Jet-Setting Academics Branded Hypocrites For Lecturing the Rest of us About Climate Change
Jet-Setting Academics Branded Hypocrites For Lecturing the Rest of us About Climate Change By Toby Young University researchers have been branded “hypocrites” for condemning air travel as bad for the planet but then flying to conferences anyway. The Times has more. A study found that about a third of the academics at a leading U.K. university had flown […]
Starbucks CEO to commute 1,000 miles on a corporate jet to work, but Starbucks customers can’t get a plastic straw due to the company’s ‘journey to reduce our environmental footprint’
They’re playing YOU for a SUCKER! The Starbucks CEO can commute 1,000 miles on a corporate jet to work, but Starbucks customers can’t get a plastic straw due to the company’s “journey to reduce our environmental footprint.” https://t.co/leIJqCsxsF https://t.co/0ioWVHy24c pic.twitter.com/ifzY6TVfnf — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) August 20, 2024 https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2020/starbucks-strawless-lids-now-available-across-the-u-s-and-canada/
Watch: Jane Fonda cries about climate change: ‘Oh God, it breaks my — really breaks my heart’ – ‘Things are just going to spiral out of control’
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-10/jane-fonda-on-why-she%E2%80%99s-devoting-the-rest-of-her/12652618 Interview from ABC Sep 10 2020: Hollywood legend Jane Fonda has had a colourful life to say the least. It’s been full of activism, and now in her 80s her latest cause is climate change. Excerpt: Watch video here: Weeping begins at 4:00 minutes into video JANE FONDA: “Given the small window that we […]
Earth 14 years away from Ted Turner’s 2038 Countdown to Cannibalism: 2008 Flashback: ‘Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals’
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2024/08/whatever-will-climateers-cook-up-next/ Whatever Will Climateers Cook Up Next? By Tony Thomas Among the inspirational spokesfolk sermonising about saving the planet from fossil fuels are actress Jane Fonda and ex-husband Ted Turner (2024 net worth $US2.5 billion). Jane ditched Ted in 2001 after 10 years marriage, leaving Ted so heart-broken that he needed a quartet of girlfriends for consolation. […]
Climate activists trash soccer start Messi’s $12M Ibiza mansion: ‘Eat the rich’ – Used banner declaring: ‘Help the planet, eat the rich, abolish the police’
https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/real-estate/climate-activists-trash-lionel-messis-12m-ibiza-mansion/ By Mary K. Jacob Lionel Messi’s luxurious Ibiza mansion was the target of a shocking vandalism attack by the radical Spanish climate activist group Futuro Vegetal, according to reports. The group managed to breach the football star’s lavish property, covering it in red and black paint, and unfurling a banner outside its entry that […]
Watch: Jane Fonda endorses Kamala Harris: ‘I have faith in Kamala’s record of putting our planet & its people before corporate greed’
Hollywood actress Jane Fonda endorses Kamala Harris in the name of tackling climate change. “I have faith in Kamala’s record of putting our planet and its people before corporate greed.” pic.twitter.com/iznVrOfkd9 — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) August 5, 2024
Bravo! ‘Twisters’ Director on Not Mentioning Climate Change: Movies Shouldn’t ‘Preach a Message’
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/twisters-climate-change-1235949639/ ‘Twisters’ Director on Not Mentioning Climate Change: Movies Shouldn’t “Preach a Message” Director Lee Isaac Chung on why his meteorological disaster movie doesn’t reference global warming. BY JAMES HIBBERD Excerpt: So if you’re making a 2024 movie about a tornado outbreak the likes of which have never been seen before, there’s a rather convenient raison […]
Bloomberg News: ‘DiCaprio-Backed Green Finance Startup Unraveled on Dubious Deals’ –
Three years after pursuing a $2 billion IPO, Aspiration Partners faces probes by US authorities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-10/questionable-deals-caused-a-climate-finance-startup-to-unravel?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-10/questionable-deals-caused-a-climate-finance-startup-to-unravel?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Three years ago, Aspiration Partners had turned a debit card designed for sustainable shopping and investment accounts that promised complete exclusion of fossil-fuel stocks into a high-flying climate startup. The Los Angeles-based company had set itself on the verge of a stock market debut with an expected valuation of more than $2 billion. […]
Hollywood accused of climate denial!? STUDY: ‘Only 32 of the Top Movies in the Last Decade Say Climate Change Exists’
As part of the “Climate Reality Check,” just three movies nominated for Oscars this year passed the test’s two simple rules: “Climate change exists” and “a character knows it.” Now a more extensive study published by Good Energy and Colby College’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment has analyzed 250 of the top grossing movies between 2013 and 2022 under the same criteria.
Global warming has been with us for a while now, but only 12.8 percent — 32 of the 250 films studied in that time span — even passed the first criteria saying that climate change exists. Only 24 films, or 9.6 percent, passed both criteria of the test.
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