Climate crisis researchers worry about the channel’s reach to perpetuate misinformation and advance political goals Fox News Media, the company that owns the reactionary, climate crisis-skeptical Fox News, is launching a weather channel this year – a development that has climate crisis experts worried. Fox Weather, a 24-hour channel devoted to all things meteorological, promises... Continue Reading →
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NATURAL DISASTERS this week from 11 - 17 july 2021 Climate changе! disasters 2021 flood The release features natural disasters around the world. Climate is changing, and this is very noticeable Climate Change!, that's where the power is !!!! , Source...
In the world of sustainability, as in any other, there is a difference between talking a good game and executing. A company, community or entire country can set all the environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals it wants. But if there’s no follow-through, all that’s left are some nice murals and a stack of unused... Continue Reading →
Keeping It Real: Germany, Illinois and Toledo Top the 2021 Sustainability Rankings
Will world take action after a week of major climate disasters?
Today, there was yet another warning on climate change: the International Energy Agency predicting global emissions of greenhouse gases will reach an all-time high in 2023 - as governments all over the world fail to 'build back better' as they recover from the pandemic. Video Source!
Electric Vehicles (EVs) remain a small percentage of the cars on American roads. But EV registrations are gaining speed. In the first three months of 2021, Americans registered new EVs at three times the rate of other types of new cars. Registrations Up for Every Type According to a new report from Experian, overall new... Continue Reading →
EV Registrations Growing 3 Times Faster Than Gasoline-Powered Cars
FacingFuture.TV founder and executive producer Stuart Scott and co-host Dale Walkonen recently broadcast a wide-ranging interview with Noam Chomsky about the state of human existence in the face of universal decadence. They started by referencing the Doomsday Clock (Science and Security Board Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists), which has pegged humanity’s risk of annihilation at... Continue Reading →
A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet
An annual ExxonMobil report shows the company routinely giving six-figure sums to Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and similar institutions. Not everyone is happy about Unearthed’s recent exposé on ExxonMobil. Shortly after the Greenpeace-attached journalistic outfit published quotes top Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy unknowingly gave to an undercover reporter about the oil giant’s... Continue Reading →
Centrist Think Tanks Are Raking In Exxon Cash
"Amid a climate emergency that is wreaking havoc on communities across the globe, the path to a livable future demands new internationalism rooted in global cooperation, resource sharing, and solidarity," the coalition told the White House and Congress. A coalition of nearly 50 environmental and other advocacy groups critical of the U.S. government's increasingly hostile approach... Continue Reading →
45+ Groups Say ‘Future of Our Planet Depends on Ending New Cold War’ Between US and China
Rich countries are failing to put the money behind their promises. For decades, rich and poor countries were trapped in a stalemate over how to deal with the carbon-dioxide coated, rapidly overheating planet. The United States and other developed countries — responsible for more than half of the world’s CO2 emissions to date — refused... Continue Reading →
A $100 billion promise holds the Paris Agreement together. Now, it’s coming apart.
The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 gigatons of the stuff cluttering landfills, waterways and oceans, or being incinerated by 2040. Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. According... Continue Reading →
Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by James Hoggan In the world of environmental communication, we are learning as we go. For years, we thought facts and outrage changed minds in ways we now know they don’t. We need to explore reliable new ways to speak, listen, and connect in the face of environmental... Continue Reading →