This from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Progressives are so fixated on beating Trump in November due to his lies and criminality that we sometimes forget how horrible he is on environmental issues.
Category: Climate Change
Lest We Forget How Damaging Trump Is to the Environment
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The Ideas of Our Times
What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true. Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the trend towards world fascism, as the United States teeters …
Will Banning the Phrase “Climate Change” Make It Stop?
From National Public Radio: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed legislation that erases most references to climate change (and global warming) from state law. Florida remains the third most populous state in the union, behind California and Texas, but …
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration
To clarify: The image at the top is largely correct. As long as trees are alive, normally at least many decades, they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as hydrocarbons that, upon their death, are rereleased as they …
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration
To clarify: The image at the top is largely correct. As long as trees are alive, normally at least many decades, they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as hydrocarbons that, upon their death, are rereleased as they …
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Will Florida Become “Blue?”
In the political sense of the word, it seems like we’re a long way from seeing Florida as a blue state. Trump won the state in 2020 by only 3 points, but the overall feeling in the Sunshine State is …
Grammar in Political Writing
Do you ever get a text that starts like this? “Hi, (Craig). Joe Biden here, asking you for your support in the upcoming election….” Anyone’s first thought would be that the president of the United States is most definitely not …
Heat in the Atlantic
The map here is “sea surface temperature anomaly,” and is described as follows: The Atlantic Ocean basin is facing unprecedented conditions in 2024. A severe marine heatwave has developed in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and off Florida’s coast, with …
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The Hottest Year
The battles we’re fighting on present-day Earth include putting an end to military hostilities and preventing the spread of world fascism. At the same time, it would be a very good thing if we could apply the brakes to global …
Conservatives and Climate Change
This from Norm Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, D.C., conservative think tank. Good for a conservative to put science in front of politics and religion. Also, good for a conservative to give a damn …
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