Scientists are calling for boycott of NY Times over op-ed by climate science denialist

By Carli Velocci28 April 2017 (The Wrap) – Multiple scientists and climate change advocates are calling for a boycott of The New York Times after an op-ed that they felt pushed anti-climate change agendas. The Friday column, the first written by Bret Stephens for the publication, uses the argument that data doesn’t always convey reality […]

Climate March draws massive crowd to Washington, D.C. in sweltering heat

By Chris Mooney, Joe Heim, and Brady Dennis 29 April 2017 (The Washington Post) – On a sweltering April day, tens of thousands of demonstrators assembled in Washington on Saturday for the latest installment of the regular protests that punctuate the Trump era. This large-scale climate march marked President Trump’s first 100 days in office, […]

EPA wipes its climate change site day before march on Washington

By Jessica Glenza29 April 2017 NEW YORK (The Guardian) – The US Environmental Protection Agency’s main climate change website is “undergoing changes” to better reflect “the agency’s new direction” under Donald Trump. The announcement, made late Friday evening, left empty what was previously the “official government site” providing “comprehensive information on the issue of climate […]

Chairman of U.S. House Science Committee says the journal “Science” is not objective

By Alex Kasprak 29 March 2017 (Snopes) – On 29 March 2017, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing titled “Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications, and the Scientific Method,” which heard the testimony of four scientists. Just one of those espoused views and research that represents the mainstream scientific consensus surrounding […]

Video: “First protest in space” targets Trump with an astronaut’s famous words

By Ben Guarino 14 April 2017 (The Washington Post) – On Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 56 years to the day after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, a Phoenix-based collective called the Autonomous Space Agency Network launched a weather balloon to about 90,000 feet. The balloon, Aphrodite 1, weighed a little […]

In generational shift, college Republicans poised to reform party on global warming

By J.D. Capelouto12 April 2017 LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Davidson College in North Carolina has fewer than 2,000 students – small enough that the presidents of the College Republican and College Democrats clubs count each other as friends. They disagree on some political issues, but an unusual one unites them: they both believe climate […]

The New York Times just hired a climate science denialist as its newest op-ed columnist

By Kate Yoder14 April 2017 (Grist) – The New York Times just hired a climate denier. Related: Have you seen any ads like this in your newsfeed lately? Well, here’s a fact: The Times announced this week that Bret Stephens — a longtime climate science denier and current editorial deputy editor at The Wall Street […]

U.S. Bureau of Land Management changes website photo from family visiting park to a giant pile of coal

[UPDATE: This has been changed to a photo of a guy fishing. Des suspects a provocateur at work in the BLM.] By Andrew Freedman6 April 2017 (Mashable) – Even the smallest of symbolic details can’t escape the changes of life in Trump’s America. The government agency responsible for overseeing a staggering 258 million acres of […]

Video: Bill Nye schools Tucker Carlson on global warming – “Why aren’t you concerned about it, don’t you have four children?”

By Stacey Ritzen 28 February 2017 (Uproxx) – Following his Facebook Live chat with Bernie Sanders yesterday, during which he made some pretty depressing predictions regarding the continued effects of climate change, Bill Nye was invited onto Fox News to discuss the subject with Tucker Carlson. Unfortunately, this conversation was not nearly as productive — […]

UW professor: The information war is real, and we’re losing it

By Danny Westneat29 March 2017 (The Seattle Times) – A University of Washington professor started studying social networks to help people respond to disasters. But she got dragged down a rabbit hole of twitter-boosted conspiracy theories, and ended up mapping our political moment. It started with the Boston marathon bombing, four years ago. University of […]

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