by MCDC | Dec 9, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News, Video
Trump’s transition team has asked the Department of Energy to list employees and contractors who attended United Nations climate meetings, along with those who helped develop the Obama administration’s social cost of carbon metrics, used to estimate and justify...
by MCDC | Nov 7, 2016 | 2016 General Election, 5th District, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Equal Rights, Ethics, Global Warming, Health Care, Immigration Reform, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, Social Security
Economy and jobs, Education, Environment, Health, Justice and equality, National security. What are YOU voting for? Like Madison, too many rural communities aren’t reaping the rewards of our nation’s economic success—despite their critical role in our economy....
by MCDC | Sep 15, 2016 | Environment, Global Warming, News
ONCE UPON A time, climate science and politics were separate things. Then came several decades of scientific denial, distortion, and gaslighting. One of the companies responsible for politicizing climate change is ExxonMobil, which for years funded climate change...
by MCDC | Aug 3, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Equal Rights, Global Warming, Health Care, Immigration Reform, Income Inequality, Issues, Madison County, Social Security, Virginia
It’s a simple but powerful idea: we are stronger together. “I did not start as a Democrat — I was actually a Republican. As I became more aware of the world outside of the sphere in which I was born, I realized that I wanted to identify with a group of Americans who...
by MCDC | May 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Global Warming, Quote of the Day
In Fresno, Donald Trump says environmentalists are to blame for California's drought and he will solve it by "opening up the water". — James Cook (@BBCJamesCook) May 27,...
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...