Tag Archives: Climate Change

99.9999% chance humans are causing global warming, and other science-based facts on climate change for Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Brother Jonah

I poached the title … We already know that it’s been happening. The U.S. Military have openly prepared for 20 years now with the scenario that’s playing out NOW. Before that 20 years, most of it was classified. Volcanic and … Continue reading →

Posted in Perspective | Tagged 99%, Bush, Bush Family, climate, Climate Change, Coal, Earth, Earth Day, Enquirer, EPA, Family, Global Warming, Greed, Journalist, Journalists, Military, Money, New York, New York Post, poll, Rally, Science, U.S., U.S. Military, Water | Leave a comment

How do you know it’s summer in Louisiana?

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Brother Jonah

Two ways, one is that you walk out and the heat and humidity knock you down and kick all the will to live right out of you… or there’s a combo of hurricane and poorly maintained infrastructure which makes people … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Culture, Dem, Headlines, History, Links, Local News, News, Perspective, Politics, Recollections, Uncategorized | Tagged CIA, climate, Climate Change, Crash, Famine, French, Infrastructure, Louisiana, Myth, weather | 2 Comments

Vermin Supreme you’ve been Trumped

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Eric Verlo

The US-EU capitalist apparatus won’t give you health care, won’t address climate change, won’t stop fracking, won’t quit war, won’t block the TPP, won’t obey international law, won’t respect human rights, won’t own up to inequity, won’t combat racism, won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Sight-Bites | Tagged Capital, climate, Climate Change, combat, Corporate, Corporate Hegemony, Democracy, Donald Trump, Fracking, Health, health care, Hegemony, human rights, Inequity, International Law, Racism, Respect, Rights, TPP, Trump, Vermin Supreme | 1 Comment

The frequently cited St Paul Principles had their time and place: ST PAUL

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Eric Verlo

In my circle they’re called “Saint Paul’s Principles” because my colleagues think the edicts are Catholic I guess. The St Paul Principles came from St Paul Minnesota, circa 2008, and were formally adopted by the varied groups organizing to disrupt … Continue reading →

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Pikes Peak Community College teaches climate denial to meteorology students

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Eric Verlo

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.- Overheard on FM 89.9, PPCC’s radio station: a spot for the General Meteorology Course MET-150, where students can learn about the earth’s cyclic temperature rises, how after this year warming is expected to level off, and how … Continue reading →

Posted in Sight-Bites | Tagged 99%, ARN, climate, Climate Change, Climate Deniers, College, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Community, DIA, Earth, Education, Media, Pikes Peak, Pot, PPCC, Radio, students | Leave a comment

Springs mantra: Enough with COStupid

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Eric Verlo

Forget “I HEART COS”, our long-overdue bumpersticker is “Enough with Stupid!” If you think that’s rude and won’t win hearts and minds however pea-brained they are, this isn’t about convincing elected officials about climate change. Their positions are dictated by … Continue reading →

Posted in Sight-Bites | Tagged CIA, City Council, climate, Climate Change, Climate Deniers, Coal, Colorado Springs, donkey, Finance, Hearts and Minds, Industry, Stupid | Leave a comment

Climate or Capitalism. Pick One.

Posted on March 8, 2015 by NMT

Posted in Sight-Bites | Tagged Capital, Capitalism, climate, Climate Change, Environment | Leave a comment

The conceivability that climate change, torture, or Pope’s Catholicism isn’t.

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Eric Verlo

The January 2015 Smithsonian Magazine asks “Did Civil War vets suffer from PTSD?” which seems a progressive conceit from an arbitor of the accepted version of events. I think it’s useful to ask “Does a bear shit in the woods?” … Continue reading →

Posted in Semantics | Tagged Bear, Bears, Bling, Catholic, Catholicism, Civil War, climate, Climate Change, combat, doctor, doctors, Dogma, GM, historian, History, Interrogation, Interrogation, MAGA, Medicine, perception, poll, Polls, pollsters, Pope, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Propaganda, Science, spin, Truth, verdict, Veterans, Vets | Leave a comment

Cost to attend NYC climate march: $$. Landing an anti-capitalism message in a capitalist magazine: priceless.

