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Chelsea Harvey@chelseaeharvey.bsky.social |
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Chelsea Harvey
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And so telling to also erase the extremely diverse communities that compose, and are building, today's South. And have been, if you've been paying any attention to history, since well before the Civil War.
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Chelsea Harvey
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(The last time this happened was just 2mos ago. It happens to me a lot.) It's so painful when folks just casually erase all the things I love about myself & my home that are so intrinsically Southern and not in any way expressions of the "Old South" or the politics in our statehouses.
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Chelsea Harvey
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I've struggled to articulate these exact thoughts so many times to so many people in the years since I moved to NYC who have suggested that my personality, values, etc. are somehow exceptions for a person who grew up where I did - that they are evidence I never belonged there.
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Chelsea Harvey
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Love this essay. Love how it even gently calls out the "well-intentioned Southerners" who, themselves, equate Southerness with whiteness/white supremacy, distancing/othering themselves in the process. Folks who themselves are often white. lithub.com/the-paradox-...
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Chelsea Harvey
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Hurricane forecasts have clearly improved over the last few decades. But deaths and damages lately aren't declining -- yet another sign that knowing what's coming doesn't mean we're prepared for it.
My story today:
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
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Gotta find the resident Really Old Tree wherever I travel. Here’s the giant pagoda tree of Martha’s Vineyard, brought from China as a seedling in 1837 by Capt Thomas Milton. Oddly emotional imagining this giant sailing across the sea as a baby in a flower pot all those years ago.
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Chelsea Harvey
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Grenada PM's wrenching description of Beryl's aftermath in Carriacou & Petite Martinique: "It is almost Armageddon-like. Almost total damage or destruction of all buildings... Complete devastation & destruction of agriculture. Complete & total destruction of the natural environment."
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Chelsea Harvey
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Hurricane Beryl's evolution over the past week: honestly fucking scary. Swelling from a tropical depression to a Category 4 storm less than 48 hrs -- unprecedented this time of year. Earliest Category 4 storm - and then Cat 5!! - on record. www.eenews.net/articles/unp...
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Chelsea Harvey
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In Elena Kagan's Chevron dissent: "A rule of judicial humility gives way to a rule of judicial hubris." "...the majority turns itself into the country’s administrative czar."
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Chelsea Harvey
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Reading these dissents lately -- I mean, it's really something.
"...disastrous consequences for the Presidency and for our democracy."
"In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."
www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Chelsea Harvey
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Chelsea Harvey
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Cities around the world have been testing new strategies for communicating the dangers of extreme heat: categorizing and/or naming heat waves like hurricanes. But scientists still don't know if these systems really make a difference.
My story from Friday: www.scientificamerican.com/article/shou...
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Chelsea Harvey
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And yesterday:
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Chelsea Harvey
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Also yesterday:
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Chelsea Harvey
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Also yesterday:
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Chelsea Harvey
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Yesterday: www.eenews.net/articles/sup...
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Chelsea Harvey
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Also today: www.politico.com/news/2024/06...
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Chelsea Harvey
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Also today:
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Chelsea Harvey
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Quick 🧵 of Supreme Court news from the past two days. I can't honestly tell if the debate is actually eclipsing these decisions or whether that's just a factor of my being in media and very (or relatively) online. But these are things to be watching right now. Today:
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Chelsea Harvey
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Here's the report from the Initiative on Greenhouse Gas Accounting of War, which has produced regular updated estimates since the war began in 2022. t.co/m1Eb0CvR6E
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Chelsea Harvey
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Updated estimates suggest the first two years of Russia's war in Ukraine have generated the equivalent of 175 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Applying a recent calculation of the social cost of carbon, that's $32 billion in climate damages. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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Chelsea Harvey
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Updated estimates suggest the first two years of Russia's war in Ukraine have generated the equivalent of 175 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Applying a recent calculation of the social cost of carbon, that's $32 billion in climate damages. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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Chelsea Harvey
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Getting very nervous about this hurricane season, y’all
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Chelsea Harvey
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Little 20-min monsoon just rocked this town. Trees and branches down all over the place. Power’s still out, and oak tree in the front yard came down right on my parents’ roof (everybody here is fine)
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Chelsea Harvey
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Golf ball-sized hail near Charleston, SC tonight!
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Chelsea Harvey
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And also, in light of new data from Copernicus and the WMO, a more science-y return to the question of what it actually means to cross the 1.5C threshold and how close we're getting: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...
