global warming
More on the U.S. public opinion on Climate Change
From Grist: The frog and the polar bear: The real reasons Americans aren’t buying climate change
From PlanetSave: UN Climate Negotiators Wrestle for an ‘Ideal’ Plan that Will Completely Screw Us
From Ecopolitology: Republican Presidential Candidates on Climate Change
Another cartoon:… Read the rest
More on Those Crazy Kochs
From ClimateProgress: The 1% Have a Stranglehold on Politics: New Al Jazeera Documentary Sheds Light on the Koch Brothers (watch the video)
From ALECexposed: ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection
And this one’s just funny–From ClimateProgress: Irony Can Be So Ironic: Anti-Science, Anti-EPA (“Koch darling”) Jim… Read the rest
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition recently partnered up with the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization to develop a report that brings attention to the sensitive ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
Results of their focused research proves the park is going through significant changes that will affect wildlife food sources and migration… Read the rest
Al Gore has one thing to say about the flooding, fires and drought this summer: you better get used to it. Starting today, he’ll be delivering the message to every time zone in the world for 24 straight hours through his Climate Reality Project. An update to An Inconvenient Truth… Read the rest
Of course the best article (or close to, anyway) I’ve ever read about climate change would come from a fake newspaper. The Onion… Read the rest‘s recent “We Need to Do More When it Comes to Having Brief, Panicked Thoughts About Climate Change,” is likely the most accurate piece on the climate
In a new study in which polar bears were collared and their journies traced, one female was discovered to have swam 426 miles in a period of nine days without stopping. According to the National Geographic report, this polar bear traveled across the Beaufort Sea, which is experiencing ice cover… Read the rest
The scariest quote was the one I left off where he called the American people smart because, “after all, they keep re-electing me”. I left it out because this cartoon is meant to illustrate how bat-shit crazy Joe Barton is, not how unimaginably daft his constituents are.
Although, as a… Read the rest
More on the cooling sensation of coal emissions
From Treehugger: Without China’s Coal Burning The Hottest Decade On Record Would’ve Been Even Hotter
From The Independent: China’s power stations generate ‘future spike’ in global warming
From Grist: How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and … Read the rest
*Cartoonist’s note: This cartoon is inspired by the House Energy Action Team (HEAT). More on HEAT after the cartoon.… Read the rest
More on HEAT
From DeSmogBlog: GOP House Energy Action Team Is Dirty Energy Dream Team
From GreenChipStocks: 28 Bureaucrats Who Sold You Out For A Little Oil Money–$4 Million Gets You
Thanks for all of the great captions! The 4 finalists were:
Robert Buckley – Sorry, Frosty. We honestly believed our tweets about climate change would work.
dave lulich – “worm” weather is on the way
Emory – It’s amazing what you can do with your feces!
Joe Yeoman – “Oliver,… Read the rest
