Sunday, November 16, 2008

The fawn-again Beeb - mirror.co.uk
What a schizophrenic organisation the BBC is. One week our state broadcaster is so desperate to be cutting-edge it confuses making obscene calls to a 78-year-old man with light entertainment.

The next it reverts back to its royal toadying role and screens a fawning 90-minute commercial for Prince Charles.

Hrh is very worried about global warming. Not to such an extent that he doesn't leave a trail of giant carbon footprints jetting out to the Caribbean with his 14-strong entourage before cruising around in an environmentally unfriendly yacht. But hey - he's no ordinary eco-warrior! Obsessing on the future king's worthy-but-dull pet causes, Charles at 60: The Passionate Prince was a boring love-letter to a well-meaning do-gooder whose faith in his own opinions knows no bounds.

Some say he's a privileged, ill-informed meddler who should stop making waves. But, haughtily defiant, Charlie sighed: "I'd rather be criticised for doing things than not doing things."

I almost felt sorry for him.
But does Janice Adair know more than you do about climate science?
"It's more than climate change; it's climate chaos," Janice Adair, an Ecology climate-change specialist, said.
Talking with Janice Adair
Janice Adair, with the state Department of Ecology, serves as Washington's point person on an multistate effort to reduce greenhouse gases, dubbed the "Western Climate Initiative."
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On how Adair got involved in environmental issues: I worked for the Alaska state Legislature, and worked on some legislation there that was environmentally related, and I guess I got hooked.

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