I snorted at the line “work the Congress.” I don’t know why but for some reason putting an article in front of Congress sounded like a bad translation.

To be quite honest I’d be much more interested in a Haunted House of Cards plot line rather than a president-donor power struggle...

That was my immediate response to the headline alone. It’s really not that hard to comprehend that campaigns, by design, cannot exert influence on how PACs operate.

Um, the top 5 are 1) Russia, 2) Canada, 3) Australia, 4) the US, and 5) Brazil. I think you’re ignoring Alaska plus they counted both terrestrial and marine area. 

I don’t understand either. It’s entirely reasonable to point out that sunscreen bans are a good step but there are also larger threats. From a leading coral researcher:

His argument also completely focuses on motivation from candidates rather than, you know, the hundreds of ballot initiatives that give voters direct say over voting rights restoration, weed decriminalization, abortion access, Medicaid expansion, minimum wages...you know, unimportant things that progressive shouldn’t…

Voting is no assurance of relief or direct results—not in America, at least—and the idea that choosing the lesser of two evils is better than not choosing at all has been so engrained in our popular media and pro-voting culture that people seem to have little clue on how to talk to, or about, non-voters in any way…

Global warming won’t threaten coral, as a whole. Not by a long shot. It’ll just change them (as in they’ll be made of likely uglier byproducts and fish but diverse, if not moreso, all the same) and on the flip-side they stand to gain a lot more real estate due to changing shores. Making far more “Goldilocks” zones.

Ironic that speaking up could kill his campaign. Usually it’s the silence which is deadly...

Yep, and I don’t know how it works in Maryland but here it’s a Board of Governors and they are largely appointed by the governor, and then they have a say in who is appointed to each university’s Board of Trustees...so in a GOP-led state you’re essentially stuck with a bunch of people who view public education as a…

I know this is just as shallow as every other thing that comes out of David Brooks (hooray for performative bipartisanship!) but, like, the actual result of this hypothetical would be utterly chaotic.

And yet none of that is remotely what was insinuated in the original article.

Ok, cool. Well welcome to Earther where there is a post pretty much every day about how the current administration is screwing over the environment and refusing to take any threat of climate change seriously. But the US didn’t just have a major election on Sunday, so it’s weird to expect an environmental blog covering…

I’m not sure what the point of this rant is...

Although I try not to get too far into politicians’ heads, the House vote was basically unanimous and McConnell could have essentially forced a Senate vote unless there was some sort of objection to it...so if I had to say, it seems it was more the opposite, that McConnell handed it off to Trump so that he could make…

I mean, the transfer of land from the county to the federal government was already put into legislation which overwhelmingly passed by the House and then was introduced (and sponsored) by McConnell later this summer.

I just finished S2 of Broadchurch and I totally understand why people were hesitant about Chibnall but in love with Jodie.

There’s a difference between a candidate accepting PAC money as a direct contribution to their campaign and PACs independently running ads endorsing a candidate.

Err, yes, I’m aware of the components of the C cycle. My larger point is that simply removing CO2 from the atmosphere isn’t enough if the goal is reduction long term. In terms of the ocean, it needs to reach below the thermocline—where its interaction with the atmosphere is on the order of hundreds to thousands of…

It’s also important to note that phytoplankton aren’t exactly a long term C sequestration pool themselves. The C has to be buried in soil/sediment/the deep ocean otherwise it turns over and is mineralized into CO2 rather quickly.