Katie Fleeman

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Trends in Concern About Global Warming or Climate Change, by Political Party I'm going to read you a list of environmental problems. As I read each one, please tell me if you personally worry about this problem a great deal, a fair amount, only a little or not at all. How much do you personally worry about global warming or climate change? % Worry a great deal
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Thermometer showing we are 89% of the way there
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Every dollar counts. Thank you for investing in making science accessible to all. Thermometer reader: $10.8K, or 43% to a $25K goal
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At one extreme, the new administration could, in theory, simply disband the committee altogether, Schwartz told me, and have the government unilaterally lay down the country’s vaccination policies. At another, the CDC director, who has never been beholden to the committee’s advice, could begin ignoring it more often. (Trump’s choice to lead the CDC, the physician and former Florida congressman Dave Weldon, has been a critic of the agency and its vaccine program.) Most likely, though, the nation’s new health leaders will choose to reshape the committee into one whose viewpoints would seem to legitimize their own. The effects of these choices might not be obvious at first, but a committee that has less academic expertise, spends less time digging into scientific data, and is less inclined to recommend any vaccines could, over time, erode America’s defenses—inviting more disease, and more death, all of it preventable.
Losing your house in a vast cataclysm is a catastrophe that’s always going to provide more questions than answers, more rumors than facts, and more uncertainty than settled knowledge. As such, it’s rife with the possibility for exploitation, scams, fraud, and tumbling down rabbit holes of disinformation and conspiracy theory."
Anxiety around unprecedented load growth began in earnest only a couple of years ago spurred by large data centers used to fuel artificial intelligence models, cryptocurrency and other energy-intensive industries. The numbers around data center growth have been described as “staggering.” In a December report, the Department of Energy projected that U.S. energy use from data centers could double or even triple by 2028.
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thermometer showing that we are 70% of the way to our goal, with $14,020 raised
It turned out that most people could discern between true and fake news. Yet they were willing to share outrageous news regardless of whether it was true or not—a result that was in line with previous findings from Facebook and Twitter data. Many participants were perfectly OK with sharing outrageous headlines, even though they were fully aware those headlines were misinformation. (the last sentence is highlighted)
Thermometer showing we are 69% of the way to achieving our goal
The publication was intended to help get Dickens out of debt but also to communicate to readers what he had learned from government reports on child labor and a visit to a the Field Lane Ragged School in London. First thinking he would write a political pamphlet, he instead began to write A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
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