Arielle Samuelson News Today

A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 28, 2024 thru Sat, May 4, 2024. Story of the week It’s straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook. In fact, research by John Cook and his colleagues has shown that character assassination has been one of the most common ways in which fossil fuel interests have attempted to deny accountability for the climate crisis.

We've got better things to worry about.

A Walt Disney World film offers some interesting perspective.

California and its West Coast neighbors can't solve climate change on their own.

I was disappointed when news broke Tuesday that Pope Francis was canceling his appearance at the U.N. climate conference this week due to illness. First, because I wanted to hear what he might say; the Vatican’s prior climate communications have been pretty spicy, and his insistence Sunday that he would fly to Dubai for the conference—intravenous antibiotics or no—seemed to suggest the pontiff might open up a nice big can of liberation theology on COP28’s fossil fuel ...

But we shouldn't count on the desert lake to solve all our climate and clean energy problems.

A scientist went viral with a thread on the inexcusable lack of funding for climate science communications.

Substack is enjoying a moment, and for good reason. If you’re a fan of this type of thoughtful, long-form content, here are seven subscriptions to consider next.

The question now: Which ones will Gov. Gavin Newsom sign?

Amid ever-more-frequent climate-related disasters, Americans are becoming increasingly conscious of climate change—and are slowly making the connection between the food they eat and greenhouse gas emissions. The food system’s biggest contributor of greenhouse gasses are cows, which create methane through their belches and manure. Most proposals for reducing the climate impact of our diets call for a drastic reduction in beef consumption in high-consuming countries like the United S...