The Obama Administration’s Changing Attitude on Medicinal Marijuana

Staff / Truthdig Jul 28, 2011 This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: the politics of global warming; the ever more complicated fight to legalize marijuana; Robert Scheer's update on the debt; the director of the new documentary "Honest Man"; and the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.This week on Truthdig Radio: global warming, legalizing marijuana, Robert Scheer's update on the debt, the "Honest Man" documentary, and Norway in the context of church and state. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Activist Goes to Jail

Staff / Truthdig Jul 27, 2011 In his book "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau wrote: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" And prison is where a federal judge has put Tim DeChristopher, 29, after he posed in 2008 as a winning bidder (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

EU Rejects Aggressive Cut in Carbon Emissions

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2011 On Tuesday, conservative British representatives led the European Parliament to reject a 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 in a preliminary vote stirred by claims that such a sharp decrease taken out of step with other nations would drive businesses out of EU countries. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bad News for the Jersey Shore

Staff / Truthdig Jun 23, 2011 New Jersey's leaders have some heavy lifting to do, quickly. Scientists who have reviewed the most detailed study yet produced on the subject of sea level changes over the last 2,000 years are predicting a three-foot rise for the state's coastline by the end of the century. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Weiner’s No Longfellow

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jun 8, 2011 “The troubled sky reveals | The grief it feels.” Those two lines were written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem “Snow-Flakes,” published in a volume in 1863 alongside his epic and better-known “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Global Warming

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Romney Acknowledges Climate Change

Staff / Truthdig Jun 4, 2011 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney held his stance on climate change Friday, recognizing that humans have contributed to global warming even though GOP leaders have typically disputed this scientifically supported concept. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Debate

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Climate on the Brink

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2011 In keeping with predictions made by the world's most sober and clear-eyed climate and energy experts, the rate of increase in greenhouse gas emissions is occurring more rapidly than official reports forecast, and a disastrous average global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius appears imminent and unavoidable. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Sky Really Is Falling

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 30, 2011 The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with self-delusion.The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming has been confronted by the power elite with self-delusion. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Snowmelt Could Flood Western Communities

Staff / Truthdig May 22, 2011 For all the advantages that record snowpacks offer regions susceptible to summertime drought, a sudden warming of temperatures could soon release millions of gallons of water into river channels and narrow canyons, flooding cities and towns throughout the American West. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The New Sputnik

Juan Cole / Truthdig May 11, 2011 In 1957, a United States shocked by the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite bounced into action to compete on the world stage. More than 50 years later, in May of 2011, the U.S. is facing a new challenge.The House of Representatives in 2011 is full of politicians who actively despise science and higher education, hate environmentalism, deny global climate change and are in the back pocket of Big Oil. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )