Sun, 23:22: RT @business: Moderna's chief medical officer said he suspects the new omicron variant may elude current vaccines, and if so, a reformulate…
Sun, 23:22: RT @BBCPolitics: "If we have to make a brand new vaccine, that's going to be early 2022" in terms of when it's available, says Paul Burton,…
Sun, 23:22: RT @AP: Here's a look at what we know and don't know about the new version of the coronavirus first detected this week in South Africa. htt…
Sun, 23:22: RT @TwitterMoments: The fifth COVID-19 ‘variant of concern’ was given a Greek letter as an official name by the WHO. Find out why Omicron w…
Sun, 23:27: RT @MathanCalifas: @Vote_CNP We are way over carrying capacity in CA. Massive growth = more ppl than our infrastructure can support. We hav…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: Last week, I published a long essay about the grotesque, unconscionable, and yet entirely normalized costs of air pollut…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "In 2020, wildfire accounted for more than half of all air pollution in the western U.S.—meaning more particulate matter…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "By midcentury, those fires are expected to at least double, possibly grow sixfold, and conceivably more..."
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "...with each tree burned releasing carbon as surely as coal, along with unconscionable masses of particulate matter rec…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "The worst air quality in the world is now routinely registered in California, and although these record-setting events…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "Globally, wildfires produce only a fraction of air pollution, but the fraction is growing. Wildfire emissions from this…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: As we begin to draw down the pollution produced by burning within our control, we are unleashing a new wave of burning t…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: “What does it feel like to live on the brink of a vast historical change?” the novelist Kim Stanley Robinson asked recen…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: “A few weeks ago, my wife and I drove across the US east to west," he went on. "In Wyoming, we hit a pall of wildfire sm…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: Fire is eternal in the American west, of course, but when climate skeptics point to evidence of ancient megafires, they…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: When those alive today recall the great fires of their youths, they are remembering ones that burned a few thousand acre…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: One single blaze, the Mendocino Complex, burned more than a million acres, creating a new term, “gigafire,” along the wa…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: Each of these coughs up an unprecedented amount of smoke, indeed most of them so much of it the fire creates new weather…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: ...and sparking, where it lands, more fire, producing more smoke.
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "The three worst years for wildfire in modern California history by acres burned are 2020, 2021, and 2018. The seven lar…
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: A chart of the 20 worst published by Cal Fire midway through the 2021 season tells the story even more vividly.
Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: About two thirds is made up of 2020 and 2021, with most of the remainder from the period 2000 to 2019, and just a tiny s…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: For most of that period, earthquakes offered a more vivid vision of local apocalypse, though as Mike Davis has sharply o…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: Only recently, particularly since the Camp Fire, has fear of fire taken center stage; the climate scientist Daniel Swain…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: This summer, in the resort community of Lake Tahoe — where the Air Quality Index hit 700 — those trapped inside during o…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: Fear of smoke is not just novel but logical, indeed adaptive. In many parts of the state, you can be confident your hous…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: You can avoid the flames of most wildfire, chances are. But smoke cannot be quarantined, which means it spreads across d…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: In California, already, air purifiers are now almost universal among the well-to-do, air-quality apps are designed for d…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: (“The West Coast’s Hottest New Trend? Finding Breathable Air” Eve Peyser recently wrote.)
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: And while better forest management in fire-prone areas can reduce the risk considerably...
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: ...the current excess of what is called in California with a horrifying informality 'fuel' means that perhaps 20 million…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: Those 'controlled burns' are designed to release less smoke than the uncontrolled. But they do release some.
