Notices by David Ho (davidho@mastodon.world), page 2

The governor of Hawaiʻi is a medical doctor, and it’s not surprising that we’ve joined the West Coast Health Alliance formed by California, Oregon, and Washington to coordinate public health guidelines and vaccine recommendations.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/09/05/hawaii-joins-state-alliance-coordinate-public-health-guidelines/

Early climate models by Suki Manabe of NOAA/GFDL in the 1960s and 1970s provided a foundation for modern climate science. They accurately predicted several key aspects of global warming, including the relationship to CO₂, stratospheric cooling, Arctic amplification, land-ocean temperature contrast, and delayed Southern Ocean warming.

https://theconversation.com/5-forecasts-early-climate-models-got-right-the-evidence-is-all-around-you-263248

Move to a blue state if you want to live.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/09/03/colorado-covid-vaccination-prescription-order/

Paul Offit, a RFK Jr. critic who co-invented the rotavirus vaccine that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, was blocked from participating in the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee so that RFK Jr. can continue to kill millions of people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/02/paul-offit-vaccine-fda/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU2Nzg1NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU4MTY3OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTY3ODU2MDAsImp0aSI6IjEzYjlhOTg5LThhMzEtNDcwMi1iMzFkLTgwYzRiMWQzOGUwYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyNS8wOS8wMi9wYXVsLW9mZml0LXZhY2NpbmUtZmRhLyJ9.U_WSNcymR9rDO492aCZ3tgvMc6kRRQsX_LFxhmeJn04

An article about the scathing peer review (led by @andrewdessler, joined by 80+ others) of the DOE report (authored by five climate deniers) used to justify the EPA's proposal to rescind the Endangerment Finding and repeal all greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/climate/climate-science-report-energy-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i08.G9kt.Peo5rio8pwWt&smid=url-share

Read this op ed from nine former directors of the CDC sounding the alarm on RFK Jr. and how what he's done to the CDC endangers every person in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.jxfq.Y5Q2DZV9ATiw&smid=bs-share

Mental-health emergencies involving AI use are totally preventable, just like gun deaths and road deaths. It's time to regulate or ban these chatbots.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-ai-stein-erik-soelberg-murder-suicide-6b67dbfb?st=8yPSMW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/climate/fema-suspends-staff-who-criticized-trump-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU8.139n.AfXS2KHYq96j

Do you ever think about how the fine for peeing in public is substantially more than the fine for dumping tonnes of CO₂ in public?

Soon Americans will be going abroad to get abortions and COVID vaccines.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-and-robert-f-kennedy-junior-to-ban-covid-19-vaccine-within-months/

ICE is detaining and deporting people who bring you food when you’re too busy to cook.

https://wapo.st/41m096B

Donald Trump plans military invasion of the 3rd largest city in the US.

https://wapo.st/4mvKFW3

If the US government had to pay for medical care of its citizens, it might care more about climate change impacts, air and water pollution, gun violence, traffic crashes, the food we eat, etc. It’s past time for single payer healthcare.

Vaccine deniers bringing back contagious diseases and causing everyone to drive instead of taking public transportation thereby making us miss our climate goals is a link I hadn’t made before.

https://gothamist.com/news/nj-warns-path-light-rail-riders-of-possible-measles-exposure

This is fucking crazy!

The offshore wind farm is almost finished!

How much more of the future will we let them destroy?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/climate/trump-administration-halts-revolution-wind.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU8.csfm.ZMb8PirxKzlp

Sociopaths

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-children-care-subpoena.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.c2HU.w3XGVyZz7EFr&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Knight Foundation and others are trying to raise $50 million to rescue public radio and TV stations, prioritizing ones that historically received more than 30% of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and are among the only sources of information in their communities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/business/the-race-to-rescue-pbs-and-npr-stations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fU8.7ZSJ.rt9RjFcMb9bO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Welcome to the enshittification of cars. This is the worst thing to happen to cars since SUVs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62weyp4qqgo

These are the people that should be wearing masks, not the thugs from ICE.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/us/wildfire-firefighters-masks-smoke.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e08.7xyB._f4ObNsFx6pu&smid=nytcore-android-share

My bike is a monster next to this car.