By Wallace Kaufman This is Part I of a three-part article. For Part II, see Hunters’ Last-Ditch Defenses. For Part III, see Will the Anti-Hunters Pay for Their Pleasure? Many or most readers will soon strongly, even angrily, disagree with the conclusions of this essay, so let’s begin where we almost certainly agree. Hunters and…
Thursday’s Links
A ‘blacklist’ aims at preventing climate skeptics from getting academic jobs, says Roger Pielke. Watch out. Los Angeles just issued a “Green New Deal.” Federal rules make it almost impossible for “Good Samaritans” to clean up abandoned mines, says PERC.
Wednesday’s Links
Note: We apologize for being offline earlier this week due to a major outage caused by a fiber cut. Welcome back! Georgetown University to divest fossil fuel stocks. Will sanity (about climate change) make a comeback? Old wind-power turbines are going into landfills.
Friday’s Links
Shell wants drivers off the road. Harvard arts and sciences faculty votes 179-20 in favor of divesting in fossil fuels. Two Mexican environmentalists killed, apparently for protecting a butterfly reserve.
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Boris Johnson says Britain will ban gas, hybrid, and diesel cars by 2035. ‘Why not embrace policies and practices that focus on climate mitigation and adaptation?’ Can humans prevent climate change? Probably not, says Rex Tillerson.
Wednesday’s Links
Are droughts getting worse? Republicans move toward a climate change bill. (Think “trees.”) Roger Pielke explains the “Great Climate Scenario” debate.