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For the past two years, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and his congressional team, have been scrutinizing a gigantic pile of internal company communications to suss out how fossil fuel corporations...
by Meteor Blades
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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This began as a comment to YellowDogBlue, on their diary O.J. And White Racism: we should know better after 30 years. But that diary is almost a day old now, and I have a habit of coming late to these things with my thoughts. So instead, since someone...
by Gaelsdottir
39 comments
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 06:24 AM PDT
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It is Clear that the Supreme Court has largely ignored the Civil Liberties of a Woman's Reproductive Healthcare and has denied them of Medically Necessary Best Practices! Furthermore, the New Laws has enslaved women to carry the rapist child to term,...
by VETFORJUSTICE007
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 09:52 AM PDT
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Here is a debate which may very well occur in the near future but is unlikely to be televised.
by Perlinator
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 04:34 PM PST
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There is a blizzard in California now. Some climate change deniers cite any sign of cold or snow as “proof” that global warming is fake because, how could there be cold anywhere if global warming were real? Contrary to deniers’ beliefs, this snow and...
by jtg
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 07:43 AM PST
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NOTE: Earth Matters will not appear on December 24 and December 31. It will return January 7, 2024. December 28 marks the 50th birthday of the signing of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It was a solidly bipartisan act of Congress signed by a...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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— — Say hello to the “New Normal” America … Apocalypse in New York! Monstrous flood in the largest city in the USA! New York City Area Under State of Emergency After Storms Flood Subways and Strand People [...] Up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain...
by jamess
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 04:11 PM PDT
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“In Earth's hottest spots, heat pushes limits of survival” Scott Dance, WASHINGTON POST, in THE SACRAMENTO BEE, 7/19/23 July, 2023, went down as the hottest month in the planet’s recorded history—ever. News stories ran the gamut, from amusing articles...
by Gregg Matson
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 04:54 PM PDT
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Just for a moment, let’s go with the premise that climate change is a hoax. Here is what the perpetrators of the hoax must have been doing: They’ve been setting lots of enormous wildfires all over the world. They’ve been traveling to the arctic and...
by Perlinator
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on Wed Jun 28, 2023 at 06:12 PM PDT
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With all the drama among the chattering classes, the punditocracy, the Very Serious People, who are all dithering about the Constitutional Crisis if Biden acts to preclude a debt ceiling default because Republicans refuse to raise it without massive...
by xaxnar
187 comments
on Tue May 09, 2023 at 10:08 AM PDT
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For quite a while, science has raised the specter of change for the worse. In 1988, then-NASA physicist/climate scientist James Hansen confirmed suspicions that had been unveiled by such forerunners as Eunice Foote. Svante Arrhenius. John Tyndall. Guy...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Sun Jan 22, 2023 at 01:51 PM PST
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With apologies to Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, and possibly Weird Al Yankovic: The bomb cyclone is frightful,/ And the science so insightful. Can global warmth bring more snow?/ Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo. Talk about cognitive dissonance. To paraphrase Chico...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Thu Dec 29, 2022 at 11:57 AM PST
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At least since 2007, psychology professor/author Daniel Gilbert has credited psychology professor/neuroscientist/pundit Drew Westen with solving the longstanding enigma of blue underachievement at the polls. That year, Dr. Westen’s landmark study The...
by Inspector Clueso
7 comments
on Tue Dec 27, 2022 at 12:37 PM PST
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Donald Trump anointed four Republican candidates in Arizona’s statewide races: Kari Lake for Governor, Blake Masters for US Senate, Mark Finchem for Secretary of State, and Abraham Hamadeh for Attorney General. They all celebrated trump’s endorsement,...
by Mother Mags
108 comments
on Fri Nov 25, 2022 at 03:45 PM PST
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Just over half the Republicans in the Senate and House who take the oath of office in three weeks have expressed views in opposition to what the overwhelming majority of scientists tell us is happening with Earth’s climate. In the House, there are 110...
by Meteor Blades
82 comments
on Tue Dec 13, 2022 at 10:21 AM PST
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For those who missed it, Bret Stephens, deputy editor of the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, posted a sort of mea culpa on climate change today. Without the culpa. Previously, as recently as July 4, he was still a solid climate science denier. He...
by Meteor Blades
168 comments
on Sat Oct 29, 2022 at 06:51 PM PDT
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Behind the information wars is a struggle for power in the world between the privileged classes and everyone else. It cuts across nations and politics today as information itself is now a global commodity. In that sense, World War Three has already...
by psychusa
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on Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 01:46 PM PDT
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Trying to talk to a climate denier is not an amusing experience. They have their talking points to justify denial and FOX/talk radio/the Republican Party are always supplying new ones as the old ones crash and burn. Just because I have too much time on...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jul 20, 2022 at 01:00 PM PDT
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In 2012, Jennifer Rubin supported Mitt Romney for president, so much so that Politico suggested she should be labelled Romney’s spokesperson. When he was elected senator in 2018, she still had high hopes for him. No more. The sky has well and truly...
by Dan K
128 comments
on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 08:35 AM PDT
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This won’t be much of a diary — more a small rant. A recent BBC article that showed up on Facebook was about a coastal town in Wales that is slated to be ‘decommissioned’ because they expect it to be impractical to keep living in it. The estimate is...
by xaxnar
10 comments
on Thu May 19, 2022 at 11:50 AM PDT
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