If you’ve seen the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, you no doubt remember the animation of the polar bear drowning, because of global warming melting the block of ice he was living on. One of the most poignant moments of the film, I doubt if anybody left the theater able to forget it (if you haven’t […]
So, should we be depressed that more Americans are certain that angels are literally real and actually flying around somewhere than are certain that global warming is real? Associated Press:
Belief in angels, however people define them, is highest — almost universal — among white evangelical Christians, 97 percent of whom trust in their existence, the […]
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, who is set to take over the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works in January cannot wait to hold hearings on global warming issues:
Boxer said her first act would be to convene a series of hearings on global warming and climate change, as early as January.
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“There is going […]
I’ve mentioned him briefly earlier, but this bears bringing up again. Republican Senator Inhofe, the outgoing Chair of the Senate Environemntal and Public Works Committee thinks that global warming is a fraud. The man in charge of environmental matters in the Senate does not believe in climate science. Outrageous.
As an example of U.N. brainwashing at […]
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who was recently appointed as the future Chair of the Environment & Public Works Committee plans to do some excellent work regarding the environment and global warming (unlike her Republican predecessor, Jim ‘global warming is an elaborate hoax manufactured by hollywood elites’ Inhofe, who was truly a horror-show of a Senator […]
Here’s another Republican we can say goodbye to post-November 7th. Representaitve Richard Pombo of California. Hugely anti-environmental asshole, really. He stood out among his GOP colleagues as a leader of the viewpoint that earth’s resources and the environment ought to be exploited and thrown away.
Well, he was expected to be a shoe-in for re-election […]
In a promising sign, Senator Boxer (D-CA) has announced that she will take a much more aggressive approach to combatting global warming when she takes the reigns of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works come January. AP says she’s promising “major policy shifts on global warming, air quality and toxic-waste cleanup.”
The California Democrat […]
From a McClatchy (formerly Knight Ridder) article earlier this week titled “Scientists, American public disagree sharply over global warming“:
Most scientists believe that humans and their machines are mainly responsible for the 1.4 degree Fahrenheit rise in the world’s average temperature in the last 100 years. Most Americans think otherwise.
Last Wednesday, a group of 18 climate […]
In June, the BBC reported that the Bush Administration was actively trying to confuse the public about global warming science (video report, YouTube format). There have also been allegations that the Bush Administration has tried to surpress government scientists working on global warming-related research.
Now Associated Press reports that there are investigations into the Administration’s anti-science […]
Why, oh why, oh whyyyy does the Bush Administration hate endangered animals?
A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has rejected staff scientists’ recommendations to protect imperiled animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act at least six times in the past three years, documents show.
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Overall, President Bush’s appointees have added far fewer species […]
Accross the pond, The Guardian reports that British scientists are fighting back against one of my absolute least favorite campaigns ever- the disinformation campaign being waged by ExxonMobil and other big oil corporations fought by fake scientists in order to delegitimize real global warming science. You may remember that I’ve written about and revealed several […]
Toxic Texan being the President:
Over the past few days rumours swept the capital that the “Toxic Texan” would announce his conversion this week, in an attempt to reduce the impact of a major speech tomorrow by Al Gore on solutions to climate change.
We’ll see more about this as more becomes available.
If you’ve seen An Inconvenient Truth (YouTube trailer here), then you’ve already heard about this and it’s only confirmation of what you already knew.
A leading U.S. climate researcher says the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert catastrophe.
to 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
NASA scientist […]
For your entertainment, I bring you part five of our continuing series “replying to right-wingers.” Part one of the series as well as a short explanation can be found here. The following exchange was in discussing, um, alternative energy sources. Sort of. The right-winger I was replying to (and no grammar spelling or punctuation has […]
Somebody from the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund (a project of the NRDC) sent me a message asking to promote this video. It’s an 30 second ad spot which the group hopes to run in nationwide before the midterm elections. They need to raise 300,000 dollars to run the ad for a week in […]
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