Yesterday, Mark Hertsgaard and friends went to confront cranky anti-science climate zombies on Capital Hill. Perhaps my favorite line of all is when the young woman asks Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Exxon) a perplexing question: I don’t understand why my generation has to suffer because you don’t like what you’re hearing. There are several striking items […]
Generation Hot questions … and gets told “science doesn’t really matter”
February 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · Energy · environmental · James Inhofe · republican party
food justice and security: ecojustice
February 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment
This guest post by Deborah Phelan brings food to the table — where it should be — for discussion. In ranking climate change last month as the highest risk facing the World in 2011, the WEF glitterati meeting at Davos also connected the proverbial dots between climate change and economic disparity (ranked 3), extreme weather […]
Tags: agriculture · Global Warming · guest post
Seeking to Put The Nail in The Coffin on America’s Future Prosperity and Security
February 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment
With the introduced HR-1, the proposed continuing resolution for the remainder of the U.S. government’s Fiscal Year 2011, the House Republicans seek to defang (via defunding) program and program that work to protect Americans via monitoring and studying risks and threats that require response and to put the breaks on government investment in research and […]
Tags: Congress · Energy · environmental · republican party