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karmannsport t1_j8l8mxh wrote

Reply to comment by Gigahert in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

Well…to play devils advocate, the most susceptible went first. Makes sense the most deaths would occur at the beginning with some upticks along the way as the virus mutates.

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stunna006 t1_j8l7y83 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in During the mid-Cretaceous approximately 94.5 million years ago the worlds oceans became nearly uninhabitable as rapid degassing of volcanic carbon dioxide altered seawater carbonate chemistry, triggering a global-scale episode of reduced marine oxygen levels known as Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. by avogadros_number

Perhaps something to do with most fossils being land species, a large dropoff in marine species may not be as noticeable overall

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bilgediver t1_j8l78t9 wrote

Reply to New study shows Acceleration of global sea level rise imminent past 1.8℃ planetary warming by 9273629397759992

I refer you to Konstantin Kisin's speech at the Oxford Union.

You're not going to get 3rd and 2nd world nations to stop progress. Are you going to tell the rural Russian or Chinese farmers that they have to keep their hole in the ground instead of building a heated toilet?

I will quote someone most of you will probably "hate" so I won't name him. Humans suck at prevention, but we are MASTERS at adaptation. What will help solve this is to drive, to create, to work, to build and engineer solutions for the earth as a whole. So when those Indians are trying to build out of their squalid living conditions, they can do so in a much more "earth friendly" way than the current 1st world nations did.

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KeepTangoAndFoxtrot t1_j8l5wfl wrote

Reply to comment by RatchetMyPlank in Study finds link between ‘free sugar’ intake and cardiovascular disease by YoanB

> The definition of free sugars includes: all added sugars in any form; all sugars naturally present in fruit and vegetable juices, purées and pastes and similar products in which the structure has been broken down; all sugars in drinks (except for dairy-based drinks); and lactose and galactose added as ingredients. The sugars naturally present in milk and dairy products, fresh and most types of processed fruit and vegetables and in cereal grains, nuts and seeds are excluded from the definition.

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