https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 Opednews.com Progressive, Liberal United States and International News, Opinion, Op-Eds and Politics en-us Copyright 2026 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:45:26 -0400 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:45:26 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/rssbanner.png https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 152 149 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Planet-of-the-Huh-by-Karyn-Strickler-Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Conference_Climate-Change-Costs-200502-593.html Fri, 01 May 2020 23:37:02 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Planet-of-the-Huh-by-Karyn-Strickler-Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Conference_Climate-Change-Costs-200502-593.html Karyn Strickler A review of Michael Moore and Jeff Gibb's "Planet of the Humans." https://www.opednews.com/articles/Biden-Must-Become-the-Clim-by-Karyn-Strickler-Climate-Change-200414-640.html Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:07:31 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Biden-Must-Become-the-Clim-by-Karyn-Strickler-Climate-Change-200414-640.html Karyn Strickler How Joe Biden must improve his position on climate change. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Vote-Climate-U-S-PAC-Endo-by-Karyn-Strickler-Bernie-Sanders_Bernie-Sanders-2016-Presidential-Candidate_Bernie-Sanders-2020_Bernie-Sanders-2020-Presidential-Candidate-200310-134.html Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:09:27 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Vote-Climate-U-S-PAC-Endo-by-Karyn-Strickler-Bernie-Sanders_Bernie-Sanders-2016-Presidential-Candidate_Bernie-Sanders-2020_Bernie-Sanders-2020-Presidential-Candidate-200310-134.html Karyn Strickler Vote Climate U.S. PAC Endorses Bernie Sanders for President https://www.opednews.com/articles/Voter-s-Guide-to-Change-Cl-by-Karyn-Strickler-Adaptation-To-Climate-Change_Celebrity-And-Politics_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Agreement-181106-791.html Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:58:07 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Voter-s-Guide-to-Change-Cl-by-Karyn-Strickler-Adaptation-To-Climate-Change_Celebrity-And-Politics_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Agreement-181106-791.html Karyn Strickler Our Vote Climate U.S. PAC voter's guide can revolutionize climate politics if voters use it. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Vote-Climate-U-S-PAC-s-An-by-Karyn-Strickler-2018_2018-Elections_2018-Midterm-Election_Climate-Change-181104-308.html Sun, 04 Nov 2018 06:37:19 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Vote-Climate-U-S-PAC-s-An-by-Karyn-Strickler-2018_2018-Elections_2018-Midterm-Election_Climate-Change-181104-308.html Karyn Strickler Vote Climate U.S. PAC announces priority candidates and analyses the national politics of climate change. https://www.opednews.com/articles/America-s-Climate-Change--by-Karyn-Strickler-Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Costs_Climate-Change-Deniers-181102-67.html Thu, 01 Nov 2018 21:19:05 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/America-s-Climate-Change--by-Karyn-Strickler-Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Costs_Climate-Change-Deniers-181102-67.html Karyn Strickler Is your member of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate and their challengers a Climate Hero or Zero? https://www.opednews.com/articles/Unprecedented-Voter-s-Guid-by-Karyn-Strickler-2018_America_Climate-Change_Congress-181024-84.html Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:14:24 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Unprecedented-Voter-s-Guid-by-Karyn-Strickler-2018_America_Climate-Change_Congress-181024-84.html Karyn Strickler Use Vote Climate U.S. PAC's national climate-change voter's guide to make climate a top priority on Election Day. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Climate-Change-and-the-201-by-Karyn-Strickler-2016-Elections_Agreement_Climate_Climate-Change-150916-922.html Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:41:22 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Climate-Change-and-the-201-by-Karyn-Strickler-2016-Elections_Agreement_Climate_Climate-Change-150916-922.html Karyn Strickler Exclusive interview with the author of "The Keys to the White House," who tells us how the issue of climate change could determine the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election. https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Do-Ironman-Triathlons-by-Karyn-Strickler-Cancer_Climate_Coal-Ash_Coal-Mining-130919-716.html Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:10:01 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Do-Ironman-Triathlons-by-Karyn-Strickler-Cancer_Climate_Coal-Ash_Coal-Mining-130919-716.html Karyn Strickler Ironman author and triathlete Karyn Strickler has dedicated her Sept. 21 Ultra Championship Triathlon to helping stop mountaintop removal coal mining. Her motivation? "For me this is about stopping mountaintop removal coal mining, for its own sake, and as a big step toward slowing climate change." https://www.opednews.com/articles/Frances-Kissling-Sells-Out-by-Karyn-Strickler-110228-391.html Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:44:58 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Frances-Kissling-Sells-Out-by-Karyn-Strickler-110228-391.html Karyn Strickler "The "pro-choice' brand has eroded considerably," according to Frances Kissling's front-page op-ed in the Washington Post's Outlook section last weekend. Ironically, Kissling, who is the former director of Catholics for Choice, asserts that, "old strategies don't work." But her apparent misunderstanding of the political history of the abortion issue leave her proposed solutions in the stale box of proposals that have fail https://www.opednews.com/articles/Getting-Some-Green-for-You-by-Karyn-Strickler-091209-857.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:35:16 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Getting-Some-Green-for-You-by-Karyn-Strickler-091209-857.html Karyn Strickler The end of the year is traditionally a time for giving -- money. Since people want some bang for their buck, some green for their green, I have compiled my list of 12 organizations that I recommend this year for your end-of-year donations. They are a dozen non-profits that I believe are doing critical work toward reversing climate change. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Carbon-Cuts--350-is-Not-A-by-Karyn-Strickler-091101-947.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:28:21 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Carbon-Cuts--350-is-Not-A-by-Karyn-Strickler-091101-947.html Karyn Strickler If burning fossil fuels like coal and oil during industrialization has created the mess we're in with climate change, it seems only logical that we should aim for pre-industrial levels of atmospheric CO2 of 280 ppm. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Waxman-Markey-Will-Not-Do-by-Karyn-Strickler-090705-621.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:39:18 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Waxman-Markey-Will-Not-Do-by-Karyn-Strickler-090705-621.html Karyn Strickler As the bell rang in the U.S. House of Representatives, announcing the 219-212 vote for passage of the Waxman-Markey climate bill, the skies over Washington, DC ripped loose with a mighty storm. ----President Obama dared to say, "We're not going to get there in one fell swoop." Mother Nature seemed to declare, "I beg to differ, Waxman-Markey, simply will not do." https://www.opednews.com/articles/Gag-Me-with-Clean-Coal-by-Karyn-Strickler-090608-257.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:46:24 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Gag-Me-with-Clean-Coal-by-Karyn-Strickler-090608-257.html Karyn Strickler Destroy life, property, mountains, streams, rivers, families, communities and the planet to obtain a filthy fossil fuel. Burn it for electricity, releasing myriad poisons. Contain the resulting sludge and toxic ash in billion gallon ponds, until they break. Call it clean. Get the President to call it clean. Repeat. Add alliteration and a multi-million dollar PR campaign. Voila, you have clean coal. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Climate-Challenge--An-Int-by-Karyn-Strickler-090601-923.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:54:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Climate-Challenge--An-Int-by-Karyn-Strickler-090601-923.html Karyn Strickler Karyn Strickler, producer and host of Climate Challenge, the first and only TV show in the nation to focus exclusively on the issue of climate change, did her inaugural interview with Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel, climate scientist from the Union of Concerned Scientists. They discussed climate change and how to reverse it. Read the interview. https://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Failure-of-Leadership--by-Karyn-Strickler-090522-420.html Sun, 24 May 2009 09:26:14 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Failure-of-Leadership--by-Karyn-Strickler-090522-420.html Karyn Strickler The super-powered greenhouse gas Methane is bubbling out of lakes in the Arctic, from melting permafrost, and we have entered the dreaded period where secondary effects of global warming could take the climate challenge completely out of our control. The time for genuine leadership and grassroots action, that will effectively reverse climate change, is fleeting. https://www.opednews.com/articles/President-Obama-Must-Heed-by-Karyn-Strickler-090402-901.html Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:46:05 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/President-Obama-Must-Heed-by-Karyn-Strickler-090402-901.html Karyn Strickler If this were an ordinary issue incremental, politically palatable steps made over the long term may be appropriate. But gentle approaches don't make sense when our survival on this planet may depend on a swift, dramatic response. If President Obama wants to bend the arc of history toward a planet that can sustain human civilization, the time for bold leadership is at hand. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Fighting-Catastrophic-Clim-by-Karyn-Strickler-090128-941.html Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:55:58 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Fighting-Catastrophic-Clim-by-Karyn-Strickler-090128-941.html Karyn Strickler Without adequate action to reverse catastrophic climate change, we face devastation from the resulting severe storms, rising sea levels, insect infestation, disease, flooding, drought, fire, temperature and weather extremes of all sorts. The pending Maryland legislation is simply inadequate. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bye-Bye-Bush--Washington-by-Karyn-Strickler-090120-858.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:30:50 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bye-Bye-Bush--Washington-by-Karyn-Strickler-090120-858.html Karyn Strickler Taking the oath of office on the Lincoln Bible and quoting our founding father George Washington, Barack Obama's inaugural address was a low-key call for action with a sober tone. Our new President gave us highlights from history, reminding us that we can do it again, calling this, "a new era of responsibility," saying, "We are ready to lead once more." https://www.opednews.com/articles/Reverse-Climate-Change--R-by-Karyn-Strickler-081216-682.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:26:32 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Reverse-Climate-Change--R-by-Karyn-Strickler-081216-682.html Karyn Strickler In 2001 the IPCC said that global warming was increasing 50% faster than originally believed. Even so, the toughest proposals offered to date for reducing greenhouse gases is to cut them 80% by 2050. ----We need immediate, worldwide leadership, far bolder than anything currently proposed. Without action, we face devastation. Read why we must cut greenhouse gases 80 % below 1990 levels by 2025. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bail-U-S-Out-of-the-Fossi-by-Karyn-Strickler-081130-274.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:02:52 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bail-U-S-Out-of-the-Fossi-by-Karyn-Strickler-081130-274.html Karyn Strickler "Bail U.S. out of the Fossil Fuel Economy," describes why America urgently needs to shift off of fossil fuels to 100% clean, renewable, non-nuclear energy for our environment, our economy, our national security, our health, our children -- and forever. https://www.opednews.com/articles/History-and-This-Election-by-Karyn-Strickler-081107-928.html Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:27:05 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/History-and-This-Election-by-Karyn-Strickler-081107-928.html Karyn Strickler Barack Obama should not confuse skillful leadership with the Democratic leadership's misguided compulsion to govern from the middle.