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Chelsea Harvey
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And a look at the climate implications of new shipping regulations: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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Chelsea Harvey
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In addition to exploring the legal intricacies of U.S. advertising restrictions, we've got a new report on the global state of carbon removal (one of my fav pet subjects): subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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Chelsea Harvey
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At the end of last year, I decided to expand my reporting further into the intersection of science & policy in 2024 (in recent years, I've mainly covered straight science/new climate research). This has been a pretty fun and diverse week 🧵
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On Wednesday, the UN Secretary-General called for broad bans on fossil fuel advertising. Today, we investigated whether that's even possible in the U.S.
Our story now up in Scientific American (and a subscriber link here as well):
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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Chelsea Harvey
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Pretty much the message of the day
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Robinson Meyer
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Kathy Hochul’s decision to halt congestion pricing in NYC — if it holds — is a generational setback for US climate policy. It is worse than the Mountain Valley pipeline or Willow project in Alaska, and it will have lacerating national implications.
I wrote about it: heatmap.news/economy/kath...
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Chelsea Harvey
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UN Secretary-General urges broad bans on fossil fuel advertising, the first time he's made this explicit call in a public speech. www.eenews.net/articles/un-...
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Chelsea Harvey
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...Or if many otherwise environmentally minded people are just so attached to their vehicles that this is the area where they draw the line. Keep in mind NYC is the easiest city in the country to access and navigate by public transportation.
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Chelsea Harvey
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Have heard very little acknowledgement in these convos of this policy's air quality/climate benefits. I really wonder if a shift in public framing/communication would have made any difference? E.g. calling it "clean air pricing" vs "congestion pricing?"
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Chelsea Harvey
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Very progressive people I know who also own vehicles (even vehicles they keep mainly for recreational purposes) who are really up in arms about congestion pricing. Folks who definitely otherwise support stronger climate action.
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Gotta say, the convos I've had with folks around congestion pricing in NYC have really demonstrated to me what a frontier transportation remains when it comes to climate policy and also climate communication.
www.politico.com/news/2024/06...
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Chelsea Harvey
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ICYMI - yesterday's story (for E&E/Pro subscribers) on whether new international shipping rules, intended to cut down on air pollution, have inadvertently sped up the rate of global warming. (Tldr: exact impacts on global temperatures remain up for debate) www.eenews.net/articles/shi...
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Chelsea Harvey
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Idk what vitamin deficiency I have that’s making me crave seaweed like there’s no tomorrow, but I seriously can’t stop. Doesn’t hurt that these salads are so darn pretty. 😍
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Chelsea Harvey
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This subscriber story now also published in Sciam:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/warf...
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Chelsea Harvey
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On today’s story: www.eenews.net/articles/war...
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Chelsea Harvey
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This evening’s Power Switch, with the top by yours truly today: www.politico.com/power-switch
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Chelsea Harvey
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Seeing conflicting reports about whether the gag order remains in place through sentencing or not?
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(Extreme heat days defined as temperatures the average person would consider hot, btw. Temperatures above the 90th percentile for that location.)
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Chelsea Harvey
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Without human-caused climate change, the average person in Suriname would have experienced just 24 extreme heat days in the last year.
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Chelsea Harvey
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26 days is just the global average btw. The five countries with the most extreme heat days (above their local levels) were Suriname with 182 days, Ecuador with 180 days, Guyana with 174 days, El Salvador with 163 days and Panama with 149 days.
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Chelsea Harvey
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New analysis by Climate Central, World Weather Attribution & Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre finds that climate change added 26 days of extreme heat over the last 12 months averaged across the world compared to a planet with no human-caused warming. www.climatecentral.org/report/clima...
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"In past years when we’ve see high ACE numbers, those have historically been the years with the most destructive hurricanes." -NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad at today's press conference
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NOAA issues its busiest May hurricane season forecast ever, with 17-25 named storms. Also worth noting: its second highest forecast for accumulated cyclone energy, which is basically the overall activity (including intensity and duration) of hurricanes across a season. >>
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Chelsea Harvey
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Dozens of countries have pledged to reach net zero emissions within the next few decades. But few have detailed long-term plans for how much carbon they’ll still be emitting at the end of the timeline — and how they’ll offset the leftovers. Today’s story: www.eenews.net/articles/man...
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