What the heck were Gregor Robertson and Mike Magee doing in New York? - CityCaucus.com
Why did Gregor and his Chief of Staff spend $6000 to visit New York last April?Learn how not to reason at the University of Western Australia « JoNova
Crack 24 Hours reporter Bob Mackin filed a freedom of information request on the itinerary of Gregor Robertson for his whirlwind 3-day visit to New York City in mid-April which he reported on Friday.
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Here was a BC municipal politician with close and well-known connections outside Canada, holding an unrecorded meeting with a powerful, well-funded eco-activist organization at its New York headquarters. What could it possibly have to do with being the Mayor of Vancouver?
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Robertson was there to trot out how Vancouver is responding to climate change, such as through his community garden at City Hall, and the adoption of a four-hen backyard chicken policy.
Tomorrow night the University of Western Australia (UWA) is hosting “Climate change scepticism under the spotlight”, where people who ought to know better are reverting to stone age reasoning. “Hail the Gods of Science!” The shame, the shame, it’s my old university.Climate change scepticism under the spotlight | University News : University News : The University of Western Australia
Australian Professorial Fellow Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, from UWA's School of Psychology, will discuss the perils of ignoring consensus in science and Professor Kevin Judd from UWA's School of Mathematics and Statistics, an expert in climate modelling, will look at the fallacies associated with denial and "sceptical" junk science.
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Tom,
Mayor Robertson is doing a lot to improve the worlds weather. Not only has Vancouver adopted a four-hen chicken policy but I understand that they have asked the chickens to go to bed one hour early as well.
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