Some climate deniers go beyond arguing that climate change isn’t real; rather, they argue that adapting to climate change is cheaper than preventing it, and it’s a fool’s errand to spend money on a Green New Deal, when we could continue to burn fossil fuels and simply relocate everyone who gets flooded out, figure out how to grow crops in new places, come up with medicines to treat new epidemics, etc.
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Words, but not deeds: the Democrats as climate-deniers
Oh, sure, the Democratic leadership says it takes climate change seriously, but that same leadership has sidelined the Green New Deal and gutted the climate committee, replacing it with a lame-duck committee led and staffed by beneficiaries of big energy sector dollars.
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Google, Facebook and Microsoft were the top sponsors of a conference that featured climate change denial kooks
Libertycon is the annual conference of Students for Liberty, a libertarian youth group, held in DC; at this year’s conference, Google was the $25,000 platinum sponsor, while Facebook and Microsoft were each $10,000 sponsors.
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Blame billionaires for climate change
70% of global emissions come from 100 companies: Koch Industries’ annual carbon emissions bill is 24 million tons.
Record numbers of Americans believe climate change is real, and a majority understand that humans are to blame
Amidst a global heatwave, some good news from the National Surveys on Energy and the Environment: a record-setting 73% of Americans believe that climate change is real and 60% believe humans are “at least partially responsible” for this fact. It’s the peak indifference moment, when the fight shifts from convincing people that there is a problem to convincing them that it’s not too late to do something about it.
Which American cities have lowest herd immunity due to anti-vaxxers?
Parents of Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Provo, Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, Plano, Detroit, Troy, Warren, Kansas City and Pittsburgh: beware.
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Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide
2,000 US schools use textbooks from Abeka, BJU Press and Accelerated Christian Education (ACE), including tax-funded charter schools across America; students who learn from these texts are taught that God wanted Protestantism to flourish in North America and that Catholocism is not a true faith; that it was better Africans to be enslaved and come to “know Christ” than to be free but not Christian; that evolution is untrue; that humans and dinosaurs lived together (and that Noah brought baby dinosaurs on the ark); that the Loch Ness monster is real; that “abortion, gay rights and the Endangered Species Act” are part of a “radical social agenda”; that nonwhites are inferior (60% of the tax-funded scholarship students at charter schools come from racialized minorities and are thus taught that they are racially inferior to their white schoolmates).
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Trump wants you to elect Net Neutrality’s biggest hater to the Senate
To call Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn [R-TN] a shill for Big Cable is to insult honest, hardworking shills everywhere: she is so deep in hock to Verizon that she has toshill for new subscribers on weekends at a folding table on the sidewalk in front of the Grand Old Opry.
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Scott Pruitt’s EPA has opened secret backchannels to the climate denial industry to find “scientists” and other “experts”
The Environmental Defense Fund and the Southern Environmental Law Center sued the EPA to force it to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for access to emails to and from thinktanks associated with the climate denial industry like the Heartland Institute, Plants Need CO2, The Right Climate Stuff, and Junk Science.
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Profiles of flat earthers: report from the front lines of weaponized media literacy
Tom Usher went to a flat earth conference in Birmingham, England; he met an array of people who believe that the Earth is flat, because they believe that powerful people have conspired to control the information they receive in order to secure benefits for the elite, and this belief (which has a wealth of evidence to support it!) has been weaponized by crackpots and cynical manipulators to convince them the world is flat (despite the wealth of evidence against this!).
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