Friday, February 19, 2010

CSI | Mann Bites Dog: Why ‘Climategate’ Was Newsworthy
There is, however, a healthy, open, honest, and active scientific debate in the peer-reviewed scientific literature about the degree of climate change.
U.N. Report to Quantify the Environmental Impact of Major Companies - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
A United Nations report to be released later this year finds that the world’s top 3,000 companies cause $2.2 trillion dollars in environmental damage per year, according to the consulting company commissioned to write the report.

The report is being compiled by the UK-based environmental consulting firm Trucost, and is based on eight years of research on large companies.
[Fraudster Al endorses the old "global warming causes bitter cold" selling point]
Paul Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, wrote an exceptional letter to The New York Times last week:
“Two physical findings stand out. In the last 50 years the world ocean has accumulated 22 times as much heat as has the atmosphere (data provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce). It is this repository of heat -- through processes like evaporation and ocean overturning -- that drives the changes in weather we are experiencing: heavier precipitation events, sequences of large storms, bitter cold spells and prolonged droughts in some regions"
Hype of Global Warming Far Scarier Than Science Shows | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
There is a reason proponents of costly measures to address global warming have so exaggerated the risks – they essentially had to for there to be any chance the public would accept the high price tag for action to ratchet down carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Once the gloom and doom is replaced by a more accurate assessment of the risk, such measures as the Senate’s Boxer-Kerry bill, a new UN treaty, or EPA regulations look like an especially bad deal.
Can Condoms Help Save Polar Bears? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
“This is sick,” wrote one commenter at the environment blog of The Orange County Register. “Not that condoms are bad. But the reasoning behind this is disturbing and seems driven by sociopaths.”

1 comment:

ShugNiggurath said...

Fantastic line in Mann Bites Dog:

"They’ve improperly graphed data using tricks to hide evidence that contradicts their beliefs."

Hmmm. I thought that was standard scientific practice?? Is it just me?