“We have succeeded because the science is clear, despite there being a massive well-orchestrated effort of propaganda, lies, and denial by the world’s largest fossil fuel corporations, including ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and fossil-fuel-backed institutes and think tanks.
“It is frightening that a Supreme Court nominee — a position that is in essence one of the highest fact-checkers in the land — has bought into the same propaganda we have worked so hard to dispel.”
—70+ Science and Climate Journalists, “More Than 70 Science and Climate Journalists* Challenge Supreme Court Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett,” Rolling Stone, Oct. 25, 2020.
• Editorial Comment: Negative verdict.
*SIGNED: Bill McKibben, journalist and author, the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College; Rebecca Solnit, author and journalist; Sonia Shah, science journalist and author; Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize winning author, science journalist, and professor at Columbia Journalism School; Jeff Goodell, climate journalist and author of The Water Will Come; Naomi Klein, journalist and author; Michelle Nijhuis, science journalist and author; Amy Westervelt, climate journalist; Rachel Ramirez, environmental justice reporter; Iris Crawford, climate justice journalist; Anoa Changa, movement and environmental justice journalist; Tiên Nguyễn, multimedia science journalist; Eric Holthaus, meteorologist, climate journalist at The Phoenix; Jenni Monet (Laguna Pueblo), climate affairs journalist and founder of Indigenously; Nina Lakhani, environmental justice reporter; Samir S. Patel, science journalist and editor; Clinton Parks, freelance science writer; Meehan Crist, writer in residence in biological sciences, Columbia University; Elizabeth Rush, science writer, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore; Anne McClintock, climate journalist, photographer and author, professor of environmental humanities and writing at Princeton University; Ruth Hopkins (Oceti Sakowin, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), tribal attorney, Indigenous journalist; Wade Roush, science and technology journalist and author; Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of climate science fiction, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards; Jason Mark, editor in chief, Sierra; Kate Aronoff, climate journalist; Richard Louv, journalist and author; Heather Smith, science journalist; Judith Lewis Mernit, California climate editor, Capital & Main; Madeline Ostrander, climate journalist; Julie Dermansky, multimedia environmental and social justice journalist; Kenneth Brower, environmental journalist and author; Alexander Zaitchik, science and political journalist and author; Hillary M. Rosner, science journalist and scholar in residence, University of Colorado; Wudan Yan, science journalist; Debra Atlas, environmental journalist and author; Rucha Chitnis, climate, environmental justice and human rights documentarian; Drew Costley, environmental justice reporter; Jonathan Thompson, environmental author and journalist; Carol Clouse, environmental journalist; Brian Kahn, climate journalist; Geoff Dembicki, climate journalist and author; Peter Fairley, energy and environment journalist; Nicholas Cunningham, energy reporter; Nina Berman, documentary photographer focusing on issues of climate and the environment, professor of journalism at Columbia University; Michele C. Hollow, freelance journalist; Ben Depp, documentary photographer, focusing on issues of climate and the environment; Virginia Hanusik, climate photographer; Philip Yam, science journalist and author; Maura R. O’Connor, science journalist and author; Chad J. Reich, audio and visual journalist covering energy and environment in rural communities; Steve Ross, environmental writer/editor, former Columbia environmental reporting professor; Starre Vartan, science journalist; Michael Snyder, climate photographer; Brandon Keim, science and nature journalist; Tom Athanasiou, climate equity writer and researcher; Hope Marcus, climate writer; Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, freelance journalist; Dana Drugmand, climate journalist; Tom Molanphy, climate journalist; Roxanne Szal, associate digital editor, Ms. Magazine; Dashka Slater, author and climate reporter; Jenn Emerling, documentary photographer, focusing on issues of climate and culture in the American West; Christine Heinrichs, science writer and author; Clayton Aldern, climate and environmental journalist; Karen Savage, climate journalist; Charlotte Dennett, author, investigative journalist, attorney; Carly Berlin, environmental reporter; Ben Ehrenreich, author and journalist; Ibby Caputo, science journalist; Lawrence Weschler, former New Yorker staff writer, environmental author, most recently with David Opdyke, of This Land: An Epic Postcard Mural on the Future of a Country in Ecological Peril; Justin Nobel, science journalist; Antonia Juhasz, climate and energy journalist and author; James Temple, climate and energy journalist; Josie Glausiusz, science journalist; Tina Gerhardt, climate journalist; Amar Bhardwaj, former editor in chief of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development; Nano Riley, environmental historian, journalist; Erin Biba, science journalist
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