Hit Movie Red Dog and Its Mining Industry Funding
red_dog.jpg WE’RE all used to a bit of product placement in today’s movie industry. The latest mobile phone is pinned to the ear of an international spy. A popular brand…
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“We Are All Downstream”: Tar Sands Protests Go Global
Yesterday, 144 protesters were taken away in police vans from the front of the White House, bringing the total number of people arrested for peacefully expressing their opposition to the…
Communication Fail: Why the IPCC Must Do a Heck of a Lot Better in 2013
IPCC-Logo.jpg Regular readers know I’m pretty critical of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--particularly when it comes to how this expert body communicate...
Hillary Clinton’s State Department Oil Services and the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline [VIDEO]
Hillary Clinton State Dept Oil Services Keystone XL.png With over 700 people arrested so far in the Keystone XL tar sands action taking place at the Obama White House, and…
Improvements to DeSmog Comment Forum And Reminder About Comment Policy
troll.png I know that many regular DeSmog readers are frustrated with the comment forum, which has been increasingly polluted by anti-science trolls and clever spammers. Today we are implem...
Reliance on Canadian Tar Sands Threatens U.S. Energy Security
obama energy security.jpg This is a guest post by Glenn Hurowitz, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. It originally appeared on Grist.org, and is reprinted here with permission....
Number One Lesson *Not* To Take Away from Hurricane Irene
800px-Atlantic_hurricane_tracks.jpg I was watching CNN this morning. I don’t know why—except that it was on in the gym at the hotel where I’m staying. Pretty soon, I was arguing...
Breaking: State Department Calls Keystone XL Environmental Impact "Limited," Ignoring Evidence
stop-tar-sands.jpg The State Department just released their Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The 27-page document does not flag any significant en...
Hurricane Irene, Climate Change, and the Need to Consider Worst Case Scenarios
Irene Track Aug 25.gif In May of 2005, a few months before Hurricane Katrina, I wrote an article that nobody noticed. It was entitled “Thinking Big About Hurricanes: It’s Time…
Giant Xstrata Coal Mine Challenged Over Climate Change Impacts
xstrata test pit at wandoan.jpg A GIANT mine planned in Queensland, Australia, is facing a court challenge over the impacts that burning its coal will have on rising sea-levels, global…
General Electric’s Jim Cramer Heads to Midwest As Fracking Cheerleader
cramer.jpg Today, CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer's "Invest in America" series will take the show to a seemingly unlikely locale, a place many would consider the middle of nowhere…
Justice Department Launches Investigation Into BP’s Oil Gusher Cover Up
bp_oil-leak.jpg The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an official investigation to determine whether or not BP lied to the public and to the government about the amount of oil…
40th Anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo Launching Corporate Propaganda Infrastructure
Lewis Powell.jpg Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo, a document that set the stage for the creation of the echo chamber that protects corporate interests ahead…
Halliburton CEO Instructs Underling To Sip New Fracking Fluid At Gas Industry Conference
fracking-photo-drink.jpg Halliburton Chief Executive Officer Dave Lesar touted the safety of the company's new CleanStim fracking fluid during a keynote address at a gas industry conference in Co...
National Science Foundation vindicates Michael Mann
hockey stick.JPG Carbon steel "hockey stick" stronger than ever The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of the Inspector General, having conducted a thorough review and investigation into al...
Over One Hundred Arrested Protesting Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline At White House
Steve Liptay.jpg The DC police force must have recently put in a big order for plasti-cuffs. The commencement of the Keystone XL pipeline protest, which kicked off this past weekend,…
Thich Nhat Hanh and David Suzuki on How Individual Frame of Mind Has Everything To Do With Saving the Planet
tnh ds.jpg Getting people to believe that they really can make a difference in the struggle to the save the planet from human folly can be just as important as…
Mountaintop Removal Mining Poll Shows Bipartisan Opposition in Appalachia
Appalachian Mountain Advocates, Earthjustice and the Sierra Club released a poll yesterday showing that a majority of voters in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia oppose mountaintop removal coal mining.…
S&P Downgrades Planet Earth, Citing Unbalanced Carbon Budget, Reckless Political Debates and Role of “Deniers”
600px-NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg Washington, D.C.—In a move that came as a shock both in this city and throughout the planet on which it is located, Standard & Poor’s late M...