Denialism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US corporate press is letting the presidential candidates set the agenda. Occasionally someone will step out of line, as Fox’s Megyn Kelly did when she pressed Donald Trump on his misogyny and general disrespect of women. But virtually no one in the mass media has […]

Denialism

Exxon-Mobil’s past Crimes against the Earth are nothing Compared to its Present Ones

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By Bill McKibben | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Here’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and 16th largest economies on Earth (California and New York) probing the biggest fossil fuel company on Earth (ExxonMobil), while both Democratic presidential candidates are demanding that the federal Department of […]

Acidification of Oceans

The Question isn’t of Saving the World via Renewables but of how Much can be Saved

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Humanity is not abandoning fossil fuels fast enough to avoid some massive changes to our world’s climate, with all the implications that change has for sea level, coastal erosion, extreme weather, and desertification and drought. There have been impressive advances in adoption of solar and wind […]

Acidification of Oceans

Even After World has Acted: GOP candidates on climate change

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Touchvision | (Video News Report) | – – “What would happen to the committments President Obama is making at this week’s Paris Climate Conference if a Republican wins the 2016 election?” Touchvision: “The Republican candidates on climate change”

Acidification of Oceans

Exxon investigation: A warning shot for fossil fuel companies as climate lies unveiled

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The Tree | – – In the first concrete legal action against ExxonMobil’s web of climate lies, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced he will investigate whether the oil giant knowingly misled the public and investors about the dangers of climate change. Last month from InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed […]

Climate Change

Fury as Probe Demanded into Exxon’s Historic Climate Crime

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By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – A broad coalition of community groups along with prominent leaders from the nation’s top civil rights, environmental, and indigeneous people’s movements on Friday sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Justice demanding a federal investigation into allegations that oil giant ExxonMobil knew about […]

Climate Change

House ‘Science’ Committee Climate Witch Hunt is Worse than Benghazi!

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Michael Mann| (Thom Hartmann Video Interview) | – – “Thom Hartmann talks with Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Author-Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change (2nd edition) Website: www.michaelmann.net, about how climate denier Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) uses his Congressional committee to persecute and bully scientists who […]