Friday, August 27, 2010

Children have the potential to lead the fight against climate change - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, August 27, 2010 /India PRwire/ -- Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar Awardee Sadhguru will be in Hyderabad on a 3 day visit ( August 28-30) to participate in a green cover initiative to be launched by 1000's of school students on Monday.
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The potential impact on children has been a critical missing element from the debate about climate change world over. It is very important to rapidly develop a greater understanding of the impact of climate change and environmental concerns on children and take appropriate measures to protect them from its consequences.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev says "There is a strong case for engaging children as actors in the climate change agenda, rather than treating them as passive observers or victims..."
Sacrifices are for others | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
One of the three independents choosing your prime minister says he wants something done about global warming:
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CHANGES made to the Federal Parliament’s Register of Members’ Interests reveal the member for New England Tony Windsor has sold his property Cintra to Werris Creek Coal Pty Limited and then leased the property back.

The federal MP, who has conducted a long-running and highly vocal campaign against coal mining on the Liverpool Plains, sold the family farm for more than $4.6 million – to one of Australia’s largest coal companies.
HELMER: Global warmists abandoned fact for fancy - Washington Times
And the propaganda works. Every schoolchild knows about dangerous sea-level rise. But the children don't know that it's simply a projection of a virtual-reality computer model. They don't know that in the real world, sea-level rise (at around six to seven inches in 100 years) is the same as it has been for centuries, that the Maldives and Tuvalu aren't sinking beneath the waves. They don't know that successive IPCC reports have consistently reduced their alarmist estimates for sea-level rise by 2100.

Every schoolchild knows that the ice caps are melting - but glaciers and ice fields accumulate snow (which compacts to ice) at high levels, while chunks of ice break off at the margin. Vast blocks of ice tumbling into the sea make great video footage, but they say nothing about warming or cooling. That's simply what ice sheets do.
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...if I were a betting man, I'd bet that 2030 will be cooler than today.
Johann Hari: How much proof do the global warming deniers need? - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. ...Global warming may not be hot today, but the planet is – hotter than ever. When you stare out over the wave of Weather of Mass Destruction we are unleashing, who looks crazy – the protesters, or the people who have yet to join them?
8/26: Record cold start, beautiful days ahead| Lubbock, Texas
A new record for this date in Lubbock. Today's 51 breaks the previous mark of 53 from 1962.

Muleshoe dropped to 39

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