Edgar McGregor
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BSc Climate Science @SJSU 📈 Busy conducting 1,800+ days of #EarthCleanUp🌳 He/Him 🌎 Because the future is worth fighting for. ☀
Southern California
Joined April 2015
Despite all we've lost, there is still so much to save. There is a future worth fighting for. Become a climate activist. Please.
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I AM DONE!!! I DID IT!!!. After **589** days of picking up trash every single day, I can say with confidence that Eaton Canyon, one of Los Angeles's most popular hiking trail, is now free of municipal waste!. I'VE DONE IT!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
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BREAKING: This evening alone, the United States of America has been struck by no fewer than 6 natural disasters. A thread on these events. 🧵. First, a massive flash flood has torn through Yellowstone National Park destroying roads and bridges.
Current conditions of Yellowstone’s North Entrance Road through the Gardner Canyon between Gardiner, Montana, and Mammoth Hot Springs. We will continue to communicate about this hazardous situation as more information is available. More info:
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🧵Since it is becoming hard to track, here is a thread of the simply astounding weather records planet Earth has started shattering in recent weeks:. 1. Dramatic flood events have begun striking various countries around the world simultaneously this week.
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This is as simply as I can put it:. Despite repeated warnings, the public remains perilously unresponsive to the catastrophically escalating situation along the Colorado River.
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Why isn't this trending?. Why are our leaders sitting idle while scientists struggle to warn the world?.
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The scene in Lahaina, Maui this morning is absolutely devastating. The entire town is being destroyed by an intense wildfire, forcing residents to sheek shelter in the ocean. Make no mistake, climate change is making scenes like this more frequent.
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Meteorologists: . Download all your local weather station data onto a thumb drive. Do it tomorrow.
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1. New York, 2023.2. San Francisco, 2020.3. Los Angeles, 2020.4. Sydney, 2019. In the past 4 years alone, each city has experienced it's worst day of wildfire smoke in recorded history. The Earth is on fire. Our negligence is killing our planet. We must change our ways.
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People who own private homes: . Honestly, what is your reasoning behind not filling your yard up with native trees to shade everything in summer?.
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🧵Since it is becoming hard to keep track, here is a list of countries/municipalities that have seen catastrophic flooding in the first 11 days of September 2023:. - Greece.- Turkey.- Libya <--- *thousands feared dead*.- Brazil.- Hong Kong.- Shanghai.- Spain.- Las Vegas
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#ClimateStrike week 37 in Pasadena, CA. I was alone for the first 30 minutes and got lots of negative energy from passerby. It was a terrible morning, and I was about to leave before @ClimateHuman suddenly called me up and joined me. @GretaThunberg @FFF_USA #FFF
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It's happening. The climate crisis is here. Each one of these disasters was possible before anthropomorphic climate change, but now they've become stronger and more frequent. We CANNOT adapt to this. We must act now! This is getting intense!.
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The state that just had its western side blown apart by a climate-worsened hurricane. voted for a climate denier. I am speechless.
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I am not putting a cloth on my face, however you must birth a child and then raise it for 18 years. Freedom.
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This should put the 2022 California heat wave into perspective for you.
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When tweeting about the Keystone pipeline, please include the fact that it was indigenous activists who put an end to this disaster. Many risked everything to protect the huge swaths of the North American landscape. At the very least, they deserve credit.
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One does not "believe" in climate science. You either understand what our civilization is doing to the natural world or you don't.
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Honestly, It is becoming harder to be a climate optimist. What the planet is going through right now is unreal. Even the most careful and orthodox scientists I know appear on edge.
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This is becoming an increasingly unpopular opinion, but I still stand by it:. The debate between individual climate action and systematic climate action shouldn't exist. To succeed at solving this crisis, we'll need both. One fuels the other. If we only pursue one, we'll lose.
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I will not be satisfied with the Biden administration's climate plan until CO2 levels plummet. I don't care how amazing his promises are. My generation has had our future sold to the highest bidder for decades, and we are done with empty promises.
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Climate action is a group project. There will be no hero that will emerge from the fog to save us from ourselves. To preserve this planet, we'll need a billion climate activists.
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BREAKING: For the first time ever, the CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa in Hawaii has reached 415PPM. We were worried it would happen this year, and it did. This needs to be breaking news on every news channel.
