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Gill Raker
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—a politically unaffiliated and agnostic iconoclast… a skeptic and asocial lone-wolf with perhaps a spicy dash of intermittently explosive personality disorder…
📌 In this article, the author highlights eighteen key players in the history of critical thinking, in chronological order: These main players of critical thinking throughout the centuries are shown in fresco… 🤓

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February 17, 2026 at 8:11 AM
📌 Aunque cruzar un límite no significa que ocurra un cambio catastrófico de inmediato, sí indica que estamos entrando en zonas de riesgo alto para el planeta en qué vivimos…

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El planeta y sus límites: la emergencia que amenaza nuestra casa común
Aunque cruzar un límite no significa que ocurra un cambio catastrófico de inmediato, sí indica que estamos entrando en zonas de riesgo alto para el sistema Tierra
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February 16, 2026 at 7:52 AM
📌 Are we now at risk of crossing planetary tipping points and triggering a hothouse Earth trajectory? Exploring other hypotheses aside AGW involving glacial/interglacial cycling and Holocene stabilitY to better understand climate dynamics, are sorely needed… 🥵🥶🥵🥶🥵

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The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
Earth’s climate is now departing from the stable conditions that supported human civilization for millennia. Crossing critical temperature thresholds may trigger self-reinforcing feedbacks and tipping...
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February 13, 2026 at 5:51 AM
📌From 57k to 29k years ago, with CO2 flatlining at ~200 ppm, there were 11 instances when Greenland abruptly warmed 10-16°C within just 50 to 200 years…

This analysis seems to show that there's nothing unusual or unprecedented about the rate or magnitude of modern global warming.

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February 13, 2026 at 5:17 AM
⚡T'is one of the best I’ve seen: I would have named the boat “Modernity as we know it” and would have shown a branch labelled Degrowth which also ends up at the sea but without a deadly waterfall, just difficult rapids to negotiate, and also some nice calm lakes…

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February 4, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by Gill Raker
Release the Unredacted and unedited Epstein Files.
January 6, 2026 at 3:28 AM
🟣 The Chinese bond issuance and the Venezuela escalation are two sides of the same coin demonstrating that alternatives to dollar hegemony are viable and attractive while testing whether the US can still enforce dollar dominance through military power… 😏

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The Real Reason Why the US Overthrew Venezuela
And why it all started in China in November 2025
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January 6, 2026 at 4:04 AM
📌 "Y'all wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f*cking thing?" 😏
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 AM
📌 In 1926, science writer David Dietz talked to experts about what the world might look like in 2026 if (1) “the dreams of science fail to materialize” and (2) “science succeeds…”

*/The world population is >8 billion… 🙄
January 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
🖇️ Top 15 CO2 emitters (1850-2022)…
January 1, 2026 at 12:32 AM
🕯️How much the planet warms with each ton of CO2 emitted remains one of the most important questions in climate science, but there is uncertainty in predicting it:

This uncertainty hinders governments, businesses and communities, from setting emission-reduction targets…

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Narrowed uncertainty in future global temperature and remaining carbon budget
Global temperature projections and remaining carbon budget estimates for critical warming thresholds remain highly uncertain. Accounting for land-ocean-atmosphere feedbacks under high-emission scenari...
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December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
💥 Who woulda think it! … 🤗
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
💥 The Antarctic Peninsula cooled -2.2°C (-1.2°C/decade) from 2003-2021:

Of the 12 regions of Antarctica analyzed for temperature trends from 2003-2021, 6 cooled and 6 warmed…

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November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
✅ Bottom Line: Gates’ shift is driven less by conscience than by pragmatism. His climate-driven ventures have underperformed, the alarmist narrative is fraying, and he’s repositioning himself as a “reasonable centrist” to preserve influence. It’s not repentance —it’s survival…
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
⛓️‍💥 Bill Gates rejects the “doomsday view of climate change,” but he’s still too alarmist, says an influential climate scientist:

More people die from cold than heat, extreme weather deaths are in decline, and Earth is greening…

“Their weakest argument is that global warming is dangerous.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Under (Financial) Pressure
We examine how financial pressure influences rule enforcement by leveraging a novel setting: NFL officiating. Unlike traditional regulatory environments, NFL officiating decisions are immediate, tran...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
—Just like it’s fair to say that the DOE'S author team was likely curated to have a particular perspective, it’s also fair to say that the response’s author team likely has certain overrepresented perspectives on contested interpretive and normative…

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Livestream with the "blue team"
A team of 85+ scientists organized on Bluesky to respond to the DOE climate report. I joined journalist Andy Revkin and three of these scientists to discuss this on Sustain What.
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September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
—The Colorado River powers over 16 million families, 5 million acres of farmland, and $1.4T in economic activity, and this year it’s collapsing at an ALARMING rate:

Since the government and media won't show you, here's the story of America’s deadliest ticking time bomb... 🧵

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September 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
—Electorally speaking it's more important for Democrats to avoid Blueskyism than leftism…

Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people…

If you could subtract those, the left would win more often… ☺️
September 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
—This is an amazing analysis, based on semantics, of a very opinionated discussion that goes inside the current DOE push to recast climate reality and weaken the EPA’s authority, following Trump's administration agenda…

When Power Rewrites the Science
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When Power Rewrites the Science
Inside the DOE push to recast climate reality and weaken the EPA’s authority Reto Knutti warns that the U.S.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
💥 “The extreme scenario of >3 °C till 2050 is > 4 billion deaths and breakdown of human civilization is conservative… What hasn't been realized is that current humans might likely reach this mark by 2040 as too many feedbacks are now mutually synchronizing and reinforcing...”

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August 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM