Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Climate change deniers: failsafe tips on how to spot them | Environment | guardian.co.uk
It is important to filter information so that scientific discourse and debate can stay within the confines of rational argument and reason. Otherwise we get sidetracked and paralysed by denialists who are not honest brokers in a debate. Their goal isn't to promote science, or truth, or human knowledge, but to delay and deny.
Blue Hampshire: Politics ::: Sununu Senior and Phony Man-Made Climate Change
But I think the real takeaway from Sununu's lengthy diatribe is not that he is a legendary denier of anthropogenic climate change. We already knew that.

I think the real takeaway is the discovery of just how much more passion he appears to show on this hooey than on being the NHGOP chair.
edmontonsun.com - Edmonton News - Cold hits homeless hard
She said several of the 85 people in the centre had frostbite, a condition they have been forced to deal with since December.

"It takes a toll physically and mentally," Smith-Perry said of the temperatures, which dipped below -30 C for several nights.

"With such severely cold weather, people are additionally agitated (and) depressed. Any symptoms that individuals are already showing due to either being homeless or being on the brink of homelessness, those are only exaggerated when we have such severe weather," she added.

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