climate change

Church Insurance Cites ‘Act of God’ in Not Paying for Church’s Flood Damage

Church Insurance Cites ‘Act of God’ in Not Paying for Church’s Flood Damage

It was ironic that an insurance company specializing in covering churches refused to pay for flood damage to a church…

8 years ago

Louisiana Floods Coincide With Announcement July Was Hottest In History

Climate change increases the amounts of rain in the most intense events, and extreme rainfall events like in Louisiana are…

8 years ago

ExxonMobil Lies – They Still Oppose Any Climate Change Remedies

ExxonMobil promotes a carbon tax while contributing to Republicans who block all efforts to combat climate change with a tax…

8 years ago

Oil Giant Pledges Major Shift To Renewable and Green Energy to Fight Climate Change

"Sierra Club welcomes Total’s new policy changes to meet the global climate accord and reduce its role in

8 years ago

Donald Trump Only Cares About Climate Change When His Property Is At Risk

In public, Donald Trump wants the ignorant to believe that climate change is a hoax. It's a whole different story…

8 years ago

Tables Turned – A. G. Subpoenas Koch-Related Climate Deniers’ Documents

Republicans use subpoenas to terrorize climate scientists, but it is an infringement of their rights if the tables are turned.

8 years ago

21 Youth Win Historic Climate Ruling Against Fossil Fuel and the Government

As it turns out, a group of 21 young people from across the nation have joined the climate change war…

8 years ago

Marco Rubio Spits On Miami Mayor’s Ringing Endorsement

Mr. Regalado’s endorsement comes at a time when the sea level has risen an unprecedented 5 inches all along the…

8 years ago

SCOTUS Conservatives Give the Kochs What They Want and Ruled Against Humanity

The fossil fuel industry said no more regulations and the conservative justices obediently complied

8 years ago

The ExxonMobil Climate Scandal Reveals the Deadly Evil of Corporatism

The Bloomberg editorial board claims the government has no right to "shame" a company for trying to turn a profit,…

8 years ago

Paul Krugman and Noam Chomsky Agree: Republicans Are A Serious Threat To Humanity

Paul Krugman and Noam Chomsky joined to sound the alarm about Republican being a threat not only to Americans but…

8 years ago

Paul Ryan’s ‘Pro-Growth Agenda’ Calls for Giving Your Money to Rich People

Paul Ryan insists he is going to 'fix' things, but since Obama has already done that, he can only mean…

8 years ago

The Low Information Republican Party is Wrong About Everything

The Republican Party has made politics a celebration of literally knowing nothing about anything, but feeling very strongly about it

8 years ago

The Liberal Project Goes into Another Year, Weathered but Unbeaten

The liberal project's foe is a conservative ideology that de-legitimizes other modes of thought, compromise and a thought for the…

8 years ago

Stop Praising A Koch Victory That Increases Climate Change and Enriches the Oil Industry

No wonder Republicans were praising themselves; just one unrelated-to-spending rider in a spending bill gave the Kochs tens-of-billions annually and…

8 years ago

The GOP’s Reaction to Climate Change and Islam Has Created a Vortex of Stupidity

That Republicans focus on the idea of an "Islamic problem" shows us how catastrophically insufficient is their understand of the…

8 years ago

ExxonMobil Defies Kochs – Warns Governments Must Intervene To Prevent Climate Catastrophe

ExxonMobil is the second leading oil corporation to publicly admit that climate change is real, following Shell Oil's admission in…

8 years ago

Republicans Ramp Up The Koch Crusade And Inquisition Against Science

When NOAA published research using empirical data to refute GOP climate-change denial, Lamar Smith (R-TX) subpoenaed to the scientists

8 years ago

Peggy Noonan Says Linking Climate Change and Terrorism Makes Bernie Sanders Look “Daffy”

Despite all the evidence he is 100% correct about the connection between climate change and terrorism, Noonan thinks Sanders sounds…

8 years ago

Environmental Activist Bill McKibben: “This Is A Day Of Celebration”

Climate activist Bill McKibben expressed jubilation after President Obama announced his decision to deny the Keystone XL pipeline.

8 years ago

Obama Refuses TransCanada Request to Suspend Keystone XL Pipeline Approval

TransCanada claims they need more time to work with American officials but the real reason is to avoid a losing…

8 years ago

Ted Cruz Says ‘Climate Change Is Not Science, It’s Religion’

Drowning in evidence, Cruz denies there is evidence, and then claims if we say he "denies" it we're proving climate…

8 years ago

Facing Tough Re-Election Fight, GOP Senator Ayotte Breaks Ranks With GOP On Clean Power

On Sunday, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte (R) announced that she will support the EPA's Clean Power Plan.

