A growing body of research has demonstrated that hits from tropical cyclones leave more than just damaged rooftops in their wake, in fact raising mortality rates through a likely wide variety of mechanisms for years.
The fact is, more people care about this than the authors suggest. More people will care even more as the years pass because the problem is not only not going away but actively getting worse.
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
A reasonable accounting of the major policies enacted in one way or another in the nine months of the Trump administration resembles, essentially, a series of weeping voids in the sides of various figurative edifices, now given corporeal form within view of the Treasury building.
"I can't just sit back and watch things fall apart."
The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, active market manipulation.
Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.
Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."
It has long been convenient for people opposed to any given protest movement to characterize it as being far more violent and lawless than it actually is. It's just that usually we can be relatively sure that the people doing the characterizing know that they are lying.
For the first time, renewable energy generated more electricity globally than coal. We're not going back.
That's what the "library" will be in this case: a legal-on-its-face way for a lifetime scam artist to continue scamming the American public even after he, hopefully, leaves office.
A Commerce Department employee called it a "wild" message to come from agency leadership. "It's crazy."