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From the article:

Their research has not yet been peer reviewed, but the authors found that even using what they describe as a “narrow accounting” method — looking only at climate impacts from heat and extreme weather on household budgets and mortality — there were “sizable costs to U.S. households from recent climate change patterns.” Those started at $400 per year and went as high as $900 depending on how extreme weather were attributed to climate change, adding up to an aggregate cost of about $50 billion to $110 billion nationwide.

Sorry about the hard paywall; there is no other coverage yet.

The working paper that the article is about is open-access

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Mostly not; they were awarded through competitive process. It's remarkably hard to get something frivolous through that.

What does happen a lot is that basic science isn't immediately impactful but has a modest chance of producing something really useful. For example the GLP-1 drugs were developed as a result of a study into gila monster venom. Nobody is going to say "gila monster venom is useful" but the basic research into how gila monsters regulate appetite turned out to be very meaningful.

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Comments by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some panelists suggest the committee is likely to delay hepatitis B shots and discuss revising the use of other vaccines.

Never mind that the reason we give hepatitis B vaccines at a very young age is preventing parent-to-child transmission has prevented a lot of cancer

He could’ve gotten the virus when he was born. Or maybe from his brother, or his caregivers, or his friends. Nobody knows. That’s why vaccinating everyone is so important, regardless of people’s perceived risks.

The hepatitis B vaccine — and the current recommendation to give it at birth — is likely why years later, as a doctor, I cannot recall caring for a patient with liver cancer caused by this virus. It was the world’s first anticancer vaccine. To think that members of my father’s generation may be the last to die from this devastating infection is to grasp how truly remarkable medical progress is.

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Comments by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some panelists suggest the committee is likely to delay hepatitis B shots and discuss revising the use of other vaccines.

Never mind that the reason we give hepatitis B vaccines at a very young age is preventing parent-to-child transmission has prevented a lot of cancer

He could’ve gotten the virus when he was born. Or maybe from his brother, or his caregivers, or his friends. Nobody knows. That’s why vaccinating everyone is so important, regardless of people’s perceived risks.

The hepatitis B vaccine — and the current recommendation to give it at birth — is likely why years later, as a doctor, I cannot recall caring for a patient with liver cancer caused by this virus. It was the world’s first anticancer vaccine. To think that members of my father’s generation may be the last to die from this devastating infection is to grasp how truly remarkable medical progress is.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 19 hours ago

There is no war, so just crimes

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

They don't even need to modify the weapons; just shoot at peoples heads with weapons not meant for that

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago

A huge amount of extra CO~2~ showed up. We don't have a definitive answer as to where from.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Titles are a problem; they're all that almost everybody sees — click-through rates to articles are around 2.5% of the headline view rates. I try to increase that by using gift links and archived copies of articles; but that has a fairly limited impact on peoples' willingness to click in the first place.

Actually understanding means doing more than reading the headline, and that makes it very hard to get information across.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

One which doesn't require professional installation has real potential to cut the cost of solar by making it about who can sell a good-enough panel the most cheaply. That hasn't happened so far in the US, and means that rooftop solar is something like 4x the price it is in other countries.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

I think they require the disconnect to be built into the panel, but not 100% sure

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, but they don't scale to anything like the amount of CO2 people are adding to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. In practice, this means having to phase out fossil fuels faster

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

I suspect that the media diet of those affected makes the leopard completely invisible

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

Realistically you need to get them banned.

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