Friday, September 18, 2009

Contraception vital in climate change fight: expert | Health | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Contraception advice is crucial to poor countries' battle with climate change, and policy makers are failing their people if they continue to shy away from the issue, a leading family planning expert said on Friday.
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Climate change can also not only cause more natural disasters such as storms, but force people to live in areas at risk of floods, drought and disease.
Singapore well placed to be carbon [swindle] trading centre
The Financial Times also reported that half a dozen climate exchanges have been set up in China over the past year alone.
Jennifer Marohasy » More Smearing of Scientific Scepticism (Part 2)
THERE was a most extraordinary feature story and then interview last night on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s popular late news program with well known reporter and television presenter Leigh Sales giving American journalist Chris Mooney publicity for his new book and a generous amount of air time to explain that anyone who doesn’t believe in anthropogenic global warming is scientifically illiterate and ignorant.
The Climate Sceptics Party Blog: Penny Sackett Media Release
Recently on Sydney Radio 2UE, Australia’s Chief Scientist, in response to a question about global warming scepticism, made a statement to the order of “I have never seen a peer-reviewed paper that supports the anti AGW position.” This was after attending a meeting with Steve Fielding where peer-reviewed evidence was presented.

Also at that meeting, Senator Fielding presented the Chief Scientist with the hefty hard copy of the NIPCC report, which is a compendium of the relevant climate science that “demonstrates overwhelming scientific support for the position that the warming of the twentieth century was moderate and not unprecedented, that its impact on human health and wildlife was positive, and that carbon dioxide probably is not the driving factor behind climate change.

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