"Green" jobs a matter of faith, not fact | Troy Media Corporation

What are we to make of all of this? It is simple – we are being asked to place a bet but with a high level of risk that it may have the opposite impact to that intended (again, see Spain). The bet will involve a massive new tax, cap and trade regime and lifestyle changes in the hope that a large number of new green jobs will be created. Don’t you think we should demand better evidence that it will work? All of the evidence suggests that it is not a simple equation – green policies don’t equal green jobs. It is time for a real debate.

The climate debate: Climate scientists respond | The Economist

There are two ways to approach this problem. One is more effective mass communications that present the evidence of dangerous man-made global warming [like what, specifically?] in an easy-to-understand, visually clear fashion. This is what Al Gore did with "An Inconvenient Truth". And while most people found it convincing, for political opponents of Mr Gore and other climate change sceptics the movie simply became one more text to comb for trivial errors, make dark insinuations about, and finally inveigh against as communist propaganda. The other approach climate scientists are trying is to confront politically driven populist attacks with greater openness and calm, reasoned replies to every criticism. This is laudable. But mere openness and calm won't do the job alone. If they don't work on their mastery of hard-hitting, punchy retorts, and start getting themselves on television and radio, media-trained and ready to make their case with urgency and a bit of anger, all the openness in the world won't change much. Against their nature though it may be, the scientists need to learn how to fight, fairly, but harder than ever.

UN provides medical help for pregnant women amid Mongolia’s harsh winter

3 March 2010 – Severe winter conditions in Mongolia are preventing expectant mothers from reaching health facilities, requiring the United Nations to bring medical help closer to them.
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Heavy snow and temperatures as low as -50 degrees Celsius have closed roads and impaired travel. Two and a half million livestock have died of starvation, threatening the livelihoods of many nomadic herder families.

[Are these planes and trucks all safely powered by sun and wind?]: Mongolia: UN airlifts emergency supplies to children amid severe winter

2 March 2010 – As temperatures in western Mongolia continue to hover around -40 degrees Celsius, the United Nations is sending woolen blankets, warm footwear, hygiene kits and other emergency supplies to nearly 4,000 school-age children living in poor rural areas of the country.
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The initial dispatch of emergency assistance will be followed by six overland truck convoys during the next few weeks, which will fan out to school dormitories in 22 villages in the six hardest-hit provinces of Khuvsgul, Uvs, Zavkhan, Gobi-Altai, Khovd and Bayan-Ulgii to reach children of rural families.