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Entries from November 2018

Thanksgiving: Trump tweets climate denial; Black Friday: Scientists issue dire climate report

November 23rd, 2018 · Comments Off on Thanksgiving: Trump tweets climate denial; Black Friday: Scientists issue dire climate report

On Thanksgiving eve, Trump (yet again) tweeted out idiocy related to climate change, demonstrating (yet again) his arrogant ignorance on the most critical issue facing humanity. 34 other times Donald Trump tweeted his ignorance about how weather works https://t.co/dq54sqoAkm pic.twitter.com/aUEGRMS0h8 — Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) November 22, 2018   Sigh … Pulling hair out … when things written in […]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate zombies · Donald Trump · politics · SciComm · science · Science Communication · science denial

.@Ocasio2018 joins @SunriseMvmt in pounding on Pelosi’s door for #GreenNewDeal to #ActOnClimate

November 13th, 2018 · Comments Off on .@Ocasio2018 joins @SunriseMvmt in pounding on Pelosi’s door for #GreenNewDeal to #ActOnClimate

Youth climate activists didn’t put their passion away last Tuesday evening at the end of balloting. The likely next Speaker of the House, who has indicated that (a) there will be recreation of a Climate-focused committee but (b) climate won’t be top of the agenda, has a few hundred passionate, knowledgable Sunrise Movement activists pounding […]

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Tags: clean energy jobs · climate change

Climate Change threatens Virginia: Governor Ralph Northam issues executive order on climate resiliency

November 2nd, 2018 · 5 Comments

Human-driven climate change creates many challenges for humanity from driving mounting extinction rates (and thus reducing biodiversity and undermining ecosystems) to disrupted weather patterns to fostering more extreme weather events to … Well, that list is distressing long.  Many of these risks and threats are difficult to project with exactitude: yes, climate change will lead […]

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Tags: Energy