#Fossil

With yesterday’s announcement that the Trump administration plans to hold fossil fuel lease sales in the Arctic Refuge sometime this year, let’s consider what’s at stake in this fight. A
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Hi all, woke up in the middle of the night full of climate/ecocide/world war/refugee etc angst, and decided to make lemonade, in this case a pretty diagram of my "10
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Day 3 of electric vehicle driving in Northern Ireland. Observations:- a lot of the public charge points (esp the high power ones) are broken- EV drivers are very nice at
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1/Today's @bopinion post is about technology and inequality.Many people just sort of assume that new technology will exacerbate inequality. But what if it does the opposite?https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-09/we-may-be
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Climate change isn't just making the #OregonFires worse, it's affecting fires on several continents at different times of the year #AUSTRALIAFIRES #amazonburning Yes, humans often ignite the fires, but #climatechange
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What were the big energy and climate surprises of the Trump era? Four years ago, I described the most plausible arc for US climate policy under Trump (it was a
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Homo is the genus that all humans belong to. It began 2.3 million years ago and evolved from the genus australopithecus. Australopithecus possessed two of three duplicated genes derived from SRGAP2 roughly 3.4
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Amazing story of a near-coup at DOJ.https://twitter.com/ktbenner/status/1352779951049682947 Worth noting, though, that the "unassuming" Jeffrey Clark, who "no one really knew outside" DOJ and who was scheming with Trump
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#EUCO leaders have talked through the night on two contentious issues: sanctions against Turkey and raising the EU’s 2030 emissions reduction target.On thé latter, we’re close to a deal but
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"Gente fina" o cara que assina o "laudo" do Dr. Frey, hein (José Betimar Melo Figueira). É só buscar no google pelo nome completo dele q é possível encontrar uma
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So.....what is *actually* going on in #California? The grid operator is cutting people off due to a record-breaking heatwave, and a shortfall in electricity supply. Is it not enough gas?
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1) Imposing aluminum and steel and other targeted tariffs as a strategic punitive and defensive measure against an anti-trade U.S. President like Donald Trump was politically viable because those tariffs
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The Philippines is the 2nd most climate vulnerable country in the world, yet instead of choosing to protect biodiversity and nature that protect us, we continue to destroy it with
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I am super tired and honestly as close to a nervous breakdown as I've ever been (hello international house move during a global pandemic while recovering from and awaiting major
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(1/10) I just finished reading @StephanieKelton's #TheDeficitMyth. It's perhaps the most lucid popular exposition of #MMT theory around, a stick of dynamite in the foundations of deficit-phobia, a wake-up call
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So, what to make of it all? It's pretty good, no?https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4023559/government-promises-unleash-net-zero-investment-blitz-point-plan-green-industrial-revolution Again, here is the Prime Minister of one of the wor
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