On Fact-Resistant Humans
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports. The research,…
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In Some Ways, It Must Be Nice To Be An Idiot
That way, you get to say anything that comes into your near-empty head. Recommend this Post
Who needs old-time climate change deniers when we’ve got the ‘New Climate Denialism’?
PHOTOS: Shannon Daub, associate director of the CCPA’s British Columbia office and co-director of the Corporate Mapping Project, at the mapping project’s 2017 Summer Institute at the University of Victoria…
Bill Nye Attempts To School Tucker Carlson
… but finds he is not an apt student. Recommend this Post
Bill Nye Attempts To School Tucker Carlson
… but finds he is not an apt student. Recommend this Post
A Hoax With Impact
Even though global temperature records are being set, it must be reassuring to many in Trumpland that climate change is but a Chinese hoax. Now, if only Mother Nature would…
It’s Getting Shorter
We’ve known for at least twenty-five years that the time we have to reverse global warming is limited. David Suzuki writes: We can’t say we weren’t warned. In 1992, a…
Alberta’s carbon tax: Science is political when it doesn’t suit Wildrose agenda; politics is scientific when it does
PHOTOS: Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips at yesterday’s Edmonton press conference on the imposition Jan. 1 of the NDP Government’s carbon tax. Below: Wildrose Electricity and Renewables Critic Don MacIntyre.…
Beguiling Words
The propaganda machine of the extreme right has scored a double hit, it would seem. Not only do they and their racist brethren have Breibart-founder Steve Bannon warmly ensconced in…
It’s Later Than We Think
The news on climate change is not good — and it’s getting worse. The mainstream media are beginning to get the message. Ole Hendrickson writes: The headline of a recent…
More From The Conservative Braintrust
Well, we know what an abomination Kellie Leitch is as a Conservative leadership hopeful, but what about Brad Trost? The pool, it would seem, is very, very shallow: Recommend this…
A Very Small Victory
In a seemingly endless battle, even small victories deserve to be noted. And it is indeed a small victory on the climate-change front that The Star's public editor, Kathy English,…
Taking On Sarah Palin’s Idiocy
I would say Jimmy Kimmel does a pretty good job:“I have a theory,” Kimmel said. “I think maybe Sarah Palin wants global warming. It’s cold in Alaska. It would be…
And To Round Up The Week
Yet one more reminder of our collective folly:Recommend this Post
Four Days In A Wild Weather Week
I admit I am a bit of a weather geek. To witness nature's fury and our powerlessness in its face is truly humbling. However, the other reason for my fascination…
Some Americans Sure Do Love Their Ignorance
Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz says we should follow the scientific evidence about climate change, and then goes on to ignore it with confabulation and obfuscation. In Cruz world, it…
Canada, twisted by the distorted beliefs of neoconservative prairie reformers, rid itself of Stephen Harper
Don Maroc Monday night most of the world went to bed seeing Canada with an arrogantly evil smirk on its formerly amiable face. By the next morning all they could…
On The Way Out
https://www.pinterest.com/ It’s not easy to tell the truth — particularly when people don’t want to hear it. Linda McQuaig caused something of a political firestorm awhile back for suggesting that…
Angry For Good Reason
Every evening at 6:30, I try to take about 10 minutes to watch NBC Nightly News, the object of my interest not American politics but the apocalyptic imagery of the…