🏆📈🏆 Humanity's FIRST DAY EVER with #CO2 in air > 415 ppm at Mauna Loa 🏆 415.09 ppm CO2 on May 3, 2019 🏆 @keeling_curve source: 🏆 Records tracked at 🙏 #MayThe4thBeWithYou 🙏
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I have no words. The world's oceans are 0.4°F warmer right now than any other year on this date on record. A single year. sitting 0.4°F above the previous daily record. How do we even tell the public this?
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The climate crisis has begun. The world's ecosystems have begun to unravel. Our climate is becoming unrecognizable. Now is the time to stand up and fight back. Now is the time to bring meaning to our generation. Now is the time to take back Earth. Join the climate movement.
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Let me clear this up:. 1. Climate change is real. 2. It's bad. 3. It's changed before, but this is too fast. 4. It's our fault. 5. We should do something. 6. It's not inevitable. 7. Individual action isn't enough. 8. Systematic action isn't enough. 9. We need both. Together.
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Let me make something clear: . If a wildfire breaks out, it will not be stopped. Firefighters cannot fight fires in these conditions. There will be no helicopters or planes dropping phos-cheks. There will be no structure protection. There will be no hand crews cutting lines. 1/.
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The climate crisis is the most tragic mass extinction event to ever face Planet Earth, even though it isn't the worst. Why?. Well, because it was voted for. We chose it. The dinosaurs didn't vote for the meteor. We know what is happening. We know how to fix it. We don't care.
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We don't need better climate activists. We need more climate activists. We're short handed around here. The more people we have commited to this cause, the more political power our movement will yield. We need a billion activists to preserve the Earth.
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Not enough attention is being given to the major #LakeFire in California. It's only 4 hours old, and 11,000+ acres are gone. This could be a real ecological disaster for the Angeles Nat. Forest. This is an incredibly hot, climate change helped, leave-nothing-behind type inferno.
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John Oliver did a great piece on this the other day:. Essentially, there is no golden key to solving this crisis. An array of changes must be made by homeowners, farmers, city officials, and state officials. Oh, and we need to stop warming the planet.
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I am evacuating my home and my family. We are set to leave at a moment's notice. Car is packed. #EatonFire. Today was trash pickup day 1,992. My park is gone. I took this picture just a few hours ago.
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"Yet you come to us young people for hope?! How dare you!". This is one of the most important quotes ever said, people. Youth climate activists are not here to provide hope. We are here to force adults, companies, and politicians to change. We want action, not praise.
Greta Thunberg tearfully tells world leaders at UN: ‘You have stolen my dreams'
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Next, wildfires have exploded across the desert southwest with fires in Arizona and New Mexico being fanned by high winds:.
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My #ClimateStrike week 28 in Pasadena, California. Historic windstorms, the hottest temperatures of 2019, extreme wildfires, and mass blackouts to prevent those wildfires are all inflicting California this week. We are in a #ClimateEmergency . @GretaThunberg @FFF_USA #FFF
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I think everyone needs to slow down. Why are we all rushing everywhere all the time to do everything? Why aren't we working 6 hour days, 4 days a week? Why are all our schools so harsh on our students? What is the end goal? So we can destroy our planet at an ever faster pace?.
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It is time to get mad over companies destroying the planet for profit.
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Not to be alarmist, but something is very wrong. Something has definitely occurred in the Northern Hemisphere in the past 4 weeks.
Our oceans have been breaking heat records daily, especially in the Atlantic basin with countless marine heatwaves. This is how things look since the start of the year. 🔴 = Warmer than average .🔵 = Cooler than average .
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Second, a powerful derecho has torn through the Midwest with wind speeds of 80 miles an hour and torrential rainfall:.
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How is this election so close? i just don't understand it. Every day there are like 5 things that should have been campaign-ending scandals, and yet not a single voter changes their minds. Are we in hell?.
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Southern California is about to be blasted by one of its most powerful Santa Ana windstorm in recorded history. It may not be #1, but the combination of high population, drought conditions, abundant fuel, and mountain wave strength may create world-record high fire danger.
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Maybe the strongest storm to hit western Alaska, the strongest heatwave to hit California, and the strongest storm to hit Canada all happening in the same month on one continent isn't a coicidence. .
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Today, I feel confident enough to tell you all that after 573 days of picking up trash at my local park, I am within 2 weeks from having this place completely free of municipal waste. I'm 80 minutes into today's pickup targeting heavily trashed areas, and this is all I've got:
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4. Antarctica, which is currently in the dead of winter, has unexpectedly failed to reform it's winter sea ice this year. This is an exceptional deviation from the norm that has left even the most orthodox scientists dumbfounded.
