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 | 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 9, 2015 | Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News
Californian artist Ross Dickinson dramatized his home state’s eternal confrontation of nature and man by exaggerating the steep slopes of the hills and the harsh contrast between the dry red wilderness and the green cultivated land (1934). CREDIT: FLICKR/ CLIFF Any...
by MCDC | Mar 8, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Global Warming
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), right, listens to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) speak at a news conference in Washington about their opposition to the climate change bill on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. (Photo: Brendan...
by MCDC | Mar 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Issues
A new documentary shows how a “professional class of deceivers” has been paid by the fossil fuel industry to cast doubt on the science of climate change, in an effort akin to that from the tobacco industry, which for decades used deceitful tactics to deny...
