August 20, 2018
The unexpected consequences of climate change.
The unexpected consequences of climate change
The unexpected consequences of climate change.
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If the Republican Party Is Going to Regain Sanity, It Needs to Lose People Like Tom Cotton
Esquire
If the Republican Party Is Going to Regain Sanity, It Needs to Lose People Like Tom Cotton
In every sense, he is an extremist, and not just on one issue.
By Charles P. Pierce August 21, 2018
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When El Caudillo Del Mar-a-Lago finally is gone, and all those Never Trump Republicans are beavering away at pretending he wasn’t the perfect product of 40 years of Republican politics, undoubtedly aided and abetted by their new pals in the elite political media, we are all going to have to deal with Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
You may recall that this jumped-up wingnut-welfare hothouse orchid first made news by trying to submarine President Barack Obama’s successful attempt to strike a deal with Iran. Since then, this bobble-throated slapdick has made a habit of killing off any policy initiative, no matter how bipartisan, that doesn’t fit into the political persona he is crafting for his inevitable White House run. Believe me, it’s coming. For pure ambition, this guy makes Frank Underwood look like a cloistered Trappist. He is going to run as the hardbar’s hardbar, and he’s not going to let anything get in his way, including, as it happens, the truth. Also, anything resembling a reasonable compromise on any issue.
Eventually, he got his way on the Iran deal, because the country elected a president* who doesn’t know anything about anything, and he’s spent his time since then pitching a ramped up sanctions regime and threatening any European nation that dares flout the obvious genius of this policy. He also was central to the failure of the Congress to strike any deal regarding the Dreamers last winter. From CNN:
Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, said on the Senate floor that the plan would be called the “olly olly oxen free amendment.”
The benefits of a Harvard education right there. Back when he was still an explicable facsimile of a sentient human being, Lindsey Graham called Cotton “the Steve King of the Senate.” This was not a compliment.
Now, with the fanciful bipartisan dream of criminal-justice reform being floated again by desperate Republicans facing a midterm cataclysm, Cotton has stepped in to argue for a renewed “war” on drugs and for a more draconian criminal-justice system. From Politico:
“Cotton is lambasting the proposal as a “jailbreak” that would “let serious felons back on the streets,” taking on a daunting coalition fighting for the package that includes the Koch political operation, White House adviser Jared Kushner and a number of powerful GOP senators. But Cotton believes that, in the end, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will side with him. “The president went to Singapore and agreed with the Singaporeans that we should give the death penalty to drug dealers. I can’t imagine the president wants to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for drug dealers,” the Arkansas Republican said in an interview. “I believe Sen. McConnell shares my view that we should not let serious felons out of jail and we should not shorten the sentences for drug dealers.” Even opponents of sentencing reform will privately admit it would likely pass if McConnell brings it up. But Cotton’s loud opposition may determine whether or not McConnell even allows a vote given his reluctance to summon up legislation that divides the conference — right before the election, no less.”
Everybody with even a passing expertise with the American criminal justice system—from cops to prosecutors to defense lawyers to inmates—realizes that this system is dangerously out of whack. It is racially biased. It is shot through with double standards based on class. The prisons are overcrowded, and privatizing them has proven to be a wretched failure. Every state has at least one maximum-security facility that is ready to blow. And you can’t reform this system without reforming the process of sentencing the people in it.
And this is where Tom Cotton has decided to plant his flag for 2024 or whenever. He spends a lot of time tweeting out the details of atrocity crimes across America—a cheap trick for conservative con-men since before he was born. In every sense, he is an extremist, and not just on this issue, either.
Despite the long odds, the battle is raging behind the scenes. Internal discussions of the subject at Senate lunches have been heated, according to Republican sources, a preview of what might happen on the Senate floor if the chamber takes it up. It’s the same dynamic that kept McConnell from bringing up a larger criminal justice reform package in 2016 as Cotton railed against it and declared the United States has an “under-incarceration problem.” Trump’s “for prison reform, I’m for prison reform. What I don’t support is sentencing reductions under the guise of prison reforms, and that’s unfortunately what many senators are moving towards,” Cotton said in the interview.
