Friday, June 19, 2009

Apocalypse Porn: New 2012 Trailer Almost Destroys Itself
We’ve been keeping a close watch on the upcoming apocalypse film 2012 by director Roland Emmerich — mainly because it features the world cleansing itself of humanity and beating us to a pulp in the process.
The UK Met Office Deepens The Moat « Climate Audit
We have, of course, followed with some considerable amusement the contortions of the UK Met Office to avoid disclosing data. Last year, we reported how John Mitchell, Chief Scientist at the UK Met Office, obstructed compliance with an FOI request for his IPCC review comments by wrongfully claiming that his IPCC correspondence had been destroyed and then that it was his "personal" property, resiling from these absurd claims only when asked whether the Met Office had paid his salary and expenses for trips to IPCC destinations.

Recently, we've followed the amusing contortions at the Hadley Center webpage as they are conflicted between their use of Phil Jones' land station data (CRUTEM3) and Phil Jones' absurd campaign to keep CRU station data secret.
How [Brainwashed] Students Can Teach Congress about Climate Change: Scientific American
Goodstein, an economics professor at Lewis and Clark College, temporarily left teaching to form the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions. Over the past two years the Teach-In has helped coordinate 2,500 events with 1.25 million participants, most of them students, to share ideas about potential fixes.

On February 5 Goodstein collaborated with the office of House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stage a Capitol Hill teach-in. He brought together 250,000 students and community members across 25 campuses nationwide to interact with 15 members of Congress via videoconferences. The discussions were so fruitful that Goodstein is organizing a larger session, scheduled for this autumn, to engage up to 250 policy makers.

“Young people are responsible for developing solutions to save our planet,” Goodstein says. Engaging with lawmakers gives students a real voice, he adds, allowing them to learn about actual bills circulating in Congress, to brainstorm new ideas, and to share their innovative energy and business plans for preserving the earth.

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