My latest Science Progress piece is up: It's about what we would actually have to do to prepare just one sector (transportation) and one region (the Gulf Coast) for climate change. If you then extrapolate that to all sectors and all regions, well....we are so unready it is ridiculous, and the Bush administration has done virtually nothing to change that.
Climate change adaptation, therefore, will be a massive project for the next administration.
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Sociologist Jennifer Laird was researching unemployment among Mexican immigrants when she came upon some interesting numbers on black workers in the public sector and employment effects of the Great Recession. It piqued her interest and so she decided to keep digging.
So, having established that Obama is NOT truly beholden to the financiers, what may happen to settle the financial world and straighten the economy.
Regarding their op-ed page, The New York Times seems eager to provide misinformation via Thomas Friedman columns. It's a fascinating business model.
For most people reading this blog, especially the scientists, budgets matter.
It's nice to see Mr. Mooney getting back to discussing issues of importance, rather then wasting his time nattering about framing and defending Prof. Nisbet. I suggest that if we never hear the name Nisbet again on this blog, it will be too soon.
As a former employee of the US DOT, I can testify that that organization will need a considerable kick in the pants from the next administration to address the issues raised by Mr. Mooney in his Science Progress article. This issue is not even on the radar screen over there.