Yeah, maybe it’s not exactly fair for me to say Dunn beat her out—Dunn was a lock on the team regardless, and Hinkle was vocal about not wanting to wear Pride jerseys—but it was nonetheless very risky to not have the depth there (and I think that was a fair criticism). Because if anything happened to Dunn/O’Hara then…

I was only speaking to the individual bill you posted, and it reminded me of what’s happened here. I’m certainly not trusting any union-related bill from an effing Tea Party republican....

I think what the bill was saying is that unions who experience bargaining unit turnover (the bargaining unit being everyone covered under that union’s CBA) greater than 50%, then the union must have a recertification vote. Nothing to do with internal leadership voting.

I’m not convinced you’re an actual Minnesota sports fan because a return to mediocrity is still *highly* plausible within the next 73 games :/

I don’t think that’s what they’re saying? On the rest of social media they’ve been sticking exactly to the forecasts from the NHC. Just telling people in inland and peninsular Florida to stop panicking.

Understandably, the panhandle is still very nervous after how much damage Michael did. The meteorological arm of Florida public radio has been a bit “chippy” (in their words) about how much hype this system is getting across the state. From their Facebook:

I don’t think it’s quite the same as with Lake O. You can very visibly see cyanoHABs build up on the lake which are then released and dumped on to the estuaries. I think this was more a case of seed population + FW x nutrients = bloom formation in the estuary.

I don’t think it’s quite the same as with Lake O. You can very visibly see cyanoHABs build up on the lake which are then released and dumped on to the estuaries. I think this was more a case of seed population + FW x nutrients = bloom formation in the estuary.

Like, I understand there’s enough crap TWC throws out there to get upset about...but, all things considered, they’ve actually done a decently good job of highlighting how climate change impacts extreme weather among other things.

All this water streaming in from the mainland is carrying valuable nutrients to the blue-green algae, including phosphorus and nitrogen. Much of this is coming from fertilizer.

Why didn’t Madeline throw the ice cream?!?!

From the paper:

NOAA claims weather forecasts even 5 days out are about 90% accurate, and it drops to just 80% for 7 days out. I figure that most people who complain about precipitation forecasts have a fundamental misunderstanding about what those percentages mean:

Hell, our federal weather operations may be privatized even more with help from the very people running the show...

Because it’s not just what’s taken up by the tree—it’s what’s stored longer-term in the soil. A more manicured park is trees with some turfgrass and infrastructure.

It very much depends on who you ask.

I think the underlying assumption is just that the definition they used explicitly says a park reasonably cannot be a forest. It has to have >10% tree cover and no human management. I don’t think it has anything to do with carbon capture on a tree-by-tree basis, but if you think about it deeper, those land use types…

Whatever do you mean? Surely an experienced trainer wouldn’t make the basic mistake of calling their Pidgeot a Pidgeotto...or have Mewoth call a Sandslash a Sandshrew...or Team Rocket ID a Scyther as a frickin Alakazam

That’s a valid question and very much depends. Tropical forests tend to store more carbon than temperate forests, partially because they have so much more above ground biomass. Most carbon in temperate/boreal forests is below ground in the soil.

That very article points out that tree cover does not necessarily mean actual forest cover, and that tropical forests are still super vulnerable to deforestation. Not sure what your point is?