Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease. In his new book Falter, Bill McKibben asks, “Is it Too Late?” – Excerpted from FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. By Bill McKibben –…
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A Large Majority of Americans, 65 Percent, Now Favor Protecting the Environment Over Economic Growth
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration’s partisan war on the environment is taking its toll not only on public lands and the planet. A new Gallup poll shows that and the booming economy due to the Obama administration’s policies are driving public opinion away from unregulated economic growth and toward more environmental protection. By…
We Should All Be Talking About the Green New Deal
Human-Induced Global Warming Impacts Are Already Being Felt by Life on Earth
By Glynn Wilson – In direct contradiction to the public position of the president of the United States, two of the federal agencies charged with monitoring the science on climate change released a joint statement and a report on Wednesday declaring unequivocally that the effects of human-induced global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
Doomsday Clock Set at Two Minutes Before Midnight Apocalypse
By Glynn Wilson – One day before U.S. President Donald J. Trump blinked and caved into demands by Democrats in Congress to reopen the federal government with no agreement on funding for his ill-conceived border wall, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists board met in Chicago and kept the hands on the Doomsday Clock set…
Climacide — Survival Rebranding
By David Underhill – A 15-year old Swedish girl bitch-slapped the world’s representatives at the recent climate conference in Poland. She stood before them and called them frauds and fakers, while they sat in limp silence. She said they’d had their chances to do something effective about the climate crisis, and they had failed. It…
The New World Order Is Here, but Not Like You Think
By John Feffer – Are You Ready for an Epoch Fail?Globalists Really Are Ruining Your Life You know the story: the globalists want your guns. They want your democracy. They’re hovering just beyond the horizon in those black helicopters. They control the media and Wall Street. They’ve burrowed into a deep state that stretches like…
Welcome to a Dystopian Future Ushered in by Global Warming and Climate Change
Channeling Benjamin Franklin’s Thoughts on Donald Trump’s ‘War on Science’
By Glynn Wilson – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — When Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743, 33 years before he signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of the Continental Congress, he recognized the need for an organization that would bring together the brightest thinkers of the day to share their scientific experiments…
Scott Pruitt Should Have Been Fired from EPA for Violating the Agency’s Mission
Melting Ice on Antarctica Triples Increase in Rising Seas in Just Three Years, New Study Shows
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The continent of Antarctica on Earth’s South Pole is losing its ice cover so fast that NASA and the European Space Agency just sent out an email blast about a new study showing that the impact is already contributing to an increase in rising global sea levels in…
New Studies Show Gulf Stream Slowing As Hurricane Season 2018 Approaches
Climate Change Denier Scott Pruitt May Be On the Way Out at EPA
By Glynn Wilson – One of the most disheartening facts about the Trump administration’s policies to the millions of Americans who care deeply about the Earth’s natural environment is the outright war on the planet being waged by President Donald Trump and his cabinet. A couple of new stories just out demonstrate the problem, and…
NASA Scientists Find Way to Focus Research on Changes to Earth’s Frozen Regions
By Patrick Lynch – In spite of restrictions by the Trump administration not to talk about global warming or using the terminology of “climate change,” the scientists and public relations folks at NASA have come up with a way to continue the research and show us the results. NASA research shows that permafrost — permanently frozen…
Massive Reserves of Mercury Hidden Under Thawing Permafrost Could Be Released Due to Warming
Science News – Researchers have discovered that permafrost in the northern hemisphere stores massive amounts of natural mercury, a finding with significant implications for human health and ecosystems worldwide as global temperatures rise and melt the ice covering it up and keeping it trapped. In a new study published in in Geophysical Research Letters, a…
Gutting the EPA Confirms Trump’s Damning ‘Alabamafication’ of America
ANALYSIS By Glynn Wilson – President Trump needs a new slogan. Instead of declaring that he wants to “make America great again,” if he was an honest man he would say instead: “Let’s make America more like Alabama.” That’s what’s going on as his administration guts the Environmental Protection Agency. If it was possible to…
Environmental Activist Offers Solutions to Climate Change Disasters
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s hard to get any official sources in the nation’s capital to talk openly about the reality of climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels. With the climate change denier in chief in the Oval Office ordering federal agencies to wipe science information…
Trump Administration Could Ignore Climate Impacts in Massive New Gulf Oil Drilling Leases
By Glynn Wilson — MOBILE, Ala. — The Trump administration held public meetings in cities along the Gulf Coast this week to generate public comments on the environmental impacts of opening up 95 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to new oil and gas leases. But while federal law and national policy calls for…
Trump Administration Proposes Opening Millions of Acres Offshore to Oil and Gas Development
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The Trump administration has announced a plan to open up more offshore waters in the continental United States to oil and gas exploration and to remove federal regulations imposed by previous administrations on oil and gas drilling, in spite of findings in a federal lawsuit in the 2010…
Doublespeak: Trump Guts EPA While Claiming to be for Protecting the Environment
By Glynn Wilson – New EPA administrator Scott Pruitt recently told Fox News that Trump’s new executive order abandoning work on climate change and promoting fossil fuels is a return to “core EPA originalism.” This is clearly a perfect example of “doublespeak,” a term inspired by George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The creation of the…