The Contrarian: Journalism Is An Antidote To Cowardly Media Outlets

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:13:47 +0000

Journalism is under attack like never before in America. Several journalists have responded by creating new media channels.

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Wildfire Climate Misinformation Is Rampant, And Social Media Platforms Are Promoting It

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:47:44 +0000

Devastating consequences of the climate crisis are being submerged by climate misinformation messengers, who are persuaded by a self-serving but very powerful minority to mistrust scientific evidence. In many cases such disbelief emerges from social media affordances, which could actually be tapped as a source for rapid public information dissemination … [continued]

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Redefining Energy 2025 Predictions: Transportation, Energy, Electricity, & Investments

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:41:33 +0000

For years, Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid have had an annual predictions episode, where they rank the previous year’s predictions and make new ones. Last year I joined them and made a couple of predictions of my own, and now the annual episode is out. Here it is with a … [continued]

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Bill McKibben Celebrates 2024: Climate Successes Can Motivate Us In 2025

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:18:30 +0000

Many climate activists are turtling right now with the pressing reminder that the US executive office is about to be filled by a climate denier, supported by a Congress that has shown little spark to advance new, serious clean energy legislation. Yet climate activist and Gandhi Peace Award winner Bill … [continued]

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What Happens Now with Clean Energy, EVs, & the US Economy? (VIDEO)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:43:55 +0000

In this video episode of CleanTech Talk, Scott Cooney and I discuss the current state of climate action, reflecting on US policies of the past 16 years, the achievements of the Biden administration, the challenges ahead, leadership from other major economies, and more. We explore the importance of local politics … [continued]

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Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Chooses Inaccuracy, Irrelevancy, & Attack

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:06:13 +0000

Over the past three weeks, I’ve been assessing various aspects of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium’s (CUTRIC) positions, research, and publications on transit bus decarbonization. I’ve published ten articles directly about CUTRIC’s material and reports, or closely related and with serious implications for their claims that both … [continued]

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How Do Cooler Heads Prevail?

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:42:52 +0000

I am old enough to remember a day when talking politics with people who didn’t agree with you did not mean the end of a friendship quite as often as it does now. I have a lot of theories on how things got this way, but as someone who works … [continued]

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Great Leaders Simplify Things — But Sometimes Incorrectly, And Often So In Elon Musk’s Case

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:59:48 +0000

Like many, I continue to be a bit baffled that someone who has led a couple of companies to great things has also proven to be extremely simple minded and gullible on other matters. In one field, it’s all about “first principles” and digging down into the heart of matters … [continued]

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Meteorologists Who Connect Hurricanes And The Climate Crisis Are Being Threatened

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:41:35 +0000

When former President Donald J. Trump was elected, he took aim at every policy linked to the phrase “climate change” and repealed it. President Joe Biden reinstated the standard, which went into effect at most agencies. As columnist Bret Stephens asks this week in the New York Times, “Can we … [continued]

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