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albert and the xl pipeline

Alberta is the Canadian Texas - right wing politics in control and a big stake in oil.  Alberta's problem is the global demand for their oil isn't what it used to be and they are no longer the players they thought they were - even within Canada.  Some commentary by a resident.

 

 

some areas will have greater snowfall with global warming

One of the more noticeable increases in winter snow as the planet warms is the Great Lake region. A longer ice-free season is super-charging lake effect snow. When weather systems sweep across an ice-free lake they pick up extra moisture and dump it on the lee side.

 

just how much can biden undo?

Rule changes and conservative courts will probably get in the way of many.

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ome of the environmental policy changes, though, will be harder to reverse because the rules that implement key laws, such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Clean Water Act, were changed.

“With the most damaging policy decisions and initiatives, the problem is when they have been done by rule-making and not executive orders and they have political support in the Senate, in particular, it can be hard to undo those things,” said Jim Lyons, the deputy assistant secretary for Land and Mineral Management at the Interior Department under Obama.

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la pollution rules relaxed

One of the stranger aspects of the pandemic.

 

 

truer than not

 

Republicans: the Orcs of the carbon-fueled underworld

 

a signal

The dramatic increase in wildfire is a global warming signal. Last year fires in the US West accounted for half of all health damaging air pollution.

 

wildfire smoke is even more dangerous than you thought

It can carry microbes and spread disease.

 

a spy for the planet

Linda Zall can finally tell her story.

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“None of this would have happened without her,” said Jeffrey K. Harris, who worked with Dr. Zall as director of the National Reconnaissance Office, which runs the nation’s fleet of orbital spies. “You have to decide if you’re going to break down the wall or climb over it, and she did a little bit of both.”

Some of her biggest fans are surviving members of her team of 70 elite scientists whom Dr. Zall recruited to sift through and analyze mountains of images from a secret archive. The storehouse was accumulated mainly as a byproduct of Washington’s spying on adversaries from space as a means of distinguishing threats and propaganda from deadly capabilities.

“She was an amazing leader,” said Michael B. McElroy, a planetary physicist and professor of environmental studies at Harvard. “She had energy and enthusiasm and a wonderful ability to communicate with people” — as well as the tact to handle large egos. “Having this woman from the C.I.A. telling them what to do wasn’t easy. It was amazing to watch her.”

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the corona time machine

Using old photos from the Corona spy satellites to extend the environmental record of Earth.

 

13 megawatts

Size rules when it comes to wind turbines.  A race to build giant offshore turbines is beginning.