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I'm an earth scientist, historian, lover of arts and literature, and a family man.
Groups: Readers and Book Lovers, DAILY KOS UNIVERSITY, ClimateBrief
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjwsutherland
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsutherland01/
Diaries published: 380 (478 days since last diary on Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 06:00 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 3521 (3 days since last comment on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 03:01 AM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 317
Total Comment Ratings: 248
Most Recommended Diary: An Open Letter to Dan Turner, 24 comments, 69 recommends
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Now that President Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, let’s take a quick look at the environmental provisions and see what they offer. The entire Act is in five parts: Subtitle ...
by agramante
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on Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 06:00 AM PDT
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So, here we are! At the end of a year (plus a few days) of daily blurbs on science, climate, and climate’s impact on human life. When I think of the global situation, such as I’ve seen and ...
by agramante
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on Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Economics is the study of the creation, transfer, and destruction of wealth. Natural resource economics (NRE) is a sub-discipline of this focusing on the interaction between human economic systems ...
by agramante
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on Sat Aug 13, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The Department of Defense (DoD) is charged with protecting US interests around the world. Part of that mission, as emphasized in several directives within the past decade-plus, is adapting to the ...
by agramante
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on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Life cycle assessments (LCAs) for wind farms are like those for electric vehicles (EVs): there are many available (not as many as for the EVs, to be sure), so it would take some time to become ...
by agramante
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on Thu Aug 11, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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There are dozens, if not hundreds, of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for electric vehicles (EVs—let’s hear it for acronyms!), and to be honest, I can’t claim to be any kind of expert in them, ...
by agramante
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on Wed Aug 10, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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- Aileen Cannon or Loose Cannon as I prefer to call her is doing some bias things and questionable things and when a conservative calls for her to step down from the case regarding the government’s classified documents, well then it is a bit telling....185 comments 691 Recs
- IOWAL (I Once Was A Lawyer (not currently practicing but used to clerk for a federal judge)) and so this is the way I read this. The Colorado judge is bordering on brilliance with their decision. When a case goes before a trial judge, there are two...269 comments 635 Recs
- The current positional war is not the result of modern warfare that can only be changed with a technological or tactical revolution. Neither does it rest on a permanent parity in military capacity between Russia & Ukraine regardless of Western support...53 comments 207 Recs
- Is Tuberville’s military appts blockade a part of The Traitor’s planned “Project 2025” power grab? On July 29 of this year, Thom Hartmann wrote a piece suggesting that Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing one man blockade of filling high ranking vacancies in the...148 comments 298 Recs
- There is a key set of facts about Hamas and the current crisis that has gotten very little attention. The fact that Hamas was the creation of the Israeli government. For years, Netanyahu funneled money to Hamas. Propped Hamas up as an alternative to...140 comments 233 Recs
- From the moment that Vladimir Putin launched this illegal, unprovoked invasion, open source intelligence from hundreds of sources has been vital for both reporters and the general public when it comes to understanding events in Ukraine. That applies to...101 comments 481 Recs
- Please don’t bojo me, the headline is a joke. Mostly. The first part is a joke, the second part isn’t. (I just have a terrible sense of humor and think the extreme drama of “goodbye, cruel Kos!” is hilarious.) Basically I’m worn out by the news right...227 comments 316 Recs
- The bombing of the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza is indisputably horrific. What is disputable is the blame. What is also indisputable, and indeed unconscionable, is the speed with which partisan actors, including the media, rushed to blame Israel. Doctors...446 comments 382 Recs
- A cartoon by Jeff Danziger.38 comments 138 Recs
- A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot had all criminal charges dropped Thursday after the state Attorney General's office said a cooperation deal was reached. The defendant, James Renner, was one of 16 Republicans who...21 comments 74 Recs
