Brian Baker: Climate change hysteria

In response to Lynne Plambeck's July 2 column (Opinion, "Global warming, air pollution and children's lungs"): Climate-change legislation is nothing but an excuse used by nanny-government statists to seize power from the people, destroy our economy and attempt social engineering on a massive and never-before-seen scale.

Just look at Plambeck's own column: get rid of your SUV, buy a road-gnat car, ride the bus or a bike.

First of all, the climate's always changing. Ten thousand years ago, a mere blink in geological time, this entire valley was buried under almost a mile of ice and woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats were part of the local fauna.

Thank God for "climate change."

The only way these statisticians' arguments work is if the climate is a static system - and it's not. It's in a state of constant change and flux.

Climate Research News » BBC “Too PC – Ignores Climate Change Sceptics”

BBC environment correspondent Roger Harrabin runs the mysterious ‘Cambridge Environment and Media Programme.’ I think we can guess what sort of people are members, and the sort of people likey to be excluded. Richard Black, another prominent BBC environment correspondent likes to use the headline ‘No sun link to climate’ when a scientific paper is published questioning the sun-climate link, but is remarkably silent when a paper supporting the link is published, or indeed is silent when any paper that links climate change to natural variability is published.

Climate change may cause civilization to collapse

Washington: The biggest single report to look at the future of the planet has said that due to climate change, "billions of people will be condemned to poverty and much of civilization will collapse".

The stark warning from the report has been obtained by The Independent, ahead of its official publication next month.

Do-it-yourself

CoolPlanet presents on the occasion of World Environment Day a new Wear-Seal-the-Deal concept in partnership with the Belgian designer Jean-Paul Knott, featuring downloadable Seal the Deal campaign tools based on a do-it-yourself philosophy.

The designer Jean-Paul Knott explains every step of the production of the t-shirts and pins in a 3 minute video clip