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How Bad Ballot Design Can Impact Election Outcomes—And What We Can Do 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nationally, since 2004, the evidence shows that the number of over- and undervotes averages about one percent.While that sounds low, a big problem is that certain districts have higher residual vote rates than others. Already steadily rising since the early 2000s, the percentage of voters who mailed in their ballots was 43 percent in 2020.

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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Fifth Circuit to Hold Oral Argument in Sojitz v. UNOCAL in April 2020

The Energy Law Blog

2004), where the court held that, to the extent a surety company or co-lessee paid the decommissioning obligations of the bankrupt lessee, they would be subrogated to the government’s claim. Oral argument has been tentatively set for the week of April 27, 2020. 611 (Bankr.

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3,190 New Stories In 2022 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership

PA Environment Daily

Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. Take some time to read through at least the headlines to see how people just like you are helping to make Pennsylvania a better place!

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Global coal and oil use to peak in 2020

Edouard Stenger

When I discovered solar photovoltaics in 2004, the global capacity was of three gigawatts (or 3,000 megawatts if you prefer). We knew that global greenhouse gases emission from energy had been peaking for the past three years – largely thanks to China – but now, here is another series of nails in the coffins of coal and oil.

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Quantum computational advantage and beyond

Physics World

He obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2004, and a PhD in physics from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 2011. Chao-Yang Lu was born in 1982 in Zhejiang, China. Since 2011, he is a Professor of Physics at USTC. Speaker relationship with IOP Publishing.

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Old habits

Real Climate

Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown fairly steadily since 2004. 2020) and boundary layers (Bintanja et al., My impression is that journalists today tend to possess a higher climate literacy than before. Here are two examples, polar amplification and extreme rainfall.

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