Saturday, May 30, 2009

Australian Climate Madness: Climate hypocrisy in Victoria
A BRUMBY Government department responsible for protecting the environment and combating climate change has accumulated enough air kilometres to send staff to the moon and back more than six times.
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Despite its website declaring the DSE [Department of Sustainability and Environment] to be "the driving force behind finding new ways of doing things so that Victorians can reduce their impact on the environment and live more sustainably", its staff were frequent flyers with 2,591,648km of air travel.

That is more than 1021km an employee.
So the loud and clear message from this kind of story is that it's only the rest of us that have to worry about saving the planet, not those safely aboard the climate change gravy train.
A special report on business in America: : A green revolution | The Economist
If politicians pretend they can save the planet at no cost, they risk a backlash when people realise they were fibbing.
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Fear-Mongering 101
The excerpted article below Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC, written by Jennifer Peltz of the Associated Press, is a tutorial on how to create a groundless, baseless, fear-mongering hit piece. First, begin with a frightening opening paragraph just in case the reader wasn't paying attention to the headline:

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