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Eric Verlo

NEW YORK, NEW YORK- A lot of people took our picture at Sunday’s People’s Climate March, our anti-capitalist banner expressed a popular undercurrent to the greener NGO themes, although many handmade posters singled out Capitalism as the root of climate … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture | Tagged Capital, Capitalism, climate, Climate Change, Climate March, CNN, Fruit, Irish, MAGA, March, MSN, MSNBC, New York, NYC, Occupiers, People's Climate March, Photo, photos, Protest, Rap, Rove, USA, Vogue, Washington, Washington Post | 2 Comments

People call for climate action to save polar bears, so NYPD arrests polar bear

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Patrick Jay

#FLOODWALLSTREET calls for climate action to save the polar bear NYPD arrests the polar bear

Posted in Activism | Tagged Activism, Arrest, Arrests, Bear, Bears, climate, Climate Change, FloodWallStreet, New York City, NYPD, Occupy Wall Street, People's Climate March, Police State, Wall Street | Leave a comment

The People’s Climate March will move the United Nations if marchers push it

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Eric Verlo

I heard a dispiriting conceit at yesterday’s 350.ORG whistestop rally at Denver’s Union Station to cheer climate activists bording the Amtrak Zephyr destined for the New York City #S21 People’s Climate March. This young, otherwise energetic and charismatic environmentalist told … Continue reading →

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Fracked Gas – the Other Fossil Fuel

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Eric Verlo

YES, Colorado Springs is so dumb, its local renewable energy fans had to rename themselves green energy advocates after they were called out for promoting NATURAL GAS! UnNatural Gas is not renewable and, guess what, it’s not green either. Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Perspective | Tagged climate, Climate Change, Climate March, Coal, Colorado, Colorado Springs, contamination, Earth, Economy, Energy, Evolution, Fracking, Jobs, Left, March, Natural, Natural Gas, New York, New York City, not green, Obama, People's Climate March, President, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Revolution, Sierra Club, Solar, Transit, Van Jones | Leave a comment

Obama passes buck on climate change

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Eric Verlo

At a commencement ceremony, President Obama told the college graduates: the most powerful leader in the world can’t address the climate crisis, you unemployed under-educated debt-slaves do it.

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged Buck, climate, Climate Change, College, Crisis, Debt, ISIS, Obama, PLO, POW, power, President, President Obama | Leave a comment

Will Act of God close Drake coal plant?

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Eric Verlo

[FULL TEXT OF LETTER SUBMITTED TO CS INDEPENDENT MAY 14] Two years ago Colorado Springs lost 346 homes to the Waldo Canyon fire which precipitated floods expected to haunt the westside and Manitou for years to come. The next year … Continue reading →

Posted in Local News | Tagged America, ARN, BOA, children, climate, Climate Change, Coal, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Disease, doctor, Drake Power Plant, Energy, Environment, Fire, fires, floods, forest, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, God, Health, Heart disease, idiots, Investment, IRS, Latin, NPR, POW, power, Renewable Energy, Science, Solar, TB, The West, Toxins, Tribute, utilities, Waldo, Waldo Canyon, Waldo Canyon Fire, Westside, Wildfire | Leave a comment

Fracking protest message at Denver 350 rally cuts through nebulous “Forward on Climate” theme

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Eric Verlo

DENVER, COLORADO- Score another success for Colorado Fractivists who crashed this weekend’s climate rally with their unequivocal anti-fracking message. The February 17 event was intended to urge President Obama “Forward on Climate”, to borrow his most recent campaign vagarity, but … Continue reading →

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Punxsutawney Phil fails to see eclipse of mankind, declares early spring for nature

