Disney doc 'Earth' offers a beautiful taste of real global [warming propaganda] - Mike Scott
The overarching theme, however, is an appreciation of, and a respect for Earth. That includes a strong climate-change component, which is sure to draw heat from global-warming naysayers.Lord Stern ups the ante in the climate change bull market :: Gerald Warner
Stern came late to the climate change industry. His previous incarnation was as chief economist at the World Bank and head of the Government Economic Service. Presumably, anyone querying his credentials could be advised to look at the state of the Government's economy. Since writing the Stern Review for Gordon Brown in 2006, he has climbed aboard the climate bandwagon with the zeal of the born-again.From the bizarro world of David Glenn Cox, where the media sides with the climate realists, but only 20% of people fail to buy into the global warming scam
Clearly recognising that the Climate Change market is a fiercely competitive environment in which Who Scares Wins, Stern has not been backward in peddling the Armageddon stuff. Rising sea levels (again!), imploding rain forests and alligators comfortably ensconced at the North Pole are just some of the nightmare scenarios conjured by Lord Stern. Temperatures may rise by up to five degrees within a century...
Oh, no, no, no! One can picture the Downing Street backroom boys shaking their heads despairingly at this wimpish prediction. If he had run it past them, they would have blue-pencilled "five degrees" and substituted ten. If Gordon's Budget contains a lot of Green placebos to distract public attention from the real state of the economy, then the public has to be scared witless if it is to accept this fantasy.
The naysayers, the twenty percenters as I call them, publish their letters to the editor about environmental alarmists, and news anchors scoff when it snows during a global warming rally. These twenty percenters believe anything they are told by pundits; pulpit or politico and the media parrots the company line. Again the thread that runs through it all is greed. The illusion of a free press when in fact the press is quite expensive and is controlled by the same people who move your job, pollute your waters and blacken your skies.Flashback to early '07, when Johann Hari thought the alarmists had won: "Deniers: Join, and help, the warming world"
Deniers, the war is over. You still have time to come in from the cold and join the warming world on which the rest of us live. There is no shame in making an honest mistake. But if you have any respect for evidence and for human survival, you must begin today to redeploy all that energy you have spent furiously claiming that the world's climatologists are idiots into arguing for a drastic reduction in the world's carbon emissions. These necessary cuts are still, despite George Bush's measly admission, a less likely prospect than global ecocidal disaster. Join us as we try to reverse those odds and there may be a chance you could be remembered with something other than contempt.
Johann Hari writes for The Independent in Britain.
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