Yeah, that’s pretty neat! I did grad school in a traditional land grant soils program, although I was with the fun, crazy wetland mud people. Even then, I didn’t really get introduced to this paradigm change until I took a class in the geology dept by someone who had students studying the “priming” effect in rivers. 

Further analysis showed that the stuff leaking out of degraded ecosystems was also more “labile,” a soil science term that basically means “delicious microbe fuel.” This is the carbon that’s most susceptible to being digested by microorganisms and, ultimately, released to the air as carbon dioxide.

Well, it’s a problem when directly tied to oil revenues, nor is it really enough to be considered UBI.

Right, I guess that’s what I was trying to say. Education is much more fungible than Medicaid, pensions, etc. so it’s the easiest target. Alaska’s a weird case because of the politics of their payout system, but it’s more insidious elsewhere.

The UA situation is very drastic, and reprehensible, but unfortunately part of a trend of cutting higher education budgets in most states at least since the recession. Most people aren’t aware of it either despite the slow creep of more and more of their tuition dollars going to funding the basic operations of their…

Never fear, I’m sure the top research institutions in the state are helping ou—oh, wait...

That’s literally how every poll works

Florida is an interesting case. It has a relatively high frequency of tornadoes, but they tend to be weak, short-lived, and produced by hurricanes. However, the older population and infrastructure (side note: not everything is hurricane-proof, just look at the panhandle after Michael) makes it one of the more…

Just FYI, this fire is happening in one of the Water Conservation Areas, specifically WCA 3-A, which feeds directly into ENP.

To be fair, Florida is a textbook case for why geology matters when it comes to water barriers...

Yeah, I’m a bit disappointed that the default in the report is just for “gray” infrastructure. There almost certainly be huge costs associated with sticking up miles of seawalls and cutting off the intertidal zones.

As a Gay™, I will say that the one thing UFC is doing better than most corporations is openly donating proceeds to places like GLAAD.

I mean, sea level rise in coastal Louisiana is exacerbated for a few reasons (mostly Mississippi River diversions) but also because the oil and gas industry has completely plowed through coastal wetlands—which would otherwise be a natural barrier—to make navigation canals. Most of the sites have been utterly abandoned…

“Red tide” can sort of be a misnomer anyways. Under certain circumstances, dinoflagellate blooms can be anywhere from red to green to brown in appearance.

FWIW, Noctiluca don’t produce toxins like some other “red tide” species. Interestingly they actually accumulate high levels of ammonia which can be excreted or released (eg during cell lysis) and be toxic to other organisms.

Nothing says football/soccer in 2020 like Diego Maradona, Iniesta, and Ronaldinho.

Certain fans have been clamoring for Opal to come back, and the fact that Aimee Mann is part of this seems to indicate they’ll be in it!

This is a bit nitpicky, but it should be pointed out that they weren’t just finding DDT, but mostly DDD and DDE which are (still toxic!) by-products of DDT co-metabolism. They seem to think that the one lake had more recent DDT spraying than the others, and indicated there’s a 5-10 year lag before showing up in the…

Maybe, but the whole in-game balance reason doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me because it’s really never been an issue in the recent past, so why now? Especially because neither XY nor S/M had Pokemon bank compatibility right away, and apparently Home won’t be out until 2020.