And climate change is the biggest problem there is. There are many other important problems to be sure, but this is the one that could kill us all. And while Exxon/Mobil and the right wing establishment have lied their asses off about it for decades, the scientists and the smart and honest people in our society have been, very appropriately, sounding the alarm.
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
David Suzuki
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
David Horsey
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
James Hansen
Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies for over 30 years, is our most important voice on climate change. If you haven't watched this video, you should.
Exxon and the fossil fuel cartel have perpetrated a monstrous crime against humanity for no better reason than to protect their environmentally filthy profits.
Exxon and other fossil fuel companies may have committed a crime of enormous proportions, and more and more elected officials and others are demanding an investigation.
The charge is that Exxon scientists and management knew since the late 1970s that the company's product was helping cause our planet to warm "catastrophically," but management responded by covering this up and disseminating disinformation - joining with other companies to commit an enormous fraud on the public for profit.
Exxon's Funding of Climate Denial Turned Americans Against Their Own Government for Profit
Bernie Sanders is demanding an investigation. And now Hillary is too.
Is Bernie Sanders the Best Candidate on Climate Change?
He was recently ranked as the Senate's top leader on global warming.
The Democratic presidential primary race got its second major candidate recently, and its first true climate hawk: Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, self-described democratic socialist. Sanders has one of the strongest climate change records in the Senate. In fact, according to rankings released by Climate Hawks Vote, a new super PAC, Sanders was the No. 1 climate leader in the Senate for the 113th Congress that ended in January.
Climate Hawks Vote measures leadership, not just voting records, tabulating actions like bills introduced, speeches given, and so forth. In the 112th Congress, Sanders ranked third behind Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). In the last Congress, he edged out Whitehouse by one point.
"Sanders is very much among the top leaders," says R.L. Miller, founder of Climate Hawks Vote. "He has a record of really strong advocacy for solar in particular." Miller notes that distributed solar, which enables everyone with a solar panel to create their own energy instead of relying on a monopolistic utility company, fits especially well with Sanders' democratic socialist philosophy. It's bad for corporations and good for regular folks who get to own the means of production.
Is Bernie Sanders the Best Candidate on Climate Change?
Other candidates are not receiving the same high marks from the experts on this issue.
McKibben is not alone in criticizing Clinton’s energy policy for sounding like too little too late.
“It’s just plain silly,” said James Hansen, a climate change researcher who headed Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for over 30 years. “No, you cannot solve the problem without a fundamental change, and that means you have to make the price of fossil fuels honest. Subsidizing solar panels is not going to solve the problem.”
Hillary Clinton's climate change plan 'just plain silly', says leading expert
Prominent climate activist, Bill McKibben tells it like it is.
"Bernie is the ultimate what-you-see-is-what-you-get politician," McKibben said in an email. "There's no fancy moves and no adroit spin, just relentless day-in day-out advocacy for working people, and for a working planet. Bernie's been in the forefront of all the crucial environmental fights of recent years, always willing to knuckle down and do the hard work of fighting the big corporations."
McKibben to speak at Sanders kickoff
"On climate stuff [Sanders has] been the most aggressive voice in the Senate."
Bill McKibben
The consensus in the anti-climate change community on who best to lead us seems as solid as the consensus among scientists on climate change.
The campaign of Bernie Sanders scored a major coup Saturday, earning the first endorsement of any candidate by a national environmental group, Friends of the Earth.
Granted, the field is limited to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, given that no living Republican candidate will ever earn the endorsement of any environmental group, local, state, or national. But with the narrowing gap between Clinton and Sanders, this endorsement is no small thing.
Bernie Sanders Gets Major Environmental Endorsement
I am asking all of the good, smart and responsible people of America to give this matter the serious thought it deserves. There is only one rational choice for true leadership on this critical issue. We can't afford to get this wrong.