Other than the 50+ stories we covered in the past week, here are 15 more green stories I thought were worth a share:
Anyone with a moral conscience who digs into climate science at all (not snake science from global warming denier websites, but real climate science), will find that humans are causing global warming, the effects of global warming are serious, and we should be doing something NOW to address the issue.
Iāve been covering stories on a number of āclimate science skepticsā and conservatives who, after delving into the science for real, found that the evidence for the above was overwhelming and āchanged sidesā (starting working to address climate change not hide from it).
Hereās a bit from a piece by another former global warming skeptic, former Republican Party officer and author Michael Staffordā¦.
Tom Toles creates some of the best climate change and political cartoons Iāve seen. Heās a Pullitzer-Prize winning cartoonist who works for the Washington Post. After the ā1,000,000th email [in a day] complaining that [heās] not fair to the Republicansā following a recent cartoon of his (above), Toles wrote the following (a great post on global warming denial and Republicans)
The LA Times and Washington Post arenāt the only major media outlets that are starting to tear into the Republican party and other global warming deniers for their absolute rejection of science. USA Today, which I think has really turned things around in recent years and has some of the best climate change coverage of any major newspaper company, had an excellent editorial on the matter recently, one that compares climate science deniers to ābirthersā (the folks who didnāt and maybe still donāt believe that Obama was born in the United States).
From our favorite climate denial de-crocker on the web, hereās another great video from him (recently updated). As he summarizes on Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
āFor a lot of climate deniers, this is their penultimate argument, the master climate crock. They think itās the stroke to end all arguments. Ā Itās only the most outrageous and dishonest cherry pick of all time.ā
Related Articles: From Planetsave: Fox News Boss Ordered Staff to Make Climate Change Seem Doubtful From Ecopolitology: Fox News Editor Tampers with Climate Reporting: Where is Conservative Outrage Now? From ClimateProgress: National Journal: āThe GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even
