Climate change is real, say activists at awareness day (From This Is Local London)

The issue of climate change has fuelled a furious debate on the Bucks Free Press website and letters pages, with some saying the impact is not as great as claimed.
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She said when she first joined the show 12 years ago scientists were regularly featured to oppose climate change theories.

Yet she said today: “It is now taken as the truth that the climate is changing.”
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Activists had hoped to form a human 350 on the adjoining Rye but poor weather grounded the airplane that would have taken the photograph.

Banks should take the BP route to repute - Telegraph

The Nineties, if you remember, were supposedly the caring, sharing decade when we threw off the market-is-all mentality of the 1980s and decided to shake our neighbour by the hand and cook organic burgers. Climate change was clambering up the political agenda and the public were looking for someone to blame for the new shocking reality of dead polar bears and melting ice-caps.

If it ducks like a duck, it must be Al Gore | Paul Mulshine - NJ.com

This is a quite amusing video, one that teaches an important lesson about the perils of advocacy journalism.

It's a clip from an environmental conference at which self-appointed savior of the planet Al Gore took questions from a crowd of people posing as environmental "journalists."

I put that word in quotes for the simple reason that most of the people who would identify themselves as such are in fact activists of some sort. We real-life journalists are skeptical of everything and follow the dictum "If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out."

Maldives' underwater cabinet meeting was a sorry stunt - Christopher Booker - Telegraph

If President Nasheed really believed his own propaganda, he would of course immediately ban all flights into his country and turn off the lights in all its hotels. But since this would put an end to the international tourism which is almost his country's only source of income, he would rather carry on staging his publicity stunts, while holding out the begging bowl which he hopes gullible world leaders such as Gordon Brown will soon fill with large quantities of Western taxpayers' cash.