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The Relentless Attack of Climate Scientist Ben Santer
May 16, 2014
Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for research supporting the finding that human activity contributes to global warming, is currently a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Photo: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
The following is an excerpt from Merchants of Doubt, by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes.
Ever since scientists first began to explain the evidence that our climate was warming — and that human activities were probably to blame — pe
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In an  unprecedented federal court case that has made it to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, young people from California are suing the Environmental Protection Agency and Departments of Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Energy and Defense under the historic “public trust doctrine” for failing to devise a climate change recovery plan. In their legal brief, they argue, “Failure to rapidly reduce CO2 emissions and protect and restore the balance of the atmosphere is a violation of Youth’s constitutionally protected rights and is redressable by the Cour
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The New Abolitionism
Averting planetary disaster will mean forcing fossil fuel companies to give up at least $10 trillion in wealth.
by Chris Hayes
 (Image via The Nation)Before the cannons fired at Fort Sumter, the Confederates announced their rebellion with lofty rhetoric about “violations of the Constitution of the United States” and “encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States.” But the brute, bloody fact beneath those words was money. So much goddamn money.
The leaders of slave power were fighting a movement of dispossession. The abolitionists told them that the property they owned must be forfeited, that all the
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 The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is at it again, as over 60 scientists and representatives from about 100 nations gather this week in Japan to finalize an authoritative report on the impacts of climate change. This time, the group’s focus moves beyond melting glaciers and threats to plants and animals and puts the crisis in terms most likely to resonate with humans: if it hasn’t already, global warming is coming to where you live. "The polar bear is us,” is how Patricia Romero Lankao of the National Center for Atmospheric Research put it, meaning that those impacts are being f
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The Thirsty West: What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas
Even Sin City’s attempts to conserve water are wasteful.
For the first time since the construction of the Hoover Dam, water levels in Lake Mead are being intentionally lowered due to the ongoing drought. The result is striking. Photo by Eric Holthaus
Perhaps the best evidence of this problem lies in stark juxtaposition across a stretch of desert surround
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Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?
Natural and social scientists develop new model of how 'perfect storm' of crises could unravel global system
A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of s
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How big oil destroys the world: A real-life saga of greed
Rachel Boynton's brilliant muckraking doc "Big Men" goes from Manhattan to Dallas to the Niger Delta
 If you want to know how the world works, as opposed to how we are told it works – or how we wish it might work – you need to see "Big Men,” a remarkable new investigative documentary about oil, money, Africa and America that comes with Brad Pitt’s name attached as executive producer but was directed by Rachel Boynton. If Boynton is not yet as well known as Laura Poitras, the fearless documentarian closely associated with Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden, she belongs in the same company as one of
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