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Science, environmental and legal journalist. Covers climate change, biodiversity, Earth sciences, physics, constitutional law. Posts/opinions are my own. richblaustein@gmail.com

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Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet Fossil-fuel resources are sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

We did this paper together when she was a visiting student in our lab.

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10.11.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And an expert on tipping points !

10.11.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Washington Lawyer - November/December 2025 Experience our interactive, profoundly engaging digital publication!

My Washington Lawyer
Human Rights Law contribution on p. 29
and co-contribution on Environmental Law p.10
in this issue's Year in Review

09.11.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"AB 93 Was Vetoed, But Assemblymember Diane Papan Says Legislative Work on Data Centers' Water Consumption Will Continue"
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28.10.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"FTC Antitrust Investigation of California’s Clean Truck Effort Is Latest Federal Blow to State Climate Policy"
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Physicists apply quantum squeezing to a nanoparticle for the first time – Physics World Demonstration could shed light on the nature of the classical-quantum transition for small objects

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" 'Our system will enable us to realize further exotic quantum states of motions and to elucidate how quantum mechanics should behave at macroscopic scales and become classical' "

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14.10.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"ClimateBrief: California Assemblymember Diane Papan on AB 93, Her Bill That Would Require Data Centers to Report Water Use"

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25.09.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"ClimateBrief: Despite Strong Federal Headwinds, California Continues to Push for Offshore Wind Development"
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19.09.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect – Physics World Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers

"But, never say never. Physicists have been able to create experimental analogues of some thought experiments, so who knows what the future will bring."

@physicsworld.bsky.social

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"ClimateBrief: Trump's EPA Wants to Revoke the Legal Basis for Federal Emissions Rules. Experts Say California Will Step In to Fill the Void"
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05.09.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Washington Lawyer - September/October 2025 Experience our interactive, profoundly engaging digital publication!

"On the Law of War and Peace at 400 - Reflecting on Grotius' Blueprint for Global Order" -
my mini-feature in the Sept./Oct. Washington Lawyer magazine
p.14 at
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03.09.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My DailyNews Q and A with UCLA Law Professor Richard L. Hasen on Gerrymandering in California and the Future of Voting Rights
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25.08.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Salton Sea/Lithium Valley -
"ClimateBrief: So Far, the Trump Administration Seems Friendly to Geothermal Energy and Critical Minerals Projects"
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19.08.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"ClimateBrief: CARB Board's July Meeting Strikes Defiant Note, Touts Environmental Justice Achievements"
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12.08.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.

What an experience just to read and view this story!

15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. wapo.st/4m81PJf

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"ClimateBrief: As Temperatures Get Hotter, California Launches New Public Tool to Help People Prepare for Extreme Heat"

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On the the recent NASEM report,
"ClimateBrief: Addressing the Air Pollution Problem in California's Owens Valley, Dried Up by Decades of Water Diversions to LA"
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"ClimateBrief: California Leads on Tropical Forest Restoration Efforts Leading Up to November's 'Forest COP' in Brazil"
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15.07.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The President is up there in the White House for you....
it is not you who are here for him,
The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you....
not you here for them,
The Congress convenes every December for you..."

Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass" (first edition, 1855)

04.07.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Washington Lawyer - July/August 2025 Experience our interactive, profoundly engaging digital publication!

My July/Aug. Washington Lawyer review of
@casssunstein.bsky.social CLIMATE JUSTICE: What Rich Nations Owe the World -- and the Future @mitpress.bsky.social -
p. 51 at washingtonlawyer.dcbar.org/julyaugust20...

01.07.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enjoyed discussing my work on wild #animal wellbeing with @richblaustein.bsky.social for this CEB ClimateBrief. The article also features Jim Salzman's work on #RightsofNature. research.ceb.com/posts/climat...

24.06.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"ClimateBrief: New UC Berkeley Report Highlights Possibilities for Detecting and Reducing Methane Emissions By Satellite"

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24.05.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"ClimateBrief: California Cap-and-Trade: Legislation, New Regulations, and a Deal with Washington State Are All on the Table"
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"ClimateBrief: Trump Executive Order Targets State-Level Climate Policies, Including California's"

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06.05.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"ClimateBrief: State and Federal Laws, Combined With Cutting-Edge Conservation, Could Protect California Freshwater Species Under Climate Changes"
A new PPIC report outlines the law guiding "climate-smart" conservation.

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02.05.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"ClimateBrief: SCOTUS Hears Arguments in Case Challenging the California Waiver"
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β€œThe Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders β€” especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it,” Judge Boasberg wrote.

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"ClimateBrief: Rice Farming -- and a 1991 Agriculture Law -- Are Key in Conserving California's Biodiversity"
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16.04.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis called the government's inadvertent deportation of the man to a notorious El Salvador prison a "grievous error."

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" 'It’s a prudent approach at this stage,' noted Fabiola Gianotti, current CERN director-general, adding that the FCC would be 'the most extraordinary instrument ever built.' ”

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