Is the environmental movement screwed? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

So how screwed is the environmental movement, anyway?

The question is worth asking. You'd have to be pretty tone deaf not to realize the score to which we've all been dancing has hit a few sour notes of late: the failure of the Copenhagen COP-15 talks, Climategate, and last week's State of the Union address (with its litany of nukes, coal, and offshore drilling).

IPCC flooded by criticism : Nature News

Some errors will inevitably creep in, says Jürgen Willebrand, an oceanographer at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany, and a coordinating lead author of the 2007 report. "IPCC reports are written by humans," he says. "I have no doubt that similar errors could be found in earlier IPCC reports, but nobody has bothered to look in detail because at the time of these reports the IPCC was less visible to society, politics and media." But he says the IPCC should have a more formal process for ensuring each flagged error is dealt with promptly.

Fact and Fiction at the IPCC | GlobalWarming.org

Of course, in light of the release of Return to Almora, one can understand how Dr. Pachauri might be confused by the sudden fervent demand for factual accuracy. After all, novelists are encouraged to take creative license in their work—to expand upon the known and sacrifice truth to beauty.

Judging from Return to Almora’s first sex scene—which occurs on page 16, and which features a nubile “May” telling climate scientist “Sanjay” he is “absolutely superb after meditation”—I’d say it’s safe to assume Dr. Rajendra Pachauri has grown accustomed to embellishing fact with a little bit of fantasy.

EU Referendum: An unbiased view?

That is the latest offering from the BBC in its so-called "green room". Of course, it would help us better judge her argument if we knew more about Malini Mehra – details which the BBC does not provide.

For instance, she is a "political scientist" (whatever that is) and gender specialist by training. Having "worked" on the NGO circuit, variously for Oxfam and Friends of the Earth, she participated in the UK-funded Sustainable Development Dialogues and served as a member of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on UN-Civil Society Relations.

She also contributed to UN publications such as the Human Development Reports on Democracy (2002) and Human Rights (2000) respectively. She has been involved on climate issues since the United Nations’ conference in Kyoto (1997) where she coordinated the input of Friends of the Earth International.

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