Bernie Sanders tore into Congress last week during debate about the Keystone Pipeline, telling Senators “when we reject science, we become the laughing stocks of the world.” As a Senate panel took up a proposal last week to build a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that […]
Climate Desk presents an interesting exploration of internet trolls and their impact on perception. For those unfamiliar with Climate Desk, according to their website, The Climate Desk is a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The partners are The Atlantic, Center for Investigative Reporting, The Guardian, Grist, The […]
Tuesday, the White House issued a surprising U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change detailing a plan for the U.S. to partner with China on what Mother Jones describes as a “wide-ranging package of plans to fight climate change, including new targets to reduce carbon pollution.” Mother Jones goes on to note that this “wide-ranging climate […]
There are still people (most are Republicans) who refuse to acknowledge the science that links climate change to human-driven global warming. Here are 10 of their craziest quotes: 1 – Michele Bachmann (R- MN) – “[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she’s just trying to […]
This is a video from NASA. You know the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? They’re kind of experts on this stuff. This is a very short (13 second) animation that illustrates how temperatures around the world have warmed since the 1950s. You’ll note accelerated temperatures trending in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions […]