Tim Kovach

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E & J's dad. Works on climate change, air quality & environmental justice. Founded Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Juventus & Eintracht. Opinions my own.

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Dave Levitan

Did I read the article before commenting? Are you new here

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Dave Levitan

Honestly making people stand outside in voter suppression lines during summer heat is dangerous though

www.talkingclimate.ca/p/the-most-i...

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Spencer Ackerman

What counts as impairment under the 25th only matters if you can get a majority of the Cabinet for vote for it

My God this is devastating www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gaza man with Down's syndrome dies lonely deathwww.bbc.com Muhammed Bhar's family says he was left to die after being bitten by an Israeli combat dog in Gaza City.

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Tim Kovach

I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t

Brexit means Brexit

Spelling Bee is wild for this one

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

This could be Us(MNT) but U(SSF) playing

👏 Hyper 👏 Loop 👏

I'm sorry what now www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A nuclear accident made Three Mile Island infamous. AI’s needs may revive it.www.washingtonpost.com Driven by the ravenous energy appetites of artificial intelligence developers and green technology manufacturers, Three Mile Island is poised for a comeback.

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David Ho

My brain works a hell of a lot better at 5am than midnight, but maybe that's why I'm an early bird

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Will Oremus

Joee Biden

When you spend an inordinate amount of time putting together an awesome spreadsheet and no one else is interested in diving into the data to find patterns

I pulled together 4 different datasets combining urban heat island, air conditioning prevalence, land cover, and race at the Census tract level I mean come on!

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Bethany Albertson

If he bets on a team you can be 99.9% sure they are going to lose.

Climate Central has released an important new report on urban heat islands in US cities and how our built environments expose certain people to more dangerous levels of heat. www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Urban Heat Hot Spots in 65 Cities | Climate Centralwww.climatecentral.org New Climate Central analysis shows where urban heat is most intense in 65 major cities that account for 15% of the U.S. population.

According to their findings, Cleveland has the 16th highest average urban heat island (UHI) effect among the cities evaluated. The average Clevelander experiences summertime temperatures 8.14°F warmer than average.

Cleveland has 4 census tracts that experience a UHI of at least 10°F. The most intense heat occurs in Census tract 1968 in University Circle, where temperatures are 10.3°F higher than average. Census tracts 1048 (Tremont) and 1972 (Fairfax) each have UHIs of 10.2°.

The most extreme disparity in the region occurs along the Cleveland - Euclid border. Residents of Census 1178 (East 185th & St. Clair) endure a UHI of 9.7°F. Just 1 mile south in tract 1527.02 (located in the Euclid Creek reservation), the UHI is 0°F.

These data are invaluable for helping identify the neighborhoods at greatest risk from extreme heat so that cities can better target interventions, such as tree plantings, depaving, cooling centers, etc.

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Joseph Galbo

Use the Force (of modern building codes)

Mock the Crystals Caucus at your peril

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Dave Levitan

Hey that's more than 2% so you know it's a lot

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Tim Kovach

Eric Adams opened this morning’s press conference by rolling a garbage bin up to the podium, placing a bag of trash in it, and saying “welcome to our trash revolution” while Empire State of Mind played in the background

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Mark Joseph Stern

If US EPA had made this mistake, Ohio would have been very much justified in suing

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Costa Samaras

what about girlcotting

Air conditioning is an essential tool for adapting to climate change. But we absolutely cannot AC our way out of the crisis, and simply expanding AC access is not enough to reduce the increasing risks of heat. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/can-we-air...