Hawaii Science Journal

"'Nicotine Nazis':  The brickbats hurled at scientists researching tobacco's harms." Views expressed in this science and technology update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 17 January 2025, 2215 UTC. Content and Source:  https://www.nature.com Please check link or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (http://hawaiisciencejournal.blogspot.com).   View this email in your browser Friday 17 January 2025 Hello  Nature  readers, Today we explore the science behind urban firestorms, and how to fight them. Plus, we hear how people in the United States can keep climate action moving forward and learn how public-health researchers are targeted for focusing on tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed foods. One factor that drove the intensity of the Los Angeles wildfires was ‘hydroclimate whiplash’, an abrupt switch between very wet and very dry conditions that is likely to occur more frequently as ...