Greg Laden

@gregladen
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Geography: Albany NY -> Boston MA -> Milwaukee, Zaire, South Africa -> Twin Cities MN.

Academics: Anthropologist (Biological and Archaeology). Origin of the bipedal apes, Origin of the genus Homo, Race and racism, Critique of Evolutionary Psychology.

Politics: DFLer, Democratic activist, Indivisible local and regional leadership. MN SD42 CC, SCC.

@somuchweirdness

This thread is worth a look. It should become a classic example of misleading conclusions based on really bad scholarship.

@A_Siegel @climatebrad @MichaelEMann @petergleick @[email protected]

We need to start building in-land replacement communities that are designed with all this knowledge we must have as to how to build a community from the ground up.

In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise

In seeking to understand climate risks, modeling of worst-case “business as usual” paths put the world on a path to 5C (five degrees celsius) / 9F (nine degrees fahrenheit), or more, wa…

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"I do grow weary when justice commenters, many of whom I adore and am addicted to listening to, come back to that old line: "No one is above the law." Sorry, Arlene, Rachel, Chuck, Jill, Heather, Kimberly, Barb, Joanne, Neal. Just stop saying "Nobody is above the law" when talking about Trump. It makes me sad when you say that. He is above the law. You need to reconcile that and learn to live with it. "

https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/12/20/trump-by-design-is-above-the-law/

Trump, by design, is above the law

Every now and then a person of privilege, who has done something seriously wrong, gets popped and spends some time in prison. They pay fines all the time, and spend piles of money on lawyers, so &#…

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@[email protected] Follow the money. And the sports.
@knittingknots Amazing to see the ratio against Representative Schiff the Musth tweet started. A veritable train of deplorables.

""Two numbers. One long-term goal. In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement, the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined.""

https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/11/15-2c-history-temperature-target-climate-paris-agreement/

1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

Translated from the original published at climatica.lamarea.com. Two numbers. One long-term goal. In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks […]

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@[email protected] Why is he on the board to begin with? Not necessarily the primary reason, but part of the culture that allows such a person to be on the board, has to be the religious adherence to false balance and whataboutism. (A primary reason may also include the varied politics of begging the legislature, funding, and sportsball.)

"It was a mistake by Liasson allowed because she lives in an environment engendered by the specific journalistic culture of NPR in which all efforts are made to maintain the sense of false balance.... NPR maintains the “Overton window” in just the right position that the view out that window includes equal parts QAnon and Bernie Sanders."

https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/12/18/npr-political-bias-annoys-blogger/

NPR Political Bias Annoys Blogger

Damn, I am annoyed. But I see hope. On this morning’s “Weekend Edition” report on Monday’s expected US House January 6th referral of former President Trump for criminal char…

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