Re: budget reconciliation process for passing coronavirus relief bill, The Hill…
Am I missing something? Did we pass a law further limiting the senate? Why does the Hill article state that, “Reconciliation would allow for passing coronavirus relief with just 51 votes
instead of the 60 usually required for legislation”?
Other than avoiding a filibuster is 60 votes now a requirement as opposed to a majority voting yes to advance a bill?
NotTimothyGeithner
No. It’s just a rule that the majority chooses collectively to abide by. They get away with it because civics education is so poor in this country. Federal laws can’t restrict constitutional powers. The filibuster isn’t even a federal law.
Study: Accounting for value of nature reinforces Paris climate targets
A new study in Nature Sustainability incorporates the damages that climate change does to healthy ecosystems into standard climate-economics models. The key finding in the study by Bernardo Bastien-Olvera and Frances Moore from the University of California at Davis: The models have been underestimating the cost of climate damages to society by a factor of more than five.
Their study concludes that the most cost-effective emissions pathway results in just 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) additional global warming by 2100, consistent with the “aspirational” objective of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Models that combine climate science and economics, called “integrated assessment models” (IAMs), are critical tools in developing and implementing climate policies and regulations. In 2010, an Obama administration governmental interagency working group used IAMs to establish the social cost o
https://youtu.be/QA8v26BxHuE So, I was so freaked out and appalled by the post-election machinations of Republicans, lost in doom scrolling like so many others, as well as screaming through the phone at my election-sabotaging congressperson's hapless staff, that I got behind on my videos for Yale Climate Connections. That, plus December is always dicey, with American…