Trade Unionists Discuss Climate Change : Climate and Capitalism

The second Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Conference brought together one hundred and sixty trade unionists and climate change activists. This was down on the three hundred who attended last year. Obviously the dip in attendance is not due to widespread feeling that the working class has resolved the matter in its own favour. The economic crisis seems to be absorbing everyone’s attention at the moment and that may have had an impact.

San Francisco Historians Condemn 1906 Earthquake Deniers | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

The 1906 Earthquake Deniers, a group reviled by Californians and scholars alike, held three days of lectures and roundtable discussions over what they call a "century-long hoax" of exaggerated seismic activity in the Bay area, and part of a conspiracy to bring the World's Fair to San Francisco in 1915.