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The New Right-Wing Ploy Coming Soon: Fake Climate Solutions

September 26, 2019 admin alternative facts, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Democrats, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, greta thunberg, HEALTH, policy & politics, Republicans

Credit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 02:57:58 +0000

At the moment, many right-wing ideologues are sticking to abject climate change denial, crazy ideas like — it is not happening, it is good for us, it is not caused by humans, it is a left-wing conspiracy, it’s designed to steal your money, and so on. Notice how many are contradictory — not happening and good for us are mutually exclusive. The idea is to throw out as many rationalizations as possible to provide a “plausible” excuse for each of their supporters via varying reality-denying views

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Where Each 2020 Democratic Candidate Stands on Palestine and Israel

September 25, 2019 admin 2020 presidential candidate, bds, Democrats, gaza, Israel, Palestine, rights, west bank

Credit to Author: Leila Ettachfini| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:15:12 +0000

This has long been one of few bipartisan issues, but that could change in 2020.

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Reports of AOC’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

September 19, 2019 admin alexandria ocasio-cortez, Congress, Democrats, money-corruption, politics

Credit to Author: Brendan O’Connor| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:58:53 +0000

The ‘New York Times’ says the controversial member of Congress has fallen in line. That’s only half the story.

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Elizabeth Warren Is Betting Young People Hate Corruption More Than Capitalism

September 17, 2019 admin Bernie Sanders, Democrats, election 2020, Elizabeth Warren, money-corruption, politics

Credit to Author: Matt Taylor| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:29:09 +0000

“I don’t think you have to use the word to be for the revolution.”

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Yang Would Spend $3 Trillion On Residential Solar, But The Same Money Could Decarbonize The Grid Entirely

September 6, 2019 admin 2020 election, 2020 us election, Agriculture, air carbon capture, air quality, andrew yang, Carbon Capture, carbon capture and storage, carbon pricing, carbon sequestration, carbon tax, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, consumer technology, democratic candidates, democratic primaries, Democrats, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, geoengineering, green economy, green jobs, grid, high speed rail, hydroelectric, investment, mark z. jacobson, nuclear energy, policy & politics, rooftop solar, Smart Grid, Solar energy, solar power plants, subsidies, United States, us energy policy, US Politics, wind energy, yang2020

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 03:50:26 +0000

Yang’s single largest dollar expenditure, 62% of his US$4.9 trillion budget, would only impact 2% to 5% of US energy consumption. And his investments on geoengineering, fusion, and thorium nuclear generation are purely wasted expenditures

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US Climate Politics History Lesson — CleanTech Talk with Nathaniel Rich

September 1, 2019 admin cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, climate policy, climate politics, Coal, Democrats, Fossil Fuels, green economy, INTERVIEWS, Jimmy Carter, Media, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, Republicans, research, Ronald Reagan, SCIENCE, US Politics

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 03:07:47 +0000

In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down with Nathaniel Rich, novelist, essayist, and writer at large for the New York Times Magazine. Together, they discuss Nathaniel’s new book, Losing Earth: A Recent History, detailing the history of public climate change understanding and the larger, unaddressed issues and moral questions arising from the climate crisis

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Unsanctioned Democratic Climate Change Debate Could Occur On TYT

September 1, 2019 admin climate change, Democratic National Committee, Democrats, dnc, justice democrats, policy & politics, the young turks

Credit to Author: Kurt Lowder| Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 19:02:51 +0000

The Democratic National Committee voted against holding a debate on climate change. Why? Is the corrupting influence of the fossil fuel lobby forcing theses decisions? Are they are afraid of turning off moderate voters? Are they worried about people demanding a variety of single-issue debates? For now, we can relegate the answers to the comment section, because any definitive proof for any of these explanations is lacking