October 5, 2017
William Wehrum is a lawyer and once, apparently, worked for the EPA. Trump is trying to appoint him to be assistant administrator for air and radiation. This is a reasonably important job that concerns many aspects of the environment.
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https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/…
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As promised in the last catch-up post, a set of pictures less devoted to cute-kid shots.
213/366: Zone Defense The superhero-themed zones of our house, as defined by the Pip.
The Pip has been making one of his preschool teachers draw superheroes for him. At some point, he cut these out with scissors (or possibly made Kate cut them out), and hung them up in different rooms. So the living room…
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Today, I ll be connecting the dots between climate change and many of the other pressing issues facing the world today. And I ll make the case that acting on climate helps to fix each and every one of these issues people care about
at the same time.
First, a little perspective.
It is an era. - Alex Steffen
That s because our climate is the context in which
everything else takes place. We rely on it for everything.
And these irreversible changes being set in motion will impact our descendants and all life on earth for thousands of years.
What I m trying to say here is this: if we get climate wrong, nothing else will be right.
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When rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the assault hinted at the risks of politics unmoored from facts. That can threaten the very fabric of society.
That an incoming U.S. president devoted part of his inaugural address to insist that facts are, in fact, factual reveals just how much of a beating the truth has taken. Over the past five years, politics have motivated huge swaths of the American public to abandon not just facts, but also the system of logic and standards of evidence used to establish facts in the first place. This phenomenon is widely known as “post truth.”