Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Representative warns against ‘overreacting’ to tsunami by saving lives or whatever
Shorter Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.): “If the GOP cuts tsunami monitoring, people will die.” If you cut on detection of tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, severe weather events, weather buoys, satellite observation and weather patterns, those sorts of things, people will die. Shorter Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa): “Come on, let’s not overreact to a few thousand people dying […]
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Here’s why you can’t afford food anymore
Food prices jumped 3.9 percent in February, the largest one-month increase since November 1974. It’s turtles all the way down: Grocery prices are up, wholesale food prices are up, prices for staples like corn and grain are up. Here’s a few things you won’t be affording in the future: Bacon. The retail price for bacon […]
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Japanese video explains nuke disaster with poo
“If he poops and it leaks from his diaper, it still won’t be as bad as Chernobyl.”
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Majority of Americans still understand global warming, despite best efforts of Fox
A new Gallup poll shows that 52 percent of Americans understand that global warming is due more to human activities than natural variation, and only 43 percent believe the opposite. That’s marginally better than last year — 50 to 46, barely holding on to a “believe in science” majority” — but way down from 2007, […]
