Paul Krugman: “The Truth, Still Inconvenient”
Paul Krugman nails the dishonest climate change deniers: “As Upton Sinclair pointed out long ago, it’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What’s the punch [...]
If You’re a Nevada County Business Person, You Should Oppose the National Chamber of Commerce!
What do all these businesses in California have in common?
Answer: They’ve signed the pledge saying, “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Doesn’t Speak for Me.”
“The Chamber is controlled by Big Polluters, poisons politics with its dirty money and opposes every single effort to curb climate pollution.”
See Bill McKibben’s excellent article describing why thousands of businesses no [...]
Why the Chamber of Commerce Has Been Wrong on All the Issues — For 99 Years and Counting
Reprinted from Alternet
by Bill McKibben
Though the Chamber claims to represent all of American business, their constituency is really that handful of huge dinosaur companies that would rather lobby than adapt.
What if I told you I’d found a political group that for a hundred years had managed to be absolutely right on every crucial political issue? A [...]
Will There Still Be a Lake Tahoe When There is No Longer a Snowpack?
A few months after his daughter was born, author Mark Hertsgaard had an epiphany. He was on assignment in England, seven weeks after Katrina, working on an article for Vanity Fair for its first green issue. He had just interviewed British science advisor David King:
“David King told me climate change had arrived one hundred [...]
Bill McKibben: “Catastrophic Weather Events Are Becoming the New Normal — Are You Ready for Life on Our Planet Circa 2011?”
Originally published in Alternet. Reprinted with permission.
For two decades now we’ve been ignoring the impassioned pleas of scientists that our burning of fossil fuels was a bad idea. And now we’re paying a heavy price.
by Bill McKibben
If you were in the space shuttle looking down yesterday, you would have seen a pair of truly awesome, [...]
Climate change: Check the data yourself
A collaborative online effort allows both skeptics and believers to study and compare the facts.
ESSAY By Debra Peters and William DeBuys
(From High Country News, http://hcn.org, July 13, 2010. Reprinted with permission)
According to opinion polls, a growing number of Americans think that climate change is hogwash.
They’ve been hearing that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change got [...]
The State of the Earth, 2010
We’re in a very bad way. But we also know the solution would make most of us richer—even if not in the ways we are presently accustomed to counting as wealth.
by Rebecca Solnit
These days, I see how optimistic and positive disaster and apocalypse movies were. Remember how, when those giant asteroids or alien spaceships headed directly [...]
Money and Career Opportunities in Climate Change Denial
In his review of the forthcoming book, “Merchants of Doubt,” by historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Jeffrey Sachs reports that “today’s campaigners against action on climate change are in many cases backed by the same lobbies, individuals, and organisations that sided with the tobacco industry to discredit the science linking smoking and lung cancer.”
Later, [...]
A.P.P.L.E. Center Water Panel Well Attended
The Nevada City Hall Council Chamber was full to overflowing for last night’s “Water: A Panel Discussion,” sponsored by the A.P.P.L.E Center for Sustainable Living. Let there be no doubt about the passionate interest in water issues among the citizens of Nevada County, nor about the catalytic role that the Sustainability Center is playing in [...]
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