Google and YouTube will demonetize content denying ‘scientific consensus’ on climate change
Google and YouTube announced a new policy Thursday demonetizing all content that denies the scientific consensus on climate change.
Flemming: Climate activists one-up each other in recommendations to climate council
The event averaged around 100 online participants, presumably from all different parts of Vermont. Of those who spoke, the spectrum of alarm ranged from “we’re all going to die” to “if we spend lots of money, and drastically change how we live, we might be able to survive.”
Roper: GWSA a political suicide mission for Vermont legislators
Members of the Vermont Climate Council are fully aware that they are setting up the elected legislators who ultimately support their recommendations for a political suicide mission.
LinkedIn bans geologist Greg Wrightstone for climate change posts: ‘This content is not allowed’
Greg Wrightstone, a geologist and expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has posted content on LinkedIn for years. He was banned from LinkedIn for posting factual information related to climate change.
McClaughry: A capitalist success story
Here’s a tale of two savvy young men from Vermont who hit the jackpot by selling their startup company to a larger one for $40 million. The two now rich men were Board President and Clean Energy Program Director at the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.
Mark Whitworth: Biodiversity and Vermont’s Climate Action Plan
We are witnessing a stunning global loss of biodiversity that some are calling the Sixth Great Extinction. Human activity has degraded migration corridors, leaving species with nowhere to go. It is a painful irony that Vermont has encouraged some of this essential habitat to be fragmented and whittled away under the pretext of climate action.
Roper: Questions for the Vermont Climate Council
As the Vermont Climate Council readies its plans to dramatically reduce Vermont’s greenhouse gas emissions, they embarked on a series of public engagement events to field questions from curious citizens. Here are some we all might consider asking.
McClaughry: Shameless climate misreporting
Here’s an outstanding example of how your government, in this case the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, puts out deliberately misleading or false news about the terrors of climate change.
Julie Moore: Successful climate action will require each of us to do our part
Successful climate action will require each of us — at the individual, local and state level — to do our part to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help prepare Vermont to respond to the impacts that a changing climate will have. The Climate Action Plan will help guide that work.
New law calls for New York to stop selling gas-powered new vehicles by 2035
The law, Senate Bill S2758 and Assembly Bill A4302, sets a goal that 100% of all passenger cars, trucks and off-road vehicles will be zero-emission. The goal is 2045 for larger vehicles, such as medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses.
Flemming: Vermont flooding shows no sign of stopping or increasing
If the choice is between spending $10 million on reducing our emissions and spending $10 million on shoring up these communities from future natural disasters, the choice, I hope, should be obvious.
Admission: It’s the Global Warming NON-solutions Act
Discussing the goal of greenhouse gas emission reduction versus strengthening and modernizing infrastructure, Campany admitted, “We can go negative emissions tomorrow, and for everybody in Vermont we’re still going to be dealing with the same issues.”