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Stephen Hawking: One Thing Threatens Us More Than Donald Trump … Climate Change

Stephen Hawking: One Thing Threatens Us More Than Donald Trump … Climate Change

By Sydney Robinson Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has often been consulted in matters unrelated to space and many consider him among the most intelligent individuals to have lived. Which is why during an interview on Tuesday, Hawking’s assertion that there was something more dire facing America and the world than Donald Trump, people sat up and […]

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    Trump Chooses Climate Skeptic as New Energy Adviser

    Trump Chooses Climate Skeptic as New Energy Adviser

    Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump picked Rep. Kevin Cramer (R) of North Dakota as his energy adviser. Cramer is widely known as a strong supporter of oil and gas drilling as well as a climate change skeptic. Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump picked Rep. Kevin Cramer (R) of North Dakota as his energy adviser. Photo […]

    Big Ag Fights to the Bitter End to Keep Pesticide From Being Banned

    Big Ag Fights to the Bitter End to Keep Pesticide From Being Banned

    After years of debate, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finally poised to revoke all uses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which first came online as a pest control technology in 1965. That action, which could come this year, follows years of accumulating evidence that the organophosphate pesticide poses significant risks to people’s health and […]

    Majority of Trump Voters Believe in Climate Change

    Majority of Trump Voters Believe in Climate Change

    Despite the presidential candidate’s history of climate change denial, a majority of Donald Trump voters actually believe global warming is real and man-made. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/265895292191248385 The survey, conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, found that 56 percent of people supporting Trump in the […]

    Leaked Documents Confirm TTIP ‘Amounts to a Huge Transfer of Power from People to Big Business’

    Leaked Documents Confirm TTIP ‘Amounts to a Huge Transfer of Power from People to Big Business’

    Confirming that the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) amounts to “a huge transfer of power from people to big business,” Greenpeace Netherlands on Monday leaked 248 secret pages of the controversial trade deal between the U.S. and EU, exposing how environmental regulations, climate protections and consumer rights are being “bartered away behind closed doors.” […]

    Watch Jimmy Kimmel Slam Sarah Palin for Her Part in Climate Hustle

    Watch Jimmy Kimmel Slam Sarah Palin for Her Part in Climate Hustle

    Jimmy Kimmel generally keeps things relatively light, comedy wise, on his late night show. But apparently, Sarah Palin’s appearance in a new climate change denial film called Climate Hustle got the host fired up enough to take up the dumb-dumbness that is both Palin and the entire climate change denial brigade, aka, the GOP. Kimmel […]

    Watch Susan Sarandon Share on Colbert Why She Broke Up With Hillary Clinton

    Watch Susan Sarandon Share on Colbert Why She Broke Up With Hillary Clinton

    New voters may know Susan Sarandon as a surrogate of the Bernie Sanders campaign, but the actress actually used to be a strong Hillary Clinton supporter. “I had to break up with her,” Sarandon joked. “I told her, don’t go in Iraq. I’m very upset about that.” “So this was before 2003?” asked Late Show […]