by MCDC | May 27, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the...
by MCDC | Jun 18, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming
By Mark Fiore Now that Pope Francis has come out on the side of acknowledging human-caused global warming, Republican presidential contenders are suddenly on the side of “science” not religion. Where does this pope guy get off on mixing religion and politics, sheesh!...
by MCDC | Jun 18, 2015 | Action Alerts, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News
1. “Laudato si’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “Praise...
by MCDC | Jun 5, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Climate Change, Environment, News
Last month, the U.S. Senate considered eight bills that would modify the Endangered Species Act, most of which aim to saddle resource-strapped federal wildlife agencies with burdensome new hurdles and requirements. Many also include rules that would force agencies to...
by MCDC | Apr 19, 2015 | Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News
We’ve all seen those touchy-feely TV ads with baby deer, butterflies, and sylvan streams — claiming that some big corporate polluter is nature’s best friend. There’s a word for such hokum: greenwashing. Leave it to the Koch brothers, however, to invent a whole new...
by MCDC | Apr 19, 2015 | Action Alerts, Environment, Issues, News
Republicans didn’t campaign on getting rid of America’s public lands and national monuments in the last election, but they sure are acting like it. First they attempted to pass a bill that would abolish the Antiquities Act, a hundred year old executive privilege that...