This is the basic fault line under all the earnest Never Trumpers that you see making the rounds these days. If the Republican Party is ever going to regain its sanity again, if it ever is going to cast off the ravages of the prion disease it acquired when Ronald Reagan first fed it the monkeybrains in 1980, then it is going to reform root and branch. It’s easy to say that the party has learned a lesson from nominating Donald Trump. It has to learn not to produce Tom Cottons, either.
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Attention 2018 Voters! Trump and the Grand Old Party are throwing the Planet under the bus!
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The President Is Ranting About Windmills and Birds While the Planet Slides Towards Calamity
Jack Holmes, Esquire August 21, 2018
Perhaps the summer of 2018 will be remembered as the one that foretold the cataclysm. Maybe the cataclysm has already arrived. Nearly every day, there is some new bulletin about a raging wildfire or a ferocious typhoon or a biblical flood. Often, it’s buried by news of a Presidential Porn Star Payoff, or a tape from Omarosa. But it’s still happening.
The American West is still on fire, even if we refuse to pay attention-except when the president is doling out moronic advice on how to deal with it. Large portions of Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent spent the summer drowning in floodwater. Greece, too, spent the month of July on fire. Europe fried in a heatwave, as portions of the British Isles recorded their highest-ever June temperatures, Sweden had its hottest July in 260 years, and the temperature in Siberia ticked up to 90 degrees.
It’s in that vein that Tuesday’s news arrives, a startling report in The Guardian that even the portion of Arctic ice that scientists have long thought the most secure has already begun to falter:
The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer. This phenomenon – which has never been recorded before – has occurred twice this year due to warm winds and a climate-change driven heatwave in the northern hemisphere … The sea off the north coast of Greenland is normally so frozen that it was referred to, until recently, as “the last ice area” because it was assumed that this would be the final northern holdout against the melting effects of a hotter planet.
While the most immediate worry around melting ice is rising sea levels that will endanger coastal communities, there’s growing concern among scientists that it will also fuel feedback loops that accelerate warming. For instance, ice is lightly colored and reflective. But as it melts, it reveals the darker-colored land or ocean water below. Those surfaces will absorb more heat, accelerating the rate at which nearby ice melts and sea levels rise. As the permafrost melts in Siberia and elsewhere, it will release methane-a gas that does not linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide but is about 30 times more powerful in trapping heat.
So where, in this summer of emerging doom, does the world’s most powerful country find itself? Well, to start with, its president offered his thoughts on windmills and “clean coal” last week:
From Daniel Dale, Washington Corespondent for the Toronto Star; Here’s the transcript of Trump’s remarks at a New York fundraiser last week about coal and windmills:
Also from Daniel Dale; Here’s a transcript of another absurdly incorrect Trump claim about energy in the same speech. He claimed New York’s fracking ban means its shale gas “flows” to other states, which are getting rich from it. Shale gas is…trapped in shale…which is why you need to frack it:
We seem to have gotten used to the idea that the President of the United States is a world-historical clown whose worldview is rooted in fragments of reality he internalized decades ago and now filters through the kaleidoscope of his severely limited reasoning faculties. He is an emblem of arrogant stupidity, a case study in the essentially destructive quality of stubborn anti-intellectualism that pervades American life.
There is an emerging genre of journalism just trying to parse what the hell Donald Trump said in this one instance. It appears to be a nest of falsehoods and decades-old personal beefs. After all, the indications are that Trump hates wind power so much because a Scottish firm tried to build a wind farm off the coast of his golf course there, which he feared would ruin the views. He’s spent the years since spreading misinformation about wind energy and fine-tuning his concern-trolling about dead birds. Yeah, the guy whose administration is dismantling the Endangered Species Act is real worried about avian welfare.
More to the point, coal has gotten less competitive with the rise of cheap natural gas, so the Trump administration has been propping it up using a Cold War-era law to declare coal facilities as national security infrastructure. The policy mandates that energy distributors buy enough power from coal plants to keep them open. In effect, we are subsidizing perhaps the dirtiest fossil fuel as the climate crisis deepens. Yes, workers in many coal-producing areas are struggling. Will this really save their livelihoods? And at what cost?
