Monday, September 07, 2009

Off-Grid.Net » How to power a Climate [Hoax] Camp
On a warm late summer afternoon the camp with its colourful banners and steady stream of visitors also had the air of fair ground. This impression was only reinforced by one of the first pitches behind the reception tent where a man calling himself ‘steam boat Willy’ allowed campers and passers-by to try out his pedal-powered hovercraft made from scrap.

One of those was Rowan Burroughs from Bangor, Wales, who was taking a few minutes off from the ‘wellbeing tent’ where he and other volunteers offer emotional support and somewhere to rest for campers overcome by the physical and emotional intensity of the six day experience.
Mirror, mirror - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online
...I was reminded a couple of weeks ago — by a spokeswoman for the Union of Concerned Scientists, which incidentally also teamed up with Enron to get the U.S. involved with Kyoto — that it is "inappropriate" to look at a cool year or few years when assessing temperature trends. Yet green groups and UCS in particular made their bones waving their arms maniacally about the hottest second Tuesday in a non-Leap Year February, etc., as I reminded her in reply.
Broadcasters asked to raise climate change awareness
Two years ago, only a handful of world leaders could talk about these issues. Today leaders in all countries, on every continent, are aware of the threat we face,” Mr Ban said.

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