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Fossil fuel favorite Lamar Smith just lost a big ol’ endorsement.

by Nathanmlm Posted on October 19, 2016

The San Antonio Express-News, the fourth-largest daily newspaper in Texas, has refused to repeat its prior endorsement of Rep. Smith, who has represented Texas’ 21st congressional district since 1987.

Smith is chair of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee — and a climate change denier. The paper’s editorial board accuses him of “abuse” of that position and “bullying on the issue of climate change”:

[L]ast year Smith threatened the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Kathryn Sullivan, with criminal charges if she didn’t release emails from scientists about a certain climate change study. That study refuted gospel by deniers that global warming slowed between 1998 and 2012.

Smith said he was shielding scientific inquiry. But the real effect would be to chill such efforts. And in 2015, Smith sought to cut NASA funding for earth science — a science that includes climate science research. He said the agency should focus on space exploration. Both are necessary.

The non-endorsement ends with an acknowledgment that Smith will probably win in his largely conservative district anyway.

Luckily for Smith, he has other friends in high places: namely, the fossil fuel industry, which has donated more than $92,000 to his campaign this season.

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Keep it Local on Small Business Saturday + 5 Reasons to Support Local Businesses

by DeanneEddie Posted on November 27, 2015

Started as an antidote to the chaos known as Black Friday in 2010, Small Business Saturday falls on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (for 2015 it is November 28). Small Business Saturday offers shoppers and diners a pleasant respite from the big-box madness of the holiday shopping season, and encourages shoppers to think small when it comes to purchases for the season.

Small Business Saturday, started by the credit card company American Express, helps to boost local economies by encouraging patrons to support local, neighborhood stores and interact with their community. For many of the same reasons that shopping at the farmer’s markets lets you know where your food is coming from, ‘shopping small’ allows you to meet your local business owners and help keep small businesses alive in your community.

Shopping small this Saturday (and every day) can have a pretty big impact in your community. Here’s how:

1. More local money will be kept in the local economy: For every $100 you spend at locally owned businesses, $68 will stay in the community, according to a 2004 study byCivic Economics. But in comparison, if you spend $100 at a national chain, $43 stays in the community. Despite what some national chains would have you believe, big box stores are often quite bad for small businesses in communities, and many cities are starting to limit big-box stores.

2. You have a direct impact on job creation in your community: Even though big-box stores make big promises of job creation, the reality is that they often have a net decrease of jobs in the community and a net negative affect on thelocal economics due to the overall jobs decrease. A study reported by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance shows that across over 3,000 US counties, the opening of a Wal-Mart store led to a net loss of 150 retail jobs on average, suggesting that a new Wal-Mart job replaces approximately 1.4 workers at other stores.

3. Share the love of what makes your community unique: Unless you love the idea of a United States of Generica, supporting your local small cafes, handmade goods stores, hardware stores, and boutiques is the way to keep your community interesting and unique, and allowing it to become a destination for other shoppers. Local businesses keep local communities thriving, so take advantage of supporting your neighbors AND building your community’s growth! And don’t forget to ‘eat small‘ on Small Business Saturday too, by choosing locally-run eateries and supporting local food producers, farmers, brewers and makers.

4. You support innovation and entrepreneurship: Support the creative, individualistic, innovative artists, thinkers, and makers in your town by buying their wares. Starting a business is pretty difficult, and having the support of your local community can make or break a new business.

5. Nurture your Neighbors: Your local business owners are neighbors, friends, fellow shoppers, have kids in the same schools, and care about your community in the same way. Get to know them learn about their business, their life and grow a welcoming, supportive community in the process.

American Express has supported the campaign from the beginning, and continues to encourage shoppers to ‘shop small’ all year round, although it’s perhaps most important this time of year, as big-box stores fight among themselves to have the earliest opening hours, the longest sale, and even pre-Black Friday sales.

Small businesses don’t often have the marketing budget to compete with these stores, so Amex offers free Small Business Saturday marketing materials to brick-and-mortar (ie: not online) businesses, along with free listings in their ShopSmall.com listings, even if you’re not a Amex-accepting businesses (though you will have to register your name). Check out Small Business Saturday on Facebook to learn more.

Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author and may not reflect those of Care2, Inc., its employees or advertisers.