9 years ago

House Republicans Are Targeting Scientists For Harassment and Intimidation

Armed with "suspicious subpoena power," the House Science Committee is using its authority to conduct a witch hunt against NOAA…

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Takes On Big Oil By Calling For A Criminal Investigation Into ExxonMobil

Bernie Sanders is calling for the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into ExxonMobile after internal memos revealed…

9 years ago

Pope Visit Backfires On Republicans As Obama and Francis Team Up On Climate Change

Almost immediately, Pope Francis and President Obama negated any Republican hopes of using the Pope's visit to score political points…

9 years ago

Hillary Clinton Unifies Democrats – Opposes Keystone XL On Climate Change Grounds

There must be ten or twenty immediate reasons a person can give for opposing a foreign corporation, TransCanada's crusade to…

9 years ago

Washington Post Conservative Claims That Honoring the Pope is Hating America

The Koch brothers are executing a well-planned assault on the Pope by portraying him as a Pagan and his followers…

9 years ago

Conservative Heartland Institute “Accuses” Pope of Paganism

The problem for conservatives is not that the Pope made room for Paganism in the Church, but that he refuses…

9 years ago

Ten Lonely House Republicans Acknowledge Climate Change Is Real

The ten signed a resolution "affirming that human activity contributes to climate change" and they endorsed action to respond to…

9 years ago

Republicans Engage in More Treason to Undermine the President on Climate Change

Mitch McConnell and his gaggle of traitors warn foreign governments not to trust Obama when negotiating with Obama in Paris…

9 years ago

Bobby Jindal Urges President Obama Not To Mention Climate Change On Katrina Anniversary

Bobby Jindal sent a letter to President Obama, requesting that the president not talk about climate change on Katrina's 10th…

9 years ago

GOP Hopeful John Kasich Flip Flops On Climate Change, Jumps Into Denialist Camp

John Kasich told Chuck Todd on MSNBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, that the theory of man-made climate change was…

9 years ago

Kochs And ALEC Make War Against Americans And Pope Francis Public

The mainstream media is finally reporting that the Koch's legislative arm ALEC is moving into the open to prevent action…

9 years ago

Democrats Outsmart Mitch McConnell With Resolution Supporting Pope Francis On Climate Change

A group of liberal Senate Democrats turned the tables on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today by introducing a resolution supporting…

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Shreds GOP Science Deniers While Applauding Obama Climate Change Initiative

Bernie Sanders went where the media won't while supporting President Obama's climate change initiative. Sanders bluntly called out the Republican…

9 years ago

Here Are The Facts You Need To Fight The Republican Lies About Obama’s Clean Power Plant Plan

Republicans are doing the bidding of their fossil fuel masters by distorting President Obama's historic clean power plant plan, but…

9 years ago

Anti-Science Boehner Hypocritically Remembers Apollo 11’s Moon Landing

It is science that explains our universe, and that it science - not a cherry-picked Bible - that provides us…

9 years ago

Huckabee Thinks One Beheading Is Worse Than 17 Texans Killed In Record Floods

Huckabee raged and attempted to contradict the President telling Fox News that, "I assure you that one beheading is much…

9 years ago

Obama Hammers Republicans For Betraying Their Country On Climate Change

It was prescient, then, that when President Obama addressed graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and told them that "denying…

9 years ago

Senate Republicans Plan New Treasonous Sabotage Of Obama On Global Climate Change Talks

Not content with undercutting the President and sabotaging America's foreign policy, Senate Republicans are planning a new treasonous act of…

9 years ago

Obama Turns The Tables On GOP By Invoking God and The Children In Climate Change Fight

President Obama turned their own argument against Republicans by suggesting that we must act against climate change to protect the…

9 years ago

Wisconsin Becomes Second Koch-Republican State To Ban Climate Change Discussion

Now that the Koch Republicans banned government employees from uttering the words "climate change" because they wanted to prevent damage…

9 years ago

California Suffers Historic Drought While Oil Industry Wastes 2 Million Gallons of Water Daily

To make matters that much worse, the over 2 million gallons of toxic water the oil and gas industry disposes…

9 years ago

McConnell Warns Foreign Nations That GOP Will Undermine Obama Climate Change Deals

Taking a page out of a freshman Senator Tom Cotton's playbook, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a threat to…

9 years ago

Why Isn’t Boehner Touting China Over America On Climate Change?