Beyond that, Donald Trump has ensured that the United States of America is the only country in the world that refuses to participate in the Paris climate accords, a non-binding global agreement to reduce emissions. He announced the U.S. was pulling out in a Rose Garden ceremony that will go down as a monumental national embarrassment. His administration is attempting to roll back the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, our nation’s primary mechanism for abiding by its emissions reductions goals under the Paris agreement. It is rolling back regulations on emissions of methane, the greenhouse gas 30 times as powerful as carbon dioxide, at drilling sites. It is rolling back regulations on automobile emissions. It is rolling back everything.
Even before this new era of national disgrace, the Republican Party had established itself as the only major political party in the western world that denied the scientific consensus that climate change is real and man-made. Any Republican president would likely have plunged the nation further into self-defeating stupidity and greed. But there is something uniquely jarring, and outrageous, about rants comparing windmills unfavorably to “clean coal” as a new region of the Arctic ice shelf lurches towards collapse.
If we make it that far, the history books will remember us for discussing Stormy Daniels and The National Debt while the world burned and flooded and weathered increasingly ferocious storms, such obvious signs of what is to come. How will you explain it to your children?
Attention 2018 Voters! Trump and the Grand Old Party has thrown seniors, working men and women and the poor under the bus so the rich can get richer.
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As deficit grows, GOP leaders eye cuts to Medicare, Social Security
By Steve Benen August 21, 2018
Two men stand on the plaza of the U.S. Capitol Building as storm clouds fill the sky, June 13, 2013 in Washington, DC.. Mark Wilson/Getty
Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who currently chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, sat down with CNBC’s John Harwood, who asked the Ohio Republican about the fact that the deficit is soaring in the wake of his party’s tax breaks.
Predictably, the congressman responded to the issue the way GOP lawmakers nearly always respond to the issue.
Harwood: No misgivings about a tax cut that was not paid for, that’s allowing debt and deficits to rise like it is now?
Stivers: I do think we need to deal with our some of our spending. We’ve got to try to figure out how to spend less.
Note the pivot: massive tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations has turned a modest budget shortfall into an enormous budget shortfall. Stivers sees that as a problem in need of attention, not by reversing course on regressive tax policies, but by looking at spending.
And that, naturally, led to a conversation between Stivers and Harwood on social-insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare – what are frequently referred to as “entitlements” – which Republicans want to cut in order to clean up the budget mess they created with tax cuts.
If this sounds familiar, there’s a good reason for that. It was just a few months ago that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the “name of the game on debt and deficits” is cutting “entitlements.”
At face value, it’s difficult to take the rhetoric seriously. If Republican policymakers were genuinely concerned about the budget deficit, they wouldn’t have passed unnecessary tax breaks for people who don’t need them, without even trying to find a way to pay for the cuts. No one should accept the premise that GOP leaders are sincere about fiscal responsibility.
But even more important is the bigger picture: GOP officials like Stivers and Ryan are helping prove Democrats right about one of the most serious threats posed by the Republican tax plan.
As we discussed in March, the debate over the GOP plan may have been fairly brief – Republicans pushed their scheme through quickly to get ahead of public opposition – it featured plenty of Democrats arguing vociferously that its proponents would pass tax cuts for the wealthy, blow up the deficit, and then target Social Security and Medicare, crying about the importance for “fiscal responsibility.”
Ryan wasted no time confirming Democrats’ fears. The Speaker started talking up Medicare cuts in December, and Social Security cuts soon after. Now the chair of the NRCC is signaling similar intentions.
It’s quite a message Republicans are taking into the midterm elections, isn’t it? Donald Trump’s party pushed through unpopular tax breaks, which led to unpopular deficits, which GOP leaders hope to address though unpopular cuts to celebrated pillars of modern American society such as Social Security and Medicare.
Good luck with that.
Trump trillion-dollar-plus deficits are putting America on a path to fiscal ruin
USA Today
Trump trillion-dollar-plus deficits are putting America on a path to fiscal ruin
Stan Collender, Opinion contributor August 20,
Though no one in Washington will admit it, our nation’s finances are in deep trouble. Spending is up, revenue is down, and this will only get worse.
