writer @TheAtlantic, cofounder @Covid19Tracking, visiting fellow @UChiEnergy. covering climate, energy, COVID-19.
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Quoted @AbraarKaran
So there were more cases today than yesterday.
Let’s see what tomorrow holds but many places- including my own state of Massachusetts- seem to be opening quickly, despite much vaccination ahead of us.
Not to be a downer but this doesn’t seem like a good combination. #covid19
Replying to @kissane: We were worried about this as well and looked through all the data for the @COVID19Tracking weekly. I think we’re seeing a hol…
We were worried about this as well and looked through all the data for the @COVID19Tracking weekly. I think we’re seeing a holiday effect from last week’s holiday Monday + storms.
Replying to @NatBullard: [@climate] In 2012, half of new cars sold in the U.S. priced below $30k. In 2020, half priced above $40k. The cheap new car…
Replying to @Phil_Mattingly: The U.S. Senate, 64-35, voted to confirm Jennifer Granholm to be Secretary of Energy
The U.S. Senate, 64-35, voted to confirm Jennifer Granholm to be Secretary of Energy
Replying to @afreedma: Well this is fascinating - Gov Abbott of Texas consulted with meteorologist and climate change doubter Joe Bastardi in days l…
Well this is fascinating - Gov Abbott of Texas consulted with meteorologist and climate change doubter Joe Bastardi in days leading up to the cold snap/power crisis. *Bastardi was bullish on the cold, so this makes the Gov. look even worse.*
Strengthening evidence that a crucial system of Atlantic Ocean currents—including the Gulf Stream and Florida Current—is slowing down due to climate change:
Replying to @AdamSerwer: This is good, vaccines are good, get the vaccine when you can
This is good, vaccines are good, get the vaccine when you can
Replying to @elainejgodfrey: One thing experts are pretty confident about: This crisis is going to inspire a lot of Democrats to run in 2022.
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[@climate] In 2012, half of new cars sold in the U.S. priced below $30k. In 2020, half priced above $40k. The cheap new car is vanishing; and that's good for the electric vehicle market
One thing experts are pretty confident about: This crisis is going to inspire a lot of Democrats to run in 2022.
when you’re reading about the self-defeating structure of carter-era energy policy
Replying to @PeterBrannen1: Spent a few years researching this piece so I'm going to keep tweeting it out w/ different heds
HEARTBREAKING: These Pe…
Spent a few years researching this piece so I'm going to keep tweeting it out w/ different heds
HEARTBREAKING: These People Are Injecting CO2 Into the Atmosphere At One of the Fastest Rates of the Phanerozoic Eon (You Won't Believe Paleoclimate Analog #4)
As a measure of how slow the news cycle moves post-Trump: One of the top-of-the-hour NPR headlines just now was that, according to a new report, elderly people have learned to online shop over the past year.
The permanent solution to peace, prosperity, and universal economic security can be found in economic-sociology and STS monographs that are way too boring to finish
2. District judges, uncomfortable with their lack of expertise on this important technical issue, rarely intervene in cases.
3. SCOTUS, surveying lower-court precedent, cements this anti-interventionism as a prudent light-touch approach.
4. Wait 20 years, then return to #0.
Quoted @ismurray
And another great point from @ProfWrightGMU at the @ceidotorg antitrust panel - why are conservatives suddenly wanting to take power away from Article III judges and give it to unelected bureaucrats when it comes to governing tech?
A rare glance at Step #1 of the Status Quo Shuffle:
The Status Quo Shuffle:
0. Congress is unhappy with status quo of a difficult technical issue.
1. Lawmakers decide this technical issue is so important that only judges, and not unelected bureaucrats, are fit to govern it.
Direct unsubsidized Stafford loans issued for this academic year carry a 2.75% rate. But the same type of loan issued in 2018-2019 carries a 5.05% rate; it carries a 6.80% rate if issued for 2012-2013. Why does the public benefit from so much volatility in education-debt rates?
If Biden and Congress aren’t going to do student-debt forgiveness (don’t yell at me about whether they should, let’s just say they aren’t), what’s stopping Congress from refinancing student loans at today’s rates & standardizing on a sub-5% rate?
I also wrote a little about ERCOT’s failure. A wholesale power market reflects a certain idea about how to ensure order & keep the lights on. So does a state-owned corporation, like the TVA. What institution would we be *excited* to trust like that today?
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