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Eric Hofmann told San Luis Obispo officials he would bus in "hundreds and hundreds of pissed off people potentially adding to this pandemic."
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Using coronavirus to stymie decarbonization efforts in coastal California.
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The message from the industry-supported meeting: Push as much deregulation as possible while Trump is in power and never apologize for promoting oil, gas and coal.
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Rep. Lamar Smith, who announced his retirement Friday, is one of the most noxious anti-science figures in Washington.
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Captains of industry such as Elon Musk and Bob Iger have led corporate opposition to President Trump's climate policies, but is their position about global warming or their bottom lines?
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From
psmag
Without government data from weather satellites and marine monitoring systems, we won’t be able to prepare for the effects of a changing climate.
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Here's what Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees and advisors think about climate change and other sustainability issues. It's not looking good.
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Rick Perry is well known for starting flame wars with California when he was Texas governor. Now he could affect the state's policies as Donald Trump's energy secretary.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Wow....I'm not exactly sure how to read this. Still in shock.
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When Al Gore emerged from his surprise meeting at Trump Tower earlier this week to suggest the president-elect was a good listener and maybe was keeping an open
PIRatE Lab's insight:
In addition to VP Gore heading to Trump Tower, Leonardo also made the trek: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-leonardo-dicaprio-donald-trump-green-jobs-20161208-story.html
There seems to be a crack in the marble (that and the fact Trump's daughter wanted to meet actors and famous folks)...but only for non-scientists.
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Garry Rogers's curator insight,
December 2, 2016 12:20 PM
The “Establishment” supports fossil-fuel companies and denies climate change. The incoming U. S. administration is populated by deniers. The harm caused to wild plants, animals, natural systems, and human society is devastating.
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Lipstick on a Pig? It appears to be no coincidence that ExxonMobil has recently released a new series of beautiful and very slick TV and online ads implying that they are all about innovation and v…
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More than 120 leaders are expected to attend the one-day summit sponsored by the United Nations. They have been instructed to arrive Tuesday with "bold ideas" to slow the rise in global temperatures.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Lots of attention in New York this week in the lead up to the current UN Summit on Climate Change.
It would be great if our national leaders could do what our business, state and local leaders are being forced to do on their own. For example:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-google-conservative-20140922-story.html
But just in case you were forgetting about the folks on the other side of the fact/reality fence, there is always the good ol' propaganda machine humming along nicely. For example:
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-a-chevron-pr-website-20140922-column.html#page=1
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The first extensive study on the dark money that feeds the anti-climate change propaganda machine reveals that 91 organizations funded by 140 foundations have an annual income of over $900 million dollars with which to fight climate progress. Via pdeppisch
PIRatE Lab's insight:
It is clear these folks are getting a good return on their investments. At least in the short term. I can't help but think their grandchildren will be ashamed of this immorality/selfishness/anti-social behavior.
Oh, and those hundreds of millions driven into poverty, refugee camps, etc.? And the American taxpayer who will almost assuredly be forced into sprialing costs of the brushfires and military conflicts across the globe sparked and spurred on by climate change's impacts across the planet? They too might not be too keen on these "investments" in the coming decades.
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The Trump administration’s proposed freezing of tailpipe regulations would reverse one of the most effective climate actions on the books.
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From
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And it shows exactly why we need to stop arguing about climate science.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
More insanity of climate/fact-deniers who grab at any slim misquote as evidence that the entirety of the collective wisdom about the reality of climate change is a farce.
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Even for a White House in as much disarray as this one, the last-minute cancellation of a much-hyped meeting on Tuesday, purportedly to decide the fate of the Paris climate agreement, is remarkable…
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Scott Pruitt says there's no proof that carbon dioxide pollution is causing the Earth to heat up. Well-established science — and a scientist who's a fellow Republican — says that's flat-out wrong.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This...is...simply...deranged.
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After the election of Donald Trump, Jacqueline M. Vadjunec offers a message of resistance and hope from deep within the US Bible Belt.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TzA6qn9xXY Alex Steffen in Medium: If you’re an American, you’re likely misinformed about the most dire crisis in our world. American journalists, pundits and media executives have largely convinced themselves that climate change is not a serious political issue, because they think the polls tell them that. A majority of American voters regularly tell pollsters… Via Garry Rogers
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Rex Tillerson has been nominated to run the State Department despite the potential for major conflicts of interest.
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Unlike in America, climate change skepticism in China is largely a left-wing notion.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
US President-elect Donald Trump sees climate change, according to his incoming chief of staff, as a "bunch of bunk." But China — the biggest carbon dioxide emitter on Earth — takes the topic very seriously. And state-run papers in the country are already crowing that the US under Trump will “betray its words” on climate change, while "China will unswervingly keep its promise.”
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This is the second part of DeSmog UK’s series mapping Exxon’s ties to EU think tanks and lobby groups. Here we explore what happened to Exxon’s EU think tank ties after it pledged to stop funding climate denial. Via Garry Rogers
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Interesting that some of the European "think" tanks seem to be folding and/or having a much harder time getting started. Contrast this to the situation in the mid-1990s.
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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said on Monday that his company's support for the American Legislative Exchange Council was a "mistake," adding that it should avoid aligning with groups that deny climate change.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Hmmm...did they really not understand whose bed they were crawling into when they joined ALEC? In any event, this is another very small, but welcomed piece of news.
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From
grist
A right-wing think tank tried to tell Tim Cook to dump Apple's green initiatives. He basically flipped them off. (Take THAT!)
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