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: Already, in California, enough carbon is released each year from wildfire to undo all the green-energy gains made by the…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "The story is global, the world wrapped in smoke. In British Columbia, more carbon is now unleashed each year from fores…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "In Australia, where bushfires are an enduring feature of both landscape and legend, 46 million acres burned in the 2019…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "The smoke in Sydney Harbour was so thick ferries couldn’t navigate it, and the particulates so dense that fire alarms w…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "In Siberia, where ‘zombie fires’ now burn regularly through the Arctic winter, carbon released from forests in flames r…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "And then there’s South America, where 30 per cent of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, was lost to fi…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "In the Amazon, so much land is burned to clear trees for farming that the fires release three times as much carbon as a…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "and to turn the celebrated ‘carbon sink’, which might aid in our fight against warming, into a net source of global car…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "In theory, the burning could be halted, and it may at least be slowed if Lula succeeds Bolsonaro and returns to Brazil’…
Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "But the longer-term decline of the rainforest, and other 'carbon sink' forests elsewhere in the world, may lie outside…
Sun, 23:30: RT @Vote_CNP: Yes, they are also all related to each other. If you have a different vote, put it in the comments.
Sun, 23:31: RT @NFLonFOX: The Vikings had to take a timeout before their 4th down play as Kirk Cousins lined up under his guard and tried to take the s…
Sun, 23:31: RT @FaceTheNation: "My worst nightmare that I've been asked about multiple times over the last 37 years that I've been directing the instit…
Sun, 23:31: RT @FaceTheNation: In an exclusive interview, Dr. Fauci tells @margbrennan why there hasn't been a national conversation on what went wrong…
Sun, 23:32: RT @FaceTheNation: Despite China's acknowledgment that COVID-19 most likely did not originate in a wet market, Dr. Fauci tells @margbrennan…
Sun, 23:32: RT @FaceTheNation: What does COVID-19 in the rear view mirror look like? Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @margbrennan it means "not that we've ac…
Sun, 23:32: RT @FaceTheNation: TOMORROW: You don’t want to miss this interview — Dr. Anthony Fauci sits down with @margbrennan for a wide-ranging discu…
Sun, 23:32: RT @FaceTheNation: Dr. Anthony Fauci says in an interview with @margbrennan that a reason we haven't found the origins of COVID-19 is due t…
Sun, 23:32: RT @TheAthletic: Buddy Hield has at least two 3-pointers in all 20 of the Kings’ games. The only players who have ever opened a season wit…
Sun, 23:32: RT @Kingsfanhood: Udrih was pretty good in his time in Sacramento despite it being a bad team. His mid range was killer, and he helped snea…
Sun, 23:33: RT @BleacherReport: Enes Kanter is legally changing his name to Enes Kanter Freedom and will become a U.S. citizen on Monday, per @ShamsCha…
Sun, 23:33: RT @SenFeinstein: Happy #Hanukkah to all celebrating in California and around the world! Wishing everyone a fantastic holiday.
Sun, 23:33: RT @SenToniAtkins: I am happy and humbled to serve the people of CA today as #ActingGovernor—a role I have filled twice before! They say th…
Sun, 23:33: RT @ABC7: If you live in the city of Los Angeles, be prepared to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 as enforcement of the Safe…
Sun, 23:33: RT @latimes: A newly identified coronavirus variant that has sparked global restrictions on travel and shaken financial markets could make…
Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: Even before the Omicron variant was discovered, health officials were warning of a winter wave of COVID-19 as society regroups…
Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: While no cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the United States, many experts say it may already be here, given…
Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: While it’s not clear how dangerous the new variant is, it’s adding urgency to efforts to get more people vaccinated — and to g…
Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: California health officials said the new variant “has many mutations in important areas of the virus that impact infectiousnes…
Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: The CDC, along with state and local agencies, said the best protection for now is following already-established COVID protocol…
Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: There is still so much unknown about the Omicron variant. One expert said it is difficult to predict when the variant might…
Sun, 23:34: RT @MayorOfLA: Happy Hanukkah, Los Angeles. This year, let’s gather safely with our family and friends to light the menorah, sing songs, a…
Sun, 23:34: RT @NWSLosAngeles: Elevated to brief critical fire weather conditions away from the coast through Thursday due to gusty northeast winds, lo…
Sun, 23:34: RT @ToddGloria: From my family to yours, #HappyHanukkah and Chag Sameach! May the miracle of light bring peace and happiness to all who wil…