BBC NEWS | UK students on climate [fraud] trip

Five hundred teenagers are meeting in Denmark for a competition to design new products to help tackle climate change.
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Robert Appleton, 15, won a place at the climate camp after his eco club at the John F Kennedy School in Hemel Hempstead came up with the idea of heating a new school building with woodchip.

Twitter / Jan Enriquez

global warming is a serious threat. not many people care. maybe they will care when they are about to face death . i dunno. maybe

Hurry home early, hurry on home, “Boom boom” Monbiot’s fighting … « Greenfyre’s

Public debates tend to be the preferred arena for those without any rational basis to their position.

The Minister for Holden

I just spent a few hours with colleagues grilling an eminent European economist about the state of the world. On climate change, he was adamant that governments could have no possible idea which technologies will end up being decisive in the move from carbon-based energy, so their focus should be on basic research that the private sector will not touch.

Unfortunately, environmentalists tend to be romantics, so green-inclined governments instead try to pick winners, subsidising specific technologies which the free market would back anyway if they looked commercially promising.