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Feb 8, 2020

Greetings Earthlings! This is your planet speaking- or a representative who wants to warn you about the impending 25th solar cycle. Will it be a harbinger of disaster and horrible events, or just business as usual? Stick around and find out!

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Antivaxxer's are not just liars, they're putting other people at risk and they are at heart very disturbed. We have lost over 1400 kids in the United States to COVID-19; he thinks not a single one has died. He is insulting every parent that lost the child to this disease. twitter.com/AllenDMartin/s

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Quick Covid data update, I was answering a question on sources and gave this link - discovered yesterday, updated it (1st in a month). As off last week of November 2022, only one American under 50 that took the bivalent vaccine has died of COVID-19. 1 data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-

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#COVIDIOTS Guess he didn't read the article... "There also was evidence that the virus destroyed the cells lining the bronchial tubes, including cells with protective hair-like projections, or cilia." "the virus landed the first blow while bacteria delivered the knockout punch."

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Rob-Pureblood

@Robzerohedge

15h

Replying to @25_cycle @JCDash4 and @vgclements1

And during the Spanish flu, most people actually died of bacterial pneumonia… caused by natural occurring flora.. nih.gov/news-events/ne

17h

It's good to see the new flood control measures on the Empire State Trail in Macy Park (Ardsley) have succeeded, the trail is completely impassable because of the flood. It's the first time I've ever had to turn back.

20h

Religious fanatic thinks his private schools in Kenya are better than Bronx High School of Science... I didn't go to Bronx Sci because I couldn't afford private school, I went there because it's the greatest school on earth.

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Chai Ndefu

@__Ngugi

20h

Replying to @25_cycle @Velvetpage and @KristanHawkins

Of course if you can't afford it, you wouldn't think you needed a private education. I just don't understand how even after being in such a secondary school, you still reason like this - there seems to be little more that can be done to help your thinking process.

#ClimateBrawl Remember I was mentioning a loser I'd challenged to provide me with paleoclimate daily for the first 90% of Earth's history? He's still can do it, BUT HE THINKS HE CAN!!! Dude, the first 90% is BEFORE THE PHANEROZOIC. There will be an explainer about this one day. twitter.com/jameseduke/sta

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#ResistanceEarth #ClimateBrawl Today, back to talking about Antarctic ice extent. Wow, this is just nuts- we lost 100,000 Km yesterday, that's 3.7% decline in an already record low for the date. Average for 1/24 is 52.5% higher than today's reading. And the Arctic has stalled.

Trigger alert: HOW TF DID ANTARCTICA LOSE ANOTHER 100,000 SQUARE KILOMETERS OF ICE EXTENT YESTERDAY???? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? (Chart to follow shortly when I catch my breath.)

Can you tell I'm a little late feeding them this morning?

This is a very critical topic in science, the modern world, and sadly even more in human history. More people have been killed in the name of religion than anything else. Because if you can justify anything in God's name then you can justify anything you do in God's name.

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Chai Ndefu

@__Ngugi

Replying to @25_cycle @Velvetpage and @KristanHawkins

How can you possibly reason in such a defunct manner? If human beings die from natural causes, is that an excuse for us to kill them ? (Because they'll die anyway)

I'm more than happy to lose followers- I just unfollowed and blocked a follower because their content is too hate-filled. Life is too short to spend it with people who are not good at heart.

#ClimateBrawl There can be no tolerance for this or any sort of dehumanizing behavior. Block all troll, report all Nazi symbolism and references, and let Twitter know that these people must be deplatformed. This isn't about speech, this is about human dignity.

Steve has demonstrated he has no respect for Holocaust survivors- and humanity in general. This is repulsive, and so is he. He's not a good man.

#COVIDIOTS I think the real issue in the modern world isn't so much right versus left, but people who listen to reality and those who believe in pseudoscience, new age religions, and the cult of personality brought about by celebrities & spokesmodels. Influencers ≠ experts twitter.com/PLJinNewWest1/

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#ClimateBrawl What is it with these low information losers, they think their lack of education and intelligence can be overcome by emojis?

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aaronshem

@aaronshem

Replying to @25_cycle and @MatthewWielicki

#ResistanceEarth #ClimateBrawl Today I'm going to discuss the Arctic instead- In a La Nina winter, we're at the 3rd lowest in history. The 30-day average is also the 3rd lowest, this isn't a one shot deal. So when ppl say "why aren't they talking about the Arctic... we are.

#ClimateBrawl #ClimateScam If you're going to engage me and show me you don't know physics, or industry, or how energy systems work, don't take offense when I dismiss you as a clown. You earned it by supposing your rhetoric was a match for facts. You can't argue facts

#COVIDIOTS Claims he's a doctor, but He's clearly not an eye doctor because he didn't notice that I answered his earlier question. Why are covidiots so brainless?

#ClimateBrawl There's the old line in courtroom dramas where the attorney says"I never ask a question I don't already know the answer to." His chart is not based on any paleoclimate data, just guesstimates. He doesn't know that, I do. Ignorant science deniers can't cite sources.

