When speaking to reporters last week about the historic and deadly Camp and Woolsey fires that have destroyed more than 100,000 acres and taken at least 44 lives, California Gov. Jerry Brown stated Californians--and the rest of the world--are facing a...
We hear it daily - Such-and-such country is getting out of hand we need to BOMB them! So-and-so is under attack we need to BOMB them! You know what? Let's not. It's time for a different kind...
12 years. That's all we have left to preserve a habitable planet Earth. This week, Hurricane Michael wrecked havoc on the South only two days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming report stating the world...
According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this June was the warmest on record. The average global temperature for that month was 1.35 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, 59.9. The first half of the year was the fourth...
California is burning--again. This time, over 100,000 acres and a thousand homes have been engulfed in the seventh most destructive fire in the state’s history. Some climate scientists are claiming this is all part of "the new reality" about...
How's the weather been where you are? Are you enjoying summer? This time of year, we usually welcome the warmth, the blue skies, and, yes, the occasional thunderstorm, after months of snow and ice. But have you noticed...
One thing we can say about the current administration, normally obscure cabinet administrators are becoming household names. Most people couldn't name former President Barack Obama's two education secretaries, Arne Duncan and John King. We're all familiar...
This article first appeared in Liberal Nation Rising. It's cold in the Northeast. The wind, although not as strong as it was three days ago, bites like January. After Friday's nor'easter dumped snow and rain and toppled trees,...
It ought to come as no surprise that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) director Scott Pruitt was personally involved in purging information from the EPA website shortly after assuming his new job last year. According to documents the...
Did you enjoy the brief respite last week from the two-week polar vortex that touched down on Christmas? The Northeast and Mid-West saw temperatures struggle to reach above freezing. Meanwhile, after historic wildfires ravaged the state, California...
A green energy economy--one of the boldest agenda initiatives New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) articulated in his annual State of the State Address on January 3. At Empire State Plaza in Albany, Cuomo articulated his...
Oliver Robinson (featured image courtesy Alabama Media Group)
Last week, Kyle Whitmire, a columnist for Alabama Media Group--Advance Publications' three Alabama newspapers--announced the results of his yearly "Scumbag of the Year" contest, naming the Alabama politician who had done the most to drag...
Apparently we don't have to fear climate change anymore. That is if we go by a move the Trump administration made this week when it dropped climate change from a list of global threats. Instead, President Trump's National...
Last spring, when President Donald Trump was considering withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate accords, other nations' leaders pleaded with him to reconsider, appealing to a sense of responsibility and prudence. He was reminded of the...
There is an all-out assault on climate science in America today. From state governments all the way up to the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the gears of censorship are running on all cylinders...
Perhaps people thought it was "fake news." Two years ago, an article appeared in the Miami Herald about Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials being barred from using the terms "climate change" or "global warming" in official communications, emails,...
It appears the walls of reality are beginning to close in on climate change deniers. Friday, the White House released the fourth National Climate Assessment, which confirms what scientists have been warning us about for decades:...
“If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be...
815 million people around the world went hungry last year. This, according to the latest data from the United Nations, is the first increase in global hunger in more than 15 years. Sweeping initiatives from nations all...
It's been said we are a nation of laws. In the Trump era, resistance does not only come from protesters marching with signs and slogans. It also comes from the courts. On Wednesday, San Francisco federal judge Elizabeth...