(Photo: Michael Reynolds/epa-EFE)
It became very clear this month that neither the Trump White House nor its allies on Capitol Hill want you to know that the federal budget is already in very bad shape … and getting worse.
It happened when the Treasury, the official keeper of Washington’s financial results, issued its monthly statement for the first 10 months of fiscal 2018 about federal revenue, spending and, therefore, the budget deficit.
Treasury showed what no president ever wants to admit: The deficit is spiking. The federal government’s red ink this year is already 21 percent above what it was in 2017, and there are few prospects that the bottom line will improve anytime soon.
Except with infrequent and unsubstantiated platitudes about how the situation is going to get better, the Trump White House and Republicans in Congress have been doing everything possible not to talk about the budget this year. To avoid tough questions and politically embarrassing votes, the House and Senate have even refused to consider a budget even though they are required by law to adopt one.
But this year isn’t the real issue.
Trump’s deficits are permanent
Unlike the trillion dollar budget deficits that occurred during the Obama administration that were temporary and largely the result of the Great Recession, the Trump deficits that will soon reach and exceed $1 trillion are permanent and will only get worse in the years ahead.
The Trump deficits are the result of changes in federal spending and revenue that will continue to be in place until some president and Congress decide to reverse them, that is, to increase taxes and make cuts to popular programs.
Not only has there been little appetite to do that, many in Congress and the Trump administration seem to be hellbent on ignoring the deficit and national debt and increasing spending and reducing revenue even further.
President Trump directed the Department of Defense to begin plans to form a U.S. Space Force. The idea of forming a sixth military branch shocked some, but it’s not a new idea.
For example, the White House last week proposed a new Space Force that would likely add billions, if not hundreds of billions, to the Pentagon’s budget. Trump has asked for $25 billion for the wall he wants to build between the U.S. and Mexico. His much talked about but still unseen infrastructure plan would cost countless billions more.
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When the House returns to Washington in September, it is set to consider another tax cut that could reduce revenue by an additional trillion dollar. None of this includes the natural and man-made disasters — everything from earthquakes, forest fires and hurricanes to military, terrorist and foreign policy situations — that occur each year and cost more than planned.
Nor does it include interest on the national debt. The combination of big increases in federal borrowing from the very large deficits and the need for Washington to roll over its sizable short-term debt at higher interest rates will make this the fastest growing spending of all.
And all of this is happening when the economy is doing well. The relatively mild economic downturn that many are now saying will occur over the next few years will lower revenue and increase the deficit even further.
That makes the Trump administration’s extreme reluctance to comment on the deficit report from its own Treasury understandable: The news, which is already bad on its watch as a result of its policies, is only going to get worse.
Our national finances will only get worse
The White House was actually refusing to comment on three key issues:
►It obviously doesn’t want to talk about how big the annual deficit could get in the years ahead. The Congressional Budget Office is already projecting it will exceed $1.5 trillion by 2028, and that assumes no changes from existing taxes and spending laws and no recession.
►It also doesn’t want to talk about how it will pay for more tax cuts, a Space Force, the wall, infrastructure or anything else … including reducing the deficit.
►The Trump administration doesn’t want to explain how it’s going to manage the U.S. economy out of a recession if one happens on its watch. The traditional federal response of tax cuts and spending increases might not be as politically palatable as it has been in the past given that it could drive the annual deficit to close to $2 trillion.
The budget policymakers on Capitol Hill and in the Trump White House obviously aren’t focusing on much beyond 2018 and 2020. But they should at least be willing to admit there’s a problem that will continue long after the votes have been counted in those elections.
Stan Collender teaches federal budgeting at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and is the founder of thebudgetguy.blog.
Zinke caught red-handed trying to sell off public lands
ThinkProgress
Zinke caught red-handed trying to sell off public lands
His plan included selling part of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Mark Hand August 20, 2018
Environmental groups caught Ryan Zinke’s Department of the Interior trying to sell off public lands to private entities. Credit:Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Environmental groups caught the Department of the Interior trying to sell off part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, despite a pledge by Secretary Ryan Zinke never to put public lands up for sale.
After massive backlash from environmental groups and the public, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) late Friday canceled all plans to sell off the land. The 1,610 acres of public lands that the BLM proposed selling to private interests had been part of the Grand Staircase national monument until President Donald Trump — in an extremely controversial move — radically shrunk the size of the monument last December.
