Trumpists All in on Greenland
Fundraising tee-shirts from the Republican Party are now showing Greenland as part of the US.…
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Music Break: Maggie Rogers – Alaska
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Insurers Quietly Withdrawing from Climate Risk Areas
This is happening faster than most people realize, and could become a stampede. In areas at increased risk from wildfire and flooding, Insurers are quietly jacking up rates, or refusing to write policies.Climate gentrification already beginning to leave behind those…
Darkness in Amazonia
Washington Post: In the height of daytime, the sky suddenly blackened, and day became night in Sao Paulo.Sure, smog is bad in the Western Hemisphere’s largest city, where traffic jams can stretch for dozens of miles. But not this bad.…
The End of Beef: Truth or a Whopper?
I went to Burger King to try the new “Impossible Whopper”. Gotta say, it’s actually good, delivers the real whopper experience, whatever that is. I think they’re going to sell a buttload of these. That’s good, right? Rowan Jacobsen in…
Solar + Powerwall: One Year Review
This should be geeky enough for the most hard core. And good news about zombies. Advertisements…
Eight Candidates will Participate in Climate Town Hall
#CNN Climate Town Hall now scheduled. In 2017 I confronted my own GOP rep on climate at a town hall - check that vid here…
To Tree or Not to Tree is not the Question
A lot of talk about planting trees as a magic bullet solution to climate change. Well, it’s not magic.But that doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea. By the way, we should be doing all we can to preserve the…
Greenland is Not for Sale
Speaks volumes that Republicans still think of countries and peoples as objects to be bought and sold.…
Bill Maher Interviews Sheldon Whitehouse on the Climate JailBreak
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Who’s Trolling Trump About Greenland?
They should stop it, because it’s just mean, like taunting the mentally challenged kid, like tying cans to a dog’s tail. Advertisements…
Trump Moves to Gut Endangered Species Act
Today’s version of the Republican Party is as hostile to biodiversity as it is to any other kind of diversity. Ars Technica: After two years of review and revision, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced a set of changes…
New Video: “One more question, Dr. Mann….”
At the end of a long interview with Michael Mann a few months ago, I still had one more question, about the odd blue spot on NASA’s map of global temperature increases.. Advertisements…
Coal is Over
Everybody knows it now. Guardian: Set in a wooded valley between the Tug Fork river and the Mate creek, Matewan, West Virginia, was the site of the 1920 Matewan massacre, a shootout between pro-union coalminers and coal company agents that…
Recession in the Air, and Big Money Fleeing Climate Risks
Today’s news includes reports of big losses in the stock market, and indications for recession risk. Will the next recession turn the current flight from climate risk into a stampede? Bloomberg: Earlier this year, one of Meryam Omi’s deputies at …
The Kooch: Doubling Down on Racism and Climate Denial
Boy, climate deniers have hated it when I’ve shown, again and again, that climate denial and racism seem joined at the hip. Almost as if there was some kind of structure in the Republican brain that was responsible for both…My…
Greta Thunberg will Sail to Climate Conference in US
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Iowans not Buying Trump’s Wind Turbine/Cancer Connection
Iowans know wind power. The state has a higher percentage of it’s electricity coming from wind than any other state. (although some are close..)Real world results tell us: The more you know about renewables, the better you like them. Time…
Toxic Blue Green Algae: Climate-Pumped Threat to Pets, and People
Climate catastrophe dog video of the week: Sad story of pets succumbing to toxic blue green algae in a pond – but nowhere mentioned is the climate connection – that these species of algae are favored by warmer waters, and…
Gun Mania and Climate Denial – Tightly Wound
Senator Ted Cruz has given us perhaps the most perfect example of the tight connection between the erotization of death dealing killing machines, and a history of science and climate denial.Above, the Senator’s own description suggests equates the machines that…
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Music Break: Molly Tuttle – Gentle on My Mind
In 2017, Molly Tuttle was the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year award.She went on to win the award a second time in 2018. You may know Glen Campbell’s version better, but…
Bill Maher and Richard Engle on Glaciers, Racists, and Refugees
As glaciers disappear, and floods of climate refugees move north, White supremacists are on the rise. Not separate phenomena. Advertisements…
The Stupid is Strong. Trump DeCapitating US Science
I used to wonder how, when countries go crazy, like Cambodia in the 70s, those that suffer first are often the best and brightest – scientists, teachers, writers, artists – you would think a popular movement would want to hold…
Situation Normal: Gas Explosions Rock US
But sure, tell me about the dangers of Wind Turbines and solar panels… Desmogblog: On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman,…
Climate Impacts on Gas Infrastructure Increasing
Fossil fuel industry finding Karma is real. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: There have been plenty of high-profile landslides dislodging and destroying oil and gas pipelines over the past few years, just as rains have wreaked havoc outside the oilfield — collapsing Route…
Friday in Afghanistan
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Tell Me Again that CO2 is “Plant Food”..
New York Times: The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself.The report, prepared…
Music Break: Robert Randolph and the Family Band – “Baptise Me”
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DOE Asking for New Nuclear Test Facility
On first read, I was triggered by memories of the ill fated Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) program, that lasted from the 1970s to the 1990s – a proposed “new generation” of reactors that would “breed” plutonium fuel for…