Boehner and Republicans are also intent on defeating President Obama's climate change initiatives on myriad fronts such as stripping the…

9 years ago

Gov. Rick Scott Banned Talk of “Global Warming” and “Climate Change”

Rick Scott's administration banned use of terms like global warming and climate change, but denial won't turn sea level rise…

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Applauds Senate Democrats For Sustaining Obama’s Keystone XL Veto

Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded the Senate today for sending the message that United States is listening to the scientific community…

9 years ago

EPA Finding Signals The Death Knell For The KeystoneXL Pipeline

Republicans and the Koch brothers make no secret that next to taxes, there is no part of the federal government…

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Sets Republicans Up To Humiliate Themselves On Climate Change Vote

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has forced Senate Republicans into a potentially embarrassing vote on whether or not climate change is…

9 years ago

Corrupt John Boehner Conspires With Foreigners Against America’s Best Interests

Boehner has enlisted a foreign corporation (TransCanada), the Canadian Prime Minister, and a foreign energy department to put pressure on…

9 years ago

The Koch Brothers Launch A Surrogate War Against Pope Francis

The Catholic Pope has garnered nothing but serious opposition and pushback from America's evangelical and Catholic Republican movement, and now…

9 years ago

Bold Democrat Mary Landrieu Should Be Truthful About KeystoneXL

It may have been Democrat Howard Dean who said not long ago that if given a choice between voting for…

9 years ago

Wesley Clark Calls for a New National Strategy to Unite and Move us Forward

Clark outlines the challenges facing us, which together, he argues, "are exactly the grounds over which a national strategy must…

9 years ago

Corporate Greed Forces First City In California To Run Out Of Water

For several California cities, that corporate greed is finally paying dividends, and not the good kind, leaving them without water.

10 years ago

In One Fell Swoop Obama Announces Solar Jobs For 50,000 Veterans and Takes On Climate Change

Since Republicans have relentlessly obstructed jobs programs for America's Veterans, the President took it upon himself to enact the program…

10 years ago

Extremist Climate Deniers Claim Historic Climate March Was An Attack On Their Way of Life

The anti-science crowd loves science that gave them automobiles, medicine, electricity, sanitation, and ability to communicate easily with any location…

10 years ago

Republicans Threaten to Withhold Government Funding Over Obama’s New EPA Rules

Republicans in the House and Senate are so angry at the President over new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal-powered…

10 years ago

Kevin McCarthy’s Rise to Majority Leader Is Great News For The Polluting Koch Brothers

It was little surprise then, that Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the new House Majority Leader to use his…

10 years ago

Obama Admits That He Wants to Go Off On Republican Climate Change Deniers

During an interview with The New York Times, President Obama admitted that the Republican anti-science climate change deniers are frustrating…

10 years ago

Conservatives Use Racism To Try To Discredit Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos

It was just a matter of time before the opposition and criticism of astrophysicist and Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson…

10 years ago

Republicans Label Obama’s Plan To Combat Climate Change a Terrorist Attack

. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama's attempt to…

10 years ago

House Republicans Refuse to Discuss Climate Change Because They Aren’t Scientists

In the House of Representatives, Republicans signaled to the world that not only are they not discussing the veracity of…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Calls Out Marco Rubio For Embarrassing The Nation

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said what many are already thinking when he called out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for embarrassing…

10 years ago

Republicans React to Climate Change Report With Denial and Hatred

When the White House released a regularly-scheduled scientific report awash in empirical data that climate change is a real and…

10 years ago

No Global Warming? NOAA Says January Was Fourth Warmest on Record

You have to go all the way back to 1976 - the year Paul McCartney and Wings made it to…

10 years ago

Fox News Bumps Climate Change Denier Sean Hannity’s Show for Coverage of Winter Storms

In a juicy bit of irony, Fox News is bumping climate change denier Sean Hannity's show and replacing with an…

10 years ago

Climate Change Deniers Using Cold Weather as Proof Exposed as Idiots By Jon Stewart

On Monday night's episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took aim at conservatives who have taken to the airwaves…

10 years ago

Despite Bitter Cold Weekend in US, Climate Models Indicate Global Warming is Intensifying

A new study argues that models have underestimated the extent to which the doubling of carbon dioxide will affect global…

10 years ago

CNN Makes Man Made Global Warming Front Page News

A UN report coming out Monday reveals that world climate scientists are 95 percent confident that we humans are causing…

11 years ago

Republicans Pledge To the Kochs That They Will Oppose Any Climate Change Bill

Republicans are signing on to a new pledge to Charles and David Koch to oppose any legislation relating to climate…

11 years ago

Republicans Attack Science To Advance Religion and Oil Industry Profits

Religious groups and Republicans are on a campaign to bring an end to science to advance religion and oil industry…

11 years ago

Could Obama’s Best Climate Change Strategy Be Thwarted by Religious Fundamentalism?

