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The Schmooze Is Climate Change Real? Trump Turns To Man Who Compared Holocaust To C02 Reductions To Find Out
William Happer, an official on the National Security Council, will likely head up a proposed committee to explore whether or not climate change is a national security threat, The Washington Post reports. Happer is an atomic physicist who founded the CO2 Coalition, a group he calls, “The CO2 anti-defamation league,” explaining, “There is the CO2…
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Community It’s Time For Jewish Organizations To Divest — From Fossil Fuels
What do the University of Maryland, New York City’s pension funds and the country of Ireland have in common? They’ve all chosen to pull their money from fossil fuel companies. Despite the choices of many other faith-based groups, Jewish communal institutions are notably absent from the long list of major organizations that have taken this…
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Fast Forward Schwarzenegger: Trump Is ‘Meshugge’ For Wanting To Leave Climate Accord
Arnold Schwarzenegger called President Trump “meshugene leader” — “crazy” in Yiddish — for his decision to withdraw from an international agreement to tame global warming, AP reported. Schwarzenegger, an actor and former California governor, told delegates on Monday at the United Nations climate talks in Poland that regardless of what Trump said, the Unites States…
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Opinion Our Country Is Burning, It’s Time To Act
‘You lost me when you spoke about human-caused climate change,” a federation executive offered at the end of my panel. “If you want people in the Jewish community to listen, you better talk about energy efficiency and not climate change.” That was at the 2009 JFNA General Assembly when climate change was too negative, too…
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The Schmooze Trevor Noah Mocks Trump’s Response To Damning Federal Climate Report
Trevor Noah bashed President Trump on the “Daily Show” for his lukewarm response to the explosive climate report that was released by thirteen federal agencies last week. Trevor Noah (along with the rest of us with common sense) had assumed that the president would “finally come onboard” and attempt to rectify our dire climate condition,…
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Opinion Our World Is Falling Apart And I’m Terrified
When I was 13, I was struck with an illogical, almost paralyzing fear of the apocalypse. Alarmist clickbait was circulating the internet, telling of mankind’s extinction via Mayan prophecies of Armageddon. A sensitive and imaginative child who was aware of climate change, I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night sobbing, because…
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Life It’s Time For The Orthodox Community To Start Talking About Climate Change
I found my soul in the depths of Prospect Park. I wasn’t really looking for it, per se, but it found me. You see, I had been struggling with finding ways to counteract the mind-numbing effects of my digital habits (Instagram! Twitter! Facebook! Netflix! Email!) and found the solution in nature. In less than ten…
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Fast Forward Iran General Claims Israel Is Stealing Its Clouds To Cause Climate Change
An Iranian general has accused Israel of causing climate change in the Islamic Republic by stealing the water out of clouds passing over the Mediterranean, Newsweek reported Monday. During an agricultural conference in Tehran, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, claimed Iranian scientific centers have proven that Israel and an…
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