The Atlantic – Researchers from Washington State University analyzed data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey. Nearly 90,000 people participated in the survey, and of those, almost 7,000 completed a supplement on quality of life and disability, in which (among other things) they reported how frequently they felt pain in the past three months. The researchers classified pain as “persistent” if respondents said they experienced it “most days” or “every day.”
Discovery News – But how much reservoirs contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions is “still a big question mark,” because the issue remains relatively unstudied and emission rates are highly uncertain, said John Harrison, an associate professor in the School of the Environment at the Washington State University-Vancouver whose research focuses on how reservoirs can be managed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “So I don’t think we really know what the relative greenhouse gas effect of reservoirs is compared to other sources of energy in the U.S.,” he said.
The National Review – In Washington statehouse races, NextGen Climate has spent $1.25 million to get climate-change legislation enacted in the next session, much to the chagrin of state lawmakers. “It’s an issue that the campaigns probably wouldn’t be addressing without for this [sic] outside money coming in,” Washington State University government and public-policy professor Travis N. Ridout told the New York Times. “Steyer has sort of forced campaigns to talk about this. . . . Democrats would prefer not to talk about it, and I suspect Republicans would prefer not to talk about it.”