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Your periodic reminder that the Republican Party has absolutely no plan to address the climate crisis and that alone should be enough reason to not vote for them.
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Stop pretending individual action is useless against the climate crisis. Individual action provides the political power needed to make systematic changes happen. The two are not mutually exclusive. One without the other will not be enough to preserve the planet.
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The 2025 Los Angeles Firestorm is likely going to be the costliest U.S. weather disaster in history, surpassing Katrina and Harvey. Two entire U.S. cities were leveled. Two dozen are dead. Tens of thousands of people lost everything. Millions have been exposed to toxic ash.
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Please support our fellow youth in India. They are being forced to take critical exams IN PERSON during a raging pandemic while many areas are facing extreme flooding from the climate crisis. That sounds dangerous, needlessly unfair, and plain wrong to me. #POSTPONEJEE_NEET.
Tomorrow, some of our friends are planning for a protest outside the @UN 🇺🇳 Headquarter, New York at 1 pm EST. All Indians & other global friends living in USA 🇺🇸, Plz join @JeromeFosterII. Thank you🙏🏻 .CC: @AlexandriaV2005 . #PostponeNEETJEE_Today .#SpeakUpForStudentSafety.
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BREAKING: Lake Mead has now dropped to 1044.39 feet in elevation for the first time since the lake was filled nearly 100 years ago. This is a loss of 1.18 feet or 14.2" in the last 7 days when I last reported on this. Dead pool is now < 150 feet away.
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This Friday, November 1st, a friend from Sweden (Spoiler: It is @GretaThunberg) will join myself and thousands of others outside L.A. City Hall for a massive climate strike! . If you are in the area, come join us!
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This heatwave setting temperature records across large swaths of the continent, with all-time records falling in several locations. This heat is oppressive, with feels-like temperatures near 110°F in Dallas.
*Extreme Heat Wave in USA* -Some remarkable temps in the past 2 days:.NM 111F.OK 110F .NE 109F -North Platte with 108F had its hottest June day ever .KS 108F .CO 108F.GA 103F.SC 103F.IL:Stifling hot and humid conditions with 84F of DP and 115F of THI at Logan AP.
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#ClimateStrike week 40!. Today was one of the coldest mornings of our winter, with a low of 39°F (4°C). Yet, compared to Januaries before the industrial revoltion, this morning would still be warmer than normal. Preindustrial Jan. average low of 38.1°F, (3.3°C) @GretaThunberg
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9. Finally, 2023 will likely be Earth's hottest year on record. It will not stay that way for long, however. Another year in the very near future will come along and take over the records set this year. The climate crisis is escalating. It's time to act.
Our temperature forecast now has 2023 as likely to set a new record for the warmest annual-average since direct measurements began (81% chance). This follows an exceptionally warm June and the rise of El Niño.
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There are no more new words I can use to describe the current state of the climate crisis. The world is seeing abrupt change unlike anything it has seen in 66,000,000 years. Mass ecosystem die-offs, missing winters, sky-high sea surface temperatures are all becoming the norm.
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Also included in this series is an exceptional heatwave driving power demand surges across Texas, highest demand on record for ERCOT
At 5:20 p.m. Sunday, ERCOT saw a demand of over 75,000 megawatts, the highest ever and most since August 2019.
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Also, wildfires are torching parts of Alaska during what is now one of the largest starts to the wildfire season on record up there:.
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@The_G_Genie How the hell do you people have enough money to order something and never pick it up?.
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Sorry for the language, but fuck the idea that we should celebrate the Earth one day a year. We are 100% dependent on this wet ball. Protecting it should be an intrinsic part of our lives and our civilization. This is our greatest responsibility.
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I don't care my photos aren't as good as others. I got to see the northern lights in Los Angeles, California of all places. LOS ANGELES! . I am astounded. I am in awe. I had no idea when I woke up this morning today would end like this. My god.
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One does not "believe" in the climate crisis. You either understand that humans are having a profound impact on the natural world, or you do not understand.
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My favorite radical leftist idea is that we shouldn't kill the planet for short term profit.
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The fossil fuel industry is your enemy, not fellow climate activists having to drive or eating meat.
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Largest California wildfires on record since 1932:. 2018, Mendocino Complex, 459,123 acres.2020, LNU Lightning Complex, 341,243 acres.2020, SCU Lightning Complex, 339,968 acres.2017, Thomas, 281,893 acres.2003, Cedar, 273,246 acres.2012, Rush, 271,911 acres. What climate crisis?.
