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by Jess Zimmerman. This is like something out of Mean Girls : Former Minnesota gov Tim Pawlenty used to pal around with this amazing arctic explorer dude, Will Steger, having slumber parties and plotting how to get the GOP to believe in climate change. Then Pawlenty fell in with a clique, the GOP Presidential Hopefuls, and if he wanted to impress his new friends, he had to turn his back on his old one. And they didn’t even talk anymore! And they sat at different lunch tables! And Pawlenty wrote mean things about climate change anonymously on the bathroom wall! Seriously, Steger seems like a mensch and is trying not to say anything too mean, but there is a lot of pathos here: The governor backed out of the trip and then skipped his final scheduled forum with Steger. Later, he ignored the recommendations produced by the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group (of which Steger was a member) that he had convened with much fanfare just a little more than a year earlier. And he began using global warming as a punch line, not a talking point. Pawlenty’s split with Steger—and climate change 180—was striking. When the Republican National Convention came to St.
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How Tim Pawlenty ditched his arctic explorer bestie and turned his back on climate change
We’re starting to see pieces of counterfactual history on the climate bill in The New Republic and elsewhere based in part on discredited scholarship . Since cap-and-trade has been so vilified by the entire right wing and even some on the left, I thought I would try to set the record straight on some key points. I’m not here to say cap-and-trade was the “correct” strategy. And it may be that any strategy was extrinsically “doomed to fail” — that the Senate’s anti-democratic, super-majority 60-vote “requirement” meant that a dedicated minority could have killed any approach — once the Republican Party decided to become the only major political party in the world dedicated to denying science and blocking any action.
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Why did environmentalists pursue cap-and-trade and was it a doomed strategy?
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Last month the Republicans tried to block the EPA from regulating to mitigate the impacts of climate change. In the course of the debate Democrats introduced three amendments that said climate change was real, that it was caused by humans and that its impact is potentially severe.So the Republicans had to vote on these amendments. And here is the extraordinary thing
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What is it that Makes Republicans on the House Energy Committee all deny climate change even exists?
by Jess Zimmerman. What if the only way to save crops from climate change was taking the climate out of the equation entirely? Researchers in the Netherlands think that artificially lit, carefully irrigated “sunless farming” may have the power to reverse world hunger. With the right crops and the right equipment, researchers think that a space as small as 1,075 feet — roughly a two-bedroom apartment — could feed up to 140,000 people. Indoor farming uses a fraction as much water, too — a little over a liter for a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of tomatoes, versus 16 gallons in an irrigated field. Growing plants indoors, in climate- and light-controlled environments, seems like a crazy energy suck. But climate change is threatening crops, driving up commodity prices, and increasing already-dangerous food insecurity.
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How to solve world hunger by bringing farming indoors