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A number of recent articles shed light on the foggy nature of lawmaking in a 50/50 Senate.
By SueEllen Campbell | Thursday, February 4, 2021
We have seen much of what President Biden’s administration will be doing about climate change through Executive Office actions. But what about the legislative branch? With Democrats holding the slimmest possible edge in the Senate and a modest edge in the House, what might realistically happen?
Answers to this important question are by nature somewhat complicated. And there are always some chances for surprises, unexpected developments triggered by exceptional events.
For a terrific overview that pays particular attention to the rules controlling legislation, see Marianne Lavelle’s piece in Inside Climate News. Complement it with Laurie Goering’s short, pragmatic, optimistic piece from Reuters.
But am loving watching mr Musk leading the charge ,
McFlock 4.1.1.1
That dude pisses me off.
I give him a 20% chance of creating indentured servitude on Mars or just creating an elysium satellite for rich people in orbit.
bwaghorn 4.1.1.1.1
Probably but the frontier is always a wild place .
Humans are expansionist to our core might as well accept it and get on with . Going way out west to chance your luck on mars has to be preferred to the lofty goals of getting a fucking huge mortgage and slaving your life away to pay it off .
McFlock 4.1.1.1.1.1
I heard years ago that the westward expansion in the US had only a third of settlers survive five years out there.
Case study - identifying myths and fallacies in Climate Science (Mis)Information Briefs
Posted on 28 January 2021 by BaerbelW
This short blog post and the linked PDF document is the result of a collaborative effort by Anne-Marie Blackburn, Dana Nuccitelli, Bärbel Winkler, Ken Rice and John Cook.
When the climate change (mis)information briefs pushed by David Legates and others started to make the rounds in January 2021 we wondered whether or not they would be worth spending any time to debunk. This is sometimes a bit of a toss-up as, on the one hand, you have to debunk misinformation often and properly, while on the other you don’t want to give it undue publicity while doing so. This is illustrated by this chart from the recently published Debunking Handbook 2020 outlining the strategic landscape for debunking: