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Can Weathercasters Become Climatecasters? CCSOS

Brad Johnson here - I'm sitting in the lobby of Boston's Park Plaza Hotel right now, attending the American Meteorological Society 40th Annual Broadcast Meteorology Conference. Over 200 of the nation's...

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It's Time For The Jackass Caucus

To the 180 Members of the House of Representatives Who Voted Against Sandy Disaster Relief:I write following the House of Representatives’ passage of HR 152, the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act,...

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If The Kochs Buy Tribune, You Can Kiss These Headlines Goodbye

The Tribune Company is for sale — putting some of the most influential papers in the country vulnerable to ownership by the climate change-denying Koch brothers. Over 100,000 people have joined Daily...

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400 PPM: FIGHT BACK.

May 9, 2013, is a historic day in the worst possible sense of the word. For the first time in the history of the human race, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen above 400 parts per million,...

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ACT: Is Your Senator #Up4Climate?

This is pretty simple. 28 31 U.S. Senators (D+I) have announced they're joining the #Up4Climate talkathon tonight. There are 27 24 Democrats and 45 Republicans who have not.I've made a Twitter list of...

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New York Times Joins the Bumbling Keystone XL Cops

#RejectAndProtect encampment In a New York Times Earth Day story, the usually excellent Coral Davenport grossly misrepresents the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline’s true impact on global warming, and...

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Inks Deal With Saudi Aramco

Originally published at Hill Heat. Sorry, fish.* Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), one of the premier climate research institutions in the world, has signed deals to assist foreign oil...

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Announcing PeoplesClimate.tv: March Livestream and People's Videos

I'm excited to announce that I will providing livestreamed, on-the-ground coverage of the People's Climate March this Sunday and at follow-up actions in the days ahead at PeoplesClimate.tv. The world...

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Why Google Dropped The ALEC Liars: People Power

As the campaign manager for Forecast the Facts, I founded the "Don't Fund Evil" campaign in June 2013 challenging Google to stop funding climate-denial groups such as the Competitive Enterprise...

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Welcome to the Era of Climate Schizophrenia

The first law of climate policy is that global warming won’t stop until we stop burning fossil fuels. As long as our policy elites attempt to address global warming while appeasing the fossil-fuel...

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Really? America's First Environmentally-Friendly Oil Sands Extraction Project!

Protesters at MCW Energy ribbon-cutting ceremony in Vernal, Utah, on October 1, 2014 I have received one of the best emails all year. The subject line: “EXCLUSIVE INVITE * Witness the Opening of...

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UnKochMyCampus: New Grassroots Effort Launches to Fight Koch Influence on...

This post originally appeared at Hill Heat.Students across the country have launched a new effort to protest the influence of the petrochemical billionaire Koch brothers on their campuses.As part of...

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Thanks to Ebola, Glenn Beck is going viral

There's a scary Ebola outbreak here in the United States: Glenn Beck is going viral.

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VIDEO: Joni Ernst Denies Coordinating With Kochs After Attending Secret Koch...

U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst denied coordinating with outside groups who are involved in the race, despite her participation in a secret summit organized by the Koch brothers in June. Speaking at a...

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Cory Gardner REVEALED: Behind the Smile, Radical Views

The only thing the media seems to be able to write about Cory Gardner, who's threatening Senator Mark Udall in Colorado, is how pretty his smile is.(Actually, the Denver Post just published a story...

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Quick Notes on a GOP Senate

Republicans have officially taken Senate with nearly clean sweep of competitive races, with a similar rout in governor races. This means an all-out war on climate, workers, and anything else that...

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Sapping ALEC's Power: Group Loses Chair of Corporate Board With Latest Defection

The tech exodus from the American Legislative Exchange Council continues, with German software giant SAP ending its membership in the anti-climate lobbying group.  The blow is especially harsh as...

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Super-Duper Big: Harvard-Smithsonian Harboring Koch-Funded Climate Denier...

The fossil-fuel industry's campaign to promote climate denial, led by the Koch brothers, has corrupted Harvard University and the Smithsonian, two of the most trusted scientific institutions in the...

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Climate Justice at #NN15

Here's a schedule of events at Netroots Nation 2015 featuring climate and energy activists, including artists and musicians. Not just panels but also the Enviro Caucus and a few Happy Hours! Come to my...

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It Could Be Worse: Thoughts on Obama's Clean Power Plan

Originally published at The Jacobin.At the beginning of August, President Obama unveiled with great fanfare the “Clean Power Plan,” a “Landmark Action to Protect Public Health, Reduce Energy Bills for...

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#ExxonKnew Their Product Killed - So They Blew Up Our Democracy

Bill McKibben lays out in gory detail Exxon's climate crime in a new piece in The Nation. We're talking over a hundreds of billions of dollars in profits built on lies about the danger the unlimited...

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350,000 People Say: #ExxonKnew

Help Climate Hawks Vote tell the Department of Justice: Prosecute Exxon.Tomorrow, I will be personally delivering over 350,000 signatures to the Department of Justice, as the new political director of...

