Climate Change

For the Real News, I speak to Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta about a recent, stunning revelation that Alberta’s Energy Regulator (AER) has grossly misrepresented to the public the true costs to [...]

In late October, New York State’s Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a massive fraud suit against fossil fuels giant Exxon. The suit alleges that Exxon engaged in a “longstanding fraudulent [...]

For the Real News, I speak to Professor Alan Robock, a climate scientist who specializes in the climactic effects of nuclear weapons. As Professor Robock explains, nuclear blasts produce massive [...]

Blackrock is the world’s largest asset manager, with over $6 trillion in assets under management. And, so, when its CEO Larry Fink speaks, corporate CEOs listen. Earlier this year, Mr. Fink shook [...]

Analyses of the media coverage of hurricane Florence show that most outlets ignore the link to climate change and the real dangers that this and other hurricanes present for creating devastating [...]

For The Real News Network, I speak Rachel Smolker, co-director of Biofuelwatch, about dubious claims that biofuels such as ethanol are an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels: [...]

For The Real News Network, I speak to Dr. Will Steffen of Australian National University. Dr. Steffen is a co-author of a new study warning of a dangerous, ‘hothouse earth’ scenario. [...]

The mainstream media seem to have mistakenly concluded that the completion of Keystone XL is inevitable because both the Trump administration and the Trudeau government are enthusiastic [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Greek filmmaker and journalist Aris Chatzistefanou about austerity’s role in the devastation caused by wildfires near Athens last month. According to Aris, the [...]

For the Real News, I spoke this week to renowned climate scientist Michael Mann about the extraordinary heat and heat-related fatalities we have seen this summer in Greece, Quebec, California, [...]