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Coal mining in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming began in the 1920s, but it wasn’t until the energy crises of the 1970s that development of the region’s abundant reserves got seriously underway, and the region soared economically. I was at...
by Meteor Blades
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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A new, not-yet-peer-reviewed study from the National Bureau of Economic Research—the folks who designate the beginnings and endings of U.S. recessions—asserts that economic losses from temperature rise due to global warming will be far, far worse than...
by Meteor Blades
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Whatever one’s views of the acerbic Democratic strategist Jim Carville, his 1992 “It’s the economy, stupid” has become a cliché. That sentiment apparently resonates with voters, including the young ones not even born when Carville said it, as this...
by Meteor Blades
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This was a terribly hard cartoon to produce. I ran though my whole day’s bandwidth allocation in the AI and produced dozens of iterations. AI would produce the right background and the wrong ostrich, or the right ostrich and the wrong background. Took...
by PrivateIce
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I don’t need to convince you that there is no bigger issue or challenge than saving the planet for future generations. You know who else I don’t need to convince?� President Biden. Biden has ...
by GoodNewsRoundup
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The legislation deletes more than 50 lines of previous state statutes dealing with climate change.
By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation (
by Florida Phoenix
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There’s a supporting blogpost and transcript about this cartoon here; I’ll also post the transcript in comments. We can keep making these cartoons because of lots of supporters pledging low amounts - $1-$3 - and that's just how I like it! Please peruse...
by Barry Deutsch
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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
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Sacramento — As salmon populations move closer and closer to extinction and the Delta Smelt has become functionally extinct in the wild, a diverse coalition of California tribes, nonprofits, environmental organizations, and commercial fishing groups...
by Dan Bacher
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