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This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. The platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and inspiration as we take back our state from some of the most extreme Republicans in the...
by randallt
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �You can push ...
by birches
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 10:00 AM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �You can push ...
by birches
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 10:00 AM PST
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Until recently, Harvard professor Susan Crawford was concerned about the effect of telecom monopolies on our internet lives (see her books) but recently she has pivoted to climate change. For those who don’t believe in climate justice or doing the...
by agoldnyc
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on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 08:57 AM PDT
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The last few years have sometimes been referred to as the “Pyrocene Age” because of the way the climate crisis has fostered an abundance of wildfires. This year has seen more than its share of those fires, including the vast number of fires in Canada...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 01:04 PM PDT
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The Colorado State Open Thread is many things to many people. But for the two or three people who read it, it’s an opportunity to see what are some topics of conversation in the state. This week, there were at least three major topics of conversation...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 06:01 PM PDT
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Hurriquake '23, it was almost wild! Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons, even lousy ones!
by laloalcaraz
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on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 04:10 PM PDT
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On July 3, the world passed what had previously been the highest global temperature recorded for any previous date. Since then, every single day has been hotter than any day previous to July 3. For ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Jul 27, 2023 at 05:45 AM PDT
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Desantis is now a thug. His games in the past only went after Disney. A few select words and some political land or tax rules. But now Desantis has gone too far. The people of Florida are only residents. Many of them don't have the clout, or the...
by Ghostolini
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on Tue Jun 20, 2023 at 04:35 PM PDT
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One day before the FBI came to Mar-a-Lago to conduct a search of a storage room containing classified documents, security cameras recorded a Trump aide and Mar-a-Lago workers removing boxes of material from that room. Those security cameras might have...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Jun 07, 2023 at 08:40 AM PDT
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Thursday meant playing hooky and watching basketball all day. It also meant that northern Arizona could expect the biggest flooding of the Spring. We had just received an inch of rain over a widespread area that had a decent snow pack. THE DAILY BUCKET...
by sandbear75
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on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 11:57 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Oxfam puts the matter all too strikingly: “The number of climate-related disasters has tripled in the last 30 years. Between 2006...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Dec 01, 2022 at 07:28 AM PST
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New data from American Inequality reveals hidden flood risk The way that FEMA currently measures flood risk drastically undercounts the dangers of flooding in certain communities. FEMA does not currently include intense rainfall in its calculation, nor...
by American Inequality
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on Wed Nov 23, 2022 at 05:47 AM PST
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Another torrential rainfall event in Denver is the latest of four one in one-thousand-year events that struck the United States in just two weeks. That does not mean that a storm of such magnitude “occurs once every thousand years, but rather that in...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Aug 08, 2022 at 12:43 PM PDT
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We’ve been told that global warming means more intense storms. Maybe you’ve wondered whether that’s true, and if so, why. Here’s someone who knows, and explains it in simple terms, using common units of measure.
by b3LLsb33r
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on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 05:04 PM PDT
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That's right, i said it. I know that tying a weather event to climate change is problematic. Maybe it was just bad weather luck. For those who won't say climate change and those who choose to quibble about weather and climate, I say fuck those baby...
by greenandblue
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on Wed Jul 27, 2022 at 04:09 AM PDT
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As Yellowstone approaches its 150th anniversary, and for the first time since wildfires forced closure in 1988, all 5 public entrances to Yellowstone National Park are closed due to extreme flooding. all entrances to Yellowstone National Park are...
by greenandblue
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on Mon Jun 13, 2022 at 11:25 PM PDT
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This Bucket is a bit of a travelogue that includes a beautiful wildlife area and weather-related time-sensitive material.� I had a work assignment to look at a vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette ...
by BrownsBay
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on Sat Jan 08, 2022 at 09:51 AM PST
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As of Tuesday, there are still over 400,000 people without power in Louisiana. The death toll for Hurricane Ida is now at 68 as the devastation is tallied from a single storm that brought floods and destruction across a wide swath of states. That’s...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Sep 07, 2021 at 01:33 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jul 23, 2021 at 08:51 PM PDT
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