Monday, April 12, 2010

Epoch Times - Climate Change? Don't get Stuck up a Gum Tree - Flannery
SYDNEY—The half-asleep look on a koala's face is a reminder that not all creatures use their brains in responding to the harsh reality of climate change, a leading climate scientist says.
Organic sales slump 12.9 per cent | News | Farmers Guardian
ORGANIC food sales slumped by 12.9 per cent to £1.84 billion in 2009 as the recession hit the sector hard, but the area of land dedicated to organic farming grew by 9 per cent.
Climate, issue are trending hotter - NashuaTelegraph.com
It would be annoying if the climate skeptics that I currently scorn turn out to be correct, but that would be better than leaving a ruined world to my descendants.
The Power Brokers « The Washington Independent
Ten People Who Can Make or Break Climate [Swindle] Legislation This Year
Climate 'debate' is just nitpicking
The most fundamental problem with the "climate change debate" is that a small disparate group of "loud and proud" people are manufacturing popular doubt. Lawmakers, gullible through the scientific ignorance they share with some within the community, are then cajoled into not taking action even though there is scientific certainty about the fundamental premises.

Don't all properly qualified climate scientists agree, for example, that "unmitigated greenhouse gas emissions will change the planet's climate profoundly"; that "doing nothing to abate our fossil fuel use will send atmospheric greenhouse gas to 750-800 ppm by 2100, which will profoundly transform global climate"; that "the projected four-to-seven-degree temperature increase in such a world means the Greenland ice sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are committed to disintegration", and so on .
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Kellie Tranter is a lawyer, writer and expert on the Business and Professional Women Australia International Advisory Panel for Environment, Sustainable Development & Water.

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