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3. The entire northeastern Atlantic Ocean is currently experiencing it's most significant marine heatwave ever by a long stretch. In fact, that area had never been a full 1°C above the 1951-1980 average. It has suddenly jumped to 1.7°C above that average.
What happened last month in the Eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean is beyond extreme.
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Since I find this to be the most incredible statistic we're witnessing right now, it deserves a second tweet in this thread. Here's a graph showing the standard deviations of the record low sea ice in Antarctica, which is now above 5σ!.
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Frankly, it doesn't matter whether Hilary comes in as a tropical storm. Our models are flinging a tropical atmosphere into largely arid 10,000' mountains with 20 million people living below them. This is a big deal for Southern California, and it's time to pay attention.
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I'm studying to become a climate scientist and with each passing day I more and more realise why climate scientists are more worried about this crisis than anyone.
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It seems like most people are all for implementing climate solutions so long as they don't have to change a single thing about the way they live.
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L.A. just can't catch a break. The 2025 California Fire Storm is not over. Act II is 48 hours out. Any fire that breaks out will be very difficult to control and could quickly run into any urban-wildland interface neighborhood. Only Altadena and Palisades are safe from this.
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Nobody "believes" in climate change. You either understand and accept what is happening or you are ignoring what is happening.
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8. All of these things have culminated in June 2023 easily being the hottest June in recorded history for planet Earth. It's likely the hottest June in 115,000 - 120,000 years when Earth was last this warm.
The warmest June is setting 2023 up to be a new record for the warmest directly-measured annual-average (81% chance). El Niño is providing a short-term boost of warmth on top of the long-term warming caused by humans releasing greenhouse gases.
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Hire 100,000 people nationwide to clean up trash on every beach, hiking trail, road, river, and park. Not seasonal workers. Not high schoolers. Not unpaid internships. Not volunteers. Workers. Jobs. Paychecks. Benefits. 40 hours a week, 49 weeks a year. 100 years a century.
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#ClimateStrike week 41 in Pasadena, CA! . I highly advise everyone to make a "Honk for climate action" sign. Engagement from passerby is up 1000% this week!. @GretaThunberg @FFF_USA #FridaysForFuture #FFF
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Too many people advocate for the climate change solutions that don't require them to change anything about themselves. There will be no single technology, no single leader, and no single law that will solve the climate crisis. This is an issue that everyone needs to act on.
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My #ClimateStrike week 30! Joined by more friends!. Today was yet another scorching hot day in southern California. Despite a shower the other day, it really hasn't rained at all in nearly 6 full months. It should be raining by now. It's not. #FFF @FFF_USA @GretaThunberg
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I can't save the world. But I can save my little part of it.
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Earth can easily sustain 8 billion people. Earth CANNOT sustain billionaires and fossil fuel companies.
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7. The Canadian 2023 Wildfire Season will not let up, with nearly all annual records falling before we even reach the midpoint of the season. No Canadian wildfire season had ever produced 12 terawatts (TW) of fire radiative power. 2023 has produced 18TW.
July 7th update to Canada's season-to-date accumulated FRP (sum of instantaneous values). #Canadianwildfires #pyrocene
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Good God. The entirety of the Northern Hemisphere's oceans are on fire right now.
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The worst night of my life. I've driven down this road hundreds and hundreds of times going to my park.
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Are you willing to give up this to save the planet?
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2. El Niño has rapidly developed in recent months as sea surface temperatures across the equatorial east Pacific skyrocket. As of yet, the presence of El Niño has not had an impact on global weather conditions. That will change in a few months, however.
As of early July, sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific remain consistent with historical El Niño events that went on to become strong 💪. However, the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), a method of measuring El Niño's atmospheric expression, had a neutral three-month
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124°F or 51°C. Day 355 of my trash cleanup. Death Valley, California, USA.
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I don't know how to explain to you that the only reason we exist is to build a better world for future generations.
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Fight for the Earth people. Come on. This is our future. We need you to join the climate movement.
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I've seen enough. The most powerful heatwave ever to strike coastal California will soon commence. While all-time records highs (from Sept. 2020) may be safe in some areas, the length of this heatwave will be crushing. The GFS is on board. We're talking 4 days of 110+ heat.
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#ClimateStrike week 48. Due to COVID-19, I will be suspending my weekly climate strikes after today. I will hold each one online instead. #ClimateStrikeOnline. My anthro professor (@bannelia) joined me today, and today was also my first strike in the rain. @GretaThunberg
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