Of course Neanderthals were intelligent! Why do Homo sapiens keep acting surprised about this?
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Elizabeth Kolbert
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I'm a New Yorker staff writer and author of "Under a White Sky" + "The Sixth Extinction." Also over at Mastodon as @elizkolbert@sciencemastodon.com.
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A green light for Conoco's Wllow Project will mean decades of more climate-wrecking carbon pollution and still another environmental disaster in Alaska's fragile Arctic. I get the political challenges, but now more than ever, choices matter.
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Biden administration preparing a key environmental assessment to say the Interior Department can grant partial approval on the giant Alaskan oil project known as Willow, setting the stage for one of the administration’s most consequential climate decisions
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Depleting the ocean of marine life
76% average decline in freshwater fish populations from 1970 to 2016 - including a staggering average decline of 93% in Europe.
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“The irony of trying to fight temperatures by using a lot more energy to make snow is pretty much using the cause [of climate change] to find a solution.”
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To the list of ways humans have become a geological force, add this: we now routinely cause earthquakes.
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Why didn't weather forecasts prepare California for the rain? Good explainer from (though admittedly I’m biased because I’m his mom):
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You know you're in trouble when...phytoplankton numbers are plummeting:
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"There is the potential to melt 71 billion tons of ice from the underside of Denman Glacier." A fascinating and scary story on Antarctica, from .
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Stuck in hideous traffic on I90 due to what must have been a terrible accident. Am spending the time fuming about the US’s lack of public transportation.
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Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows
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The framing of this story is bizarre. The alternative to population decline is endless population growth. Is that really preferable?
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Ohio declares natural gas to be "green energy." Legislative chicanery brought to you by dark money:
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This story is horrifying. It was hard enough getting sane people to run for office; now they have to worry about getting shot at. wsj.com/articles/losin via
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“I think we have to see that something is dying.” The Swiss confront snowless winters:
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“Nature always loses.” Heartbreaking story on oil drilling in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth from and
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Bold prediction -- this isn't going to end well:
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The is billing this as an "exclusive." But people (including yours truly) have been writing about direct air capture for years. What gives? wsj.com/articles/clima via
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I'm very frustrated that global leaders are still not giving the climate emergency the action and investment it requires.
Words are not enough.
Without #ClimateAction, climate catastrophe is coming for all of us.
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Congrats to James Zachos and Ellen Thomas, winners of the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Award in climate change. Does a PETM-like event lie in our future?
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Propane trade group apparently using fees it collects to promote research and education to promote propane use instead. How much of this sort of thing is going on?
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U.S. emissions were expected to fall last year. Instead, they rose.
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Policy decisions made in the next few years-decades will have profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems & societies — not just for this century, but for the next 10 Millenia & longer.
In the meantime, Australia is opening new coal mines & gas fields.
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#B22A is the largest iceberg in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica (50 times Manhattan land area). It broke off from 's tongue and remained grounded for 20 years.. But now it's on the go (1/4).
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Antarctic sea ice hits record low: “The current low sea ice extent … is extreme, and frankly we are working to understand it,” insideclimatenews.org/news/06012023/
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The Speaker’s primary role is to insure there are enough votes on the floor, Kevin McCarthy has already failed the test. So why drag this out?
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If the 9th vote fails, this will be America's longest House Speaker battle since just before the Civil War. washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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The Speaker’s primary role is to insure there enough votes on the floor. Kevin McCarthy has already failed the test. So why drag this out?
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If the 9th vote fails, this will be America's longest House Speaker battle since just before the Civil War. washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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Several new papers look at what will happen to clouds in a warming world, and the answer is sobering. Important story by :
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What's the first move planned by House Republicans? Gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics. Anyone surprised by that? wsj.com/articles/house via
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One of the most severe winter heatwave in Europe’s modern history visualized over the last 2 days. Hundreds of monthly warm temperature records were broken all over the continent. This is exactly the kind of very abnormal event that is progressively rewriting global climatology.
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Hot time in the old planet today. Northern Hemisphere 1.3 dC (2.4 dF) warmer than 1979-2000 average; Arctic nearly 3 degrees C warmer (5.3 dF).
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Breaking News:Few hours into 2023 and hundreds of records have already been broken in Europe. Temperatures are INSANE for a January night (like 19C in Poland and Switzerland),well above a July average !
Poland,Lithuania,Netherlands and Belarus have already a new national record.
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In case you are looking for some post-holiday reading, I just learned that "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future" is on sale for $1.99!
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The future of the "American power grid is being determined in town halls, county courthouses and community buildings across the country." Smart piece by .
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