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Federal Judge Questions William Barr's 'Credibility' in Rollout of Mueller Report
The actions of Attorney General Barr and his representations about the Mueller Report preclude the court’s acceptance of the validity of the Department’s redactions without its independent verification, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said...
Electrical power generation from moderate-temperature radiative thermal sources
It is desirable to harvest as much energy as possible from processes that produce useful amounts of heat and convert it from waste into electrical power. Thermoelectrics and thermophotovoltaics can harness and convert heat waste but tend to operate...
Eric Steig
The benefits of browsing paper copies of science journals.
Check this out: energy generation from waste, by capturing the tradition from not-that-hot objects.
Coolest paper I've read in some time. (No pun intended).
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Substantial Cloud Brightening From Shipping in Subtropical Low Clouds
For the first time, observations show that ship emissions induce a cloud brightening effect on climate‐relevant spatial and temporal scales
Brightening is dominated by an increase in the number of ...
Eric Steig
Back to regularly schedule climate information.
Here's a pretty neat finding:
"Changes in low clouds due to pollution from all sources block 1 Watt per square meter of solar energy."
From new paper led by Michael Diamond, UWAtmos and @UWPCC
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The Weather Sensitivity of the Coronavirus: Good News in the Long-Term?
This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics
Coronavirus
This is mostly an excuse to publish a blogpost using Rmarkdown. This is a system for combining R code in a “markdown” text document which can be readily compiled into html or pdf etc and also autom…
Eric Steig
Exhibit A, James Annan.
"Before I start I should point out that I have no particular authority to speak on this topic. I’m writing about coronavirus COVID-19 from a position of no more knowledge than anyone else who has followed the media."
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Wins a Victory in Dakota Access Pipeline Case
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down permits for the pipeline and ordered a new environmental review of the project.
2019 Novel Coronavirus infection (Wuhan, China): Outbreak update - Canada.ca
2019 Novel Coronavirus infection (Wuhan, China) Outbreak update
Eric Steig
If you're interested in facts about the coronavirus, check out Canada's information pages.
Really useful, easy to follow, well organized, and probably not infected by Trumpism.
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How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks
A very American story about capitalism consuming our national preparedness and resiliency.
Eric Steig
The problem with the "efficicieny" argument we've been sold on for decades, in a nutshell:
"Hospitals began to run out of masks ... because their supply chains ... are built to optimize efficiency, not resiliency.'"
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Amazonians United Wins PTO for all Amazon Workers
Amazonians United warehouse workers in Sacramento, Chicago, and NYC organize, take action, and win PTO for all Amazon workers. Join us!
Elizabeth Warren’s Ranting Resumes
The fight against the coronavirus is ‘favoring’ no one.
‘Wartime President’? Trump Rewrites History in an Election Year
The president is brazenly grabbing his only clear option to bolster his re-election hopes, portraying himself as a take-charge leader the country can’t afford to lose.
Eric Steig
The difference between the ability of George W. Bush to get relected as a "wartime president" -- in spite of his incompetence -- and the chance that Trump will succeed in the same way is that this time the war is HERE, not in Iraq.
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WIRED
Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and culture at Wired.com.
Eric Steig
"...Did we get good advice from the president of the United States for the first 12 weeks? No. All we got were lies. This is the most irresponsible act of an elected official that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime."
--Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant
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Coronavirus and climate
As we collectively reel from the changes wrought by the current pandemic, people are being drawn by analogy to climate issues - but analogies can be tricky and often distort as much as they illuminate. For instance, in the Boston Globe, Jeff...
Trump Resists Pressure to Force Companies to Make Coronavirus Supplies
The Defense Protection Act gives presidents extraordinary powers to make supplies like masks. But some of Mr. Trump’s advisers suggest they are adhering to longstanding conservative opposition to big government.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing
The Georgia Republican is the second senator who has gotten rid of their holdings right as the stock market went bad.
High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19 by Jingyuan Wang, Ke Tang, Kai Feng, Weifeng Lv :: SSRN
This paper investigates how air temperature and humidity influence the transmission of COVID-19. After estimating the serial interval of COVID-19 from 105 pairs
Trump Slowly Enlisting More Agencies in ‘Whole of Government’ Response to Virus
Hospital ships stayed in port, veterans hospitals awaited orders and requests for help went unanswered, as much of the government remained on the sidelines.
Eric Steig
This is not responsible reporting, @NYTimes.
Your articles states that an internal gov't report "concludes" the pandemic will last 18 months.
That's not what the report says. It ASSUMES that, for planning purposes. Totally different.
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The Coronavirus Is Here to Stay, So What Happens Next?
There may be two to four more rounds of social distancing before this is over. Here’s what to expect.
Prominent U.S. climate denial group fires president amid financial crisis
Heartland Institute recently laid off about half its staff
McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit
The Senate majority leader has encouraged judges thinking about stepping down to do so soon to ensure that Republicans confirm their replacements this year.
Eric Steig
McConnell knows very well his party will be decimated in November.
Democrats need to do everything they can to stop his last-minute power grab. As McConnell himself has said, "let the American people decide" the makeup of the courts.
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