Dozens of governors, including Charlie Baker, are getting letters from the business community today in a show of support for President Obama's limits on carbon pollution from power plants: In an unprecedented show of business support for … [Read more...]
Sen. Markey: Champion of the Environment? Or Corporate Dem Sell-Out?
Sen. Ed Markey gives campaign money to corporate Dem Patrick Murphy over progressive champion Alan Grayson. I am writing to express my disappointment in Senator Ed Markey (MA-D)’s recent financial support for Congressman Patrick Murphy … [Read more...]
Grumpy Old Globe Columnist Lectures Climate Activists
Hey, you kids! Pull up your pants and turn down that loud music! An old lawyer is here to condescendingly tell you how to stop with your popular, effective actions against climate change, and instead take up his unpopular niche solution … [Read more...]
New Study: Global Warming Threatens MA’s Oysters & Clams
Ocean acidification fueled by climate change is accelerating faster than previously thought and could have devastating effects within just a few decades, according to a new study from University of California at Davis, Ocean Conservancy, … [Read more...]
2015 Blizzard: More Evidence Climate Change Intensifying Winter Storms
It's not your imagination: Giant snowstorms really are hitting Massachusetts more often than they used to. Here's an example: The 1993 "Storm of the Century" delivered 20.1" of snow to Worcester. Incredibly, that storm no longer even … [Read more...]
Fall River Herald News Lets Polluter Front Group Deny Climate Science
Last week the Fall River Herald News and sister paper the Taunton Gazette published an op-ed column denying manmade carbon pollution causes global warming. I submitted the following letter to the editor in response: Tom Harris and Bob … [Read more...]
Will You Feel Safer if MA Imprisons Anti-Coal Activists? (UPDATED)
Authorities wants to put two anti-coal activists in prison for the crime of trying to stop climate change, reports the AP's Philip Marcelo: Environmental activists Ken Ward and Jonathan ‘‘Jay’’ O’Hara say they don’t intend to dispute many … [Read more...]
Climate Change and Geotherapy: Two Conferences, Two Workshops, and Another Chance
I’ve been going to public lectures on climate change at Harvard, MIT, and other places since at least 1980. Lately I’ve been thinking that I have yet to hear an ecologist talk about the subject. I’ve seen climatologists, atmospheric … [Read more...]
Phony Attack on Climate Action: The US Chamber Doesn’t Care About Jobs
The US Chamber of Commerce is putting the full force of its polluter-funded war chest behind fighting limits on industrial carbon pollution set to be announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday. Paul Krugman dives into their … [Read more...]
SouthCoast Towns Completely Unprepared for Sea Level Rise
Here in Massachusetts, climate science denial may be politically toxic, but when it comes to accelerating sea level rise fueled by global warming, some local officials are just as in denial about as their science-denying counterparts in … [Read more...]
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