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Kai Bird is a distinguished journalist and author of a slew of books, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and, in 2021, what I think is the best of the three Carter biographies on...
by Meteor Blades
on Fri Jan 03, 2025 at 12:00 PM PST
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West Wind In Winter
Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
Another day awakes. And who —
�Changing the world — is this? �
He comes at whiles, the Winter through, �
by strawbale
on Fri Dec 20, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
with 32 Recommends
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If you covered Kansas with solar panels, you could annually generate more than twice as much electricity as the entire Western Hemisphere consumes now. This would, of course, play havoc with the wheat crop (the Jayhawkers are the nation’s No. 1...
by Meteor Blades
on Fri Dec 06, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST
with 183 Recommends
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To The South Wind
Alexander Posey (1873-1908)
O Wind, hast thou a sigh
� �Robbed from her lips divine
Upon this sunbright day—
� �A token or a sign?
by strawbale
on Fri Nov 22, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
with 37 Recommends
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A new fossil of a vampire squid bridges a 120 million-year gap in their fossil record. Vampire squid today are adapted to low oxygen, deep sea environments. I for one might welcome our new super-cuttlefish overlords, considering that it looks less...
by annieli
on Sun Oct 27, 2024 at 03:02 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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Across the planet every day, the climate changes wrought by humans have only just begun to show us how far-reaching and disastrous they could be. From Antarctica to the Amazon, from the boreal forests of Canada to mountain glaciers everywhere, from...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Aug 11, 2024 at 12:05 PM PDT
with 182 Recommends
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China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/china-building-twice-as-much-wind-and-solar-power-as-rest-of-world-report China is also building 21 of the 90 planned nuclear power...
by gmoke
on Fri Jul 12, 2024 at 06:05 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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by side pocket
on Sun Jun 30, 2024 at 05:30 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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Maybe you’ve spent the past few days either buried in articles, op-eds, editorial board exhortations, podcasts, and cablecast panels discussing the presidential debate. Or perhaps you’ve devoted your time to avoiding all that along with the public...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Jun 30, 2024 at 10:59 AM PDT
with 52 Recommends
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After today, Earth Matters is taking a short break. The next edition will appear June 16. A new study conducted by Data for Progress for Public Citizen asked respondents: Do you think that oil and gas companies should be held legally accountable for...
by Meteor Blades
on Wed May 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
with 158 Recommends
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You may recall that in 2019, the Democratic National Committee turned down Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s campaign request that one of the party’s primary presidential debates be focused on climate issues. The expressed rationale for rejecting the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Jun 23, 2024 at 10:58 AM PDT
with 227 Recommends
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If you trek over to Open Secrets, you’ll find that quite a number of politicians, including some Democrats, are fond of campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry. In fact, during his career, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has been a...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun May 26, 2024 at 10:59 AM PDT
with 302 Recommends
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It’s a key green goal—100% of electricity from clean energy—that is, carbon-free—sources. Or, for those who are more purist, 100% from renewable sources, without nuclear. Hundreds of cities around the planet have pledged to reach that goal, whichever...
by Meteor Blades
on Wed May 22, 2024 at 10:59 AM PDT
with 298 Recommends
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Using tree rings to extend their scrutiny back many centuries before reliable temperature gauges were available, scientists at the University of Cambridge and Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany have found that 2023 was the hottest summer the...
by Meteor Blades
on Wed May 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
with 114 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. It appears at 11 a.m. Pacific Time each Sunday. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun May 12, 2024 at 10:59 AM PDT
with 52 Recommends
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Journalists have always faced risks of violence when carrying out their work. For war correspondents, the perils are obvious, with many of those who are killed covering a conflict as a result of being collateral damage. Embedded in regular armies or...
by Meteor Blades
on Wed May 08, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
with 137 Recommends
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(Click here for an interactive version of the map above showing brief details for each coal plant.) The Biden-Harris administration on Thursday released its final rules to curb emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants. This will force...
by Meteor Blades
on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 07:52 AM PDT
with 291 Recommends
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When Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss introduced the word “disinformation” to readers of their 1980 roman à clef spy novel “The Spike”—deriving the term from the Russian dezinformatsiya, the title of a KGB black propaganda department—it didn’t make...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 270 Recommends
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March 27 & 28, 2024 Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest They say March comes in like a lion (which it did) and goes out like a lamb (which it also did) but it was a near thing. Just before the month closed out we had a series of very windy days. Not cold:...
by OceanDiver
on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 07:00 AM PDT
with 50 Recommends
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There was a bit a of news last week from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That’s the 32-year-old process, backed by treaty, by which limits on carbon emissions are negotiated. To the government ministers and negotiators...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 170 Recommends
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