Spring quartet, clockwise from upper left: Western skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus), western white trillium (Trillium ovatum), salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), red flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum).
Long-term studies are vital to understanding how species and ecosystems are responding to climate change and other environmental stressors, but difficult to sustain under typical short-term grant cycles. LTER has been funding these since 1980.
This is breaking something that can’t be replaced.
Song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) in emerging Philadelphus lewisii (mock-orange) branches lives up to his name.
Thousands of Bellinghamsters turned out today.
Well, as long as they've got the plant, it's probably best that they do the CCS.
That's my main focus, as well. But I don't think it should be done unwisely. Every decarb project has an environmental or social cost. So don't violate tribal rights--they didn't get us into this. Don't enrich evil companies--they did get us into this. Don't ruin poor communities with dirty mines.
And give the power to the ag giants that have ruined the lives of American farmers? Peter, Paul…
Why do we need a transition when EVs are so inexpensive now? Build a huge expensive plant to prolong the life of the Internal Combustion Engine? Better to build a battery plant, no? And don't feed ADM!
You have a point, but I think it depends on the biofuel. Corn ethanol (otherwise known as vodka) is a wash in GHG terms, a slight victory of Cargill over Exxon, a false hope for farmers, and a distraction from the real problems of both agriculture and climate.
I think life cycle analyses of corn ethanol show that its GHG footprint is no different from petroleum’s. So moving to E15 does nothing to fight climate change, it only throws a short-term lifeline to farmers caught in the spiral of corporate control, debt peonage, and overproduction.
The environmental destruction from critical mineral extraction is the tradeoff we pay for getting off fossil fuels. But in some cases, the prices is greater than the gain. I don't think anyone knows yet about the case of deep sea mining. This mandates caution.
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A story of resilience here: not only building resilience against oil shocks and weather emergencies, but demonstrating resilience against policy idiocy. Cheers to Dominion and our wobbly but still standing court system.
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In addition to the killing, destruction of buildings, and GHG, there is the matter of pollution. There must be horrible health effects from all that smoke.
Depends on value for what. Value for further science is higher than value for elementary ed. I can be a big stickler in some contexts, but I just don't think those kiddos are going to be influenced much by tenths of a degree. Or by the difference between 100 years and 4000 when they've only lived 7.
Our bar does lower. But the difference between 1 degree and 1.5 or 1.3 or however we calculate it now seems unlikely to make a kiddo think the whole thing was invented by radical left lunatics. I’m sorry it only registers about a 3 on my outrage meter.
This might well be the 2014 version. I would think the 2026 version would be outright denialist and talk about Chinese hoaxes and energy dominance and the evils of wind turbines. This one has some facts wrong is all.
Look on the bright side. At least they didn't say "hoax."
So the next White House priority is "make sure brown children grow up illiterate."
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Virtually certain from today's arguments that SCOTUS will invalidate ballots received after E-day, even if they are postmarked earlier. It'll cause a huge mess in WA, CO, and even MS, which was the object of the suit. Anything to shrink the electorate!
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Seems to me Mr. Mann confuses "not enough" with "don't help at all." Rather simplistic thinking. Parallel, I suppose, to saying "until capitalism is overthrown, there's no hope for humanity." So don't give to charity, it's just a ruse to keep the barons in power.
Fun thread. All those responses seem to be on the level of "every problem has a single cause and a single solution," or more likely "we're environmentalists. How dare you criticize us for our lifestyle?" I will admit, you and I sound smug when we talk about our rooftop solar and our EVs.
This is happening without any permitting reform. Unless you mean permitting bribery. The wind farm was already permitted. Anyway, our taxpayer dollars at work.
What this article says is that the greenhouse gases cause the greenhouse effect. Or at least the UN has reported that they do. Uhh Duuuhhhh!!
The greenhouse effect is news now?? UN report discovers (at least provisionally) a scientific fact that was first accurately calculated in 1897. Progressssss!!!!!
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