Tag: climate change
Hurricane Harvey isn’t a “natural” disaster. Politics created the chaos
Don’t blame climate change for Houston’s vulnerability. A hurricane need not become a disaster.
How Exxon used the New York Times to make you question...
These oil companies were not as naive or uncertain as they long pretended to be.
Dr. Robert Bullard: Houston’s “unrestrained capitalism” made Harvey “catastrophe waiting to...
While the National Hurricane Center is now calling Harvey the biggest rainstorm on record, scientists have been predicting for years that climate change would result in massive storms like Harvey.
Activists demand climate refugees be recognized
Campaign for legal recognition of climate refugees would be a long struggle.
12 years after Katrina, Hurricane Harvey pummels Gulf Coast and its...
Do climate-deniers consider that when extreme weather devastates the Gulf Coast, those industries they are trying to promote are crippled as well?
Climate change and the deportation machine: A match forged in hell,...
Undocumented Texans in Hurricane Harvey’s path face a horrifying choice: deportation or risk of death.
Groundbreaking Harvard study confirms #ExxonKnew
"This peer-reviewed study from Harvard is just the latest piece of evidence indicating that the largest oil company in the world knew about the risks of climate change, but concealed them from the public and shareholders."
The climate movement’s new battle cry
The unimaginable is now possible: 100% renewable energy. We can’t settle for less.
Climate migrants might reach one billion by 2050
“Unless we change the way we manage our land, in the next 30 years we may leave a billion or more vulnerable poor people with little choice but to fight or flee.”
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Trump removal calls grow after Iran threat as Democrats debate 25th Amendment and impeachment...
Calls to remove President Donald Trump intensified after he warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” but constitutional requirements and political alignment within the executive branch make immediate removal highly unlikely.
How Iran won the Iran War
It is a pyrrhic victory in many ways, since Iran has new enemies among its neighbors and it has lost industrial capacity. But it is a victory of sorts.
The American Medical Association has an obligation it’s failing on.
Our government is killing people in cold blood, and the institutions meant to advocate for us remain silent even when it is their peers being forced into tanks, handcuffed, and locked away and tortured.
Trump budget expands domestic surveillance powers alongside record $1.5 trillion military request
New budget documents reveal expanded FBI authority to monitor domestic extremism while the White House seeks historic increases in Pentagon spending and significant cuts to social programs.
Exposing discredited ‘alpha male’ dominance myths driving the worst toxic MAGA Trump masculinity
The crackbrained, suicidal Make America Grim Again carnival impedes the next alpha male wannabee from crawling from the swampy ooze, bellowing toxic masculinity and gaining public office.