The Biden administration has laid out a roadmap for undoing many of the environmental actions of his predecessor, some of which were approved or enacted within the past six months. President Joe Biden, hours after he was sworn in Wednesday, issued an executive order to start a process that could lead to amendments or even... Continue Reading →
It seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. What’s known as “green hydrogen” — which relies on renewable power for production — is getting the bulk of that attention. In December, ABC News ran an article with the headline “Why green hydrogen is the renewable energy... Continue Reading →
Decoding the Hype Behind the Natural Gas Industry’s Hydrogen Push (must read)
If one wanted a basic rule of thumb for dealing with the climate crisis, it would be: stop burning things. Human beings have made use of combustion for a very long time, ever since the first campfires cooked the first animals for dinner, allowing our brains to get larger. Now those large brains have come... Continue Reading →
To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things
Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought The American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 – much earlier than previously thought – according to newly discovered archival documents.... Continue Reading →
Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980
The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change
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Last month, I co-published an article with the newsletter Popular Information exposing six corporations that “talk green but spend dirty.” Like so many articles we’ve written before, the piece showed how corporate America markets itself as a friend to the climate while directly funding climate deniers. Our reporting didn’t change anything. The one company that responded —... Continue Reading →
Canceling election deniers isn’t enough…
Michael Mann is no stranger to the war against climate science. A climatologist at Pennsylvania State University who is currently studying the impact of climate change on extreme weather events, Mann is best known for the “hockey stick graph,” which he and his colleagues published in a 1998 scientific paper. The data visualization—featured prominently in... Continue Reading →
Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’
Planned Obsolescence Sucks. Here’s Why It Still Exists.
Why (and how) Planned Obsolescence and Capitalism make terrible products. Continued at source...
Greta Thunberg has called for action after NASA declared 2020 the hottest year on record. The 18-year-old environmental activist said the world is facing a 'climate emergency' and she called for people to 'be the change' and 'spread awareness'. Analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York found that 2020 edged... Continue Reading →
Greta Thunberg Calls For Action After NASA Declare 2020 Hottest Year On Record
Fridays for Future, the youth-led global group inspired by Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, announced Wednesday that its next international day of climate strikes will occur on March 19 of this year with a demand for "immediate, concrete, and ambitious action" directed at world leaders who have in recent years talked seriously about the urgent need... Continue Reading →
Demanding Immediate Action Over ‘Empty Promises,’ Youth Climate Movement Announces Next Global Strikes
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