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In the heart of a bustling city, the skyline once gleamed with towering buildings and the vibrant hues of daily life. People moved with purpose, cars crisscrossed the streets, and parks buzzed with families enjoying the fresh air. Yet beneath this veneer of normalcy, an insidious threat loomed larger with each passing day—a threat that... Continue Reading →
The future is at stake, but grassroots resilience may yet be our saving grace. In the heart of a bustling city, the skyline once gleamed with towering buildings and the vibrant hues of daily life. People moved with purpose, cars crisscrossed the streets, and parks buzzed with families enjoying the fresh air. Yet beneath this... Continue Reading →
The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees In an escalation of partisan warfare, a little-known dark-money group is trying to thwart the President’s entire slate. by: Jane Mayer, The NewYorker The American Accountability Foundation has undermined the likes of Ketanji Brown Jackson, but it’s also gone after relatively obscure political appointees whose public profiles... Continue Reading →
Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, joins the show this week to discuss the growing threat of misinformation to liberal democracy, the role Rupert Murdoch and News Corp are playing to exacerbate the problem, the obstacles to international cooperation on reducing emissions, and his hopes for what can be accomplished in 2021 to... Continue Reading →
New revelations about the secretive right-wing billionaire Barre Seid, who donated $1.6 billion to a conservative nonprofit run by Leonard Leo, known as Donald Trump’s “Supreme Court whisperer,” show he has also used his massive fortune to undermine climate science, fight Medicaid expansion and remake the higher education system in a conservative mold. We speak... Continue Reading →
Like the rest of the world, the United States has seen record temperatures, drought and wildfires in recent years - some of the long-predicted consequences of made-made global warming. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law a spending bill that – among other provisions for healthcare and tax reform – will commit nearly... Continue Reading →
Like the rest of the world, the United States has seen record temperatures, drought and wildfires in recent years - some of the long-predicted consequences of made-made global warming. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law a spending bill that – among other provisions for healthcare and tax reform – will commit nearly... Continue Reading →
We need to ground climate discourse in the present, not the future. . Remember when Donald Trump called climate change a hoax, suggesting it was invented by the Chinese to gain a trade advantage over the West? That was in 2016. By 2019, Trump claimed (equally falsely) that his administration was addressing climate change. Climate... Continue Reading →
Official Title: How Scientists Respond to Science Deniers | Edge Of Knowledge | Ars Technica "We never landed on the moon." "Climate change is a hoax." "Vaccines are ineffective." Our culture feels riddled with anti-science sentiment and there's no one factor to blame or easy solution to address it. How did we get here and... Continue Reading →
From narratives about fossil fuels as a solution to climate advocates as out of touch with reality, here’s how the fossil fuel industry and its allies are weaponizing words to delay climate action. . On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers, said... Continue Reading →
Those who are not in denial about the climate crisis are in despair. And no-one has a good argument as to why the protesters are wrong. I don’t have time to write this article. I am submerged under a snowdrift of undergraduate marking, overdue corrections on a book manuscript, labouring through a PhD thesis I will... Continue Reading →
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