Get yourself a hepa air purifier with some activated charcoal in it maybe and some good respirators. You’ll be happy to have them when you’ll “unexpectedly” need them. 3m auras are the comfiest I’ve tried for extended wear
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a few days last year the air over new orleans had a putrid stench, almost like burning rubber. i assumed it was some chemical plant in cancer alley, but no, the swamp was on fire. that’s right, the swamp was on fire
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Wildfire smoke turning up in American cities was a shocker last year, but it shouldn't surprise us when it happens again - maybe in just a couple of months
Are we any readier for it this time? (Spoiler: no)
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The wait time for getting new energy projects connected to the grid has grown to nearly 5 years. Anybody hoping for a quick transition from planet-heating fossil fuels may need to rethink their definition of “quick"
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Im learning things about myself tonight. Difficult things.
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Wow, guess I need to get to the library more often
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Why can't Biden just brute-force an interstate EV charging network the way Eisenhower launched an interstate highway system in the 50s? A better question may be: Would you really want him to?
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She lasted less than half a Scaramucci
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I know very few of you care about building codes, but they're really important in the climate-change fight, and the system for producing them is hopelessly broken and captured by polluting industries. It's time to ditch the Intl. Code Council www.huffpost.com/entry/icc-ie...
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Climate change is making parts of the country uninsurable and uninhabitable. Home values haven't begun to catch up to this reality.
Meet the new bubble.
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645 people died from heat in Phoenix's Maricopa County last year, up 50% from 2022. And Phoenix will just keep getting hotter.
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With the planet warming, giving people shade and water when they're working on the surface of the sun (Florida during summer) seems like a basic human right.
Florida Republicans disagree.
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they're both AI creations aren't they
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If you watch with the sound off it looks like she's having a really great time, but then you turn the sound on and she's talking about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of traitors
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Katie Britt is the kindergarten teacher you think is nice until she catches you taking an extra cookie
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How media dweebs will try to pivot to "Mr Biden, with immense power and resilience, was loud and ran a train on us and now it makes us feel scared" after three years of "Biden old"
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"I'm not Katie Britt. I'm you. I'm a wife and mom of two school-aged kids. My son Ridgeway, and my daughter Stihl, and our dog Truck. We're also you too. And soon you will join with us, fuse with us, become another us in the us of Us, in the new uniflesh, in the Community of The Evolving Eucharist."
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Katie Britt is so lifelike
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I mean Jesus H Christ
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I’ve been using the subway in this city for 25 years, and it has never been this bleak
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Four years ago today was the last day I went into the city at the start of a deadly pandemic that shut down the country and took more than 1 million American lives, so tomato tomahto
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Politicians should campaign in poetry but govern in prose, and Biden’s climate policy often reads like a washing-machine repair guide: It gets a job done but isn’t exactly inspiring
Take new SEC climate rules, a compromise for whining corporations
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Dune Part 2 is a fantastic movie about Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya riding giant worms, but it is at heart a story about climate.
Just don't tell anybody!
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Global land surface temperatures are merely hot.
Global sea surface temperatures are in another universe
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