Politics and its Discontents: Critical Thinking: The Assault On Reason
The following is a review I wrote about four years ago of Al Gore's book, The Assault on Reason, a work that addresses many of the problems arising when the populace at large lacks the capacity for...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Say...
al_gore_i_an_inconv_100607o (1).jpg I’ve previously written about University of Michigan business professor Andrew Hoffman’s insightful work on the underlying motivations behind clima... . . . → Read...
View ArticleSubliminal message in background of Al Gore interview? Bonus: Fox News North...
Love ya Al, but the background?Watch the Fox News North snippet of the interview. Brian 'The 50's worked for Elvis, why not for me' Lilley thinks Al Gore is comparing Climate Change deniers with...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: John...
john stossel.jpg Fox News host John Stossel says that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has passed its prime, and is no longer useful. After the Obama Administration last week overruled t... ....
View Article350 or bust: What Can Change In A Day?
In the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore answers the question, “What Can Change In a Day?”. A whole lot, it turns out – just ask the people living on the Susquehanna River last week when Tropical Storm...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Watch the Climate Reality Project on Wednesday at 7:00 PM Your Time
al-gore-reality-project.jpg 7:00 PM on Wednesday, your time, marks the commencement of the Al Gore-led Climate Reality Project. A live webcast that will last one hour, the Project was annou... . . ....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Want to Sway Climate Change Skeptics? Ask About Their Personal...
509983main_adjusted_annual_temperature_anomalies_final.gif Readers of my posts over the last half year will be familiar with the phenomenon of motivated reasoning, in which people’s subcons... . . . →...
View Article350 or bust: Climate Denial Hits the Fan
Al Gore’s 24 hours of Climate Reality has been running online since 7:00 pm yesterday. If you haven’t had a chance to tune in yet, there’s still time to tune in for a good dose of climate reality, as...
View Articleopenalex: Climate Reality
I should confess that when it first came out, I dozed off during the Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. That's not the kind of admission you'd expect from someone who spends their days (and many nights)...
View Article350 or bust: It’s Time For the Silent Majority To Speak Up, The Eyes Of The...
As part of the 24 Hours of Climate Reality, this video was put together to remind us – parents, children, young adults, grandparents concerned about the environmental crisis our world is facing – that...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: "Doubt" Video On Fossil Fuel Industry’s Tobacco PR Tactics To...
doubt.jpg In case you didn't manage to catch all 24 hours of the Climate Reality Project (I mean, what the heck else were you doing?), I wanted to flag this one video for you, as it's par... . . . →...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: S.E. Cupp Attacks Climate Science and Climate Scientists on MSNBC
Yesterday, I appeared on MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner to talk about The Republican Brain. It was largely an interview about what’s going on with conservatives and science right now—why they distrust it...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: What To Expect When You’re Electing: President Barack Obama
President_Official_Portrait_HiRes.jpg Part 3 in a series, see Part 1 and Part 2. Perhaps more than any other sitting U.S. President, Barack Obama has been Commander in Chief through some of the most...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Does Red Leaf’s "EcoShale" Technology Greenwash Oil Shale...
Red Leaf EcoShale.png At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2008, former Vice President Al Gore called the possibility of fossil fuel corporations extracting oil shale "utter insanity." Insanity,...
View Article350 or bust: Al Gore Riffs On Climate Reality
If you missed Climate Reality’s recent 24 hour marathon focused on the link between dirty weather and dirty energy, here’s one of the videos, a fun “symphony of science” auto-tuned compilation...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Is Pierre Poilivre Related To Joe Oliver?
They certainly seem to be singing from the same hymn book. Orwellian and hypocritical are inadequate descriptors of this little twit: And speaking of Orwellian, how else might one describe the “Working...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: The ‘Petroleum Party’ in full cry about Neil Young: what are...
Neil Young: Giving as good as he’s been getting during an all-out attack by the Petroleum Party. Below: Dr. John O’Connor, vilified by the hirelings, toadies and pet legislators of the petroleum...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Small changes may signal glimmer of awareness of trouble ahead...
Members of Alison Redford’s brain trust plan the latest hashtags in the Twitter war with AUPE … No! Wait! That’s Bob MacNamara telling LBJ about his plans for the war in Vietnam! What the hey? Below:...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: The crumbling e-mail defences of Hillary Clinton & of her...
And with them goes the crumbling of her chances of being president. A slightly desperate section of the Democratic Party senses blood in the water from her self-inflicted wounds, and is searching for a...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta’s climate-change strategy: Rachel Notley builds a...
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley with leaders of the remarkable coalition on climate change her NDP government has built (Government of Alberta Photo). Below: Brian Jean, Alberta’s...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: NDP to release new energy royalty framework at week’s end –...
PHOTOS: The next Apocalypse is scheduled for Friday morning. There will be an embargoed media briefing first. Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean and Royalty Review...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Bernie Sanders Rallies Thousands In The Rain At...
It has been surreal watching the US media pandering to Donald Trump and lionizing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders has been almost entirely ignored, especially by Fox and CNN but...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Sirota interviews Thomas Frank about the U.S. Democrats’ obsession with educational achievement as a cure-all – and their consequent loss of touch with...
View Articledaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Episode 9: Rachel Notley, Jason Kenney and...
This episode includes exclusive interviews with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Official Opposition leader Jason Kenney. Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman asked both leaders a few questions they...
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