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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"pittsburgh city council" Discussed on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"On climate change between 2015 and 2019, their agreement that the earth is warming, mostly caused by human activity was 100%. So the most active researchers were at a 100%. And then but you could look across the board and there's a trend of the more scientifically active, the researcher is and the more the greater level of expertise, the more closely related their work is related to global warming, the greater the percentage of them that believe in global warming. So there was a positive relationship between expertise and accepting the consensus opinion. So that's pretty, you know, that's pretty convincing evidence that there is actually a consensus. Yeah, but they couldn't get higher than a 100%, huh? Yeah. The deniers are going to push back on this, they'll find some way to dismiss the paper because no study is perfect. No research is perfect. You can always find something to complain about if you want. If you don't like the findings and you want to dismiss it, that's sort of the difference between skepticism and denial. I'll skepticism. You have to put things into context and be reasonable and fair and try to come up with what we decision about. We actually can say with what confidence intervals and deniers will just find an excuse to deny what they don't want to accept, whatever, whether it's out of proportion or reasonable or not. So anyway, I want to that's the update on the John cook consensus study ten years later, this consensus on global warming is even stronger. All right, Evan, tell us about the recent efforts to pass dark skies ordnance. Yes. We're going to talk about Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, which is a pretty cool city, I think in its own right for many reasons. But it got even cooler. Because now it's the first major city in the United States to adopt a dark skies policy regarding public light illumination. Wait, are they going to do what they did for them with a matrix when they put the dark smoke throughout the earth so that all the robots die? I mean, that's crazy. Different kind of dark sky. Oh. All right, good, good. And yeah, and the robots aren't revolting at either. Okay. All right, never mind. We're all about to revolt. The Pittsburgh city council. Unlike what bob said, they passed a new dark sky ordinance for all of the city's parks, facilities and streetlights. The office of mobility and infrastructure prepared the ordinance with support from two Carnegie Mellon university dark sky experts. Diane turn check, who is a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon university's department of physics, along with Stephen quick, who is part of the faculty at their school of architecture, the two of them helped draft the ordinance. This is the first ordinance of its kind in the country. As far as major cities go. And it aims to replace the city's 35,000 streetlights and install up to 8000 new ones. We have talked before about dark skies, various projects, care. I know you've talked a lot about it. In the past. There is the international astronomical union dark and quiet skies project who raises awareness about the need to preserve dark skies and quiet skies. There's also the international dark skies association itself, who has a lot of helpful information about what are exactly dark and quiet skies. So we have a problem with what we've done to the night sky with all of our artificial light. And it has real world impacts on health on environment on energy consumption, so many different things. Nocturnal animals have to sleep during the day, they're active at night, but light pollution will radically alter their nighttime environment by turning night basically in today. So the ecosystems are all effective. It's a huge waste of energy when it comes right down to it. For example, in an average year in the United States alone, outdoor lighting uses about 120 terawatts, hours of energy, mostly to eliminate streets and parking lots. That's has much energy that New York City goes through over the course of two years. Wow. And they can measure this wastefulness at the tune of over $3 billion and the release of 21 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. That is not a trivial amount. Street lights for those who say that it prevents accidents and crimes. There's a lot of research into that and they're saying no, that does not prevent accidents and crime, in fact, in some ways it can be worse. Glare from nighttime lighting can create hazards. Ranging from discomfort to visual disability. So there's no argument to be made there. Artificial light and I can negatively affect human health. It increases risks of obesity, depression, sleep disorders, definitely diabetes, and breast cancer, although I didn't read specifically on that one, but they say that there are research into that, our circadian rhythm is governed by the day night cycle and that has been that is certainly taken a hit with all of the nighttime lighting that we've done. Melatonin production also become suppressed, as a result of all the lighting we have been doing. Plus, just the natural beauty of the night sky. We've lost it. I mean, think about the generations of people who are now being born who have recently been born, never known the night sky as so many generations of people before had known it. So all sorts of issues and reasons to try to prevent this artificial illumination of our night sky, so many practical and frankly beautiful reasons. So what Pittsburgh is going to do is they're going to implement technology to help. Motion sensors, dimmers and timers, cooler temperature bulbs, proper shielding, you know, which directs the light down instead of up all this reduces the light pollution. And still provides all of the need for the nighttime light that we do rely on. So they're going to get rid of their 5000 Kelvin glow, blue, white, glare bulbs, in all of the lamps. They're going with the new LED lights, which are, of course, the lower temperature. And they are conforming to the standards that the international dark sky association have outlined as to what Pittsburgh is doing and what other cities frankly should be doing to move us in this direction. So thank you, Pittsburgh for being the first one and hopefully you're the first of many more cities to adopt these measures. Yeah, it really is amazing. I mean, of course, I'm partly going on memory, but even just like in the part of Connecticut where we live and we were kids, you definitely could clearly see the Milky Way and the night sky was just completely different than what it is today. There is so much low light pollution. Even in the suburbs, like we're not in a big city, just you can you can see the stars, but you can't really see like the Milky Way anymore or the level of detail that we could even 20, 30 years ago. I also remember like when we were in Australia or Christchurch, New Zealand. Yeah, or in New Zealand, we were down under, we wanted to look at the southern sky. It was hard. It was hard we had to go out of our way to find some place where we could kind of see the nighttime sky. The light pollution was so bad from any near any large town or city, you couldn't see it. Yeah, we drove a half hour, 40 minutes away from where we were just to escape the light pollution enough to be able to see what was frankly the greatest guy I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. Yeah, here in LA, I drive to like a two hour drive in order to do any sort of observing most people in LA well most big stargazing fans kind of know this spot in Fraser park, which is like two hours. And it's really only because the mountain sort of block all the cities. But yet I know a lot of people, a lot of people, and I'd be interested, you know, I bet you if we were to survey our audience, how many of you have actually seen the Milky Way, the numbers would be pretty surprising? Depressingly low. Yeah, yeah. All right, thank you, Evan. Jay, it's who's that noisy time? All right guys, last week, I played this noisy. There's a lot going on there. All right, what is it, guys? Sounds like an alarm really far away. Not like, you know, like a building alarm, like something bad happened in a big industry. Yeah, like.
