Author Archives: Betsy Rosenberg

History may record Republican operative and Fox News Channel head Roger Ailes as being every bit as darkly effective as Charles and David Koch in terms of twisting the American political system in order to block needed action on human-caused climate change. Gabriel Sherman, author of "The Loudest Voice in the Room,"  discusses the legacy of the man who dispensed the dialogue of denial to millions of TV and radio listeners. And all in the name of "entertainment" , environment be damned (says Betsy!).

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Ryan Cooper of the Washington Monthly and Evan McMorris-Santoro of Buzzfeed discuss the growing grassroots effort to compel President Obama to take the moral high ground on whether or not to under ground the Keystone XL pipeline.

LISTEN to RYAN COOPER & EVAN McMORRIS-SANTORO

NWF’s Miles Grant discusses the President’s SOTU address as it relates to some of our favorite topics. Grant, also a blogger at “The Green Miles”, weighs in on what what was both encouraging, and discouraging, about the president’s comments on climate change, fracking and even a mention of extreme weather thrown into the mix. He also shares the National Wildlife Federation’s six-month progress report on the President’s climate action plan. 

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Longtime conservationist, Brock Evans discusses his newly released book, “Fight & WIN…Strategies For The New Eco-Warrior”. After some 50 years in the trenches Evans shares his wisdom on winning the most noble battles of all.

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While much of the Northeast is once again stuck in a polar vortex, mainstream media entities are stuck in a tunnel of NOT connecting the weather dots— the Republican Party is spinning in a vortex of denial.Why? We get answers from Salon assistant editor Lindsay Abrams and Brigham Young University geochemistry professor Barry Bickmore.

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LISTEN to BARRY BICKMORE