Thursday, December 24, 2015

Snyder admin allowed Flint to drink toxic water despite warnings

No Science Here: Big Oil Has Turned The House Into Their Private Lobbying Agency

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/no-science-here-big-oil-has-turned-the-house-into-their-private-lobbying-agency/
"It is an absolute travesty that such idiots have been allowed to take over a government committee overseeing what is perhaps the most dangerous issue of our time and run it like a joke, and yet that is exactly what a dangerous combination of unfettered corporate purchasing of lawmakers and delusional conservative anti-intellectualism have produced"

Town's bad water poisons residents despite state assurances

Kids' toxic test results raised alarm over water supply: Doctor

Friday, December 18, 2015

Who Is Smarter? The GOP Or Everyone Else In the World?

http://samuel-warde.com/2015/12/who-is-smarter-gop-or-world-on-climate-change/
"How can it be that the right wing Republicans sucking at the teat of the Koch brothers are the only people on Earth who have got it right? Instead of moving us forward, today’s GOP is intent on taking us backwards on so many fronts: women’s rights to equal pay and autonomy over their own bodies, minimum wage, worker’s rights to unionize, voting rights, health care, clean air and water, to name just a few of the issues. The GOP has demonstrated time and again that they are a party afraid of change and afraid to move forward; a party that embraces old, worn out ideas that have not worked in the past and will not work in the future; a party that dresses up those old ideas and tries to truck them out as new. And these are the people who know better than everyone else in the world? I don’t think so."

Ted Cruz Finds Someone Dumber Than Himself To Deny Climate Change

Saturday, December 12, 2015

The Colorado River is running dry

Bill Nye on Obama's climate legacy

Brad Schimel's Dirty Power Play

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/12/12995/brad-schimels-dirty-power-play
"Schimel's decision to go to bat for polluters comes as no surprise."

CA Gov. Jerry Brown on the Paris climate talks

Ted Cruz's three-hour hearing on climate change a pathetic waste of time except for denier shills

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/9/1458508/-Ted-Cruz-s-three-hour-hearing-on-climate-change-a-pathetic-waste-of-time-except-for-denier-shills
"Cruz’s little carnival show included four witnesses who spouted the same old Koch- and Exxon-funded lies that they and other “experts” have for years been slathering across every venue of public discourse they can poke themselves into. This despite the fact that Exxon has publicly started admitting that climate change is real and could be disastrous, no doubt in hopes of obscuring the fact the giant corporation worked diligently for more than three decades to persuade Americans that it’s not happening or, if it is, it’s no big deal and nothing can be done about it even if it is a big deal."

California's historic drought

Jim Hightower | The Sleaze, Guilt and Punishment of Don Blankenship

Jim Hightower | The Sleaze, Guilt and Punishment of Don Blankenship

"Don Blankenship didn't get what he deserves in his federal trial, but he definitely deserves what he got. "Guilty," declared all 12 West Virginia jurors who pondered the charge that this arrogant and avaricious CEO of Massey Energy Company willfully conspired to violate America's mine safety laws. As a result of that conspiracy, 29 miners were essentially murdered by the corporation on April 5, 2010, in a horrific explosion deep inside Massey's Upper Big Branch coal mine. Blankenship, a multimillionaire right-wing ideologue, union-buster, and political heavyweight, ran the Upper Big Branch mine like a lawless third-world operator."

Republicans Give the Kochs and Big Oil Billions Annually To Export Domestic Oil

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/12/11/republicans-give-kochs-big-oil-billions-annually-export-domestic-oil.html
"As is their typical practice, Republicans are inserting a “rider” in the omnibus spending bill that eliminates the ban on American oil exports that was developed specifically to protect American consumers financially and strengthen America’s energy independence"

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Ted Cruz's hearing on climate change

Ted Cruz Isn’t As Smart As Your Children; Here’s Proof

The Oil Industry Is About To Get A Big Gift From Congress

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/09/3729646/oil-export-ban-likely-lifted-in-spending-bill/
"The decades-old oil export ban — which was developed to protect American consumers and support energy independence — is unlikely to survive into the new year."

Republicans Prepare To Gut Obama’s Greatest Climate Action

Sanders' Climate Revolution Would Cut 80% of Emissions by 2050

Sanders' Climate Revolution Would Cut 80% of Emissions by 2050

"Environmental platform calls for swift shift to renewable power system, a ban on extreme extraction activities, and end of subsidies for Big Oil"

ExxonMobil Warns of ‘Catastrophic’ 9°F to 12°F Global Warming Without Government Action

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/07/3728921/exxonmobil-warns-catastrophic-global-warming/
"Of course, thanks to excellent reporting by InsideClimate News, we now know ExxonMobil had been told by its own scientists in the 1970s and 1980s that climate change was human-caused and would reach catastrophic levels without reductions in carbon emissions. Yes, this is same ExxonMobil that then became the largest funder of disinformation on climate science and attacks on climate scientists until they were surpassed by the Koch Brothers in recent years — but that is a different (tragic) story. Hiatt’s point is to show “how dangerously extreme the Republican Party has become on climate change,” and that that “Republicans’ ideologically based denial is dangerous and cowardly.” After all, the oil giant ain’t Greenpeace. Yet unlike the national GOP leadership and its presidential candidates, “the company believes climate change is real, that governments should take action to combat it and that the most sensible action would be a revenue-neutral tax on carbon,” that taxes fossil fuels like coal and oil and returns the money to taxpayers."

