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European Solar Power from African Deserts? I think I've seen this movie before.

This map, which is rather sobering for what it claims, also has a pretty scary physical appearance: it looks like a fire spreading up and torching the southern United States. I took it from Climate Progress, which took it from a posted draft version of the forthcoming "Unified Synthesis Project: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States" to be put out by NOAA. This draft says, "Internal Review Draft: Do Not Cite or Quote," so I'm giving that as a big blaring caveat, but the final draft will be released tomorrow at 1:30 PM EST.

Long time, no post. The Supreme Court has ruled that elected judges cannot rule in a case involving one of their major campaign contributors. Wow. This seems like something they should have ruled decades ago.