September 7, 2016
Reader Email: Why Is Jill Stein A Fringe Candidate?
Email conversations with Left Call readers. Published with consent.
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November 19, 2014
Global Cooling? NOAA Global Surface Temperature Anomalies Prove Otherwise
There’s no doubt much of the United States has been damn f’n cold lately, and we’ve yet to engage in those late November rituals involving turkey carving and conservative uncle debating. And when the weather turns cold, you know, during months that usually are cold for much of the U.S., climate-change-denying conservatives can’t help themselves, because Al Gore told them global warming/climate change meant that winter would cease to exist — well, at least that’s what they “heard.”
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September 14, 2014
Climate Change For Evangelical Christians: Actions Have Consequences
Those of us who accept the scientific consensus know there will be consequences of inaction on climate change. But instead of our inaction, what about the consequences of our actions? What we don’t consider is the consequences of our actions in a faith-based sense, that might speak to the evangelical Christians who reject climate change. Let me explain.
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August 27, 2014
IPCC: Greenhouse Gases Continue To Warm The Globe
In case you forgot, greenhouse gases continue to warm the globe. For those of us who value the scientific method over opinion, we are all too aware that this planet we call Earth is heating up, and we are the reason it is happening.
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August 19, 2014
How To Explain Science To Your Climate-Change-Denying Uncle
This is what you say to your crazy-climate-change-denying uncle when he asks, “Yeah, but, how do we know scientists are right? I mean, how do we know what is a ‘fact’ anyway? Oh yeah, and where is the science council of elders?”
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August 9, 2014
Do Global Warming Deniers Know Nuclear Weapons Exist?
On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight on HBO, host John Oliver dedicated a 15 minute segment to American apathy towards our aging nuclear weapons. Oliver said we spend more time worrying about whether we “accidentally hit Reply All on an office email” than we do worrying about “nuclear annihilation.”
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May 31, 2014
Boehner, Fellow Republicans, Are Not Climate Scientists, But They Are Denialists
Human beings are amazing. And I don’t discount myself from that statement, but I try really hard to not assume I know something to be true when it is in direct conflict with the experts of a given field. But for Republicans and conservatives, they have no problem “knowing” they are correct about something, even when they admit they are not experts.
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January 29, 2014
VIDEO: How Can It Be So Cold If There’s Global Warming?
So if global warming is real, how come it’s so cold outside?
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January 15, 2014
Reality Is Unkind To Climate Change Deniers And Fox News Viewers
Reality is an inconsiderate and harsh place for climate change deniers, so they must exist outside it. One of the things a conservative climate change denier (and is there any other kind?) might say to you, if you are ever so lucky to be in such a debate, is that you can’t trust the scientists. They will ask you why we should believe what climate scientists tell us. Or alternatively, and inconsistently, they will tell you that not all scientists agree the planet is warming and/or humans are responsible. Although on that last point, assuming they’re attentive to the tactics of right-wing media, they are “usually” careful to say “scientist” and not “climate scientist.”
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January 7, 2014
It’s Winter, It’s Cold, Bring On The Global Warming Denialists: Polar Vortex Style
Did you know winter disproves global warming? It’s true, that is, if you watch Fox News. I know this because Donald Trump told me during a segment on Fox & Friends. And everyone knows ‘The Donald’ never lies.
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