Paul Maidowski
@_ppmv
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Language, systems analysis, climate policy, CCS. Fletcher School/Fulbright d|e|f|i|中. @ppmv.bsky.social
Berlin
Joined December 2010
1. Growing bamboo is our best chance to avert climate breakdown: the plants build soil, help biodiversity, avoid GHG emissions, provide food & construction material, sequester carbon 30 times (!) faster than mixed temperate forest. Yet stunningly, no one coordinates this work yet
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New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago. Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas. Graph shows the global mean rate of rise. 🌊 https://t.co/NHuv0RXluT
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Who here works in carbon capture and storage (CCS), utilization (CCU) or emissions trading? I may be more involved going forward and will be curious to hear about current technologies and people’s ideas. Merci all!
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1. Why don't we have large bamboo forests in Europe? - For a managed plantation, carbon sequestration is 36 times higher per ha than a mixed Italian forest. (over 100 years, positive from year 8) 🤷♂️ Carbon Footprint offset of a managed Bamboo plantation in temperate regions
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The immune system is powerful. Sometimes, too powerful. If it goes unchecked, it can turn on us - attacking our own organs, tissues, even our blood. That’s why the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine matters so much. It honors three scientists who figured out how the body stops
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@ChristosArgyrop To me they idea that Cov-19 will attenuate into an NL63-like virus by shedding its cleavage phenotype is like saying the global aviation industry plans to replace all its jet engines with propellers.
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23. This study on how forest suddenly shifts to steppe biomes as precipitation changes - at 300 ppm CO2 (!); we will hit 450 ppm CO2 by 2040 - is representative of subtropical dry forest biome, 76 million ha in the Mediterranean. Is the significance clear? https://t.co/C2oafWXjUD
@Sustainable2050 9. We are early: most talk about renewable energy - fine if read alongside climate science -, but shy away from integrated analyses. Methane, CO2 and precipitation cause the loss of Mediterranean forest turning into steppe biomes. Tenaghi Philippon, Greece https://t.co/4TO8Sajur3
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Global Prevalence of Long COVID, Its Subtypes, Risk Factors: An Updated Systematic Review Meta-analysis: Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic. total of 429 studies meta-analyzed. global pooled long COVID prevalence was 36% with 144 contributing studies.
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Quantitative evidence shows a persistent prevalence of long COVID globally, with a significant burden of symptoms that last 1–2 years postinfection, unders
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"Its achievement lies not in offering solutions... but in clarifying the nature of the bind we are in and offering a way to live meaningfully within it." Great review of IMPASSE from @stanfordpress at https://t.co/ICJyETRUqd.
https://t.co/CEVLyhUkU5
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Impasse succeeds in its aim of candidly assessing our planetary predicament and offering a realistic, ethical way forward. Its achievement lies not in offering solutions—since Scranton persuasively...
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SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein induces hyperinflammation & vascular leakage through the TLR signaling in macrophages The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein fuels inflammation by boosting nuclear factor κB-related transcripts upon Toll-like receptor 7/8 stimulation (NF-κB)
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BREAKING: Moscow braces for impact of incoming strongly worded condemnation from Europe
During the night strike, Russia also targeted diplomats—in direct breach of the Vienna convention. The EU mission to Ukraine was damaged. This requires not only the EU’s, but worldwide condemnation. We express solidarity with our EU colleagues and are ready to provide assistance.
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You can pretty much bank on two significant COVID waves per annum, with at least one mini-surge in between. Occasionally, you’ll see a massive surge, as in 2023/24, when a heavily mutated variant comes along. In this sense, it’s now an endemic virus.
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Twitter isn‘t always a toxic place. I just met @_ppmv in real life, had a great conversation, and also got some bamboo plants to start a guerrilla gardening revolution.
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Tell me you are a climate science communicator without telling me 😂
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PLA theorist Gao Tiqian's classic 1994 book, "War and Strategy" outlined 14 "Principles of Military Operations" followed by the Chinese military. My translation of Gao's derived principles below ...
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Loved this article. Bottom up field research. And (somewhat uniquely?) by an established academic. A narrative of one remote county's "economic development" interwoven with broader issues of econ theory, state-led developmentalism, and China's statistical problems.
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Die installierte AC-Leistung (Wechselrichterausgangsleistung) der deutschen Solaranlagen hat heute 100 GW erreicht. Die installierte Leistung der Solarmodule beträgt 109,3 GW. https://t.co/h3cOCRx450
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NEW from us: Last year, China started construction on an estimated 95 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity, enough to power the entire UK twice over. We explain why China's still building new coal power plants, and when and how it might stop and begin phasing out.
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Description of findings on the chikungunya outbreak in Guangdong
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