“We believe the Department only walked it back because those who are closely reading the management plans brought this to light,” Nicole Croft, executive director of the Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners, said in a statement in response to the Interior Department changing its mind. Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners is a nonprofit group that works to protect the landscape and wildlife habitats the of the national monument
The environmental groups’ work “shows that diligence pays off and is likely an omen for what we’re going to uncover as we dive deeper into Secretary Zinke’s plans for leasing and decimating this national treasure,” Croft said.
Zinke has criticized environmental groups for accusing the Trump administration of wanting to steal public lands by rolling back monument protections.
New plans for Utah national monuments reveal resource extraction was goal of Trump’s attack
The Interior secretary has pledged on several occasions that he opposes the sale or transfer of public lands to private entities. At his confirmation hearing in January 2017, Zinke said: “I am absolutely against transfer or sale of public land.”
In a March 3, 2017 speech, only days after getting sworn in as secretary, Zinke promised Interior staffers: “You can hear it from my lips. We will not sell or transfer public land.”
Just last December, Zinke reiterated this pledge. “There’s not one square inch, not one square inch, of land that is removed from federal protection,” Zinke told Fox Business.
But then last Wednesday, the Trump administration released its management plans for the much smaller Grand Staircase and Bears Ears national monuments — prepared by the BLM and the U.S. Forest Service — that placed a priority on energy development and included the plan to sell off the 1,610 acres of public lands.
The plans cover the 880,000 acres carved out by Trump from Grand Staircase and the 200,000 acres remaining in Bears Ears from its original 1.35 million acres.
Either Zinke had a change of heart about selling off public lands or does not have a clear understanding of what his agency is doing.
“Does Secretary Zinke have any idea what’s going on inside the Interior Department? He was caught red-handed trying to sell off our public lands to his political supporters,” Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, said Friday in a statement. “It’s only after two days of terrible news stories that he is now changing direction.”
In December, Trump announced the largest-ever reduction of a national monument in the nation’s history, shrinking Bears Ears by some 1.1 million acres, or nearly 85 percent. Trump also announced that he would be reducing Grand Staircase to nearly half its original size.
Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt took the fall for the inclusion of the planned sale in the BLM’s management plan for Grand Staircase. He issued a statement late Friday taking responsibility for the oversight that led to the plan to sell the 1,600 acres of public lands in Utah. “The failure to capture this inconsistency stops with me,” Bernhardt said.
Trump decimates two national monuments in ‘historic action’
Environmental groups were not convinced that the planned sale of public lands in Utah was a mistake.
“The attempt was more than just Zinke’s dirty scheme to illegally sell off public lands, as some of the land slated for sale is adjacent to land owned by an avid Trump supporter and a current Republican lawmaker in Utah,” the Sierra Club said Friday in a statement.
One parcel of the public land that the BLM proposed selling was a 120-acre property that sits adjacent to 40 acres owned by Utah state Rep. Mike Noel (R) and which were removed from the monument.
Noel applauded Trump’s decision to shrink the size of the Grand Escalante monument. He unsuccessfully attempted to rename a Utah highway after Trump to thank the president for the executive order, HuffPost reported last week.
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Interior Sec. Zinke would sell his grandchildren for big oil
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Gov. Inslee: Interior Sec. Zinke would sell his grandchildren for big oil
Photos: Joshua Trujillo, SeattlePI.com
The Ryegrass Coulee wildfire burns along Interstate 90 near the Columbia River in central Washington on July 10, 2018. The fire triggered the closure of I-90 from just east of Ellensburg to the east side of the Columbia River as well as the evacuation of the town of Vantage.
The sun rises over the Twisp River valley after a wildfire tore through the hills around Twisp, Wash. Three firefighters were killed in the inferno. Photographed on Thursday, August 20, 2015.
Climate change is fueling massive fires across the West with “hotter, drier” weather conditions, with scientists saying conflagrations will double, warned Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has dealt with four bad fire summers.
The Governor upbraided U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who declared at a California fire scene last weekend: “This has nothing to do with climate change.” Zinke blamed “extreme environmentalists” for blocking the thinning of forests.
