One-by-one, the excuses for failing to act on climate change are disappearing.

Earlier this month, China proved that it's possible to quickly and dramatically reduce carbon emissions. According to an analysis by Greenpeace, our planet's largest greenhouse gas emitter reduced coal use by about 8 percent in a single year.

That reduction is roughly equivalent to all of the carbon dioxide emitted by the United Kingdom over that same period. And, it proves that lawmakers who say that China's pollution makes our climate action irrelevant are really just looking for excuses.

Another one of the Right's favorite excuses is that we can't get renewable energy up and running fast enough to replace fossil fuels, but that claim is also falling apart.

Just this week, the International Renewable Energy Agency announced that the number of people employed in that industry jumped by 18 percent from the previous year. That means that 1.2 million people found jobs in the renewable energy industry last year alone.

With that type of growth, it's clear that green energy could power our world much sooner than the fossil fuel industry would like us to believe. All of the claims keeping us from making the switch to clean energy are nothing but myths, and Big Oil is quickly running out of excuses.

The fact is, the only real reason that the fossil fuel industry - and their lackeys in Congress - oppose renewable energy is because of the threat to their mountain of profit. Because that is the only thing that matters to the corporate elite.

We have the technology to make the switch, the green energy industry can grow fast enough to handle it, and the world is making progress way faster than we are. In order to solve the climate crisis - the most important issue that we've ever faced - we must keep smashing these myths and strengthening our understanding of science.

-Thom

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Big Picture Rumble:
- Lori Sanders, R Street Institute    
- TJ Helmstetter, Progressive Change Campaign Committee    
- Gianno Caldwell, Caldwell Strategic Consulting/Project 21  

 

Screwed: Why Are We Using Oil Wastewater on Food Crops?
- Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch  

 

Best of the Rest: How the Media is Trying to Sink Sen. Bernie Sanders
- Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour      
- Gaius Publius, Independent Writer  

  

Friday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Bernie Sanders draws hundreds to first Iowa campaign stop" by Megan Noe.

Article: "Bernie Sanders exposed! A shocking look at his views on rape and violence against women" by Katie McDonough.

Article: "Howard Dean Scream" by Brad.

Article: "Bernie Sanders's Message Resonates With a Certain Age Group: His Own" by Patrick Healy.

Article: "Patriot Act That Dennis Hastert Passed Led To His Indictment" by Daniel Marans.

Article: "Wall Street Journal story on Hastert retirement left out his role in Mark Foley scandal " by Ryan Chiachiere.

Event: Minneapolis, Sun May 31 10am: "Sen. Bernie Sanders to visit Minneapolis Sunday" by J. Patrick Coolican.

Article: "Sanders Calls for Student Loan Reforms, Affordable Tuition" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Woman chains herself to Shell ship in protest at Arctic oil exploration" by AP.

Article: "Agent Orange" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assembly passes bill to create single-payer health plan" (New York) by Matthew Hamilton.

Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".

Article: "Cruz supports federal relief for Texas floods; voted against Hurricane Sandy funding" by Katie Zezima.

Article: "'Scandalous' Solyndra Program Actually Earned Taxpayers A $5 Billion Profit" by Jeff Spross.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Health care in Canada" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why this U.S. doctor is moving to Canada" by Emily S. Queenan.

Borowitz Report: "McCain Urges Military Strikes Against FIFA" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "2016 Primary Schedule" by 2016 Election Central.

Hour Two: Sinking the Sanders Campaign Beneath a Wave of Silence
- Writer "Gaius Publius" 

Article: "Sinking the Sanders Campaign Beneath a Wave of Silence" by Gaius Publius.

Article: "Bernie Sanders can't win: Why the press loves to hate underdogs" by Steve Hendricks.

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann.

Speech: "Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York" by Bill Clinton, July 16, 1992 (New Covenant).

 

Article: "Exxon Valdez" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows" (31 May 2015) by AP.

Article: "Lymphatic system" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bras and Breast Cancer" by American Cancer Society, Inc.

Article: "Top 10 Campaign Ads: Willie Horton" by Time.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Site: Move to Amend

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jone 

Article: "Feds Charge Former House Speaker With Illegal Cash Structuring" by TRNS.

Article: "Hastert posts $4,500 bail after indictment" by Ben Kamisar.

Article: "Cuba Removed From List Of State Sponsors Of Terror" by Loree Lewis.

Article: "White House: Congress playing 'national security Russian roulette' in Patriot Act debate" by Ellen Nakashima.

Article: "Thousands of websites block Congress in Patriot Act protest" by Julian Hattem.

Article: "'Freedom of Speech Rally Round II' Scheduled Near Phoenix Mosque" by William McDonald.

Article: "Westboro Baptist Church" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Poll: Pro-Choice Americans Dominate For First Time Since 2008" by Anna Merod.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 5/29" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 5/28" by Victoria Jones.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Site: Sister Giant 3.

For the win: "Territorial goose takes down a drone in the Netherlands" by Ben Hooper.

Leaflet: "A Last Appeal to Reason" by Adolf Hitler.

Article: "Black people in Minneapolis nine times more likely to be arrested for petty crime" by Nicky Woolf.

Article: "Cop Caught On Video Telling Black Teen 'If You Fuck With Me, I'm Going To Break Your Legs'" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thanks To Community Protest, EPA Won't Burn Huge Stockpile Of Explosives In The Open" by Emily Atkin.

Site: EPNRV.

Article: "EPA National Enforcement Investigation Center Report".

Article: "Ted Kaczynski" (Unabomber) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Richard Reid" (shoe bomber) by Wikipedia.

Article: "José Padilla" by Wikipedia.

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Site: Eating Liberally

Site: Screening Liberally

 

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