Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Tweet ScienceDaily says a paper found that climate change has less impacts on biodiversity than land use has. My first thoughts were that it’s plausible, that the negative effects are combined, and that the priority might depend on the assumptions. I tried to RTFA , but it was paywalled other than a long abstract
See more here: California Democratic Party convention becomes first to call for climate divestment
See more here: Falling out of the clown car, down the stairs and into the electric eel pond.
View post: The Climate Club Adopts Eli Rabett’s Simple Plan
I attended the San Francisco Commonwealth Club’s Climate One meeting yesterday, on "Climate Cognition" with George Lakoff, Kari Norgaard, and Per Espen Stoknes . Lakoff did his usual thing on framing, YMMV. I think the idea of framing is correct although I’m less sure that the frames he says categorize the political spectrum are accurate
Tweet While the proposed $300 million budget cuts to NASA Earth Science emerging from the House Science Committee have been receiving a lot of press , the knives of science denial are out for other agencies that study climate issues. DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research program gets a cut of 42 million from its current $592 million, and the proposed $612 million. Â The BER program support climate research at such places as Lawrence Livermore and other DOE labs