“Let’s begin with an important journalist statement. … Some stories don’t have two sides. Some stories are simply true. There is no necessity to give equal time to the quote ‘other side.’ One of these is climate change.” ~CNN CNN reports that “depending on which study or expert you consult between 95 and 97 percent […]
It just got a whole lot easier for Americans to find out which power plants and industrial sites are releasing the most emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency recently released its greenhouse gas database, and included some great tools for tracking polluters. While it doesn’t include any requirements to reduce those emissions, it could be a […]
After Super Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the Philippines, climate change representative Yeb Sano pleaded with the world to take immediate, drastic action to reduce climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in an emotional speech at the UN’s climate meeting in Warsaw, Poland. “I speak for the countless people who will no longer be able to speak for […]
In this stunning clip, filmmakers managed to capture the largest-ever iceberg calving yet seen off the Greenland ice shelf’s massive Ilulissat glacier. This footage is a small part of a powerful new documentary called “Chasing Ice,” by filmmaker James Balog, which released in the U.K. and across the U.S. on Friday.
In this sixth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and other business lobbies enthusiastically carrying out campaigns “to try and convince the population that global warming […]