
Gov. Matt Bevin blocked Attica Woodson Scott after she criticized his support for a late GOP state representative accused of child molestation.

Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky has never been known for his patience with political opponents.

A hard-right extremist who dismantled a functional Obamacare marketplace in his state and wants to force poor people to do community service to earn Medicaid coverage, Bevin regularly blocks people who disagree with him on Twitter, a practice that has resulted in a lawsuit from constituents.

But Bevin is not just blocking the citizens he serves. He is also blocking state lawmakers.


Attica Woodson Scott, the only black woman serving in the Kentucky state legislature, sharply criticized Bevin for his belated, insincere condemnation of the racist social media posts of former state Rep. Dan Johnson.A comprehensive study suggests the Antarctic ice sheet lost roughly three trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2017.

The study, published today in Nature, found that annual ice loss in West Antarctica — the most vulnerable to warming temperatures — was almost three times higher than an earlier estimate in 2012, from 59 billion tons a year to 159 billion tons a year.

"This is a big increase in ice loss that needs to be understood and needs to be taken into consideration when we look to the future," Andrew Shepherd, lead author and a professor of Earth Observation University of Leeds in the United Kingdom said.

The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 24 million square kilometres and holds about 60 per cent of all freshwater on Earth. If it