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6 Oct 2020
At 72, my mother graduated from law school.
This summer, alone in her study, she took her exams online. She was notified last month that she passed Barrister. We just got word today that she passed Solicitor!!!
In January, she'll be called to the bar ♥️
TAKE THAT 2020!
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
17 Jan 2024
You know what they say: look good, feel good, do good, save good...
flashfood.com
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
29 May 2023
Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year climate policy associate. You just got finished reading a classic environmental treatise—Arthur Pigou probably—and you're convinced that taxes are the most efficient way to address negative externalities.
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
28 Apr 2023
Researchers pittted ChatGPT against genuine doctors, using actual patient questions.
ChatGPT was more accurate and more empathetic.
By a lot.
HT @adamcifu
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
17 Feb 2023
You love to see it!
16 Feb 2023
During his election campaign, Lula pledged to protect the Amazon rainforest.
In his first month in office, deforestation rates fell by 61%.
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9 Feb 2023
It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 14 years, since 15 Jan 2009 (via @twi_age).
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
17 Jan 2023
i have not been able to stop thinking about this question since @autostraddle received it, and i really think that @theheatherhogan did an incredible job answering this with both compassion and necessary honesty:
autostraddle.com/you-fat-sha…
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
16 Jan 2023
1) Passenger train for the interior.
2) Passenger train for the interior
3) Passenger train for the interior
4) Passenger train for the interior
5) Passenger train for the interior
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
15 Jan 2023
I object to this chart, because it turns out that the reconstruction of a single location based on an ice core drilled 40 years ago in Greenland that ends in 1885 is not a good representation of global temperatures. If we use hundreds of sites and proxy records worldwide we get:
15 Jan 2023
Anyone object to this chart?
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The COVID pandemic will not disappear until engineers address the niche the virus favours, says MIT nuclear engineer Charles Forsberg: dirty air in crowded indoor spaces, a product of modern buildings designed to save energy.
Most emailed piece this week:
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/01/…
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
4 Jan 2023
Same energy
ALT Skifahrer auf einem schmalen Streifen Schnee umgeben von grüner Wiese.
ALT Ein Mann spielt Golf während im Hintergrund ein Waldbrand herrscht.
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
23 Dec 2022
That’s me on the cover of the @NelsonStarNews! Just trying to normalize winter bike riding in Nelson while wearing a Santa suit.🎅🏻
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good ride.
#bicycles #santaride #nelsonbc #westkootenays #merrychristmas #activetransportation #climateaction
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17 Dec 2022
Dark chocolate and coffee 😭
17 Dec 2022
I don't think most people know just how terrible meat is for the planet.
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Elon Musk Bans Several Journalists From Twitter After Reinstating Literal Nazis dlvr.it/SfRrw8
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
12 Dec 2022
Our newest @Nature commentary on how "Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help"
with @jasonhickel @g_kallis @JKSteinberger
Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials &energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
4 Dec 2022
Keeping fossil fuels underground is the best ever carbon capture & storage system. We’ll never design better.
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4 Dec 2022
Or Western Canada, where we say no to trains and bus service in favour of ONLY short haul flights 🤦♀️
Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
2 Dec 2022
Here’s a good baseline description of climate breakdown as we are experiencing it today. Rockstrom is one of the top Earth System analysts.
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
2 Dec 2022
#NEW: Independent review of BC's COVID-19 response highlights several points that need improvement including pandemic planning, health data collection, and very clearly, transparency and an explanation for public health decisions.
#COVID19BC @CapitalDailyVic
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
2 Dec 2022
Oh boy, at a press conference in Vancouver just now, @JustinTrudeau just repeated the myth that B.C. is a global leader in sustainable forestry.
All these shots are from ecologically at-risk old-growth forests destroyed in the last year.
ALT Ecologically at-risk old-growth forest, logged in the last year.
ALT Ecologically at-risk old-growth forest, logged in the last year.
ALT Ecologically at-risk old-growth forest, logged in the last year.
ALT Ecologically at-risk old-growth forest, logged in the last year.
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Kate Leadbeater 🏔️ retweeted
1 Dec 2022
"Staying within 1.5C is extremely challenging, but it is not out of reach.”
Half a degree less warming means saving millions of lives, nothing less. That's not a goal we should give up on.
theguardian.com/environment/… #climatejustice #KeepItInTheGround #OnePointFiveToStayAlive
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