Sometimes, you just have to appreciate the small things. Ten years ago Monday, George W. Bush–you know, the last Republican to slide into the Oval Office without winning the popular vote–delivered his second-to-last State of the Union Address, and for the first time in a Bush SOTU speech, he acknowledged the reality of a problem […]
climate change
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You Know the Drill
What will he say during the deposition? “My bad”? For all my skepticism about the effort by young climate activists in Oregon to have the federal courts effectively shut down the fossil-fuel industry, I have to admit this is a clever idea: Lawyers for teenagers claiming the US government failed to protect the environment from […]
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Orange Alert
Maybe Donald Trump had better things to do that morning. Perhaps the science-scorning scoundrel would have learned something 35 years ago today, if he had read the report in the New York Times about the crisis that would threaten his city three decades later in the form of Superstorm Sandy–a crisis he would shamefully deny […]
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Thought Process
C’mon, John Kerry’s just doing his job. The outgoing Secretary of State knows that the man nominated to replace him, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, isn’t qualified to cut the White House lawn, much less represent the Trump administration internationally. As a longtime climate hawk, Kerry also knows about ExxonMobil’s decades of deception on climate change, […]
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Heat Index
The top ten climate stories of 2016: 1.) Donald Trump’s Electoral College Victory: The ascension of an avowed climate denier to the White House–and the subsequent selection of a Cabinet chockablock with climate deniers–could push the world to the edge of eco-disaster. 2.) 2016, the third consecutive hottest year on record Speaking of eco-disaster, unrestrained […]
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Oops, I Lost and Got a Promotion
He’s going to head the department he forgot the name of in 2012.
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Learning from Hillary’s Loss
There’s a lot to be learned if Democrats want to win in 2020.
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Moving Backwards
Did anyone seriously think Donald Trump would change his mind on climate change? Apparently, former Vice President Al Gore’s highly publicized efforts to convince the Addams, er, Trump family to give efforts to reduce CO2 their due were for naught, as the apparent President-elect went ahead with plans to hand the Environmental Protection Agency and […]
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Governing Principles
November 7, 2017 will give us the clearest indication yet of whether the Democratic Party has its groove back. If the party wins the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections, it will demonstrate that Democrats still have plenty of fight left in them. Remember how the mainstream media hyped the Republican victories in those two […]
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Trump’s Team Is Trying to Figure Out How to Upend Obama’s Climate Policy
More anti-science is on the way.