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What is a ‘sky river,’ and why is Miss Piggy flying in it?

by BDRWilliam Posted on February 18, 2015

What is a ‘sky river,’ and why is Miss Piggy flying in it?

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Earlier this month, Miss Piggy took an epic seven-hour trip on the Pineapple Express, reminding everyone that the she still knows how to party. A video documenting the experience shows Miss Piggy and her crew clearly flying high and soaking up the Northern California weather. There’s also this one dude who’s just devouring some snacks.

Of course, by “Miss Piggy,” I mean the decked-out government airplane built to fly through hurricanes, and by “Pineapple Express,” I mean the river of water vapor that flows over the Pacific Ocean and brings California about 40 percent of its annual precipitation. But you guys knew that, right?

Anyway, atmospheric rivers like the Pineapple Express are major players in the Earth’s water cycle. The big ones can transport up to 15 times the amount of water flowing through the mouth of the Mississippi River, and when they hit land, mountain ranges like those on the California coast push the vapor up higher into the atmosphere, where it condenses into rain and snow.

During the first week of February, for example, the Pineapple Express hit the West Coast and doused parts of Northern California for days. It wasn’t enough rain to end California’s drought, but it was enough to make going places suck for lots of people.

Understanding how these atmospheric rivers work is important for both short-term weather forecasting and climate modeling, which is why during this last Pineapple Express, scientists flew directly into the thick of it.

Miss Piggy is part of a fleet of planes known as “hurricane hunters” that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses to take data from inside hurricanes. Kermit and Gonzo are also part of the fleet (read about the collaboration between the NOAA and Jim Henson Productions here).

As a hurricane hunter, Miss Piggy is equipped to collect all kinds of weather data. Here’s a sample of the measurements she took during the Pineapple Express, from the LA Times:

Radar equipment mounted on the aircraft’s exterior measured precipitation and cloud thickness. Probes attached to the wings measured the number and size of liquid cloud droplets. Another of the plane’s radar devices measured the height of ocean waves.

Three other planes joined Miss Piggy on the sky river that day back in early February. Two collected data at higher altitudes, and one collected water droplet samples. There was also a ship taking measurements 230 miles off shore, and a satellite measuring surface winds. The International Space Station also got in on the action, measuring how dust particles (aka the nuclei at the center of vapor droplets) mix above the ocean. Scientists hope all the data will help them better understand how these rivers behave as they flow over land so places like Northern California can adequately prepare for them.

In a statement to the LA Times, Ryan Spackman, the lead researcher on board Miss Piggy, said the day’s mission was “an unprecedented interrogation of an atmospheric river event in landfall.”

Way to go, Miss Piggy. You still got it!

Source:
Scientists go high and low for data on drought-fighting ‘sky rivers’

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Will American Pot Farmers Put the Cartels out of Business?

by DaniloPoirier Posted on May 7, 2014

Mother Jones

For the first time ever, many of the farmers who supply Mexican drug cartels have stopped planting marijuana, reports the Washington Post. “It’s not worth it anymore,” said Rodrigo Silla, a lifelong cannabis farmer from central Mexico. “I wish the Americans would stop with this legalization.”

Facing stiff competition from pot grown legally and illegally north of the border, the price for a kilogram of Mexican schwag has plummeted by 75 percent, from $100 to $25, the Post reports:

Farmers in the storied “Golden Triangle” region of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, which has produced the country’s most notorious gangsters and biggest marijuana harvests, say they are no longer planting the crop…increasingly, they’re unable to compete with US marijuana growers. With cannabis legalized or allowed for medical use in 20 US states and the District of Columbia, more and more of the American market is supplied with highly potent marijuana grown in American garages and converted warehouses—some licensed, others not.

As notes David Downs of the East Bay Express, this is a really big deal. In the past decade, Mexican drug cartels have murdered an estimated 60,000 people. The DEA annually spends more than $2 billion to deter the transport of illicit drugs across the border. “So now we have both the DEA and cartel farmers screaming bloody murder about legalization,” Downs points out. “Sounds like we’re on the right track.”

Of course, the American pot boom is also creating problems of its own, with some Mexican traffickers moving north to California and other states to set up vast “trespass grows” on remote public lands. To be sure, the illicit market for weed will prop up criminal syndicates for as long as pot remains illegal, yet this week’s news is some of strongest evidence to date that legalizing and decriminalizing pot will ultimately make everyone safer.

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