Prescription for Health: Fight Global Warming
This is a guest post by David Suzuki What if we could reduce worldwide deaths from disease, starvation and disaster while improving the health of people everywhere? According to the World Health Organization, we can. “Previously unrecognized health benefits could be realized from fast action to reduce climate change and its consequences,” says a news release about […]
Global Economies Failing to Meet Global Warming Pollution Reduction Targets
Global economies must lower carbon emissions by at least five times the levels currently achieved, according to the 2014 Low Carbon Economy Index compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The report – Two degrees of separation: ambition and reality – clearly shows that the global economy has missed the decarbonization target needed to limit global warming to 2 […]
Trust Me, You'll Want to Hear George Marshall Talk About "Multivalent" Climate Change
Eight years ago, climate communications expert George Marshall picked up a copy of The Independent from his doorstep on a Saturday morning. Looking at the front cover of that magazine, he said, got him thinking about the “peculiarities” of climate change. In bold letters the headline read “The Melting Mountains: How Climate Change is Destroying the […]
From Neoliberalism to Climate Denial: “You must start with beliefs. Yes, always with beliefs."
The first part of our epic history of climate denial opens with our hero’s harrowing experience during the Battle of Britain and the war against totalitarianism His parachute was engulfed in flames. Antony Fisher and his younger brother Basil were engaged in a fierce firefight over the rolling hills of Sussex on 15 August 1940 after […]
Goldman Sachs Warns Investors About Tar Sands By Rail Challenges While Investing in Tar Sands By Rail
In 2009, Matt Taibbi wrote a piece in Rolling Stone in which he described the investment bank Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” Apparently tar sands oil smells like money. And thus the vampire squid has found another […]
There is the Respectable Mask of Climate Denial – And There is Lord Monckton
DeSmog profiles Christopher Monckton, a man Nigel Farage believed was unfit for UKIP, who’s now in the business of telling scientists they’re making it all up By Helen Nianias Shrewd Lord Lawson is desperate to remain the respectable face of British climate denial while his inlaw Viscount Christopher Monckton entertains the contrarian troops despite having little […]
Massachusetts District Attorney Makes History: Recognizes Necessity of Defending Climate
This morning, a District Attorney in Massachusetts made history as he recognized the “necessity defense” of climate-related civil disobedience, and reduced the charges for two activists charged in their Lobster Boat Blockade. Some quick background. Back in May 2013, Ken Ward and Jay O’Hara boarded their lobster boat, navigated to the shipping channel at the […]
How Many Crude Oil Scientists Will Testify At Congressional Science Committee Hearing on Bakken Crude? Zero
Bakken petroleum: the substance of energy independence. If you think that sounds like the latest branding from the oil industry’s public relations efforts, you might be right. However, it isn’t an ad — it is the title of the congressional hearing on Bakken oil on Tuesday. When North Dakota congressman Kevin Cramer first announced he would hold […]
Lawson and Monckton row over climate science campaigning
Conflicting accounts of climate denier Viscount Monckton’s influence over Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation charity Lord Lawson’s climate denial charity attempted to distance itself from Viscount Christopher Monckton this weekend after the eccentric peer claimed he personally persuaded them to attack climate science rather than just the Tory-led government’s carbon mitigation policies. Monckton claims he played […]
Louisiana's St. Tammany Parish Comes One Step Closer to Fracking
The Department of Louisiana Natural Resources (DNR) has approved a unit permit for Helis Oil & Gas Company for a site in St. Tammany Parish that the company plans to frack. The department’s decision came on Friday, August 29, the ninth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the beginning of the Labor Day weekend. “Releasing the news on Friday is […]