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David Wallace-Wells
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Writer @nytopinion and columnist @NYTmag. Newsletter on climate and the messy future (tinyurl.com/dwwnyt). Author of The Uninhabitable Earth.
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Jan 9, 2019
    Next month, @TimDugganBooks will publish my big climate book, The Uninhabitable Earth, in which I try to take a very broad, and very long, view of the state of the climate crisis and all the ways it promises to transform how we live on this planet—all of us. (1/x)
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    Jan 9, 2019
    “David Wallace-Wells has produced a willfully terrifying polemic that reads like a cross between @StephenKing and Stephen Hawking.” @Andrew_Solomon on #TheUninhabitableEarth by @dwallacewells, out 2/19/19: prh.com/theuninhabitab… @TimDugganBooks
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Mar 13, 2020
    A single Chinese billionaire is providing more testing kits to Americans than the CDC and the entire federal government has managed—and not just a few more, more by many orders of magnitude.
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    Mar 13, 2020
    Through a donation of 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks, we join hands with Americans in these difficult times.
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Apr 19, 2020
    When the New England Journal of Medicine is suggesting the White House is running a PPE blockade, around which governors and hospitals have to navigate like blockade runners, you know the federal covid response has entered a new phase of political sadism.
    A White House Blockade Is Stopping States from Getting PPE
    From nymag.com
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Sep 16, 2023
    “A new type of vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Chicago has shown in a lab setting that it can completely reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes—all without shutting down the rest of the immune system.”
    “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases
    From pme.uchicago.edu
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Dec 6, 2017
    NBC news in LA is reporting that the wildfires are now burning down Rupert Murdoch's house.
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Aug 4, 2021
    An instantly iconic climate image from Turkey.
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Apr 26, 2020
    "We are now almost six months into this pandemic, which began in November in Wuhan, with 50,000 Americans dead and 200,000 more around the world. And yet we still don't really know how the disease is killing us." (1/x)
    We Still Don’t Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us
    From nymag.com
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Nov 7, 2019
    16°C to 28°C warmer than normal is...not normal.
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    Kris Van Steenbergen
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    Nov 7, 2019
    We're heading to the hottest Arctic fall season in 3M years. Entire basin & Greenland 16°C to 28°C warmer than normal.
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Jun 28, 2025
    This map is incredible for several reasons, one that it suggests that people who actually take the subway aren’t nearly as scared of it as those who don’t.
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Jun 29, 2023
    “In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth’s vital signs blinking red.”
    ‘Off the charts’: Earth’s vital signs are going haywire
    From wfla.com
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Aug 22, 2020
    "Big Basin Redwoods State Park has burned through. These trees are between 800 and 1,500 years old. Some, older than Muhammad, had stood for a thousand years by the time Europeans set foot in North America. The youngest are older than the Black Death."
    California Has Australian Problems Now
    From nymag.com
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    Jul 15, 2022
    “What do you call it when a heatwave engulfs most of a planet? A mega-heatwave, maybe, just like now we have megastorms and megafires.” eand.co/were-sleepwalk…
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    David Wallace-Wells
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    May 24, 2024
    The news of microplastics in all human testicles has generated a lot more coverage than the news of microplastics in all human breast milk and all human placentas.
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