Big role for direct air capture in the Omnibus Bill, including creation of a new Direct Air Capture Technology Advisory Board in DOE - apparently, it is coming rules.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Interesting
Act includes a prohibition on asking federal scientific advisors their political party affiliation or voting history
Industrial policy is back (good)
Public awareness campaign out of CDC to promote the importance of vaccination
New study updating knowledge of public confidence in vaccines
Horseracing anti-doping program
Study by DOC and FTC to promote the role of artificial intelligence in the US economy
Updated food guidelines coming
More of what looks like a big push for expanded use of AI in federal agencies
Multiple reports coming on nuclear power, here is one
A new advisory committee on advanced nuclear power
GAO will evaluate the effectiveness of carbon capture from coal plants
NAS to study economics of captured carbon from coal
DOE to study the integration of electric vehicles and the electric grid
DOE asked to streamline its technology prize competitions
NAS asked to evaluate performance of ARPA-E
Congress endorses Biden's net-zero CO2 from electricity goal
Word counts
nuclear = 140
solar = 66
wind = 64
natural gas = 54
oil = 53
coal = 39
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New paper finds risks of natural disasters going down (1970-2019) for both people and property (even as financial risks increase with more wealth) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
It also has a nice one-paragraph summary of most recent IPCC conclusions on "natural hazards (not disasters)"
A nice addition to the magnum opus literature of mine published earlier this year:
2020 Atlantic hurricane season ends today
Here are updated CONUS normalized losses through 2020
2020 ranks 15th of 121 years
Based on @JessicaWeinkle et al nature.com/articles/s4189…
🧵Allow me to debunk this proposal in the @WSJ to hamstring Pres Biden re-entry into Paris Climate Agreement
The proposal➡️ To prevent the Paris Climate Accord from taking on undue power, President Trump should let the Senate reject it, writes wsj.com/articles/how-t… via @WSJ
Pres Trump cannot submit Paris Agreement to the Senate for ratification because it is not a treaty, but instead an "executive agreement made pursuant to a treaty"
Treaty= Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified Oct 1992 by U.S. Senate at request of Pres GHW Bush)
Upon entering the Paris Agreement in 2015, Pres Obama defined it as an "executive agreement"
Thoughtful thread argument by @Scienceofsport (as usual) on gender categorization issues in sport
But for me, issues related to female athletes w/ unique biology have no place in debates over trans athletes Who change categories — this always needs to be stated up front