Arizona's NBC 12 And CMD Expose ALEC's Corporate Influence On State Laws

ALEC CEO Lisa Nelson has a Climate Science Problem (VIDEO)

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/12/12993/alec-ceo-lisa-nelson-has-climate-science-problem-video
"ALEC has a long history of denying climate change. It continues to take payments from fossil fuel companies like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, and Peabody Energy. It was part of the American Petroleum Institute's leaked plan to manipulate the public's trust in climate scientists, spelled out in an erie memo from 1998. The group even hosts privately-funded events where ALEC legislators are taught how to deny climate change science by public relations consultants who have ties to fossil fuel companies."

Watch Arizona's NBC 12 And The Center For Media And Democracy Expose ALEC's Corporate Influence On State Laws

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/09/watch-arizonas-nbc-12-and-the-center-for-media/207379
"Phoenix Arizona's NBC affiliate KPNX hosted the Center for Media and Democracy's Executive Director Lisa Graves on the December 6 episode of Sunday Square Off to expose the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) effort to push corporate backed model legislation in state legislatures."

Koch-Funded Special Interest Groups and Utilities Bankrolling ALEC Meeting

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/12/12989/koch-funded-special-interest-groups-and-utilities-bankrolling-alec-meeting
"Koch-funded groups and utilities are bankrolling ALEC's closed-door winter meeting and parties for state legislators that are underway in Scottsdale, Arizona, at a luxury resort and spa. The three-day gathering is bringing together lobbyists and legislators to plan their 2016 bill agenda for the upcoming legislative session."

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Sanders Blasts Republicans for Corporate-Funded Climate Denialism

Sanders Blasts Republicans for Corporate-Funded Climate Denialism

"Recent studies have shown how corporations, led by ExxonMobil and the Koch family foundations, drive such anti-science ideology through the creation of climate disinformation think tanks and dissemination of coordinated contrarian messaging in mainstream media and public discourse."

Scientists Confirm: Ted Cruz Is Dumber Than Kindergarteners

Divestment Surges as Endowments Worth $3.4 Trillion Pull Funds From Fossil Fuels

Divestment Surges as Endowments Worth $3.4 Trillion Pull Funds From Fossil Fuels

"The "writing is on the wall" for the fossil fuel sector as more than 500 cities, banks, universities, and museums across the globe, representing over $3.4 trillion in total assets, have now pledged to pull their funds from polluting industries."

ALEC Works to Scuttle Global Climate Agreement

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/12/12984/alec-works-scuttle-global-climate-agreement
"Chevron, Exxon, Peabody, Dominion, Duke Energy, and ALEC stalwart Koch Industries are just a few of the big names orchestrating ALEC’s pushback on the CPP."

Instead Of Accepting Climate Change, The GOP Has Declared War On Scientists

Instead Of Accepting Climate Change, The GOP Has Declared War On Scientists

"Whether it is Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood, the EPA, or climate change – the GOP finds themselves on the wrong side of science and the facts, so they try to slander the messenger instead."

Pentagon: Carly Fiorina Is An Idiot, Climate Change Is An “Immediate Risk” To National Security

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/pentagon-carly-fiorina-is-an-idiot-climate-change-is-an-immediate-risk-to-national-security/
"Well, we could listen to someone who can’t manage a company effectively, yet somehow thinks she has the necessary skills to be President — or we can see what actual experts on the matter have to say. A new Pentagon report says that climate change is an “urgent and growing threat to our national security"."

Exposing the Climate Change Witch Hunt

The most important consequence of the Paris climate talks will be the fate of the oceans.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/11/ocean_acidification_and_climate_change_at_the_paris_talks.html
"there’s increasing evidence that the world’s oceans are nearing the point of no return. They’re getting hit with a double whammy—rising temperatures and acidification—that together are forcing fundamental changes to the basis of the planet’s food chain. So far, the oceans have absorbed about 93 percent of all the additional heat energy trapped by rising greenhouse gas concentrations. That’s already prompted the loss of about 40 percent of the world’s coral reefs, accelerated by a series of worldwide bleaching events in which exceptionally warm water temperatures prompt normally symbiotic algae to become toxic—the most recent of which was just this year. Since coral reefs—the “rainforests of the sea”—support a quarter of all marine life on just 0.1 percent of the ocean area, a mass extinction may already be underway. If we lose the oceans, we lose everything."

Scientific Proof That Exxon And The Kochs Distorted The Public’s Understanding Of Climate Change

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/11/24/3725320/exxon-koch-climate-misinformation-polarizing/
"The study comes out at a time when ExxonMobil is facing increasing public scrutiny for its role in misleading the public about climate change. Several prominent politicians have called for a Department of Justice investigation into whether or not Exxon purposefully mislead the public about climate change, based on information published in a recent Inside Climate News investigation which found that Exxon’s internal research confirmed in 1977 that climate change is caused by carbon emissions from fossil fuels. Earlier this month, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a subpoena to Exxon, demanding records relating to its climate research."