Fossil fuel barons need to join the efforts to stem climate change, but their religious beliefs may be an unrecognized…

11 years ago

Dirty Weather Puts 24 Hours of Reality in the Face of Climate Change Deniers

2012's weather is a terrifying foretaste of the future of ourworld with Global Warming. Watch 24 Hours of Reality, the…

11 years ago

As Their States Literally Burst into Flames GOP Climate Change Deniers Push Koch Hoax Propaganda

It is ironic that the states suffering most from extreme temperatures and raging fires are represented by Republicans fighting efforts…

12 years ago

Closing Minds and Banning Science in North Carolina

By banning science, by banning any discussion at all of climate change in North Carolina, the anti-regulation Republicans are regulating…

12 years ago

Republicans Look To Return to the Dark Ages with Climate Science Investigation

With conservatives controlling the House, they are poised to take their war against science to a new level, and will…

13 years ago

Ten Things You’ll Be Voting Against if You Vote Republican

Today is the day we go to vote in the 2010 midterm elections. The results of this election will reverberate…

13 years ago

The GOP Wants a Return to the Gilded Age. Do You?

Unregulated capitalism gave us the evils of the Gilded Age. Unregulated capitalism gave us the crash of 2008 that has…

14 years ago

Evan Bayh and the Environment Symbolic of Our National Paralysis

In the world of climate change legislation, everyone seems to be waiting for somebody else to act first. Thus, few…

14 years ago

Director James Cameron Calls Out Glenn Beck

Director James Cameron was on MSNBC's Hardball today and when he was asked by host Chris Matthews about the power…

14 years ago

Virginia GOP Politicizes Snow Storm to Argue Against Climate Change

In their quest to politicize everything, the Republican Party sunk to a new low today in the state of Virginia,…

14 years ago

Left Behind: Conservatives’ Values are Anti-American

What exactly does the modern day conservative stand for? They’ve got a lot of confusion going on there, and not…

14 years ago

The Political Apocalypse is Coming As the GOP Guns for Palin

Palin's most powerful nemesis, McCain/Palin campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, will soon return the fire Palin unloaded on him from her…

14 years ago

Copenhagen Smack Down: Der Spiegel Reporter to Inhofe: “You’re ridiculous!”

The ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Jim Inhofe, made a scathingly embarrassing appearance in Copenhagen.…

14 years ago

Mitt Romney Blames the US Budget Deficit on Overpaid Government Workers

Future 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was on NBC's Meet The Press today, where he blamed the excesses of…

14 years ago

Not Good and Paw-lenty for 2012

A recent poll in Minnesota by St. Cloud University showed Governor Tim Pawlenty coming in 10 points behind President Obama…

14 years ago

Sarah Palin Floats Glenn Beck as a Possible 2012 Running Mate

In an interview with Newsmax, Sarah Palin floated Fox News host Glenn Beck's name as her running mate for 2012.…

14 years ago

FNC’s Napolitano: Palin Lacks the Mental Capacity to be President

On Fox News Radio's Brian and The Judge show, Judge Andrew Napolitano unloaded with both barrels on Sarah Palin. Napolitano…

14 years ago

Even Lou Dobbs Wouldn’t Vote for Sarah Palin in 2012

Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs was on the Today show this morning talking about the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates.…

14 years ago

Hillary Clinton Offers Diplomacy over Coffee with Palin

Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was on NBC's Meet The Press today. At the end of the interview she was…

14 years ago

Sarah Palin Accuses the AP of Lying About Her Book

A grumpy Sarah Palin posted a note on her Facebook page which claims that the AP's report on the contents…

14 years ago

2012 Watch: Sarah Palin Finally Heads to Iowa

Even though numerous potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates have recently starting blazing a path to the Hawkeye state, the one…

14 years ago

Hillary Clinton Says She Won’t Ever Run for President Again

Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was on NBC's Today show this morning when she was asked whether or not she…

15 years ago

Is the Nobel Peace Prize behind Obama’s Jump in Approval Ratings?

According to today's Gallup daily tracking poll, President Obama's approval rating has gained five points in the past week, and…

15 years ago

Republicans David Brooks and Mike Murphy Say No to Palin In 2012

While discussing Sarah Palin's new book both conservative columnist David Brooks and GOP strategist Mike Murphy agreed today on Meet…

15 years ago

Palin Responds to GOP Criticism by Pimping Her Book

In response to former McCain advisor Steve Schmidt saying that nominating Sarah Palin as the GOP presidential nominee in 2012…

15 years ago

2012 Poll: Obama Easily Leads Romney, Huckabee, and Palin

A new poll released by Public Policy Polling today revealed that if he was up for reelection today, President Obama…

15 years ago

Obama Approval Rating Bodes Well for His Reelection in 2012

A new analysis by Public Policy of President Obama's approval ratings found that his approval rating matches his support in…

15 years ago

Sarah Palin Continues to Insist that Death Panels Are Real

In her written testimony to the New York State Senate on healthcare reform former Alaska governor Sarah Palin continues to…

15 years ago