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Zinke is blowing smoke, said Inslee, surrounded by children at Lawton Elementary School, adding: “Interior Secretary Zinke would flunk any science test that these kids take.”
“With climate change you have a hotter, drier climate, Mr. Zinke. You have fires. What is there about this that you cannot comprehend . . . This man works for us. We do not pay him to give us fasle information. We get enough of that from the President.”
President Trump has claimed in a tweet that California fires have been fueled by “bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts of readily available water” to be used in fire suppression.
The fire woes of Washington began four years ago with the 256,000 acre Carlton Complex Fire in north-central Washington.
The fire season in the summer of 2017 burned more than 400,000 acres of forests and grasslands across Washington state. The state experienced 800 fires which cost $130 million to fight.
Up north in British Columbia, Premier John Horgan is dealing with his second consecutive million-acre fire season. It’s still mid-season, but nearly 600 fires are burning and the B.C. government has called in firefighters from as far distant as New Zealand, Australia and Mexico.
Inslee was at the Lawton school to push for Initiative 1631, the climate change measure on Washington’s November ballot.
The first-in-nation measure would impose a carbon fee to combat climate change, charging polluters for the right to release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The fee would be $15 for every ton of CO2 emitted.
The revenue from the fee — an estimated $2 billion in the first five years — would be invested in energy efficiency, wind and solar energy, public transit, and protection of the state’s forests and streams.
The petroleum industry, using the argument of higher gas prices, is putting together a multimillion-dollar war chest to fight I-1631. The initiative is supported by a red-green coalition of labor, conservation groups, and activists from the minority community.
The Earth is currently experiencing its fourth-warmest year since recordkeeping began. The three hotter years were 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Fires have not just hit forests, but have burned over rangelands, and invaded populated areas such as Santa Rosa, California, the Napa Valley, and corners of Redding, California.
A huge fire in Alberta, two years ago, invaded and burned neighborhoods in the oil center of Fort McMurray, Alta. The town of Telegraph Creek, in northern British Columbia, has been partially burned by the latest round of fires.
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The Trump administration has taken a different tack — blame the greens.
“We have been held hostage by these environmental terrorist groups that have not allowed public access, that have refused to allow harvest of timber,” Zinke told right-wing Breitbart News in an interview.
Inslee believes the administration is putting emphasis on protecting the carbon economy as firest burn and get worse.
“That man (Zinke) would sell his grandchildren for the oil industry,” said Inslee.
“We have just seen the beginning of the firestorm,” he added.
Vancouver and Seattle residents have spent the week breathing smoke from fires, at times so intense that people have been urged to stay indoors. “The situation has been much worse east of the mountains than in Seattle,” said Dr. Ken Lans, head of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, who appeared with Inslee.
The poor air quality has come as a reminder that human health and the health of the environment are closely related. Or as Inslee put it, “Our children deserve lungs that breathe clean Washington air rather than smoke from hundreds of fires.”
Will smoke in the air finally serve as a warning that impacts of climate change are being directly felt?
Inslee answered with a quip, but a serious quip. “I don’t believe Trump’s hot air will trump this smoke,” said the Governor..
SeattlePI.com columnist/blogger Joel Connelly can be reached at joelconnelly@seattlepi.com
Rick Scott is the man behind Florida’s man-made disaster.
August 7, 2018
The water is murky, but the truth is clear. Rick Scott is the man behind this man-made disaster.
The water is murky, but the truth is clear. Rick Scott is the man behind this man-made disaster.
Posted by Rick Scott Is Not For Florida on Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Fox tried coming after Denmark’s social safety net; big mistake!
August 15, 2018
Fox tried coming after Denmark’s social safety net. This Danish politician’s clap back was legendary.
Fox Tried Going After Denmark. Big Mistake.
Fox tried coming after Denmark's social safety net. This Danish politician's clap back was legendary.
Posted by NowThis Politics on Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Japan’s unbelievable school lunches are surprisingly educational.
Japan’s unbelievable school lunches are surprisingly educational.
America Vs Japan: School Lunches
Japan's unbelievable school lunches are surprisingly educational.
Posted by America Versus on Friday, March 23, 2018