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Alex Priest • 1 card
Koch, such talk vanished. Instead, Tea Party Republicans worked hard to undermine any connection between climate and national security.
Jeff Goodell • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
The world’s largest fossil fuel companies are also increasingly exposed to legal risk. At least half of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide ever emitted has been since these companies have definitively known the science of climate change.
Paul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
underestimated the man's psychopathic reaction to dissent. In my own case, I have played the game. I have learned not to debate with him. Not to argue, but to compliment and flatter him. We have learned that we must tell him he is right even though he is wrong in order to survive. Lucas is a classic godfather mentality who corrupts the merit promot
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Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
while supposedly holding up his hands in surrender. The reportedly unjustified nature of the shooting sparks violent riots, stokes the Black Lives Matter movement, and creates a new protest gesture known as “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” It’s followed by a rash of black men ambushing and murdering police officers around the nation. But in 2015, the U.S.
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Over the next four decades, five more cores were extracted from different parts of the ice sheet. Each time, the wild swings showed up. Meanwhile, other climate records, including pollen deposits from a lake in Italy, ocean sediments from the Arabian Sea, and stalagmites from a cave in China, revealed the same pattern. The temperature swings became
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