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"pittsburgh city council" Discussed on Environment: NPR
"Something big was missing from the night sky. When i grew up in new england you could just walk outside and look up and see the milky way. But when i arrived in pittsburgh the sky had started to decline in quality. Still she says at the time her students at carnegie mellon university were very familiar with the milky way they knew about stars and constellations. That is not the case anymore forty years later. I have to explain what the milky way is and describe what it looks like in a show pictures and they think those pictures are fake. Because of light pollution major constellations can be totally invisible in cities. The pittsburgh city council is now trying to do something about it with the help of scientists like turn check. It passed a dark sky. Ordinance last week to reduce light pollution. This city is going to replace streetlights with warm tone. Led lights and they're also going to install shields so that late doesn't travel up what we're trying to do is cut out the light at the blue end of the spectrum because blue light scatters more easily than red light in the atmosphere rate. That's why the sky is blue. So blue light scatters everywhere. It doesn't stay where your lighting and to measure progress. She has some help in the higher ups in august. The astronauts on the international space station took some pictures of pittsburgh for on a clear night. And that's the before shot. The astronauts are gonna continue to take pictures of pittsburgh so we will have during pictures and after pictures. Terzic believes that as the sky's get darker more people will look up. In wonder that means more people more children will be able to see it and the benefits of being connected to half of our universe. I can't overstate that. It's a spiritual thing to feeling of connection with the universe she's hopeful it will peak young people's interest in the stars above and encourage them to pursue subjects such as astronomy. This message.
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"pittsburgh city council" Discussed on Environment: NPR
"When astronomer diane turn shack move to pittsburgh in nineteen eighty-one she noticed. Something big was missing from the night sky. When i grew up in new england you could just walk outside and look up and see the milky way. But when i arrived in pittsburgh the sky had started to decline in quality. Still she says at the time her students at carnegie mellon university were very familiar with the milky way they knew about stars and constellations. That is not the case anymore forty years later. I have to explain what the milky way is and describe what it looks like in a show pictures and they think those pictures are fake. Because of light pollution major constellations can be totally invisible in cities. The pittsburgh city council is now trying to do something about it with the help of scientists like turn check. It passed a dark sky. Ordinance last week to reduce light pollution. This city is going to replace streetlights with warm tone. Led lights and they're also going to install shields so that late doesn't travel up what we're trying to do is cut out the light at the blue end of the spectrum because blue light scatters more easily than red light in the atmosphere rate. That's why the sky is blue. So blue light scatters everywhere. It doesn't stay where your lighting and to measure progress. She has some help in the higher ups in august. The astronauts on the international space station took some pictures of pittsburgh for on a clear night. And that's the before shot. The astronauts are gonna continue to take pictures of pittsburgh so we will have during pictures and after pictures. Terzic believes that as the sky's get darker more people will look up. In wonder that means more people more children will be able to see it and the benefits of being connected to half of our universe. I can't overstate that. It's a spiritual thing to feeling of connection with the universe she's hopeful it will peak young people's interest in the stars above and encourage them to pursue subjects such as
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Pittsburgh Wants You to See Constellations
"When astronomer diane turn shack move to pittsburgh in nineteen eighty-one she noticed. Something big was missing from the night sky. When i grew up in new england you could just walk outside and look up and see the milky way. But when i arrived in pittsburgh the sky had started to decline in quality. Still she says at the time her students at carnegie mellon university were very familiar with the milky way they knew about stars and constellations. That is not the case anymore forty years later. I have to explain what the milky way is and describe what it looks like in a show pictures and they think those pictures are fake. Because of light pollution major constellations can be totally invisible in cities. The pittsburgh city council is now trying to do something about it with the help of scientists like turn check. It passed a dark sky. Ordinance last week to reduce light pollution. This city is going to replace streetlights with warm tone. Led lights and they're also going to install shields so that late doesn't travel up what we're trying to do is cut out the light at the blue end of the spectrum because blue light scatters more easily than red light in the atmosphere rate. That's why the sky is blue. So blue light scatters everywhere. It doesn't stay where your lighting and to measure progress. She has some help in the higher ups in august. The astronauts on the international space station took some pictures of pittsburgh for on a clear night. And that's the before shot. The astronauts are gonna continue to take pictures of pittsburgh so we will have during pictures and after pictures. Terzic believes that as the sky's get darker more people will look up. In wonder that means more people more children will be able to see it and the benefits of being connected to half of our universe. I can't overstate that. It's a spiritual thing to feeling of connection with the universe she's hopeful it will peak young people's interest in the stars above and encourage them to pursue subjects such as
