have, the means Israel chose to achieve them in Gaza – ... – are criminal."

petergleick , 3 days ago to Random stuff

A note about the request for arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court for Hamas and Israeli leaders...

It includes the point that Israel cut off the #water supplies to Gaza as part of a "plan to use starvation as a method of war and other acts of violence against the Gazan civilian population."

These are violations of Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/icc-statute-1998/article-7?activeTab=undefined

gwagner , 3 days ago to Random stuff

Tim Harford nails the Jevons paradox: "the environment is all but certain to come out ahead, as there are few more environmentally damaging ways to spend a thousand dollars than to burn a thousand dollars of gasoline."

Online title: "There’s no need to lose our minds over the Jevons paradox"

https://www.ft.com/content/22b8e5f1-732e-4cbd-acb0-9990f63f659e

#climate #efficiency #economics #JevonsParadox #rebound

petergleick , 3 days ago to Random stuff

I'm so old I remember when Trump solicited a billion-dollar-bribe from oil company executives to roll back our environmental protections, and nobody did a thing.
Oh, that was last week.

petergleick , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to Random stuff

Wanna know why the Chinese have so much high-speed rail? Here's part of the answer.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7EI5QnPJtS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

petergleick , 4 days ago to Random stuff

I mean, how totally fucked up is this?

https://www.wect.com/2024/05/16/nc-senate-votes-ban-people-wearing-masks-public-health-reasons/

petergleick , 4 days ago to Random stuff

A big nuclear power plant is around 1000MWe.

In the next decade the US is on track to build 1,200,000 MWe worth of solar and wind and batteries.

petergleick , 5 days ago to Random stuff

Map of US train system in 1890 and today.

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petergleick , 5 days ago to Random stuff

Anyone claiming the "tragedy of the commons" isn't a real issue has never shared a bed with a small blanket on a cold night with another person.

petergleick , 7 days ago to Random stuff

Did a Republican write this headline? Or the NYTimes?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd131v26dneo

petergleick , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to Random stuff

This is the most extreme form of #climate denial. Not only is the State of Florida, perhaps more vulnerable to climate change than any other state, pretending that climate change doesn't exist, but it's deleting any reference to it in state law. This is truly putting your head in the sand.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/desantis-bill-climate-change-florida/index.html

petergleick , 8 days ago to Random stuff

Dear Reference Nerds...

If anyone has a pdf of this publication, can you message me at www.gleick.com?

Clarke, Arthur C. 1950. Electromagnetic Launching as a Major Contribution to Space-Flight. J. British Interplanetary Soc. 9 (6): 261-267.

petergleick , 8 days ago to Random stuff

So is Steve Bannon finally going to jail?
The ability of these privileged, well-connected criminals to avoid jail even AFTER conviction is remarkable.

petergleick , 9 days ago to Random stuff

When your friend has a boat...

petergleick , 9 days ago to Random stuff

The real message coming out of Trump's criminal trial turns out not to be whether or not he's guilty of the narrow crimes he's on trial for, but the fact that he lies and cheats about literally everything, big and small. Where most people have an ethical guide, Trump has a black hole.

ScienceCommunicator , 9 days ago to Random stuff

Some people do believe in aliens 👽

I do believe in aliens but also l don't believe in aliens ( l have never met one) The evidence is that aliens might exist. As for our solar system, the more intelligent, or rather technologically advanced the alien, the more probable they don't live, at least in our solar system (they couldn't hide. Although, there could be life under an ocean on a moon, for example

As for the believers, that's a mixed bag of tricks (on the mind). But, "they" 👽 are possible

petergleick , 9 days ago to Random stuff

Gee, I didn't know I should double my expense reimbursements for "income tax purposes".

#trumptrials

petergleick , 13 days ago to Random stuff

How low have we sunk?
The former GOP president and current GOP presidential candidate openly solicits a billion-dollar bribe by offering to pass policies, as a quid pro quo, to destroy the planet and it's a one-day story with shoulder shrugs.

