Monday, December 07, 2009

The Observer - Global warming skeptic: Notre Dame and St Mary's
The argument can definitely be made that the climate is changing considering its cyclical pattern. However, there is still no way to prove we are the ones who are causing the climate to change. So before we go spending a lot of time and resources, we should make sure what we’re doing is actually solving a problem in the first place. All that money would be really nice to fund any number of things that are way more important at this point in history.

Mark Easley
sophomore
Keenan Hall
Climate change MP's Christmas lights confession - News - Manchester Evening News
He added: “The lights are LED so they use less power. We could have used candles but that would have been highly dangerous.

“But after I'd done it I thought 'oh crumbs, they're having rallies about the environment in London and the world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen and here's me putting all these lights up'.”
The American Spectator : Sky May Not Be Falling
Ms. H-P: I am devastated. Before I called you I canceled by tickets for Copenhagen. I'm just too depressed to attend. On top of that I haven't been able to get through to our Pontiff, Al Gore. I was sure he would give me reassurance, but both his voice mailbox and his e-mailbox are full. He hasn't said a word publicly since the Climategate scandal broke.

Us: Maybe that's because he's an investor in a firm that will sell "carbon credits" to companies that are over their quota. That would be a very profitable business if the Obama Cap-and-Trade bill were to pass the Senate. So, your Pontiff may be spending all his time in Washington lobbying. .
Does climate concern cool off? - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Concern and awareness for climate change and the environment peaked in 2007 at the time of the Live Earth concerts and the launch of Al Gore’s documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", according to a survey by The Nielsen Company and the Oxford University Institute of Climate Change.

The survey – conducted among 27,548 consumers in 54 countries – shows that in 2007 41 percent said they were very concerned about climate change. In October 2009 the number had declined to 37 percent.
ABC and NBC Acknowledge 'ClimateGate,' But Remain Undeterred: 'Science is Solid' | NewsBusters.org
More than two weeks after ClimateGate broke, ABC's World News finally got around to mentioning it on Sunday evening, but not to explore how the e-mails discredited leading scientists who insist mankind is causing global warming as, instead, ABC declared “the science is solid” and NBC assured viewers “the evidence is overwhelming that man is behind climate change.”
Michael McCarthy: The express? More like a crawl to Copenhagen - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
The intervening 14 hours – the flight would have been less than two – became a cheerful celebration of the growing alliance between environmentalists and railwaymen, who clearly see their interests entwined. [By "interests", we mean "saving their grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire", am I right?]

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