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"It's all things considered from NPR news. I'm Audie Cornish. And I'm Mary Louise Kelly coming up a show that embraces the wisdom of our elders. Time existed before we came under that first portal that you called birth and time will continue to exist when we go through the final portal, which is called Death. The 70/70 podcast after news Live from NPR News in Culver City, California I'm Duane Brown on Capitol Hill, a group of Texas Democrats are taking dramatic action to roll back their state's effort to tighten ballot restrictions as Republican led states. He's on former President Trump's lie of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election. Texas is among several states that have enacted new voting restrictions. Dallas County State representative read A. Bowers is among those taking the fight directly to Congress. We also know that we are living right now on borrowed time in Texas. And we can't stay here indefinitely to run out the clock to stop Republican anti voter bills. That's why we need Congress to act now and passed before the People Act that stalled federal legislation would create national standards for voting and could roll back some of the restrictions being approved or debated across the country. About 5000 serious infections have been reported to the CDC out of nearly 160 million people who are fully vaccinated as NPR's Ping Wang reports the agency is working to determine if and when a covid 19 booster shot. Maybe needed. Dr J. Butler, A senior CDC official says the agency is looking for cases where people who are fully vaccinated are still getting very sick with Covid. The two groups that we're most concerned about are those who are well advanced in age, particularly people over age 75 80. The other group is people who are immunocompromised, Butler says in the breakthrough cases reported so far. There's no clear association between when a person got vaccinated and whether they're getting sick. The CDC is currently assessing if and when an extra vaccine dose may be needed and which specific populations may benefit the most from an extra boost. Qinghong. NPR NEWS This is NPR News Live from KQED News. I'm Natalia Navarro, California has yet to require statewide water restrictions similar to those mandated during the last multi year drought. KQED climate reporter Azra David Romero explains why 85% of California is experiencing extreme drought conditions, the last time statewide drought restrictions one in the place was 2015, and it was the third drought year. Californians are using 16% less water, and that's why the state is only asking for a 15% voluntary water reduction, says Carla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources. By the end of this year, if we're preparing for another extra Ordinarily dry year. Then we could see California moved towards mandatory water reductions, even though reservoir levels and dry conditions are dangerously low in some areas on par with a three or four year drought. Nemeth says. Regional restrictions allow for targeted approach to Reduce water waste I'm Ezra David Romero KQED news. A former clerk recorder of Contra Costa County Joe Cancer. Miller will serve a year in county jail after pleading guilty to nine counts of grand theft and perjury for misusing campaign funds. He has already paid $150,000 fine to the state fair political practice because practices Commission for using campaign money for personal trips and meals. Cancer. Mila previously served on the Pittsburgh City Council, the Contra Costa County of Board of Supervisors and the State Assembly. As part of his guilty plea, he won't be able to hold public office or act as an attorney. I'm Natalia Navarro. KQED News Support comes.
Bill Cunningham
Pittsburgh approves gun restrictions months after synagogue shooting
"Overall. Pittsburgh city council approving new gun restrictions following these synagogue mass shooting last year. Pittsburgh city council approved restrictions on assault style. Weapons. Like, the one used to kill eleven worshippers at tree of life synagogue. We're trying to do what we think is best for residents of Pittsburg not outside of Pittsburgh councilman Corey O'Connor and other advocates have a legal battle ahead with gun rights advocates like south anelle because Pennsylvania state law prohibits cities and towns
Mark Levin
House passes bill to end US government shutdown without border wall money
"The president says he won't sign anything without border wall money. Democrats calling the wall immoral and ineffective. Andy field. ABC news Capitol Hill negotiations resume tomorrow at the White House. Mexico is calling for an investigation into the New Year's day incident when US border agents fired tear gas and pepper spray at one hundred fifty migrants in Tijuana. So my in Pittsburgh on edge over a planned, gun rights, protests and counter protests Monday. The Pittsburgh city council is expected to make its first attempt at a ban on assault style. Weapons. Also. A large group of protesters the gun advocacy group. Firearm owners against crimes has