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Pat Roberts is joining Capitol Counsel as a partner, making the longtime Ag Committee chair the latest former pol to go through the revolving door since leaving Congress last month. Roberts, who was first elected to the House in 1981 before winning election to the Senate in 1997, is the longest-serving member of Congress from Kansas. Roberts helped shepherd multiple farm bills through Congress, most recently in 2018, and also served on the Finance, HELP, Ethics and Rules committees.
HAPPY MONDAY! Welcome to Overnight Energy, The Hill's roundup of the latest energy and environment news. Please send tips and comments to Rebecca Beitsch at rbeitsch@thehill.com.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 16January 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Summary:
New US Covid infections for the week ending January 16th were 8.5% below those of the week ending January 9th, so it appears that the incidence of new cases mat have peaked and is turning down, at least for the time being. One caveat to that, though, is that we don t know how many of the prior week s cases were from reports that had been delayed over the holidays. For a check on that, we can compare new cases from the week ending January 16th to those from the week ending December 19th, two weeks which sh
As NASA and NOAA warn of climate emergency, they weather last-minute denial by Trump appointees
As 2020 smashed hurricane and wildfire records, doing $90 billion worth of damage in the U.S. alone, new data shows last year neck and neck with 2016 as the hottest year in recorded human history.
Posted: Jan 17, 2021 11:00 PM
Updated: Jan 17, 2021 11:00 PM
Posted By: By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent
The numbers are in. The hottest seven years in recorded history are: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.
But at this point, says NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel, rankings are worthless. It s all about that horrifying trend towards a level of global overheating impossible to control.
As NASA and NOAA warn of climate emergency, they weather last-minute denial by Trump appointees
The numbers are in. The hottest seven years in recorded history are: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.
But at this point, says NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel, rankings are worthless. It’s all about that horrifying trend towards a level of global overheating impossible to control.
“What really matters, and what I think is really significant and really concerning, is that the seven hottest years on record were the past seven years,” Marvel told CNN.
Her work is part of a global consensus among scientists from the United Kingdom’s Met Office, Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, Berkeley Earth and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the planet’s man-made fever shows no sign of breaking and that land, sea and sky may all be getting hotter faster.