Even in MA, Coastal Towns in Denial on Sea Level Rise

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Monday April 28, 2014 · 2:13 PM PDT

2014/04/28 · 14:13

Here in Massachusetts, climate science denial may be politically toxic, but when it comes to accelerating sea level rise fueled by global warming, some local officials are just as in denial about as their science-denying counterparts in North Carolina.

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Sunday March 16, 2014 · 4:03 AM PDT

2014/03/16 · 04:03

A new study backed by NASA warns that, much like the Romans and Mayans before us, our elite power brokers may be driving us towards a cliff as the 1% vacuums up wealth and natural resources:

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Wednesday March 05, 2014 · 6:35 AM PST

2014/03/05 · 06:35

Russia holds much of its sway over Ukraine and other nations in Eastern Europe because it's a major supplier of natural gas for electricity and home heating.

We're spending $682 billion on fighter jets, bombs, and tanks that are virtually worthless in this situation and $75 billion more on spying that as The Rachel Maddow Show reports failed to warn us this crisis was coming.

What if instead we spent just $500 billion on that stuff that's not helping us and spent the other $250 billion on hiring Americans to build wind turbines, then giving them to Ukraine and other vulnerable nations in the region below cost or free?

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Thursday February 27, 2014 · 7:06 PM PST

2014/02/27 · 19:06

Boston is the 26th-wealthiest city on the entire planet, according to a Brookings Institution report, yet it is declaring it can't afford to invest in its future. The city is slashing its school budget, laying off hundreds of teachers and support staff, and lengthening student commuting times. How does an allegedly progressive state let this happen?

First, the gory details.

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Wednesday February 26, 2014 · 9:45 AM PST

2014/02/26 · 09:45

Republicans like to blame the EVIL DEMOCRATIC MACHINE for their near constant string of electoral failures in Massachusetts. They prefer not to talk about how their state party platform is better aligned with views in the Arizona legislature than in Massachusetts:

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Friday February 14, 2014 · 12:01 PM PST

2014/02/14 · 12:01

People who don't listen to what the Obama administration like to complain about an imaginary war on coal. But if you listen to the actual words spoken by actual administration officials, they often sound a lot like coal executives. (I say executives because there are very few coal mining workers left - machines do almost all of the work now.)

Listen to Julio Friedmann, deputy assistant secretary for clean coal at the Energy Department, who makes the Obama administration sound incredibly desperate to be the coal industry's best friend:

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Wednesday February 12, 2014 · 6:39 AM PST

2014/02/12 · 06:39

With unprecedented climate change-fueled floods pummeling the United Kingdom, conservative Prime Minister David Cameron stood in front of the media Tuesday to insist that, despite appointing a climate science denying environment secretary to gut flood preparation and ignore climate threats, he is in fact aware that climate change is happening:

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Thursday January 23, 2014 · 1:50 PM PST

2014/01/23 · 13:50

Virginia's insane General Assembly schedule just produced an absurdly heart-warming outcome: Two smart Republicans helped block a bill that would've put up an unnecessary new hurdle for wind energy.

When it comes to clean wind power, Virginia remains a black hole. Republican State Sen. Tom Garrett thinks the problem is that it's not being regulated heavily enough:

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Monday January 13, 2014 · 10:21 AM PST

2014/01/13 · 10:21

Capitol Hill's Denier in Chief, Sen. Jim Inhofe, slipped up and admitted the real reason why he pretends climate change doesn't exist:

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Thursday January 09, 2014 · 12:16 PM PST

2014/01/09 · 12:16

I can't understand the ongoing, intense Al Gore hatred of climate science deniers.

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Thursday January 02, 2014 · 9:53 AM PST

2014/01/02 · 09:53

How are the gatekeepers of truth in public discourse supposed to function when they're being laid off by the hundreds in the name of higher profits? While a few newspapers like the Los Angeles Times are taking a stand against opinion pieces that get the facts wrong on climate science, smaller newspapers across the country are getting overrun by climate science deniers.

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Monday December 23, 2013 · 1:27 PM PST

2013/12/23 · 13:27

The funeral for Lance Cpl. Matthew R. Rodriguez, U.S.M.C., is taking place today down the street from me in Fairhaven, MA.

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