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Former vice president Al Gore was in town Wednesday for a talk at Tufts University. He took time to speak to Globe environmental reporter David Abel about the challenges of addressing climate change in the Trump era.
In this Jan. 30, 2018, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the Senate Environment Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pruitt is once again understating the threat posed by climate change, this time by suggesting that global warming may be a good thing for humanity.
Tim delivers the goods: He was seen at the sleazy Presidents Club bash, but it was STILL a good week for the Ocado boss as the firm's value rises A 650m Tim Steiner is one of the business world's most enduring evangelists. Often derided for his fervent belief in the food delivery firm he founded with two pals from US bank Goldman Sachs at the height of the dotcom boom in 2000, it now appears he was right all along.
A famed New York City pub that has been a part of the Washington Heights neighborhood landscape for more than 30 years will close amid a rent spike. The Irish pub Coogan's opened in 1985 and has been a mainstay of the neighborhood ever since.
Abovea King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit travelled to New York in June 1967. During their visit, John D. Rockefeller and his wife escorted Their Majesties to a performance at Lincoln Center.
Ottawa Public Works employee Terry Bell adds another Christmas tree to a wood chipper Saturday at the Riordan Pool parking lot, as the city of Ottawa once again offers to take the trees and return the mulch to those who may want it. The service runs through this Saturday.
The Trump administration is proposing to open up 90% of the Outer Continental Shelf off the U.S. coast to oil and gas exploration in the largest single expansion of off-shore drilling activity ever proposed. "This is a start American energy dominance," Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told reporters in a conference call Thursday.
Washington Times reporter Christian Toto points out the remarkable failure of a whole series of Hollywood climate disaster movies - and the cognitive dissonance of producers and critics who keep pushing out movies nobody wants to watch. Climate change got its close-up in 2017.
Vanity Faira has responded to a backlash after its champagne-toasting staff called on Hillary Clintona to quit politics and take up knitting in a video message. The Twitter video shows editors of Vanity Fair's Hive website offering toasts and New Year's resolutions to the former presidential candidate.
We may be watching the death throes of the American left as it spirals into the black hole of excess. The left has pushed its issues so hard and far that leftists have lost all credibility.
Former Vice President Al Gore should have used this month's "24 Hours of Reality" internet broadcast to encourage the Trump administration to withdraw all carbon-dioxide emission rules on future power stations. Then the United States could replace its old, inefficient coal-fired power plants with modern, clean, efficient coal stations, just as they are doing in Europe, India and China.
On AM Joy, Joy Reid and Lawrence O'Donnell discussed how the supposedly deficit-hating Republicans have suddenly learned to love them. "They were looking for something like this, where can we squeeze in a tiny giveaway that goes to another income group, other than the rich," O'Donnell said.
Al Gore 's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth" has ended up on the shortlist for Oscar consideration despite questions about its credibility raised by challenges to some of its climate-change claims. "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" was among the 15 films included by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on its list of those still in the hunt for 2017 Best Documentary, which will be pared down to five finalists when the nominees are announced Jan. 23. "We are humbled to be on the Oscars shortlist for Best Documentary Feature.
After watching Al Gore's new documentary feature, " An Inconvenient Sequel ", there were two main thoughts going through my head: We have a lot of work to do to reverse the damage we've caused to our climate , and If Al Gore had been President instead of George W. Bush, this problem would not be nearly as big as it is right now. But, if we go too deep down the rabbit hole in response to item two, we'll never get out of it and I, for one, will just be immobilized by a mix of rage and despair.
General Mike Flynn was "the ghost of witness flipped" as "SNL" dropped a riff on the Dickens holidays mainstay centering on Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump couldn't enjoy his big legislative win Friday with the passing of the Republican tax bill thanks to the news that Gen. Michael Flynn is cooperating with Special Council Robert Mueller.
It seems like every time you open the morning paper, more powerful men are being accused of groping, raping and generally treating their female colleagues in inappropriate and degrading ways. But it's not just the political, corporate and entertainment titans of today who are being called out; many sins of the past are being re-examined in the context of our new sensitivities regarding gender relations.
Barama Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center of Azercell Telecom LLC represented Azerbaijan in yet another international conference together with Technote, the most successful start-up of the country, supported by PASHA Bank. Thus, Barama and Technote attended the web-summit held in Lisbon, Portugal, being the only representatives from Azerbaijan and joined various events, exchanging their experience during the summit.
Left-leaning Americans who are rightfully repulsed by Roy Moore , and who were similarly steamed in 2016 about President Donald Trump's gropey braggadocio, need to acknowledge that President Bill Clinton also rates a place in that Hall of Infamy. Lest we forget, feminists and Democratic activists in the late 1990s mostly stayed mute, defended, or excused Clinton's notorious workplace behavior .
Traffic passes through polluted air in Ningbo, China. Fossil fuel emissions in China are projected to grow by approximately 3.5 percent in 2017, leading a global increase.