The Biggest Little Black Lie of 2012
In a culture awash in bullshit, itโs no easy task to identify the Little Black Lie of the Year. Itโs like choosing the most beautiful butterfly or the most violent criminal. There are just so many to choose from, and whoโs toย say? Still, it behooves us to try, so I solicited input from people who […]
Skeptical Science Video Debunks "No Warming for 16 Years" Denialist Claim
The talented team at Skeptical Science produced the video below to debunk the well-worn denialist argument that there’s been โno warming for 16 yearsโ – a favorite lie of Lord Christopher Monckton and many other anti-science crusaders. It’s fantastic, and deserves to be spread far and wide to anyone who is confused about this. Watch:ย
Letter Reveals Harper Government Granted Oil and Gas Industry Requests
According to aย document obtained by Greenpeace Canada through an Access to Information request, the current overhaul of Canada’s environmental protections doesn’t just look like a gift to the oil and gas industry. A letter dated December 12, 2011 reveals the oil and gas industry made an appeal to Environment Minister Peter Kent and Natural Resources […]
The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck
This piece originally appeared on Mother Jones as part of Climate Desk.ย Everybody who’s written or blogged about climate change on a prominent website (or, even worse, spoken about it on YouTube) knows the drill. Shortly after you post, the menagerie of trolls arrives. They’re predominantly climate deniers, and they start in immediately arguing over […]
RFK, Jr. & Bill McKibben: Time To Act On Climate Change
Originally published on Ring of Fire New reports have come out this week showing us that 2012 was officially the hottest year on record.ย North America alone was plagued with hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, blizzards, and numerous other forms of weather that have almost all been linked back to anthropogenic climate change.ย Earlier this week, […]
Australia Scorches In Record Heatwave As Warming Trends Bite
AUSTRALIA is baking in a heatwave which has broken all historical records for its geographical size and sheer number ofย extremes. For seven days straight, the country’s average maximum temperature has been above 39C (102F), beating a previous run of just four days of such temperatures set back inย 1973. The country’s Bureau of Meteorology has issued […]
DNA Tracers Could Put End to Fracking Guessing Game On Water Contamination
The oil and gas industry has just been handed an opportunity to walk the walk when it comes to ‘best practices‘ for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking for unconventional gas. BaseTrace is a cutting-edge technology that uses resiliant DNA tracers to give a unique fingerprint to fracturing fluid blends. Conflicts over water contamination often boil down […]
On The Fringes With Climate Denialist Lord Monckton And An Anti-Islam, Anti-Abortion Creationist Pastor
PASTOR Daniel Nalliah, president of the fringe political party Rise Up Australia, has what you might politely describe as some fairly interesting views on matters of science, the climate, abortion and religiousย tolerance. In the pulpit-driven eyes of Melbourne’s Pastor Nalliah, humans didn’t appear on Earth until 6000 years ago, when his god put us there. […]
Dirty Energy Lobby Optimistic About Obamaโs Second Term
Despite the years that they have spent attacking President Obama, the dirty energy industry is incredibly optimistic that the White House is going to give the oil and gas industry everything they want in Obama’s secondย term. Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute (API), said that his group is confident that the Obama administrationโs […]
Moment of Truth As Harper Preps For Meeting With First Nations
This is a guest post by Michael Harris, originally published on iPolitics.ca Keep the Indians off theย front-page. That, in a phrase, is the Harper approach to aboriginal issues in Canada. With the exception of former prime minister Paul Martin, that has pretty much been the playbook for all federal governments โ out of sight, out […]