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Phil Levin in the NY Times on Earth Day (Trump Tried to Derail Our Work. We Banded Together and Moved Forward.): For over two years, nearly 200 other scientists and I had been working on the first full accounting of nature in America: an extensive report on its role in our health, economy and well-being.…
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Up until last night, I was working on the National Nature Assessment: To better understand the full picture of what is happening with nature, USGCRP is undertaking a National Nature Assessment, which will take stock of U.S. lands, waters, wildlife and the benefits they provide to our economy, health, climate, and national security. The Assessment…
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From the WSJ (National Parks Will Close if Government Shuts Down): National parks will close their gates if lawmakers don’t pass legislation to keep the federal government funded by the end of this week. The Biden administration announced Friday morning that sites run by the National Park Service will close if government funding lapses on…
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From the WSJ (Oil Demand Expected to Peak This Decade as EVs Boom): Rising demand for crude oil is set to slow to a trickle within five years and peak before the end of the decade, as electric-vehicle uptake surges and developed nations rapidly transition to cleaner sources of energy, according to a prominent energy…
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If I hear 'woke' used as a slur one more time … it won't be the last time because, evidently, it is good for ratings (How Environmentally Conscious Investing Became a Target of Conservatives): It’s been a widely accepted trend in financial circles for nearly two decades. But suddenly, Republicans have launched an assault on…
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From a recent Pew Research Survey, greedy nationalistic capitalist Republicans don't give a relative $&*^ about environmental issues compared to tree-hugging bleeding-heart Democrats.
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The idea of an individual's or a household's carbon footprint is how much that person or household contributes to climate change. All anthropogenic climate change is caused by humans (by definition), so let's take all the humans who have ever lived and divide up the responsibility for climate change amongst them. What fraction of climate…
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Last week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin insulted climate activist and Time Person of the Year Greta Thunberg by claiming that she shouldn't talk about climate policy before studying economics and college. When asked about her suggestion for public divestment from fossil fuel companies, Mnuchin said: Is she the chief economist, or who is she? I'm…
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Over half say driving cars and burning fossils fuels are major contributors (link). This is In spite of everything [*]: Americans remain shaky on the details of climate science even as they have grown increasingly concerned about human activity warming the Earth, according to a national poll by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation…
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Warning: NSFW (Unless you work at a University and part of your job is to watch stuff like this and post it on a blog). The highlights of this have been around all week, but most of the clips are just Bill Nye the Science Guy saying "motherf***ers. But this segment on Last Week Tonight…
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