Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Media, Politics on Sep 20th, 2009
This video explains why scientifically-illiterate scallywags* like Anthony Watts don’t understand climate science and never will. I could include links to dozens sites like CO2 Sceptic, the Global Warming Hoax, but I’d prefer not to give them the traffic. This fantastic video was created by Theramin Trees! _______ * I’m one day late for Talk [...]
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Media, Politics on Aug 20th, 2009
God bless Greenpeace. Faced with a multimillion dollar media juggernaut devised by the American Petroleum Institute (API), Greenpeace countered with simplicity and honesty: A grassroots campaign that speaks the truth to power, and turns up the heat on oil executives. To cut to the chase, last week Greenpeace came to possess an API memo that [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Consequences, Food, High Horse, Social Justice on Jul 6th, 2009
In advance of the G8 Summit in Italy, Oxfam has released a new paper suggesting that hunger will become the defining issue of this century, and that climate change is to blame. The report, called Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People, and Poverty (PDF) argues that hundreds of millions of farmers are now struggling to [...]
Posted in Activism, Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Old King Coal on Jul 5th, 2009
Imagine that you’re a tobacco company CEO in the 1960s, and the Surgeon General announces that your product kills people. What would you do? Perhaps you’d experiment with new filters and blends for a few years, trying to minimize the harm. But a decade passes, nothing changes, and you face a horrible truth. Your product [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Science, Greenwashing, USA on Jun 29th, 2009
Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman, in fine form.
Posted in Activism, Canada, Politics, Red Letter Campaign on May 5th, 2009
Honorable Jim Prentice Office of the Environment 10 Wellington Street, 28th flr, Gatineau, Québec K1A 0H3 Dear Mr. Prentice: A recent Globe and Mail story (April 28, 2009) outlined an Environment Canada study which suggested that our country’s GHG emissions rose by 4 percent in 2007, and that oil, gas and mining emissions rose by [...]
Posted in Activism, Old King Coal, Politics, USA on May 1st, 2009
The Lung Association brought forward astonishing statistics this week — that in the world’s richest country, more than 186 million people live and work in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution. In fact. the air quality results in 2008* were much worse than 2007, according to the advocacy group’s State of the Air report. [...]
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Politics, USA on Apr 28th, 2009
Avaaz is raising money to run an ad about Exxon and the oil companies on CNN. You can help.
Let’s tell Canada — the World’s Colossal Fossil — to take its climate change responsibilities seriously! Sign the Oxfam Canada Petition.
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Media, Social Justice on Apr 22nd, 2009
Imagine our world without literature. Whenever I can cobble moments together, I write. It’s my first, best thing. I have a middle reader under development that will be a pretty good book once I commit the final chapter to paper. It’s what I do with every stolen minute as we struggle through bankruptcy. I write [...]