{"id":1593,"date":"2010-01-29T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:35:06","slug":"rolling-stone-calls-out-the-climate-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2010\/01\/29\/rolling-stone-calls-out-the-climate-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone Calls out &#8220;The Climate Killers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1592\" title=\"Image of Rolling Stone cover\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2010\/01\/YouIdiots.jpg\" alt=\"YouIdiots\" width=\"177\" height=\"240\" \/>The latest cover of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine didn&#8217;t feature an indie star or up-and-coming talent.\u00a0 Instead, a simple black background pushed forward the words &#8220;YOU IDIOTS: meet the planet&#8217;s worst enemies&#8221; and drew readers&#8217; attention to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/31633532\/as_the_world_burns\">13-page article<\/a> went through the latest chapter in climate legislation, without pulling any punches.\u00a0 It called out every major obstacle to climate legislation from the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s disinformation to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/31633524\/the_climate_killers\">17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 (Two EDF experts were quoted in the piece as well: our president, Fred Krupp, and chief economist, Dan Dudek.)<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> writer Tim Dickinson captures a lot of the frustration felt in the climate campaign, he misses the mark when it comes to his closing. &#8220;The battle over global warming may already be over,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Where are the crowds marching the streets?&#8221; he asks.<\/p>\n<p>We are here.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we may not always be in the streets &#8212; but we are in the halls of Congress, pushing for action.\u00a0 And the front lines are packed with some unusual allies &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecapsolution.org\/page.cfm?tagID=39243\">steel-town mayor John Fettterman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2010\/01\/22\/new-ad-shows-broad-support-for-a-climate-bill\/\">companies and labor unions<\/a>, EDF climate activists (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=12803\">add your voice!<\/a>), and many more. This week, President Obama, too, reminded Congress that they are not done.<\/p>\n<p>This fight is far from over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest cover of Rolling Stone magazine didn&#8217;t feature an indie star or up-and-coming talent.\u00a0 Instead, a simple black background pushed forward the words &#8220;YOU IDIOTS: meet the planet&#8217;s worst enemies&#8221; and drew readers&#8217; attention to climate change. The 13-page article went through the latest chapter in climate legislation, without pulling any punches.\u00a0 It called &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,99],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-links-and-quotes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rolling Stone Calls out &quot;The Climate Killers&quot; - Climate 411<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2010\/01\/29\/rolling-stone-calls-out-the-climate-killers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rolling Stone Calls out &quot;The Climate Killers&quot; - Climate 411\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The latest cover of Rolling Stone magazine didn&#8217;t feature an indie star or up-and-coming talent.\u00a0 Instead, a simple black background pushed forward the words &#8220;YOU IDIOTS: meet the planet&#8217;s worst enemies&#8221; and drew readers&#8217; attention to climate change. 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