Shriram Manohar
@ShriramManohar
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Climate Change & Clean Air matters, CSK Fan, Dog reels & Doge meme lover, foodie, Chennai- born & raised, living in Delhi. Views are personal.
New Delhi, India
Joined October 2010
5 years ago, I showed up to a lunch tinder date hungover. My life changed that afternoon. ❤️ Actually not much has changed, I’m hungover this afternoon as well. @Psycho_Plath
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It's a Global Crisis—NOAA Cuts Will Hurt Us All 1/ The decision to slash jobs at NOAA isn’t just a US issue—it’s a blow to climate science and action worldwide. NOAA provides data & models that support weather-climate monitoring, forecasting & disaster preparedness worldwide.
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Freely available #AirQuality data enables communities, scientists and policymakers to understand and address #AirPollution effectively📡 We're supporting organisations to make #OpenData a reality worldwide - ✍️@ShriramManohar ⬇️ https://t.co/dSoHwuB7ua
cleanairfund.org
Imagine having no idea what’s in the air you breathe. This is the reality for many communities worldwide. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Open data – information that anyone can freely access and...
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Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March https://t.co/D8YonQ4w65
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There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. Here's what this means. (1/9) 🧵
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The latest data from AQLI is now available: Read the report and follow the reportage :). Read here: https://t.co/fOuNzuZ90o A short thread on the findings #1 Air pollution is the greatest threat to human life expectancy - shortening human lives by 1.9 years on average globally
NEW: Our 2024 #AQLIReport finds #AirPollution is reducing the avg person’s life expectancy by 1.9 yrs—or a combined 14.9B life-yrs lost worldwide—relative to the @WHO guideline. Most countries fail to set or meet their own standards for clean air. https://t.co/ekYgHY9559 🧵1/11
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The Breathe Accra Initiative now has 15 low cost sensors air quality measurements open and accessible online at https://t.co/VxtNeCw2yH The public and stakeholders can now see the trend of air pollution in all Breathe Accra districts. Credit to the @GhanaAQ project.
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🚨Exclusive: Modi govt shut down almost 200 district weather advisory units providing crucial services to farmers after @NITIAayog misrepresented their role & sought privatisation of services. Based on internal finance ministry documents #RTI
article-14.com
Despite opposition from a senior union minister and an association of experts, the NITI Aayog, the government’s think tank, urged the closure of 199 district agro-meteorological units, which were...
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We have been consistently reducing our education budget (as a % of GDP) and now we are at a 20 year low. Priorities ! #Budget2024
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We're continuing to build partnerships with national, state and city govs in Brazil, bringing our tools like AirTracker to bear to help improve air quality and health for the country's 215M+ residents! New blog from @TammyMThompson: https://t.co/QqZ2E3msZl
#CleanAir #Brazil
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These are shocking numbers, even for a climate scientist who has seen a lot over the last 40 years. Health impacts of the climate disruption will soon hit millions of people. Will the world leaders finally understand the urgency to leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop
Brutal heat... New Delhi, India 🇮🇳 just recorded its hottest night on record at the Safdarjung Observatory (data since 1901). The heatwave has been rewriting many records. New Delhi has hit 40°C or greater for 37 consecutive days now.
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Welcome to a 50 degree world where the ACs you've installed to cool yourself will catch fire in the unbearable extreme heat. A 60°C world won't be many years away if emissions don't come down rapidly. Nothing can protect the planet from extreme heating except decarbonisation.
🔴 #Breaking | An apartment building in Noida Sector-100 caught fire due to an air conditioner explosion. The incident occurred at Lotus Boulevard Society in Noida. No casualties have been reported. #Noida #FireAccident
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🚨 A severe heatwave is expected in North India & Pakistan from this weekend, temperatures likely to cross 50°C in Pakistan. Further extending towards India, New Delhi will also be near 46-48°C next week. TC people residing in North.
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Extreme heat in Asia made much much more likely & intense by climate change. Sounds like a broken record - yes! But heat is still underreported, underrecorded and extremely deadly! The world is not prepared for today's climate change, let alone the future. https://t.co/cRcz5ygRqw
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Check out this amazing publication by @amazonwebservices about enhancing air quality sensors in Africa with Afri-SET. You don't want to miss this! Click the link below to read this and other exciting publications. https://t.co/IEr836SK9r
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Kejriwal in custody, Congress without money: BJP government’s attack on Opposition shows how little it thinks of the voter
indianexpress.com
A powerful BJP, with a popular prime minister, need not fear electoral loss. So why is it arresting opposition leaders and freezing their accounts ahead of the elections? Only one explanation makes...
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Our new primer "ABC's of Air Quality", provides illustrated #talkingpoints on themes related to #airquality and #airpollution in alphabetical order Read individual pages and download full PDF at https://t.co/18OtJdVqGd
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Soumya Swaminathan Returns to International Arena to Fight Air Pollution https://t.co/VzTMubZ3h7
@CleanAirFund @CEEWIndia #CleanAirForAll @doctorsoumya
healthpolicy-watch.news
Dr Soumya Swaminathan is returning to the international stage after leaving the World Health Organization (WHO) in late 2022, just as the world was recovering
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Partha Mukhopadhyay, senior fellow at CPR, ascribed two reasons for underrepresentation: lack of access to degrees and qualifications that are required to get a job in the sector and the low paying nature of jobs in the development sector. @HaqueAiman✍️ https://t.co/9L5q02CDZ7
caravanmagazine.in
How the development sector and the civil society allow systemic inequalities to persist in its design and foundation.
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