Tag: climate change
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Colbert Calls Out Climate Deniers as Polar Vortex Hits North America
Last night on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert called out climate deniers Donald Trump and Fox News for mocking global warming on account of the ‘polar vortex’ currently hitting North America. Colbert points out that the Fox & Friends report uses an unsourced photo to target Al Gore’s 2006 book, An Inconvenient Truth, selling for $1 as a way to dismiss…
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Refusing to Give Up in the Face of Adversity for the Good of Humanity and the Earth
Nelson Mandela, who died last month at age 95, was sentenced to life in prison in 1962 because he fought for justice, equality and democracy. He was finally released 27 years later, in 1990. South Africa’s racist apartheid system fell and Mandela served as president from 1994 to 1999. The tributes after his death rightfully…
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Why the ‘Polar Vortex’ Does Not Disprove Global Warming
By Emily Atkin On Sunday night, a reporter for The Weather Channel stood in a Minnesota snowstorm, talking about local efforts to move homeless children into heated shelters. “How cold is it supposed to get?” the anchor, back in the studio, asked. The reporter replied: “Colder than Mars.” Indeed, recent temperatures across the U.S. have been Mars-like. Forecasts…
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Australia’s Record-Breaking Heatwave Fuels Climate Change Fight
By Kieran Cooke It’s official—Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology says 2013 ranked as the country’s warmest year since records began more than a century ago, with the annual national mean temperature 1.2 degree Celsius above the average. Along the way, several new temperature records were set: the summer was the warmest on record as was Australia’s…
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Secretary Kerry Aggressively Pursues Major Climate Pact, Could Close Door on Keystone XL Pipeline
By Tina Casey The tubes have been buzzing over a new New York Times report on Secretary of State John Kerry’s aggressive pursuit of a new global climate agreement, which has some clear implications for approval of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. In a nutshell, things ain’t looking so good, and that…