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Senior editor at . On the apocalypse beat, more or less.

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  2. 6 hours ago

    (Though I've never found the 'climate change is equal to 400,000 hiroshima bombs every day' comparison intuitive. Maybe just me.)

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  3. 7 hours ago

    "Short answers to hard questions about climate change." Good stuff from :

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Nature retells the history of global climate talks in comic book form. Nicely done:

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  5. 9 hours ago

    Good chart, but looking only at capacity can be misleading. Renewables aren't winning yet:

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    Good news: the world now adds more clean power capacity each year than dirtier fossil-fuel based power capacity.
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    Super-super clear intro to the UN climate talks malarkey by

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  7. 9 hours ago

    (Suffice to say, this would be a massive course correction.)

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  8. 10 hours ago

    MIT paper looks at how climate pledges would have to change before 2030 to stay below 2°C:

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    Nov 28

    Would it be wrong to think that there might be a reason for buying my book that is not related to Khomeini?

    Obama thumbs his nose at Ayatollah Khamene'i by very publicly buying 's latest. Perhaps I am overreading this. I hope not.
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    Nov 23

    In China, there are today 20 million fewer manufacturing workers than there were in 1995.

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  11. Nov 28

    The case for letting children vote:

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  12. Nov 28

    I'd be curious to see whether/how this plays out in other countries, though.

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  13. Nov 28

    Is antitrust policy to blame for the rise of regional inequality in the US? Provocative argument:

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    Nov 27 Washington, DC

    The Hamilton musical is part of a larger revolution in how liberals think about American history

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    Why doctors overprescribe antibiotics — even in cases where they're useless

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    Nov 26

    Nicely done, Vice.

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  17. Nov 27

    What meteorologists mean when they say there's a 40% chance of rain. (Often different things.)

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    Nov 27

    Gates prepares to unveil the biggest clean energy fund "in history": to put billions into R&D.

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  19. Nov 26

    After all these years I still don't really understand what stuffing is.

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  20. Nov 25

    This is terrific: retells that viral "Orange Brother" Buzzfeed story from the view of the guy at the center

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