Former Vice President Joe Biden will introduce a plan Tuesday to tackle climate change that borrows the central element of the Green New Deal of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — and simply adds an extra five years to achieve it. Ocasio-Cortez drew ridicule last year when she proposed moving the entire U.S. economy to 100%…
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Researchers at Australian National University (ANU) have called for ‘climate change’ to be recorded as a cause of death on death certificates. They claim that in Australia, the rate of people dying as a result of global warming may be 50 times higher than is officially acknowledged. In a letter to The Lancet Planetary Health, researchers Arnagretta…
Actor and comedian Josh Gad mocked “climate deniers” and America’s healthcare system while introducing singer Idina Menzel’s Frozen 2 performance during the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. Gad’s joke referenced Menzel, the voice of Queen Elsa in Disney’s animated musical Frozen franchise, while invoking the “climate change” narrative framing consumption of fossil…
Native Americans were among the featured speakers at a climate change protest on Friday at the Capitol and many claimed American corporations that construct and operate oil and gas pipelines are not only hurting the environment but indigenous people. One woman, who lives on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation in South Dakota and said her…
The United Nations COP25 climate change summit wrapped up on Friday in Madrid, Spain, and the media is highlighting how poor countries are facing harm and even death caused by rich countries — including the United States — that are allegedly polluting the world and causing natural disasters around the globe. The Washington Post devoted…
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, worth an estimated $54 billion, enjoys his own fleet of private jets and helicopters stationed in New Jersey while describing himself as a “global leader” on the environment and climate change. Bloomberg, who has pledged to end the American coal industry, has for years flown around the world to his multiple million-dollar…
The International Energy Agency published its annual World Energy Outlook ten days ago. In this era of climate crisis, that outlook includes, as you would expect, stern warnings of catastrophic warming. But it also includes interesting nuggets of hope and optimism — and they aren’t alone. Global warming is a slow-motion in-progress planetary train-wreck, true;…
Alarmist news media have blamed the closing of a Greenland airport on manmade global warming, declaring Friday that the airfield is the “latest victim of climate change.” Euronews announced that Greenland’s Kangerlussuaq Airport will end civilian flights within five years “due to climate change,” adding that runways are cracking because of the melting of the…
Former President Barack Obama expressed support for the climate activists who took part in Friday’s global climate strike and proclaimed that climate change is the “one challenge” that will “define the future for today’s young generation more dramatically than any other.” Activists in over 150 countries gathered to protest climate change on Friday, in part…
Venice (AFP) – Several hundred protesters demanding the authorities ban huge cruise ships they say threaten one of the world’s most historic cities targeted the Venice film festival Saturday to make their point. Between 300 and 400 protestors gathered in front of the main marquee where the glittering closing ceremonies of the film festival will…