Wednesday, May 26, 2010

US climate [scam] envoy urges transparency on China trip - inSing.com
The US climate change envoy said Wednesday it was crucial that all countries accept outside reviews of their greenhouse gas emissions, speaking during a trip to China, which has rejected such calls.
[Why doesn't this detailed poll contain any mention of climate change?]: Poll Finds Americans Pessimistic, Dissatisfied with Washington - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Americans are frustrated with nearly everyone in Washington - including President Obama, Congress, and the Democratic and Republican parties - and have become increasingly pessimistic about what the future holds, according to a new CBS News poll.
Die Klimazwiebel: Casus Belli
To invoke war or the danger of war to justify other political means is not really new. It has been often, and recently, used to curtail citizens rights and/or to limit the extend of democratic control of governments. In this interesting pod-cast (13 MB, duration 28 minutes) by the BBC, the tension between climate policy and democracy is discussed, among others, by James Lovelock, Mark Lynas and Michael Jacobs, advisor on climate change to the former UK Prime Minister Brown.
My Interview on Climate with Esquire Middle East | Climate Skeptic
I received an email-based interview request on climate a while back from Esquire Middle East. I have decided to include my whole response below. The questions they ask are nearly as informative as anything I say, as they betray that the editors of the publication have pretty much bought into not only global warming alarmism, but all the memes alarmists use to discredit skeptics. Its pretty clear all they know about the skeptic’s position is what they hear from alarmists about skeptics.
NM gov participating in climate adaptation summit - KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com |
President Barack Obama's administration helped organize the event. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a number of other administration officials are speaking at the summit.
Drought followed by harsh winter spells disaster - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Mongolia is counting the cost of one of the harshest winters on record. Across the country an estimated 8.5 million goats, sheep, horses, camels, yaks and cows have died of hunger or succumbed to the freezing conditions. That's one in five of the entire national herd.

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