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Comment huh? (Score 4, Interesting) 68

So in 2023 in April the burnt area was 50% higher than 2012-2022 average.

Then came floods and burnt area went down,

This kind of whiplash weather... scorching heat waves breaking records, and heavy rains breaking records is exactly what the papers on climate change predict.

Records were broken in 1920s and the 19th century too. you can look at the the data. But what we see is records being broken every year or every alternate year. That has never happened before in the last 200 years or so (or even before looking at ice core data, though that data is limited)

Comment Clickbait...? (Score 0) 69

From the summary :

Deaths from fungal infections are increasing, due in part to growing populations of people with weakened immune systems who are more vulnerable to severe fungal disease, public-health experts said. At least 7,000 people died in the U.S. from fungal infections in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, up from hundreds of people each year around 1970. There are few effective and nontoxic medications to treat such infections, they said.

Look at the last sentence... Few nontoxic medications

Submission + - iOS 14's Upcoming Anti-Tracking Prompt Sparks Antitrust Complaint in France (macrumors.com)

tsa writes: Starting early next year, iOS 14 will require apps to get opt-in permission from users to collect their random advertising identifier, which advertisers use to deliver personalized ads and track how effective their campaigns were. Ahead of this change, The Wall Street Journal reports that advertising companies and publishers have filed a complaint against Apple with France's competition authority, arguing that the enhanced privacy measures would be anticompetitive.

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