Friday, November 20, 2009

Marooned! | Australian Climate Madness
This is what that $50 billion of global warming research funding is spent on – photoshopping spoof images of climate sceptics (from the Hadley Files). Entitled “Marooned”...
Al Gore Makes Surprisingly Non-Wooden Appearance on "30 Rock" - Al Gore - Gawker
"30 Rock" often uses serious, "real-world" issues as fodder for their very silly plots. Tonight it was global-warming, and Al Gore stopped by to change all the light-bulbs!
In the segment above, Gore actually says "There's an old African proverb that I made up".  He then quotes this proverb, which he apparently did make up!

Australia: Less than half of Liberal voters believe human activity causes climate change
The surveys show considerable partisan polarisation on climate change in both countries, but the partisan divide is more pronounced in the US.

Among Australian respondents, Labor voters were considerably more likely to attribute a warming climate to human activity than Liberal voters. Of the 90% of Labor voters who agreed that the world's climate is warming, 83% attributed this to human activities, meaning that 78% of Labor voters accepted that global warming is anthropogenic. Among Liberal voters the corresponding figure is 48%, an inter-party difference of 30 percentage points.
Harvard Finds Kidney Stones, Malaria Among Global-Warming Risks - Bloomberg.com
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Kidney stones, malaria, Lyme disease, depression and respiratory illness all may increase with global warming, researchers at Harvard Medical School said.

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