Category: Climate Change

The Los Angeles Times reports: Gas-powered yard tools may be harder to come by starting this year. Assembly Bill 1346 requires phasing out fossil fuel-fueled leaf blowers, lawnmowers, weed trimmers, chain saws and other tools. The tools were targeted for …

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Everyone knows that burning jet fuel releases CO2 into the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and further warming the Earth.  But did you know that contrails act to make the situation even worse?  And that some of our top scientific …

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The author of the cartoon here conflates “capacity for critical thinking” and the “training to conduct scientific research,” even though they are two different things. When it comes to space exploration, disease control, climate science, etc., all the critical thinking …

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A few incorrect (though fairly unimportant) claims in the meme here: Cow poop creates biodiversity. Wrong.  See link. The lifecycle of grass takes CO2 out of the air and replaces it with oxygen.  Throughout a 24-hour cycle, the intakes and …

Cows and Our Environment Read More »

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I encourage readers to check out the “future of transportation” solution presented in this video. These “trams” have rubber tires and therefore, can cruise around all over our 4.09 million miles of our roads, not bound to follow rail tracks. …

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As previously mentioned, FAIR is a national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.  It’s best known for its weekly radio program “Counterspin,” syndicated across 160 stations. This week’s broadcast, “Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on …

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Re: the meme here, a reader notes: This climate meeting was all about fossil fuel strategies and alliances to wipe out renewable energy. There is no doubt that this was the focus on the part of Big Oil.  Looked at …

Number of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at Climate Meeting “Beyond Justification” Read More »

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Morgan, at “Inside the Movement,” writes: This year’s COP Conference has been hard to watch. Between the record number of oil lobbyists attending and the COP President (an oil CEO) who doesn’t believe phasing out fossil fuels will reduce global heating, …

“Inside the Movement” Remains Optimistic on Global Warming Mitigation Read More »

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Reader Charlie Heller notes: Hydrocarbons are not nearly the problem climate change hysteria peddlers claim. They are making money off of fear mongering. I had no idea. Please provide some evidence in support of the claim you make here. I’d …

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The Democracy Now! article begins: This year, there are at least 2,456 lobbyists at COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai — nearly four times as many as last year — from companies like Shell, Total and ExxonMobil. The lobbyists …

From Democracy Now: Planet for Sale? Record 2,500 Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Descend on COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai Read More »

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