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Left USNRC nuclear waste safety research planning & management ( geologic stability, nuclear waste leaching & transport in ground water & paleoclimate research) to body surf Kauai. UCLA PhD in geochemistry with Bill Libby. Now living in North Carolina.
Real Name: George Birchard
Gender: Male
Location: no, North Carolina
Occupation: washed up
Groups: DK GreenRoots, Team DFH, Climate Hawks, Frustrati, Meatless Advocates Meetup, SciTech, The Amateur Left, Severe Weather Liveblog, Netroots For The Troops®, Black Kos community, Beyond Kyoto, Mental Health Awareness, Ocean Advocates, Japan Nuclear Incident Liveblogs, Daily Kos Phazebook Progressive Social Networking Group, Mississippi River Flood of 2011 Liveblog, Hurricane Kos, CareGiving Kos, East Africa Food Crisis: 48 Hours of Action, The Durban Daily, Climate Change SOS, North Carolina Blue, Kossacks on Mars, Shut Down the NRA, Repeal or Amend the Second Amendment (RASA), Wildlife Endangered and Threatened, Caucus, Firearms Law and Policy, 50 State Strategy Project, Daily Kos Weather Center, The Political Revolution, SOS Puerto Rico, Kos Deadheads and Friends, Climate/Environment Fight, Climate Change Anxiety Support Group, Regenerative Culture for an Altered Planet, GreenRevolution A Direct Action Environmental Protest Group, Blogathon, Covid19 support group on Daily Kos, ClimateBrief
Hobbies: Body Surfer
Diaries published: 810 (28 days since last diary on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 04:04 PM PST)
Comments posted: 57107 (0 days since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 06:55 PM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: They Hate You, Mr. President, 925 comments, 1046 recommends
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned down deals to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas in return for a 5 day cease fire, the Guardian reports. Despite strong pressure by the Israeli public to get the hostages released, Netanyahu rejected...
by FishOutofWater
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on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 04:04 PM PST
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Dr. James Hansen is publishing a paper next week that warns of future warming at a much faster pace than the official IPCC forecasts. He has summarized his scientific paper In multiple recent communications, explaining the differences between his...
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El Niño and the climate crisis are acting together to bring record drought to Brazil’s Amazonas province. In September over 100 Amazon endangered dolphins died in Lake Tefé in Amazonas fed by superheated 102ºF river water. But this year’s drought is...
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on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 04:24 AM PDT
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Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining since 2016 but this year the bottom dropped out. A new record low minimum extent (for the satellite era when measurements are accurate) happened in February. Ice extent recovery started out on a normal...
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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If we are lucky Hurricane Lee will harmlessly develop into a major category 4 or 5 hurricane as it passes north of Puerto Rico and the islands of the Caribbean over the next week, then shoots the gap between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda before recurving...
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on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 02:15 PM PDT
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An extraordinary amount of heat has built up in the north Atlantic from the equator to 60ºN taking the average sea surface temperature of that whole region to a new record high of 25C or 77ºF. Multiple factors have been involved in this shocking build...
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