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Eric Verlo

You know it’s GROUNDHOG DAY when newspaper weather forecasts read like articles in the Onion. The unseasonably warm winter that followed a record breaking hot summer has been declared by Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania’s mascot meteorologist to be an “Early Spring”. FOR … Continue reading →

Posted in Info Virus | Tagged Climate Change, Environment, GIs, Global Warmng, Groundhog, Headlines, Nature, Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney, The Onion, weather, Winter | Leave a comment

Letter to Michael Moore, indelible hero, retrograde Occupy Obama supporter

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Eric Verlo

Dear Michael, I write you as a longtime, enthusiastic fan, and please pardon me if the deference and affection I’d like to convey have been overcome by my shock at your recent emails. My question may sound rhetorical, but I … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Sandy – the real threat to US national security is ‘us’

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Tony Logan

The fool’s summary of what happened with Hurricane Sandy can be found in a scientifically infantile editorial today of the Denver Post where we, the general public, are all encouraged to be aware of the weather outside. OPINION Editorial: What … Continue reading →

Posted in Perspective | Tagged America, American, Business, Capital, Capitalism, climate, Climate Change, Colorado, Consumerism, Corporate, courage, Denver, Denver Post, EPA, Fury, Militarism, National Security, Nature, Sandy, Security, US militarism, weather, Winter | Leave a comment

How ’bout a nice word for them Southern liberals?

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Tony Logan

Andy Griffith, the Southern liberal cop! Back growing up we all down in North Texas wanted to watch the fantasy land constructed around this lovely concept. The TV story might have taken place in North Carolina, but we imagined it, … Continue reading →

Posted in Perspective | Tagged America, Andy Grffith, Andy Griffith, Arabia, BIA, climate, Climate Change, Fairy Tales, Global Warming, liberal, liberals, Love, rural, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Southern liberals, Texas, Truth | Leave a comment

Waldo Canyon concert fundraiser feted Colo. Springs self-interest & ignorance

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Eric Verlo

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- All night local speakers proclaimed: “Colorado Springs knows how to look after its own.” And doesn’t it! But I’m almost positive that it used to be, if only everywhere else, the virtue was looking out for others, … Continue reading →

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Will the 99% Spring mean grassroots reinforcements for Occupy or MoveOn?

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Eric Verlo

I’m going to think that the more mobilization of the 99% the better, no matter if it’s, ding-dong MoveOn Calling. The vast 99 are wise to the corporations and the corporate media, I think they’ll recognize when corporate organizers try … Continue reading →

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Occupy Wall Street mentor Adbusters issues latest tactical briefing. Chicago. May. Occupy.

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Eric Verlo

Vancouver’s Adbusters Magazine sent the initial callouts to occupy Wall Street, to be the natural successor to unfinished revolutions in Tahrir Square and Madrid. Quickly enough it escaped their grasp. Adusters has issued two dozen “Tactical Briefings” since before September … Continue reading →

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Growth Busters’ all white cast asks dark skinned people not to have kids

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Eric Verlo

COLORADO SPRINGS- Local filmmaker, city council candidate, and critic of urban sprawl, Dave Gardner, screened his new doc GROWTHBUSTERS to a receptive hometown audience last night, on the heels of its world premier in Washington DC. Gardner has long defined … Continue reading →

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Texas Gov. Rick GoodHair getting yet another job-creating Federal Bailout

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Brother Jonah

38 new jobs but, like most of the “new jobs” of the “Texas Miracle” these are Federal “nanny state bailout” jobs which, like the other “new federal jobs” created, are pre-filled with existing out of state workers. And hopefully will … Continue reading →

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Film: Maafa 21, Black Genocide in 21st Century America, a white anti-abortion shockumentary of execrable mendacity

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Eric Verlo

Martin Luther King Jr. was an advocate of birth control, it remains a key tool to escape poverty, but that didn’t stop organizers of MLK tribute festivities at Colorado College from ending today’s program with a screening of MAAFA 21: … Continue reading →

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