“To grok something” states a deep understanding and implies an incorporation of actual knowledge so deeply “that it has become part of you, part of your identity”. “To Gok something” is a far newer and far more hazardous entry into the lexicon: to introduce uncertainty and deceit into scientific discussion about life and death issues. […]
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Gok isn’t Grok (Or, Dept. of Interior Climate Science Denial)
March 2nd, 2020 · Comments Off on Gok isn’t Grok (Or, Dept. of Interior Climate Science Denial)
Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · science · Science Communication · science denial · Trump Administration
Virginia’s “Clean Economy” Future: Time to Hold Our Noses
February 12th, 2020 · Comments Off on Virginia’s “Clean Economy” Future: Time to Hold Our Noses
I appreciate, seriously, the efforts to develop, draw attention to, pass the sort of legislation that required in our times. Within my space, two bills have represented two overlapping visions and paths for moving Virginia toward a cleaner, climate-sensible future: the Virginia Green New Deal (GND-VA) and the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA).
Tags: Dominion Energy · dominion virginia power · environmental · virginia
A Virginia Clean Economy Future: Resources to mine: Solutions Project
December 30th, 2019 · Comments Off on A Virginia Clean Economy Future: Resources to mine: Solutions Project
In seeking to legislate paths to achieve a “clean economy”, one thing legislators do not lack are substantive and thoughtful roadmaps to look at and leverage. As per a post the other day, For decades, people have been working on and considering how to get Virginia on the path toward a clean energy future. And, […]
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Virginia’s Clean Economy Act: Are the analytical underpinnings fatally (pessimistically) flawed
December 22nd, 2019 · Comments Off on Virginia’s Clean Economy Act: Are the analytical underpinnings fatally (pessimistically) flawed
Last week, a broad environmental coalition and multiple Virginia state legislators coalesced for the announcement of the “Virginia Clean Economy Act” (VCEA). When one sees organizations like CCAN and its climate hawk founder/director Mike Tidwell pushing hard to build momentum for the VCEA, the presumption has to be that this is serious action that would […]
Tags: ActOnClimate · analysis · clean emissions · Cost-Benefit Analysis · dominion virginia power · electricity · Electrification · environmental · environmental economics · renewable electricity standards · virginia
Want to Boost Educational Outcomes, Virginia? Then Green the Schools!
December 19th, 2019 · Comments Off on Want to Boost Educational Outcomes, Virginia? Then Green the Schools!
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has announced his proposal for a significant bump in the Commonwealth’s education investment. The budget includes the single-largest increase for at-risk schools in Virginia history, raises teacher salaries 3 percent, funds more school counselors and new staff supports for English language learners, and makes significant new flexible funds available for local […]
Tags: economics · Education · environmental · green · green schools · LEED · schools · virginia
Human action once cooled the planet (the wrong way but …)
January 31st, 2019 · 4 Comments
While most discussions of climate change focus on modern history, discussing the change from pre-industrial CO2 levels of roughly 275 parts per million to today’s 410 (or so), humanity has been impacting the climate for millennia. Essentially since the emergence of agriculture, humans have been putting their thumb on the scales and influencing climate. While […]
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Walls to believe in. Walls to fund.
January 9th, 2019 · Comments Off on Walls to believe in. Walls to fund.
A good share of the U.S. government is shut down over Trump’s faux emergency demand for taxpayer money to fund the wall that he promised his supporters, time and again, that Mexico would pay for. Amid this manufactured crisis, which has easily over a million uncertain about their next paycheck (government employees and contractors, along […]
Tags: climate mitigation · environmental
Virginia Energy Plan: @GovernorVA should GO BIG or go home …
August 23rd, 2018 · Comments Off on Virginia Energy Plan: @GovernorVA should GO BIG or go home …
Governor Northam has a real opportunity – assuming he seizes it – to set Virginia on a path toward increased prosperity, improved security, and global leadership this fall. “Virginia law requires the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) to write a ten-year Energy Plan in the first year of every new administration. The statute lists […]
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Individuals can change world: Mumbai man drives beach clean ups, species return
April 24th, 2018 · Comments Off on Individuals can change world: Mumbai man drives beach clean ups, species return
To live in interesting times … we face the cursed reality that we live in a highly interesting time. Tremendous technology advances both create opportunity and threaten us. Communications leaps forward enable humans to have incalculable amounts of information at our finger tips while also enabling/facilitating the Putin’s interference in other nations’ democracies and elections. Humans […]
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Journalism entails more than stenography: PBS Newshour malfeasance re Clean Power Plan
October 11th, 2017 · 1 Comment
The Trump Administration’s decision to undermine America’s economy and future prospects by its announced intent to reverse the Clean Power Plan and expand its denial of that Chinese Hoax, climate change made headlines and created an imperative for serious news coverage. Last evening, the PBS News Hour — often the gold standard when it comes […]
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