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Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter! Bill Pugsley (background in hydrometeorology, climate research, aviation weather forecasting, automated observing networks and the impacts of air pollution on health.)
Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars | Automotive industry
The Guardian

Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material than their battery electric equivalents, according to a study that adds to evidence that the move away from petrol and diesel cars will bring large net environmental benefits. Only about…

Image not available Bill Pugsley Only about 30kg of raw material will be lost over the lifecycle of a lithium ion battery used in electric cars once recycling is taken into account, compared with 17,000 litres of oil -the resources used-are at least 300 times greater for oil-fuelled cars
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Climatologist Michael E Mann: 'Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes' | Climate change
The Guardian

Michael E Mann is one of the world's most influential climate scientists. He rose to prominence in 1999 as the co-author of the “hockey-stick graph”, which showed the sharp rise in global temperatures since the industrial age. This…

Image not available Bill Pugsley Doom-mongering has overtaken denial as a threat and as a tactic. Inactivists know that if people believe there is nothing you can do, they are led down a path of disengagement. They unwittingly do the bidding of fossil fuel interests by giving up.
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E-bikes that look like motorcycles take another hit in B.C. Court of Appeal decision
CBC – Maryse Zeidler – Feb 27, 8:00 AM

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share by Email The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that e-bikes designed to look and function more like mopeds or scooters do not meet the province's definition of a…

Image not available Bill Pugsley a backward step for an otherwise progressive province
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Raising climate ambitions could save millions of lives - 2021
IIASA

Paris signatories are updating and revising their climate change mitigation plans – Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – ahead of COP26 this year. Currently, NDCs globally are not strong enough to achieve the Paris agreement…

Image not available Bill Pugsley Unlike the direct benefits of carbon mitigation, which are ultimately long-term and understood in terms of damage limitation, the health co-benefits of ambitious climate policies have an immediate positive impact.
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Zocdoc CEO: Why vaccine scheduling is harder than it looks
Fast Company – Mar 1, 6:00 AM

Vaccines were developed at record speed in large part due to public-private partnerships. The same model can expedite the rollout, writes Zocdoc founder and CEO Oliver Kharraz M.D.

Image not available Bill Pugsley There are more than 1,400 different practice-management systems that healthcare providers use to run their back-end calendars. Many of these systems are “walled gardens,” closed systems that don’t play nice with patient-facing scheduling software.
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