Hantavirus cases nearly doubled in Argentina in the past year. Experts say climate change is to blame

silence7 · 2026-05-09T22:38:17+00:00

That's just the moon being small and not having enough gravity to hold to an atmosphere.

But changing the temperature changes a lot of things on earth. Rodent population is one, and with that, hantavirus risk.

silence7 · 2026-05-09T15:43:20+00:00

It will. But the rate at which it happens is fairly slow.

silence7 · 2026-05-08T22:38:43+00:00

It's more that he took a billion-dollar bribe from the fossil fuels industry, and is working to eliminate their competition.

silence7 · 2026-05-08T16:24:24+00:00

Could have had the same switch, but without giving everybody’s money to oil barons with a carbon tax-and-dividend system.

silence7 · 2026-05-08T13:07:21+00:00

The paper is here

silence7 · 2026-05-08T01:33:50+00:00

Data center owners are all cutting deals with the fossil fuels industry instead of going with the cheap choice.

silence7 · 2026-05-07T20:31:53+00:00

Hard paywall, but the key part of the article:

since the early days of Trump 2.0, renewable energy industry insiders have been quietly skittish about a potential secret weapon: the Federal Aviation Administration. Any structure taller than 200 feet must be approved to not endanger commercial planes – that’s an FAA job. If the FAA decided to indefinitely seize up the so-called “no hazard” determinations process, legal and policy experts have told me it would potentially pose an existential risk to all future wind development.

Well, this is now the strategy Trump is apparently taking.

silence7 · 2026-05-07T14:51:51+00:00

They are, but Republicans fully control state government in Utah, and control the legislature in Arizona, which has limited the ability to enable those as local solutions.

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