Category Archives: Guest Post
If You Thought This Summer’s Heat Waves Were Bad, a New Study Has Some Disturbing News About Dangerous Heat
The big heat is set to become more pervasive. A look at projections on where and how bad how soon.
Read more...Socially Blindsided: Social Foundations of Pandemic Protection
This column focuses on two major societal characteristics: solidarity and agency. The authors show that the G7 countries differ dramatically in terms of these characteristics, which affect countries’ ability to cope with the pandemic. Furthermore, these societal characteristics can be influenced through public policies.
Read more...The Reveal from Drought’s Receding Waters: Not Just the Bodies in Lake Mead
Water and oil don’t mix.
Read more...Wastewater Surveillance Has Become a Critical Covid Tracking Tool, but Funding Is Inconsistent
“We can pretend it’s not happening, but the wastewater and the deaths are telling us a different story.”
Read more...Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion
In “Between Us,” psychologist Batja Mesquita argues that emotion isn’t universal, but inherited from social groups.
Read more...Joe Biden Could Have Gone a Lot Further on Student Loans
A discusson of the shortcomings of the Biden student loans foregiveness scheme.
Read more...How Climate Change Spurs Megadroughts
Why megadroughts are becoming part of the new normal.
Read more...Links 8/26/2022
Mexican Drug Cartel Imposes Price Controls on Corn Tortillas, As Inflation Surges to 21-Year High
In Mexico, it is not just the government and the central bank that are trying to keep a lid on rising food inflation. So, too, is a drug cartel in the Pacific state of Guerrero.
Read more...The Bank of England Increasing Interest Rates to 4% – As Markets Expect – Could Be Enough To Bring the Whole Economy Down
The Bank of England is in “Burn the village to save it” mode via interest rate increases which do little to address the causes of inflation.
Read more...Thanks to Manchin, IRA’s Methane Fee on Big Oil Is Riddled With Massive Holes
The IRA methane emissions penalty “was weakened so that it applies to basically no one,” said one climate campaigner.
Read more...Ilargi: EU – Controlled Demolition
Puzzling why the EU seems determined to drive itself off a cliff.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/24/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Turkey Positions Itself as the Middleman in “East-West” Conflict
After being snubbed by NATO and the EU for decades, and suffering from extremely high inflation, Turkey is moving towards Russia.
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