Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Population control is not what makes climate change a feminist issue | Jess McCabe | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Women contribute less to global warming yet will be hit harder by its effects. Reproductive justice is a separate issue
Brrrrrrrrr - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Unusually cold and wet conditions across the middle of the country led to several snowfall records. Cheyenne, Wyoming observed 28 inches of snow during October, making this the city's snowiest October on record. North Platte, Nebraska recorded 30.3 inches of snowfall, making October 2009 the snowiest month of all months on record for the city. The previous record was 27.8 inches, in March 1912.
The Clamor for Calamity - Brendan O’Neill - Planet Gore on National Review Online
These fantasies of human-decimating disaster expose how many environmentalists really view nature: not as something polluted by mankind (who now must find practical ways to clean it up), but as a sentient, God-like force which should punish humans for their wanton ways or shock them into changing their lifestyles. Mother Nature becomes the imagined corrector of human depravity. The Clamor for Calamity also reveals how irrational environmentalists consider the rest of us to be. We are so spectacularly stupid, so brain-addled by consumerism — with eyes that do not see, and ears that do not hear — that the only possible solution is not debate, but disaster. That alone will demonstrate at last that their god is God. As they wait for that rapturous day, environmentalists will continue to censor infidels and heretics, and pray for Gaia’s judgment to be visited upon us all.
Beware the climate change alarmists -- chicagotribune.com
An honest examination of the science will reveal perhaps the only indisputable fact in this entire argument: The science is not settled and claims of a scientific consensus are an exaggeration, if not a deception. A scientific consensus -- if such a thing even exists -- would be surprising for any issue that is as complicated as this, involving so many different branches of science. As a layman struggling to comprehend this avalanche of science, I was struck by one truth: Beware of any "science" that claims to fully describe in single theory any phenomenon as complex as global climate change. Trying to tie it all up in such a neat package, as climate alarmists do, is a trap for the simple-minded.

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