by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 12, 2016 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Donald Trump, Psychology, Science
Climate Change Denial And The Rise Of Authoritarianism One of the strangest stories about totalitarian regimes comes from Romania. Under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the official temperature in Romania was never below 10 degree Celsius. No matter the snow...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 12, 2016 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Donald Trump, Science, Science Denial
Is Trump Plotting to Purge the Federal Government of Anyone Who Accepts Climate Change? Maybe! On Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump formally nominated Scott Pruitt to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a rather terrifying turn of events for anyone who...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 6, 2016 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Science
An Open Letter from Scientists to President-Elect Trump on Climate Change President-elect Trump has called climate change a Chinese hoax, vowed to dismantle America’s climate and clean energy policies, and appointed climate deniers with ties to the fossil fuel...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 5, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Science Denial
Turns out that Breitbart article the House Science Committee tweeted out is a con job Over the past many years, scientists have piled up evidence and data that point to humanity’s responsibility in warming trends to our planet’s climate. Republicans,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 14, 2016 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Donald Trump, Science
Right out of the box the new incoming Trump administration made the announcement that they were looking to appoint Myron Ebell to head the EPA arguably the very worst possible choice I could imagine. 9 Infuriating Things You Need to Know About the Man Donald Trump Is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 9, 2016 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Donald Trump, Science, The 2016 Presidential Race
There’s no way around it: Donald Trump is going to be a disaster for the climate The world was making progress on global warming. Trump wants to blow it...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 4, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Science
Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of Global Warming One day in 2009, Henry Waxman, the Democratic congressman representing Santa Monica and Malibu, paid a visit to one of his Republican counterparts, a ruddy-faced Texan named Joe Barton. After Democrats had won...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 3, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Science
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers’ War on Climate Science from The Real News Network on...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 25, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Energy, Science
Renewables just passed coal as the largest source of new electricity worldwide It’s been a long run, coal, but your reign is over. Renewable energy sources have passed coal as the largest new source of electricity in the world, according data released Tuesday by...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 25, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
What is natural capital, and can it save the world? While that may be true, in order to give the Earth’s assets a seat at the decision-making table, we need to ensure that we’re comparing apples with apples. Having one currency – i.e. a dollar value...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 7, 2016 | • Politics, Agriculture, Climate Change & Global Warming, Hillary Clinton, The 2016 Presidential Race
What About the Planet? Our two major political parties are at odds on many issues, but nowhere is the gap bigger or more consequential than on climate. If Hillary Clinton wins, she will move forward with the Obama administration’s combination of domestic...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 3, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming
And some people are still seriously talking about Trump being President? Geez talk about whistling past the graveyard. Earth’s CO2 Passes the 400 PPM Threshold–Maybe Permanently In the centuries to come, history books will likely look back on September...
