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How Rollie Williams Turned Climate Science Into Comedy
Williams has channeled his experience as a comedian and his M.A. in Climate and Society to create “Climate Town,” a popular YouTube series and media company that uses meticulously researched satire to explain climate and energy issues.
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At typical environmental concentrations it’s harmless … but at nuclear reactor quantities, definitely something to worry about!
A compelling reminder of how tree-ring research helps us understand long-term climate change and the unprecedented warming affecting Central Asia.
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- companies are under increasing pressure to produce and sell cheaper goods, making it harder for repair shops to compete with the price of simply buying something new, said sustainability expert Sandra Goldmark, who is a professor […]
- “This bill would certainly be the biggest change to environmental permitting in decades,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia. …
- “The wins give Democrats more leverage over spending and more political power to advance a coherent agenda; the question is whether they’ll use that power effectively,” said Lisa Sachs, director of the Columbia Center on […]
Very nice piece that concisely explains the process better than anything else I have come across. It’s about a phase…