[Climate change hoax] good for industry: UN body
New Delhi: Fighting climate change does not contradict development goals, instead it offers "enormous economic opportunities", says the 2009 report of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad).Religion may save us from global warming, says atheist scientist
LONDON - One of Britain’s most eminent scientists, who is an atheist, has said that the world may have to turn to religion to save itself from catastrophic climate change.Record snowfall for Cardrona | New Zealand
According to a report in the Telegraph, Lord May, the president of the British Science Association, said that religion may have helped protect human society from itself in the past and it may be needed again.
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“People who believe in the End of Days, who believe the world is going to come to an end, don’t care about climate change. I think there is quite a strong connection between the religious right and climate change denial,” he said.
Cardrona Alpine Resort has broken its accumulated snowfall record by over a metre, with 317cm of snowfall this season. The previous biggest year on record was 2004 (213cm).End of the summer? | John Redwood MP
I am not myself going into the climate forecasting business. I have seen what trouble the Met office had with their catchy but wrong BBQ summer forecast this year. Nonetheless it is good to know that scientists are wrestling with their models to try to get closer to what we are experiencing on the ground., Maybe what the weather people meant when they said it would be a BBQ summer was just what we had – cold and damp, huddled under the umbrellas as the wet charcoal takes ages to come to life. Some would say that is the true English BBQ, served with grit to guests clutching shawls, or rushing for the padded jackets.Climate Bill Backers, Critics Rally In Tenn. : NPR
FARMER: Kathleen D'Onofrio says she knows climate legislation has a high hurdle in the Senate. Do you have a little David-and-Goliath feeling going on?
Ms. D'ONOFRIO: Oh, definitely. But what I'm so fearful of now, we can't agree on any health care legislation when it involves our own selves. What's it going to be when it's this vague feeling of global warming?
FARMER: Organizers say they're not worried about the relative quiet at their meetings. Chris Ford of Tennessee Conservation Voters says the calm could signal widespread support for cap and trade.
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