An aggressive disinformation campaign is borrowing from Big Tobacco’s playbook. Here’s what they’re feeding lawmakers.
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Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
The Trump administration is ignoring anthropogenic climate change and the Sixth Mass Extinction. Trump did not mention climate change in the state of the union speech (Feb. 5, 2019).
He has turned the EPA into the Environment Pollution Agency. USFWS is failing to protect species, making political decisions versus science and conservation decisions. Trump withdraws from Paris Climate Accord Agreement. The Trump-GOP ignores climate change at our peril.
Denial, Procrastination, Gluttony
Contrary to cherry picked data and what you may have heard from naysayers and esoteric reports, the climate is still warming, the oceans are rising, and the icebergs are melting, and climate change deniers are still denying, and most Americans are sitting on their hands believing but procrastinating- – hoping for technological cures hoping they do not have to change their gluttonous lifestyles (?). The deniers have alternative facts and science. Their thinking is based on conspiracy theories and fake science and beliefs way of thinking and knowing. There are signs are we are not making enough headway on averting climate change disasters.