New misdemeanor – Drowning while Black. ThinkProgress: Small, rich, white towns in southeast Texas are getting a disproportionate amount in federal disaster recovery funds following Hurricane Harvey compared to neighboring communities that are poorer and have a larger minority population,…
Well, not quite – anymore – it was once true that there were a hard core group of lefties that who said climate change was some kind of globalist power grab, but you only hear that from the right wing…
The Mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away. – Chinese Proverb Connections between the Chinese Central Government in Beijing and the people has historically been weak, with much regional autonomy and little loyalty. The proverb has thus come…
Renew Economy: It’s now been just over 18 months since those famous “billionaire tweets” – between Australian software pioneer Michael Cannon-Brookes and Tesla founder Elon Musk – set in motion a process that would see South Australia install the largest…
Popular Science: A researcher watching Russia’s largest High Arctic glacier was surprised when his gaze shifted to its nearby neighbor. What he saw there raised questions about how glaciers work—and what we may be facing as the world warms. “I…
Fox News: A song from Paul McCartney’s latest album contains a song targeted at Donald Trump and climate change deniers. The 76-year-old Beatles star spoke in an interview with BBC News to promote his new album “Egypt Station” about one…
When someone says, “You don’t know what you’re up against.” – hard won movie wisdom says pay attention. CBS News: A North Carolina city dealing with fallout from Hurricane Florence has been swarmed by aggressive mosquitoes nearly three times larger…
In 2017 I had the pleasure and privilege of camping and working on the Greenland Ice Sheet with a majority female science team. It’s something that I hope we see more of, but there is a long way to go,…
Not so. For one thing, Katherine Hayhoe lives there, along with Andrew Dessler, who stars in my upcoming video – stay tuned. Meanwhile, more on Texas and renewables. Advertisements…
Nice explainer on current battery tech above. Meanwhile, Tesla’s giant battery in Australia is proving to be a super profitable game changer. News.com.au: WHEN a pair of tech billionaires starting going back and forth on social media, it ended up…
NASA: Arctic sea ice, the cap of frozen seawater blanketing most of the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas in wintertime, follows seasonal patterns of growth and decay. It thickens and spreads during the fall and winter and thins and shrinks…
Fridays for future. The school strike continues! #climatestrike #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture pic.twitter.com/5jej011Qtp — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) September 16, 2018 Advertisements…
Above – Jim Hansen famously excoriated and shamed BBC for flawed climate coverage in 2013. At that time, the network parroted the denialist talking point “Warming has slowed down” – awkwardly just before 2014’s new heat record, and the historical…
If someone is tipsy and about to step in a hole, should you tell them? Common courtesy would say yes, but what if the person is an angry, delusional, abusive drunk? New column from Sara Peach, my colleague at Yale…
I’m not a farmer, but my son is. I like to think it’s an indicator that perhaps I did something right in life. Farming is hard. A farmers job is to scratch a living off a piece of land in…
Bright spot – Jeff Berardelli on CBS. Media Matters: CBS and PBS each aired fewer segments on the links between climate change and hurricanes than they did last year during coverage of Harvey. In 2017, as Hurricane Harvey menaced parts…
Newsweek: Lakes across Alaska and Siberia have started to bubble with methane, and the release of this highly potent greenhouse gas has scientists worried. Last month NASA released footage showing the bubbling Arctic lakes, which are the result of a…
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Now that we’ve gotten through Hurricane Florence, Americans should be completely up to speed when it comes to dealing with disasters that have been amplified by anthropogenic climate change, right? Not so fast. Judging from…
Skip to 4:11 if rushed. Trump spokesman recently named in court documents “of slipping an abortion pill into his pregnant girlfriend’s smoothie”. (is there anyone that doubts this?) Climate denier, natch. Advertisements…
Conservative’s pathological hatred of Al Gore is based on the deep seated recognition that George Bush, who was handed the Presidency with a minority vote, (due to a Supreme Court judges his Father had appointed) was, until recently, the worst…
Public Service spot from the UK, 1975. Back when coal mining was glamorous, I guess. GOP is dusting this off to recruit millennials to , I guess. Advertisements…
