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Romantic Partners Can Influence Each Other’s Assumptions and Behaviors on Climate Change, Study Finds

Romantic Partners Can Influence Each Other’s Assumptions and Behaviors on Climate Change, Study Finds

Romantic partners can be the sounding boards for each other’s thoughts on all sorts of issues, including the climate crisis. But, until recently, there hadn’t been much examination of whether one partner’s views on climate change could influence the other’s. A research team led by the Yale School of the Environment’s Yale Program on Climate […]

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    Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial Into Agency Reports

    Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial Into Agency Reports

    By Andy Rowell Five years ago, the leading climate denial organization in the UK, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), published a pamphlet entitled: Carbon Dioxide, the good news. The paper reiterated many of the climate deniers’ favorite, but long discredited, arguments. In many ways, the GWPF’s claims on climate science would be laughable if […]

    Florida Coastal Flooding Maps: Residents Deny Predicted Risks to Their Property

    Florida Coastal Flooding Maps: Residents Deny Predicted Risks to Their Property

    By Risa Palm and Toby W. Bolsen Advertisers understand that providing consumers with the facts will not sell products. To get people to stop and pay attention, successful advertising delivers information simply and with an emotional hook so that consumers notice and, hopefully, make a purchase. Climate communication scientists use these same principles of messaging […]

    Youtube Still Promotes Climate Disinformation, Report Finds

    Youtube Still Promotes Climate Disinformation, Report Finds

    By Dana Drugmand You don’t have to look far to find misinformation about climate science continuing to spread online through prominent social media channels like YouTube. That’s despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are driving the climate crisis. A new report by the global activist NGO Avaaz reveals that, despite YouTube’s pledge to combat […]

    James Murdoch Slams His Father’s Climate-Denying Media Empire

    James Murdoch Slams His Father’s Climate-Denying Media Empire

    James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn spoke out against the climate crisis denials pushed by his father’s media empire in an exclusive statement released to the Daily Beast. James is the younger son of the Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch who owns News Corp, and the younger brother of Lachlan Murdoch who runs Fox News. […]

    Make the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay the $2 Billion Bushfire Recovery Fund

    Make the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay the $2 Billion Bushfire Recovery Fund

    By Andy Rowell After weeks of inaction and ineptitude as his country burns, as a billion animals die, with entire species potentially wiped out, and with dozens of people dead and communities and lives ripped apart, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has finally slumbered into action. Over the weekend, Morrison tweeted, “We’re putting more Defense […]