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The flip side is that Trump ran an awful campaign. He gave a terrible RNC speech, his VP was deeply unpopular, he lost the debate, he had no ground game to speak of, he offended key demographic groups ... and none of it mattered.
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Greenpeace, once a noble organization that largely changed the world for the better, increasingly resembles Exxon, in that by now they very much know their product is deadly, but keep producing it anyway in order to maintain revenues.
The Nuclear Energy Summit happening in Brussels tomorrow is a distraction from real climate action.
Nuclear power is too slow. Too expensive. Too dangerous.
There's no time for #NuclearFairyTales.
#NES2024
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Characterizing nuclear as slow, expensive, dangerous is in conflict with following facts:
"slow": Latest reactor is Barakah. 5600 MW / 10 years. 560 MW /year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_n…
"dangerous": One of safest sources of energy: ourworldindata.org/safest-sources…
"expensive": Ontario finds only hydro is cheaper: ontario.ca/page/powering-… ...can be cheap.
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Greenpeace and its allies just won a court case in the Philippines blocking Golden Rice from reaching millions of vitamin A-deficient young children. If this isn't a crime against humanity, I don't know what is. Avoidable deaths could total 100,000s. More: spectator.co.uk/article/chil…
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NEW: In my latest essay, I argue that opposition to seabed mineral harvesting too often grossly exaggerates enviro impacts, while seeking to ban a promising technology that could help reduce impacts from battery metals sourcing.
thebreakthrough.org/issues/e…
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Polar regions warm faster than the rest of the world. This is happening now, and also happened millions of years ago when alligators and turtles used to live in the Arctic. Why?
New research by D Dutta, @DrJucker, @StevenSherwood4, A Sen Gupta, @KatrinJM, and J Zhu.
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Finally: Biden to supply Kyiv with long-range ATACMS missiles after months of lobbying on.ft.com/3ENAWpO via @financialtimes
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Thank you for your synergy in solutioning this high-level query by leveraging your expertise to curate innovative content of deliverables.
We're aligned & find these learnings strategic & empowering.
We will ping if we need to pivot & appreciate this impactful collaboration.
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1/Today I am thrilled to announce, after years of work, our team @fervoenergy has developed a major advancement in geothermal, proven it at the field scale, and is set to deliver commercial next-gen geothermal decades ahead of schedule. THREAD. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The justices themselves have officially ruled that there is nothing wrong with a wealthy individual providing an ongoing stream of financial benefits to a public official who is in a position to make decisions that favor him as long as there's no explicit quid pro quo.
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I've been joking around about this, but the way you can tell the Supreme Court corruption scandal is genuinely scandalous and genuinely corrupt is by following the logic of their own jurisprudence on public corruption issues.
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The true test of a civilization is: Can it keep its young ppl alive?
It’s a test America is failing, compared to peer nations.
The typical young American is 100% more likely to die than a Western European at almost every age from birth until retirement.
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Has it been awhile since you've attended a live lecture in an auditorium? I'm doing a new lecture on Thurs, March 30 at 7:00 pm. "How Did the Rocky Mountains Form?" Morgan Performing Arts Center in downtown Ellensburg, Washington. 400 E 1st Ave. Free and open to all!
