Climate Change

This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against?

This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against? This Sham Report Is What the Climate Movement Is Up Against?

A small group of skeptics says rising global temperatures will have a net positive effect on the world. 

Apr 10, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It

America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It America’s Homegrown Terror Threat—and Why We’re Doing Nothing to Fight It

Plagued by poor infrastructure, climate denialism, unregulated fracking wells and nuclear waste sites, the United States is poised to topple itself with self-inflicted wounds.

Apr 8, 2014 / Emanuel Pastreich, John Feffer, and Foreign Policy In Focus

An Important Lesson From Right-Wing Science Dude

An Important Lesson From Right-Wing Science Dude An Important Lesson From Right-Wing Science Dude

Global warming is just one of many lies the ‘scientific community’ tries to impose on us. 

Apr 8, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow

Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future

Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future

Student climate activists in Massachusetts win a meeting with Governor Deval Patrick about banning new fossil-fuel infrastructure. But they need more than a meeting.

Apr 1, 2014 / Wen Stephenson

We Are Now in the Terminal Stage of Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction

We Are Now in the Terminal Stage of Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction We Are Now in the Terminal Stage of Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction

Senior politicians in both parties have become so intoxicated by the idea of an American surge in energy production that they have lost their senses.

Apr 1, 2014 / Michael T. Klare

If We Want to Adapt to Climate Change, We Need to Start Now

If We Want to Adapt to Climate Change, We Need to Start Now If We Want to Adapt to Climate Change, We Need to Start Now

According to the IPCC’s latest report, global warming is already hurting people, especially the poor, and is bound to get worse in the years ahead. 

Mar 31, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard

Why We Must Divest From Fossil Fuels: A Student’s Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust

Why We Must Divest From Fossil Fuels: A Student’s Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust Why We Must Divest From Fossil Fuels: A Student’s Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust

Harvard graduate student Benjamin Franta implores President Drew Gilpin Faust to be honest about her opposition to divestment.

Mar 19, 2014 / Wen Stephenson

Disaster Militarism: Rethinking US Relief in the Asia-Pacific

Disaster Militarism: Rethinking US Relief in the Asia-Pacific Disaster Militarism: Rethinking US Relief in the Asia-Pacific

Disaster relief has increasingly become part of the justification for increased US troop deployments in the Asia-Pacific region.

Mar 14, 2014 / Annie Isabel Fukushima, Ayano Ginoza, Michiko Hase, Gwyn Kirk, Deborah Lee, Taeva Shefler, and Foreign Policy In Focus

By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire

By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire

The climate of change and the dangers of stasis.

Mar 11, 2014 / Rebecca Solnit

Senators to Pull All-Nighter to Push for Climate Action

Senators to Pull All-Nighter to Push for Climate Action Senators to Pull All-Nighter to Push for Climate Action

 From Monday evening until Tuesday morning, more than two dozen lawmakers will speak on the Senate floor about the urgency of climate change.

Mar 10, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

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