Smoking But Not Biking, Media Collusion and 1977

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From The Green Miles:
The other day I rode my bike to my local medical facility, Southcoast Health in Fairhaven, to get blood drawn for my annual physical.

While it has a massive parking lot for somewhere around 500 vehicles, Southcoast Health in Fairhaven doesn't have even one bicycle rack.

But it does have a picnic table outside of its back door for smoke breaks.
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Well, thank Bast for that, eh?

In other Green Miles news, our man was just quoted in the Salon article entitled, The GOP’s deadliest deception: How Republicans made climate change America’s most divisive political issue

Network television news has also done a terrible job covering climate change. In March, Miles Grant, senior communications manager for the National Wildlife Federation, wrote about the failure of the three major networks to properly report on the extreme weather that battered the U.S. early this year:

In recent weeks, network television news has understandably focused extensively on the extreme cold and snow in the Northeast and upper Midwest. But a new FAIR [Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting] study shows they’ve almost completely ignored a related and even more dangerous phenomenon out West: record-shattering winter warmth. And they’ve overwhelmingly failed to discuss what connects the two sets of strange weather phenomena: human-caused climate disruption.

Lovely.
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 Annnnnnnd in yesterday's Green Miles post, Exxon Has Known It's Warming Our Climate Since Before I Was Born, Miles points to an Inside Climate News report which notes that Exxon's very own internal researchers showed the role fossil fuels play in Global Warming. 

At a meeting in Exxon Corporation's headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen.

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"In the first place, there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels," Black told Exxon's Management Committee, according to a written version he recorded later.

This was in July of 1977! I was a sophomore in college, not the old (and deeply adorable!) crone that I am now. Miles was still cookin' in his mother's belly. He's 37 now. This is how long Exxon has known.

Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions.

Miles linked to this great but scary article at Inside Climate News entitled: EXXON: The Road Not Taken. Go read the whole thing but, if you're like me, you might wanna have a snort of Jamo ready to keep you from going through the roof.

Black estimated quick action was needed. "Present thinking," he wrote in the 1978 summary, "holds that man has a time window of five to ten years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical."

christ almighty.