NYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you!
I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for.
I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :).
Cheers!
Wow, Portugal's defense let a large cluster of blue jerseys form in the center of the box on this one.
One aspect of this that is striking to me: the surest way scientifically to show something is wrong is studying it more, not less. So they same political appointees who are saying "we should get to decide what science to fund" are simultaneously saying "we don't get science at all".
House finches are trying to build a nest on my porch, and the female keeps grabbing some plant material that's a heavy lump at the end of a long twig. Every time she tries to work the twig into place, the lump slips off the edge of the ledge the nest is intended to sit on and plunges to the floor.
His father, a classical Northeast Republican moderate, has probably been slapping him silly for his role in enabling all of this insanity.
Two days of this and the finches seem no closer to a nest and my porch is covered in these weird plant fragments.
I'd assume this was just natural selection in action, but the couple are sporadically harassed by a chick from an earlier brood begging for a meal.
The thing that strikes me about this result is that, had the outcome been the opposite — birth rates went up — there'd be just as many justifications for why the connection might be real.
I'm not loving how PR people now make you agree to the embargo on every announcement, even after you've not violated one on the last dozen bits of news they offered you.
The Trump Administration is blatantly saying that, if they don't like some aspect of reality, they have the right to stop funding anyone who studies it.
We're being governed by personalities, not experts or rules.