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Thomas

@TLBarbato1

Replying to @25_cycle @TWTThisIsNow and 2 others

Look at the fine print on all the charts…it’s sourced…but good for you for not looking

I hope you've enjoyed this, thanks for your time! Now the fun part - I learned about this nearly 30 years ago, there really hasn't been much "new" tech involved, except they keep reducing wall thickness, which is exactly why they dent so easily! Which is where I started. 13/13

Because the pressure helps the can hold shape. Over the last ~ ½ century can wall thickness has diminished, cutting costs & energy use, while making them safer & more reliable. We take these for granted, but they're a critical piece of modern technology. 12/13

Over a freshly inked plate & then carefully dried & sealed using a thin coating. The cost of painting a can is less than applying a label, but it needs much higher volumes to be cost effective. (It's a fraction of a cent.) Soda cans are generally thinner walled... 11/13

Changed my mind: Bonus section. If it's a soda can, the original "cup" is much more complicated- instead of simply ironed a concave "punt" is shaped into the bottom for extra strength, allowing pressurized soda to remain safely in the can. The can is painted by rolling it- 10/13

The edges are "rolled"& then neatly folded together, then pressed into a perfect seal. Any sharp edges are in the inside seam where they can't harm the customer. All of this takes seconds! They make tens of thousands of cans an hour, the punches can last a few months. 9/13

With some cans you need a mechanical can opener; now most cans are scored & a pull tab is made by the punch, all from one piece of metal. Not all cans use this, some still have a discreet tab that's "riveted" by the punch. Another punch combines the 2, cat food & all. 8/13

Food cans are much simpler than soda cans- there's several steps I can skip... The edge of the can is trimmed, the excess metal salvaged. We now have a one piece cup-shaped can suitable for long-term food storage. The lid is formed by another die, which is very complex. 7/13

They've perfected the process over decades (since 1958)-they've tried many different blank shapes, hexagons give the best performance and waste the least metal. Once the piece is cut, it is pushed at very high pressure ("drawn") through the die & the walls shrink ("ironed") 6/13

Modern punch presses are gargantuan machines that stamp out huge pieces of metal (think convoluted car body parts) In this case, it's only a small 10cm can. It's a multi-stage process; I'll start with the sheet aluminum. The die first cuts the sheet into a hexagonal "blank" 5/13

That piece is forced into the die by another part of almost exactly the same inside shape called a "punch" . The machine that forces the punch through the work material and into the cup shaped die is a "press" . 4/13

These can do more than 1 job & we use compound dies to "blank" the metal or securing the lid but never mind. A ”die” is a (generally) metal form used to hold a material that undergoing a stamping or extrusion process. The material worked in this case is an aluminum can. 3/13

My first impulse was "great, now I have to tell people how we manufacture cans." First step: I have to introduce the concept of a punch and die. I'm only going to describe simple systems here, there are compound punches that change shape in the middle of the process. 2/13

#ResistanceEarth Today's explainer is brought to you by a dropped can of cat food. I got a little clumsy this morning. Can fell ~6in (15cm) onto a soft linoleum floor yet it sustained a dent on the strongest part of the can! 1/13

There were 17 years that never got as low as we are today, by Thursday it'll probably be 12-15 more years we will have already surpassed. 2/2

#ResistanceEarth #ClimateBrawl There's ~ a month left in the Antarctic melt season. Average minimum for the last 43 years, 2.733 million Km² Today's ice: 2.733 m Km² Average for the date, 4.18 mKm², 50% higher than what we have today. 1/2 masie_web.apps.nsidc.org/pub//DATASETS/

#ClimateBrawl I have yet to meet anyone in the climate science community that "disbelieved" the two Exxon 1978 and 1982 teams. They did brilliantly at validating AGW. I assume that means you agree with them completely.

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Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki

@MatthewWielicki

Jan 22

The double standard is remarkable. Believe the scientists that worked for Exxon in the 70s and may have said something about warming but discredit them if they disagree with you because they work for fossil fuel companies. You can't haven't both ways. twitter.com/Syncretiphile/…

Jan 22

#ClimateBrawl Steve at junk-for-brains Thinks the increase from 310 to 360 is 167%. Why is Steve so mathematically illiterate? And in case he takes it down, here's a screenshot.

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Steve Milloy

@JunkScience

Jan 22

33 years ago today in climate lying... the Associated Press prints deceptive graph that actually illustrates CO2 warming is a hoax: No warming from 1940-1980 despite manmade atmospheric CO2 increasing 167% (from 310 ppm to 360 pm). newspapers.com/image/79313737

Jan 21

This was very simplified, more an intro than a full explainer; if you have any questions or comments, please feel free. So thanks for your, I hope I've helped reduce wind power anxiety and helped people understand why onshore wind is the cheapest energy currently available. 17/17

Jan 21

Nuclear has it's own issues, mostly dealing with the need for redundancy and waste heat streams/ nuclear is very expensive, there's a future here if it can be made cheaper and more reliably. Solar PV has one moving part, electrons. (Okay, they have directional panels...) 16/17

Jan 21

"Pumped Hydro" or "gravity storage" has been used to store energy since the 1890s. It's a low tech solution, easily scaled, can use existing infrastructure or easily added. There's a constellation of energy storage technologies available they don't have to be lithium only. 15/17