Wednesday, April 14, 2010

CBC News - North - Polar bear's status focus of Nunavut hearing
Hutchings said although COSEWIC found there are generally more polar bears today than 50 years ago, their future survival could be threatened.
California: Global warming or unemployment...choose your own disaster?
PATRICK HOFF: The economy is more important than global warming. I think this global warming is just a bunch of crap.
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JOAQUIN SCALES: Issues that I care about is all these politicians that try to push this global movement, but yet they're flying around in private jets and stuff like that. I.e., Al Gore. You know, so it's like you should practice what you preach and it's really tearing up the community and the environment.
Die Klimazwiebel: Sea level rise: Can't you see the acceleration ?
For those of you who may be wondering, this fit implies a 95% probability for 35 cm or less of sea-level rise in 2100.
Green groups attempt to revive ailing Australian climate policy - 14 Apr 2010 - BusinessGreen.com
Environmentalists urge Labor government to replace defeated cap-and-trade bill with emergency two year carbon tax
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Rudd appears to have bowed to the pressure and it seems increasingly unlikely that a further vote on the cap-and-trade bill will be sought before the election this autumn.
Green paranoia on parade
The first thing you have to understand about Bill McKibben--the environmentalist and author whose new book, subtitled Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, the National Post excerpted Tuesday--is that he is a conspiracy theorist.

Most environmentalists are.

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