I suspect that the primary concern is whether a VP can bring a few more voters along in a swing state.
In much of the western US, subterranean termites will eat buried wood.
Unusual events are just a lot more likely to be captured by cameras. This particular basin erupted several times between 2006 and 2012
They need peoples’ votes. Get even fairly modest numbers of people organized, and they pay attention.
Which means that it takes bottom-up organizing to force politicians to address climate.
I look at a graph of gasoline prices for WA state, and a national one:
and it looks like somewhere around a $0.10/gallon higher premium on WA state gasoline as compared with the country as a whole. That’s a pretty negligible effect.
Pretty much. She was one of the first to call for a Green New Deal.
The outcome of the US Presidential election is still about equally likely to go to either way.
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The thing about the UK system is that the King might nominally do something, but what he does is entirely decided by the cabinet. There are a handful of residual powers (eg: interfering with the timing of Canadian elections) but that’s pretty much it.
No.
Yes. We’re on the verge of cutting coal use globally, but not yet oil
Yes, they mean extinct in the wild. You can get access to this and all other Washington Post gift links with registration
Sure…but that’s well outside the vocabulary of the average US news reader.
It beats hinging it on a 40% chance.
Biden did beat Trump. And if polling is to be believed, stands a ~50% chance of doing so again. That’s actually better than a lot of other plausible Democrats
Zoning has been a state policy thing in the US, not a federal one, so not likely to be a Presidential campaign issue