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@#^*$ Trump! Here's One Way To REALLY Stick It To Him

Donald Trump is a dangerous bigot. His call for banning Muslims from entering the U.S. is an appeal to the worst element in American politics. I can’t think of a better way to respond than by raising...

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Clinton's Deceptive 'Hearts' Vs 'Heads' Narrative

“I hear some talk that people are trying to decide,” Hillary Clinton said in her closing pitch for Thursday’s debate, “Do they vote with their heart? Do they vote with their head?”She concluded, “I'm...

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Bernie Sanders: 'Hillary Clinton Supports Fracking. I Do Not.'

“Hillary Clinton supports fracking. I do not.”These words appeared in a recent fundraising email from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, which fiercely attacked fracking and Hillary...

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Sanders and Clinton - The Climate Primary Has Just Begun

Breaking news: Climate Hawks Vote Political Action (CHV), a grassroots climate Super PAC, is launching the Climate Primary, its endorsement vote for the 2016 Presidential primary.  In an open voting...

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"Are Democrats who support fracking wrong?" Bernie Sanders: "Yes."...

The Climate Hawks Vote Democratic Climate Primary endorsement poll is open for your vote until Tuesday, March 8, 11:59 PM.For a few minutes, the nation actually heard candidates for president debating...

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DETAILS: Public Democratic Platform Meeting This Week in DC

Beginning on Wednesday, the Democratic Party plans to hold a two-day forum in Washington DC to solicit public testimony on the national platform—and I’m going to be there.Details on when and where the...

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California Climate Hawks Vote!

Today's the day. It's primary day in California. We need a climate revolution -- and you can make it happen with your vote. Climate Hawks Vote has endorsed these clear climate champions:Bernie Sanders...

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Big Oil Is Polluting The DNC!

Tell Democrats: Just say no to Big Oil propaganda at the DNC.Both Politico and The Atlantic are hosting events during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia sponsored by the American...

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210,000 More Climate Voters

It’s GOTV time. Voters are casting ballots, making calls, sending texts, knocking on doors, we’re all doing whatever it takes to get out the vote. Now Climate Hawks Vote is pouring last-minute...

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#NoDAPL: California Must Divest from Trump's Dakota Access Disaster

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has filed documents in court and with Congress notifying them that they are terminating the environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline and expediting its...

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Climate Resistance Recess: 30 Killed, 100,000s Displaced

This week, members of Congress are in their home districts. It’s up to us to make sure they know who they’re supposed to represent. Trump’s radical campaign agenda is now being put into action by a...

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SHAME: Senate Democrats Vote En Masse for Climate Deniers

This week, Senate Democrats joined the Republican majority to confirm three avowed deniers of climate science into Donald Trump’s cabinet — Ryan Zinke for Interior, Ben Carson for Housing and Urban...

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Trump's Latest Lie, or The Time to Talk Climate Change Is NOW

“Floods are unprecedented,” Trump tweeted as Hurricane Harvey shattered rainfall records. “Even experts have said they've never seen one like this!"xHISTORIC rainfall in Houston, and all over Texas....

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Sens. Whitehouse & Shaheen attack DailyKos for 'Democrat disease' re...

As y’all know, a huge coalition of progressive advocacy organizations including Daily Kos called out Chuck Schumer for failing to “to lead your caucus in complete opposition to Trump's attempted...

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In Speech About Being An Impartial Judge, Kavanaugh Details Close Friendships...

In a 2015 address to Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh discusses his friendships with and envy of America’s corporate elite. Arguing...

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Watch: Giggly Kavanaugh implicates Georgetown Prep 'friends' for...

During the third day of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Kennedy (R-La.) questioned Kavanaugh about “getting into trouble” at the elite all-boys school Georgetown Prep, eliciting nervous...

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"STEVE" BREYER EXPOSED: SHOCKING YEARBOOK PHOTOS

Why is the nation fixated on Brett “Bart” Kavanaugh’s Georgetown Prep ‘83 yearbook? Sure, there’s explicit misogyny, celebration of binge drinking, alcohol-soaked days and nights, and coded references...

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Here Are The 14 Candidates Calling For A Climate Debate - What's Tom Perez's...

Spurred by teen-aged climate activists, a majority of the Democratic candidates for president have called on the Democratic National Committee to hold a debate focused on climate change.This week, DNC...

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What John Kerry can accomplish as Biden's international climate czar

President-elect Joe Biden has named former senator and Secretary of State John Kerry as his special envoy for climate, sitting on the National Security Council. Throughout his long career of public...

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With "No Double-Dip" Deal, Biden Has Agreed To Enormous Climate Justice...

With the so-called “no double-dip” rule, President Biden and 21 senators have negotiated a deal on the Build Back Better agenda that threatens several of his major climate and racial justice...

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If nobody mentions that frackers are responsible for the Boulder firestorm...

Originally published on my Hill Heat newsletter.The Colorado urban firestorm, via Nathan Schneider:“Imagine if a group of foreign conspirators, by piloting a humming drone armada, dropped incendiary...

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