January 24, 2018 – 4:16 pm
Richmond will soon be added to the list that Exxon Mobil and others sue back (Think Progress) Richmond, California has become the ninth city in less than a year to bring major fossil fuel companies to court over climate change. On Monday, the city announced that it was filing a lawsuit against 29 oil, gas, and coal companies […]
January 15, 2018 – 8:26 am
This is super exciting news, you guys. World's first permanent visitor centre on climate change to open in Ireland – Lonely Planet Travel News https://t.co/kLBn5s9IS4 – #ClimateChange — GlobalClimateTreaty (@ClimateTreaty) January 15, 2018 It’s great that Richard Branson showed up. I wonder what the carbon footprint was for the flight? (Lonely Planet) The first ever […]
January 13, 2018 – 8:03 am
The City of Los Angeles proper is a rather large place. It encompasses 502 square miles, and has a population of almost 3.8 million. This requires a massive fleet of fossil fueled vehicles, from police vehicles to ambulances to fire trucks to helicopters to garbage trucks to buses to all sorts of other city owned […]
January 12, 2018 – 6:59 am
Somehow, this random act of journalism by Jim Dwyer slipped through the layers and layers of #Resist editors Battling Climate Change from the Back Seat of an S.U.V. Purring in the mild winter day, a small armada of S.U.V.s was parked Thursday morning along 42nd Street outside the New York Public Library. Inside was Mayor […]
January 11, 2018 – 5:26 pm
We should all be used to things like this with the Cult of Climastrology by now (Daily Signal) Climate hypocrisy is nothing new. Celebrities cruise around the world in their private jets, eating filet mignon while telling you to pack a salad and bike to work to reduce your carbon footprint. So, color me not […]
January 11, 2018 – 7:53 am
How would NYC run without fossil fuels? Police cars, ambulances, garbage trucks (when they aren’t on strike), inspector vehicles, buses, meter maids, the mayors limo. And so much more, and that’s just city operations. How about all the private operations? How about all the taxis, limos, and other conveyances. How about all the trucks which […]
January 9, 2018 – 10:32 am
And big companies like Exxon usually have better and smarter lawyers on their payroll than most cities (Forbes) Some government officials in California are hypocrites pushing a political agenda that involves using private lawyers to sue and demonize ExxonMobil, the company is now arguing in a Texas state court. On Jan. 8, Exxon took the […]
January 1, 2018 – 8:08 am
It’s the same argument as when the federal law was passed in 2007: it’s not an actual ban, but, by putting in place such strong requirements, the law effectively banned incandescent light bulbs. California is two years ahead of the federal law Goodbye to the incandescent light. Climate change means you have to go, but […]
December 14, 2017 – 8:42 am
If we are, isn’t his giant carbon footprint to blame? (LA Times) When he’s lecturing about climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown sounds like a street-corner preacher shouting: “Repent. Change your ways. The end is near.†I envision him in a sackcloth robe, arms flailing and chanting at the wind. That would look rather weird as […]
December 12, 2017 – 10:30 am
It’s wonderful. A month after the yearly UN Conference on the Parties climate scam fest, where tens of thousands of True Believers took long fossil fueled trips to complain about Other People using fossil fuels, there will be another climate scam conference in Paris. This is actually in what is supposed to be the straight […]
