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Climate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
Turn Climate Fear, Frustration Into Votes, Ex-New York Times Reporter Urges
In an era of fires, floods, and power outages, “the most urgent imperative now is to turn our fear and frustration into votes,” ex-New ... -
Culture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasPost-Carbon Transition
Blame Polluters, Not Individuals, for Climate Crisis, Monbiot Urges
The fossil industry’s public relations master stroke has been to convince citizens that we share equal blame for the climate crisis, when the majority ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Non-Partisan Campaign Helps Teens Shift Their Parents’, Grandparents’ Voting Priorities
A Toronto mother and entrepreneur has launched CoVote, a non-partisan effort to help teenagers shift their parents’ and grandparents’ perspective on their vote in ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourIce Loss & Sea Level RiseMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
Google Searches for ‘Climate Change’ Outstrip Game of Thrones in September
With concern about climate change heating up and interest in Winterfell cooling down (because…wait for it…Winter is Coming, Jon Snow), it was bound to ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourEuropeMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasPost-Carbon Transition
Royal Shakespeare Company Cancels Partnership with Colossal Fossil BP
The iconic Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon has asked colossal fossil BP to exit stage right, after sponsoring the theatre since 2011. -
Greta Thunberg Help Line Will ‘Tolerate’ Adults with Uncontrollable Need to Yell at a Child
An Australian quiz show has come up with a sure-fire antidote for the clusters of angry men who’ve acquired an uncontrollable urge to get ... -
‘No Future, No Children’ Until Governments Address Climate Crisis, Canadian Youth Declare
A group of more than 450 youth, most of them Canadian, are declaring they won’t have children until they see the federal government taking ... -
Trump Says He Cancelled Light Bulb Efficiency Rule Because LEDs Make Him ‘Look Orange’
Donald Trump may or may not have been kidding around last week when he said he was rolling back a regulation that would save ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon Transition
‘Shut Up, Franzen!’: Climate Hawks Scorch U.S. Novelist’s Latest Fiction that Warming Crisis is Unstoppable
From the outpouring of criticism U.S. novelist Jonathan Franzen is receiving for his latest piece of overwrought climate fatalism in The New Yorker, he ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesHot SpotsHuman Rights & MigrationLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasSub-National Governments
Kenney’s ‘Foreign Influence’ Probe Draws Criticism from All Sides
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is under fire from all sides, after unveiling details of a taxpayer-funded investigation of supposed foreign-funded pipeline opposition that includes ... -
Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDrive to 1.5International Agencies & StudiesIPCC ReportPost-Carbon Transition
The 12-Year Target: How a 2030 Goal Became a Proxy for Deeper Decarbonization (and More Detailed Science)
The oft-cited 2030 deadline to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 45% is actually a stepping stone to the even more significant goal of ... -
Suffragist Eunice Foote, First Scientist to Discover Global Warming, Receives Overdue Recognition
The 1850s natural scientist and U.S. suffragist who first described global warming is finally getting some of the recognition she deserves, 200 years after ...
