| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Court Tosses Landmark Youth Climate Change Lawsuit(+Greenpeace included with neo-Nazis in UK) The lawsuit from 21 children and young adults argued that the federal government has failed to act to address global climate change. The lawsuit from 21 children and young adults argued that the federal government has failed to act to address global... |
Angmar | 01/17/2020 | 44 |
| Can’t attend a Women’s March? Here’s what you can do instead By T.M. Spring We’re not marching, and we have our reasons. Low-level wages and weekend retail work schedules. Single-parent family responsibilities. Budget woes that mean choosing between food, utilities, and bus fare or gas money. Irritable bowel... |
Prism Guest Writer | 01/17/2020 | 48 |
| With Big 2020 Push, Koch Group Leader Admits Koch Folk Lied About Shift Away From Politcs Hey remember back in 2018 when Politico ran a whole big feature about how fortunate son Chase Koch isn’t passionate about politics, and we were skeptical that it signaled the network’s direction would change as Politico suggested? Or what about in 2019... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 01/17/2020 | 3 |
| What are you reading? January 17, 2020 In WAYR? , I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…not much time to read much of anything ... |
Chitown Kev | 01/17/2020 | 30 |
| Renewable Friday: Scotland to Reach 100% Renewable Energy This Year
They said it couldn't be done, but you don't tell a Scottish engineer that when there is money-saving technology to deploy. So if the UK Brexits from the EU, and Scotland secedes from the UK, how ... |
Mokurai | 01/17/2020 | 156 |
| Top Comments: the Music murder and Liver transplant edition A look at murder, childhood hepatitis .. and a landmark recording, after the jump: But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and ..... |
Ed Tracey | 01/16/2020 | 12 |
| Write On: Faction Greetings, Writers! Welcome to week three of DaKoWriMo. How is January shaping up? Are you discovering unexpected traits of your characters? Slogging away? Having fun? I picked a challenging goal for myself, but I want to make sure I keep the creative... |
dconrad | 01/16/2020 | 83 |
| When it Comes to Ocean Warming, Deniers Prefer Over-Simplified Models To Hard Data Who to trust, thermometers, or oversimplified one-dimensional climate models? One might think that deniers, with their regular assailing of climate models as being unreliable, would prefer a study based on actual temperature measurements to one based... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 01/16/2020 | 7 |
| Renewable Thursday: Yes, Oil and Gaslighting, But Coal, Too
"Coal is good for you and the environment," say coal profiteers, not least the greedy, lying railroads. They also carry exploding tar sands oil . And sometimes spill chlorine , metam sodium , |
Mokurai | 01/16/2020 | 8 |
| Book Review of Naomi Klein’s On Fire Naomi Klein says to avoid our imminent extinction, we must act now and not just plan for the future Reading Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, is similar to watching a mega-disaster movie in a theater. Except, you... |
Nickjlicata | 01/15/2020 | 9 |
| Bookflurries-Bookchat: Cozy Is as Cozy Does Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us. …. Sometimes after reading some tough books, I need to just relax with a cozy... |
cfk | 01/15/2020 | 113 |
| The Other NAS Complains In WSJ Of Cancel Culture In Science, Where False Ideas Apparently Never Die The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (often referred to as NAS) is the collective scientific body created by President Abraham Lincoln to keep the country on the cutting edge of science, and it publishes PNAS, one of the premier... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 01/15/2020 | 3 |
| Renewable Wednesday: How to Stick Trump's Finger in His Eye Donald J. "Jerk-in-Office" Trump, Republicans generally, the fossil fool industry, the MSM, and some national Energy Ministers don't want it known that we are solving Global Warming. But there are ... |
Mokurai | 01/15/2020 | 5 |
| Disabled workers hugely impacted by clumsy and arbitrary Democratic efforts to regulate gig workers Democrats are screwing up big time with efforts to regulate the new gig economy. While many companies such as Uber, Lyft, Postmates and others are attempting an end-run around employment ... |
kos | 01/14/2020 | 269 |
| Beaten Down By Science, Deniers Turning To Science Fiction To Scare Their Followers Yesterday, WUWT reposted an entry from Judith Curry’s blog by some random guy named Frank Bosse, discussing a paper published last year and arguing that climate sensitivity is lower than what models (and paleoclimatology) are telling us. We could get... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 01/14/2020 | 6 |
| Renewable Tuesday: Divest from Evil, Invest in Good I have called attention to various moves to divest tens of trillions of dollars from fossil foolishness and the MIC. Everybody also needs to invest in the clean economy, whether in corporate ... |
Mokurai | 01/14/2020 | 10 |
| EV Tuesday: Drivers and Passengers Love Electric Taxis. What about Republicans? Safer, more luxurious for drivers and passengers both, much cheaper to run, silent, no diesel stink…Even Republicans will have to accept enjoy riding in electric cabs, saving tax money, and seeing solar panels on taxi garages. There will be charging... |
Mokurai | 01/14/2020 | 18 |
| Stardust Found That's Older Than Earth Scientists have identified ancient grains found in a meteorite as stardust — grains of silicon carbide formed in the gasses of a dying star — that are 7 billion years old, more than 2 billion years older than the solar system. 7-billion-year-old... |
Dan K | 01/13/2020 | 51 |
| AMAZING UPDATE! URGENT: Please help a Kossack pay for her elderly mom's meds! My friends, I’m asking for your help for scamperdo, a long-time Kossack who I’ve known personally for several years. She is a lovely hard-working woman who until recently (see her story below) held three jobs to help pay for her 91-year-old mother’s... |
Ekaterin | 01/13/2020 | 268 |
| Cartoon: This is fine Even before Australia erupted in wildfire, the European Space Agency was asking, “Is the earth on fire?,” as multiple fires burned across the globe. Read more about 2019 fires, and fire-tracking ... |
Nick Anderson | 01/13/2020 | 19 |
| New Study Confirms Value of Consensus Messaging, Review Paper Summarizes Ways to Reach Skeptics Two new studies on denial came out last week. While they’re not exactly breaking new ground, confirmation is always nice. The first is a literature review led by Stanford’s Gabrielle Wong-Parodi that examines psychological studies on climate denial in... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 01/13/2020 | 6 |
| Renewable Monday: Nevada Elections have Consequences, Hooray! Nevada shows us what can happen when we put Democrats, particularly women, in charge. We tip the tipping point, and all of a sudden, everything seems to start improving at once. Renewables, EVs, ... |
Mokurai | 01/13/2020 | 6 |
| WAYWO: Welcome to 2020
What Are You Working On? is for all things hand-made, home-made, and creative in a variety of mediums.
Happy New Year everyone! What are you planning on crafting in 2020? I’m going to try ... |
vgranucci | 01/12/2020 | 10 |
| KosAbility: It can happen to anyone... KosAbility’s monthly gathering will be on Jan. 26th at 4pm PST — this promo diary is an open thread. I just heard that Justin Bieber has let his fans know he has Lyme disease: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/01/09/lyme-disease-justin-bieber/... |
CathyM | 01/12/2020 | 53 |