Environment

The Atlantic Links Climate Change to Suicide
Culture
July 24th, 2018 1:27 PM
Watch out! Climate change is not only killing polar bears; it is killing humans. The liberals have discovered a new scare tactic to push their climate control agenda and now are saying that increase in temperature leads to increase in suicide. The Atlantic posted an article concerning this topic on July 23 claiming “unusually hot days have profound effects on mental health and human physiology.”

Google Teams Up with UN to Create Climate Change Tracking Platform
Business
July 19th, 2018 4:39 PM
Tech giant Google will help the United Nations track climate change data by sharing information from its environmental satellites.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced July 16, that it was working with Google to create a platform that “aims to expand what the world knows about the impacts of human activity on global ecosystems.”

NY Times: India Heat ‘Hits Poor Hardest,' Opposes Air Conditioning
July 19th, 2018 7:41 AM
Somini Sengupta made Wednesday’s New York Times front page with “In India, Summer Heat Becomes a ‘Silent Killer’ -- 111-Degree Days Hit Poor the Hardest.” First, insert the Mort Sahl joke about a post-Armaggedon Times headline: "World Ends, Women & Minorities Hardest Hit." Then notice that one obvious solution goes almost completely unmentioned: Air conditioning. Why not? That’s where the…

Alternet: American Exceptionalism a Myth Because Sportsball and Amtrak
Culture
July 17th, 2018 1:13 PM
Alex Henderson is ashamed to be an American because we don’t share his fascination with rail transportation. Oh, our healthcare is bad. And lots of other things. He wrote them all down in an article for Alternet.

Bloomberg Tries to Make ‘Planet Friendly’ Bug-Eating Palatable
Business
July 11th, 2018 12:14 PM
“Bugs are coming soon to your dinner table,” so says Bloomberg.
That cringeworthy claim was just Bloomberg media’s latest effort promoting insect consumption to Americans who would probably rather grab a burger and fries.

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Ezra Klein on CNN: We've Got to Stop Covering What Trump Says
July 10th, 2018 8:54 PM
On CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday, Vox.com's Ezra Klein lamented the attention President Donald Trump continues to receive, whining that his rallies and tweets are crowding out "other important issues." Klein wants the establishment press and cable news — by that, he clearly means everyone but Fox — to pay less attention to Trump, even though he effectively admitted that doing so would cause…

InsideClimateNews Touts First State to Sue Big Oil, After Cities Lose
Business
July 5th, 2018 4:05 PM
The climate alarmists writers at InsideClimateNews (ICN) seemed thrilled that Rhode Island became the first state to sue oil companies over climate change.
Rhode Island’s State Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin filed suit against 14 oil and gas companies and affiliates on July 2, 2018, claiming “Big oil knew for decades that greenhouse gas pollution from their operations and their products…

Grist Cheers Socialist’s Victory Because of ‘Ambitious’ Climate Goals
Business
June 28th, 2018 1:36 PM
The eco-focused website Grist is thrilled that socialist candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat out a 10-term Democratic congressman in New York. Because of climate change.
Her extreme environmental goals made meteorologist and climate alarmist Eric Holthaus positively twitterpaited.

Grist Touts Creation of Climate Video Games As Climate Solution
Business
June 21st, 2018 5:07 PM
Slacktivism may have reached its final frontier. Video gaming.
Grist’s Jesse Nichols touted efforts of University of Washington scientist Dargan Frierson to create climate change video games. The lefty environmental website asked, “Could a video game help us solve climate change?”

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Netflix Comedy Tells Protester: 'You F-d Up a Lot of People's Lives'
Culture
June 21st, 2018 7:00 AM
Part 5 (otherwise known as season 3, part 1) of The Ranch, starring Ashton Kutcher, was released June 15 on Netflix and our heroes just found out that the gas pipeline, which was going to bring them some much-needed financial relief, has been canceled thanks to protesters. When Rooster meets one of the protesters in a bar, he tells her she "fucked up a lot of peoples' lives with that protest" and…

NYT’s Love of Public Transit, Hate of Koch Brothers Collide on Page 1
June 19th, 2018 5:24 PM
The New York Times loves its public transit and dislikes the limited-government Koch Brothers. Combine those trends and you have: “Kochs Finance High-Tech War Against Transit – Targeting Voter Data to Kill Buses and Rail” in Tuesday’s off-lead story slot. Not “War Against Federal Over-Spending...” the Kochs are apparently against people moving around. Climate reporter Hiroko Tabuchi sounded…

'We Were Warned:' AP Touts Anniversary For Climate Change Activist
June 18th, 2018 4:49 PM
On Monday, the Associated Press launched a series of planned articles marking the 30th anniversary of former NASA scientist James Hansen's "opening salvo of the age of climate change," as Douglas Brinkley it. Seth Borenstein and Nicky Forster trumpeted how "we were warned" by Hansen's June 1988 congressional testimony, and underlined that "thirty years later, it’s clear that Hansen and other…

Toxic Avenger: Aquaman Villain Will Be ‘Kind of an Eco-Warrior’
Business
June 18th, 2018 11:06 AM
The Aquaman movie will turn the typical Hollywood environmental themes on its head — with a villain at war with mankind over pollution. On June 15, Entertainment Weekly reported that actor Patrick Wilson would play Aquaman Arthur Curry’s antagonist and half-brother King Orm in the movie which will be in theaters in December.

CNBC: Democrat Investor Says Capitalism Is Killing the Planet
Business
June 14th, 2018 10:09 AM
An investment conference isn’t the typical place to hear climate change complaints and attacks on capitalism, but that’s exactly what attendees heard at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago on June 12. Investor Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of $70 billion global asset management firm, Grantham Mayor Van Otterloo (GMO), blamed capitalism for threatening the planet, according to CNBC.