A new statistical analysis finds that "there is less than a one in one hundred thousand chance" of the past 30 years of temperature records happening unless greenhouse gases are causing global warming. So add that to, you know, the huge pile of evidence, idiots.
Is a Carbon Tax Really Too Expensive?
Edward Lazear, a former economic adviser to George W. Bush, argues today that cutting carbon emissions enough to mitigate global warming is a lost cause, and we are better off pursuing a strategy of "adaptation" to a fiery new world. This is why pessimists should not be in charge.
Doom Draws Nearer
A new day has dawned, and with it, a new draft of a new United Nations report on climate change has leaked unto the world. Like the turning pages of a calendar as one draws closer to death, the report brings tidings that grow worse, and worse, and worse.
Illuminati Sacrificed Robi​n Williams, Family Guy Repeat Proves
Terrible animated sitcom The Family Guy aired a rerun, centered around Robin Williams, just moments before the public learned of Williams’ tragic suicide. Some of Earth’s 7 billion sentient humans suspected this meant that he had been sacrificed by the elite deviants of the Bavarian Illuminati.
The Answers Are Staring You Right in the Face: Richard Edelman, CEO of the World's Largest PR Firm, is in Denial About His Climate Change Denial | Europe is Descending Into WWII-Level Antisemitism | Study: Bribery Works | The NSA's MonsterMind Doesn't Need Humans to Start a Cyber War | "They're Watching" | Look:
Bodacious waves in the Arctic, 16-feet high and rising, are likely to hasten climate change, according to a paper in the new issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
Climate Change Is So Bad Even Oil Companies Are Bracing for it Now
This month, an oil refinery on the Delaware River sought approval from state officials and Army engineers to reinforce its facilities. Why? Because the earth is warming, storms are churning, and the sea level's already high enough to endanger the oil company's business.
Earth broke another all-time heat record again. "We are living in the steroid era of the climate system," one researcher says. Together, there's nothing we can't do! Except for reversing global warming.
A new UN report laying out a path for the world's nations to avoid catastrophic climate change suggests that the U.S. begin cutting carbon emissions "more than 10 times faster than the Energy Information Administration's forecast last year." This will never happen without a carbon tax, so let's make one, fast.
"Prius Repellent" Is a Hot Expensive Way for Rednecks to Kill Earth
They call it "rolling coal" or "hybrid repellent." It is what it sounds like: "pollution porn for dudes with pickup trucks," a setup that costs hundreds or thousands of bucks and gives liberal-hatin' drivers a way to protest Obama by puking clouds of exhaust smoke on little lefties in their lefty cars.
The Politics of a Carbon Tax
This weekend, Hank Paulson, the Republican former Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs CEO, wrote an op-ed calling for a carbon tax. Has the political landscape shifted enough to make a carbon tax a real possibility?
Obama To Announce 30 Percent Cut to U.S. Carbon Emissions
President Obama is expected to announce today a new initiative by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the United States' carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent from their 2005 levels by 2030. The plan, according to the New York Times, would be "the strongest actions ever taken by the United States government…
A Carbon Tax Is Our Only Hope
Carbon emissions are causing global warming. Global warming is a slow motion disaster. The consensus is that we must make drastic changes soon. How? We need a carbon tax. A carbon tax is our only hope. Time for a carbon tax now.
Corporations Are Planning for Global Warming. Why Can't Republicans?
As mainstream U.S. presidential candidates persist in pretending that global warming may not be real, at least one sector of society is already busy planning for the coming catastrophe: big corporations.
John Oliver Has Some Strong Opinions About Climate Change Skeptics
If you haven't been watching the new Daily Show, John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, start. In Sunday night's episode, Oliver settled the "debate" on climate change by tearing the 25% of the American public still "skeptical" about certain physical realities a new asshole.
Watch Bill Nye "Bully" a Climate Skeptic With Facts on Crossfire
Bill Nye the Science Guy brought a gun to a knife fight by trying to employ actual facts in a debate about climate change on CNN's Crossfire earlier this week.
White House Report: Climate Change "Has Moved Firmly Into the Present"
On Tuesday, just five weeks after the UN published its own damning report on climate change, the White House released its National Climate Assessment. The findings, contributed to by more than 300 climate scientists and technical experts, are terrifying.
A Scientific American editor who went on Fox News and tried to discuss climate change today found the experience to be "not something that I wanted to be a part of in the future." The station also apparently tried to remove video of his appearance from its website, but thought better of it.
UN Report on Climate Change Warns of "Severe and Irreversible" Changes
Yesterday, the U.N. released a new report on climate change. Basically, we're fucked: According to the report, the damage from global warming is likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible" and will almost certainly lead to environmental and economic disaster, including widespread famine in the world's poorer…
Arrest Climate-Change Deniers
Man-made climate change happens. Man-made climate change kills a lot of people. It's going to kill a lot more. We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people's deaths. It's time to punish the climate-change liars.
