Are you worried about climate change? You should be. But you should also be hopeful. As his new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” opens nationwide, Al Gore reminds us that the clean energy revolution sweeping the globe is stronger than the forces of denial. US Electric vehicle sales up 86% in 2017 Wind […]
Sonny Perdue, the political hack appointed to be secretary of agriculture, once labeled mainstream climate science “so ridiculous and so obviously disconnected from reality.” As if having a science denier running the Department of Agriculture weren’t disastrous enough, Pr*sident Trump has now, as expected, picked another political hack—a former right-wing talk-radio host named Sam Clovis—to be the undersecretary of research, education, […]
Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency-hating chief of the EPA, wants to have a televised debate among scientists on climate change. When my colleague Mark Sumner read the news about this, he pictured a climate Thunderdome in which two scientists enter and a hunk of the public leaves still believing that there really is a debate to be had. By […]
By Dan Bacher California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton today issued a statement expressing how he feels about the Trump administration’s environmental protection rollbacks: “Since he failed in his efforts to screw millions out of their health care, Donald Trump has switched his attention to fucking up our environment and the air we breath.” I’ve […]
By Jeremy Bloom Not only does Donald Trump lie about climate change, he lies about lying about it. At the Presidential Debate, Hillary Clinton hit him, HARD, on the subject, reminding the audience that not only does Trump deny the science, he “thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.” And he interrupted […]
By Meteor Blades Back in 2007, Myron Ebell said: “Every interview I do, when I’m asked about scientific issues, I say I’m not a climate scientist. I’m just giving you the informed layman’s perspective.” Too modest by far—then and now. Ebell certainly is not a climate scientist. He is instead a disinformation specialist on global warming, working out of the D.C. offices […]
By Meteor Blades Report shows oil giants publicly support climate initiatives and privately lobby against them The report by InfluenceMap is titled “Big Oil and the Obstruction of Climate Regulations”: The energy majors’ strategy (Shell, BP and Total) leading up to Paris 2015 is to call for a price on carbon. Behind the scenes, however, […]
Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco’s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes. Both attempted to muddy the waters of the public discussion by claiming there is still “scientific debate” on an issue where the science is known and settled. Both took funding from big industries (Big Tobacco, Big Oil) with a huge […]
By Meteor Blades A poll conducted by Yale’s Project on Climate Change Communication has found 67 percent of Americans favor federal regulations to limit carbon emissions from power plants even if that means paying more for their electricity. That meshes somewhat with the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll asking what Americans think the new Congress should […]
Did global warming drive US temperatures to their highest levels ever last year? Was 2013 the hottest ever? Sure, a whole boatload of mainstream scientists and the government agency that maintains the records says 2012 was the hottest ever (for the contiguous US). But that’s not good enough for the Rupurt Murdoch and his gang […]
By Green Mother You see it everywhere: People say if we have climate change, we can just go back to the land, have a garden. Why, if things go really bad, we can live off the fat of the land. You know that was true 100 year ago, but not any more. Not with our new […]
By Barry Bickmore Professor of Geologic Sciences, Brigham Young University I gave a talk called How to Avoid the Truth About Climate Change for the College of Science and Health at Utah Valley University. For those of you who aren’t familiar with me, I am a Republican and a geochemist who, until a few years ago, was […]