How is this not soliciting a bribe?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

petergleick , 13 days ago to Random stuff

Big #water news.
The conservative SCOTUS killed the national protections for vast numbers of rivers, streams, and wetlands in the Sackett decision.
Now, one state, Colorado, has used state's rights provisions to re-establish those protections. Time for more states to do so.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/09/colorado-law-protecting-wetlands-supreme-court/

petergleick , 13 days ago to Random stuff

Adding this to the "grossly misleading and incorrect headline" file.
Sites Reservoir might, optimistically, provide water for 100,000 people, or a far, far smaller number of corporate farms.

#water #cawater

petergleick , 14 days ago to Random stuff

How is this not soliciting a bribe?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

petergleick , 14 days ago to Tesla

Today in Fixing my #Tesla.

The frunk won't open and the rear door handle won't close. $1100...

petergleick , 14 days ago to Random stuff

Hey, you in England. Beer is better cold.

https://www.science.org/content/article/whiskey-tastes-stronger-neat-beer-better-cold-here-s-why

petergleick , 14 days ago to Random stuff

You Are Here.

Current atmospheric CO2 levels are higher than ever in human history, and far earlier...

This is human-caused #climatechange.

petergleick , 15 days ago to Random stuff

Mercury poisoning and a parasite that ate part of RFK Jr.'s brain.

That could explain a lot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html

petergleick , 15 days ago to Random stuff

Yes, #Noem keeps digging and digging and digging deeper in a hole she dug for herself, but really, she's simply demonstrating three fundamental traits that define today's Republicans:

The tendency to lie;
The inability to EVER admit a mistake; and
The inability to apologize for ANYTHING.
#kristi_noem

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi-noem-kim-jong-un-fox-news_n_663a2ca7e4b0f72991a7abb8

petergleick , 15 days ago to Random stuff

Kind words from Matt Damon and Gary White for my book "The Three Ages of Water"

"Gleick has delivered a book that provides a rich story of humanity’s interaction with water through a lens that helps us understand where we are today as we strive to balance all the demands we place on the planet’s water resources... It is a hopeful call to action grounded in fact, research, and analysis."

https://www.gleick.com/#reviews-of-the-three

petergleick , 15 days ago to Random stuff

The rate of sea level rise has more than doubled since the mid-1990s from 2.1 mm/year to 4.4 mm/year.

#climatechange
Data from https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/ocean-indicators-products/mean-sea-level.html#c15723

petergleick , 15 days ago to Random stuff

The media can't seem to decide which is worse, shooting your puppy in the head or lying about non-existent meetings with foreign leaders...

I'll go with lying about your position to take away all women's rights to bodily autonomy.

#Noem

https://www.yahoo.com/news/noem-dodges-cnn-questions-abortion-233308329.html

petergleick , 15 days ago to Random stuff

Do you know the role that water plays in conflict in the Middle East?

More than half the population relies upon water that crosses political borders.

2/3 of Arabic-speaking
people in the region depend on water that comes from non-Arabic speaking areas.

Israel’s water comes from occupied territories; the Jordan River basin; and desalination.

There are almost no agreements on how to share transboundary waters.

Violence over water is increasing.

My overview from 1994!
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00139157.1994.9929154

petergleick , 17 days ago to Random stuff

This year we launched the first satellite capable of seeing methane emissions, a potent and dangerous greenhouse gas.
Now the fossil-fuel companies are building structures to hide those emissions.
Climate criminals.
#Climate

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/03/fossil-fuel-companies-build-structures-to-hide-methane-flaring-from-satellites/

petergleick , 20 days ago to Random stuff

California has increased battery storage for the electrical grid from 770 MW in 2019 to 10,379 MW now -- a massive increase.
On a day in April, battery energy was actually the largest source of energy for California's grid.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/25/california-achieves-major-clean-energy-victory-10000-megawatts-of-battery-storage/