Monday, August 23, 2010

Filmmaker Cameron has harsh words for global warming skeptics | AspenTimes.com
ASPEN — James Cameron doesn't mince words when talking about people who are skeptical that humans are causing global warming.

I think they're swine,” the renowned filmmaker told an audience member Sunday on the final day of The Aspen Institute's American Renewable Energy Day summit.
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Byck stressed that Americans' hearts are in the right places, but that skeptics of climate change have such a vast infrastructure in getting what he called their false message out, many don't know whom to believe.

Greene, Cameron and a host of other climate-change activists said there needs to be a broad educational campaign, one aimed at convincing voters and politicians that not being able to prove that fossil fuel-produced carbon is changing the temperature of Earth is not a license for inaction.
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Harvey Wasserman, a senior adviser to Greenpeace and author of the book “Solartopia!”, told audience members that if the government would stop its military operations in Afghanistan, it would be able to refocus those dollars on finding substantive solutions to climate change.

“We have to stop this god damn war in Afghanistan,” Wasserman said.
Head of Australian Science Academy issues decree from Pagan Chieftans of Science « JoNova
Good news. They finally admit (by inference) that there is a debate. Since we amateurs are beating them in the debates and asking questions they can’t answer, they have finally acknowledged that they need to try to answer the questions, and they need to call us skeptics. (They can hardly pit expertise against “deniers” eh?)
RBS head office damaged by golf balls in climate protest - Telegraph
It is understood the building was damaged in the incident, with a number of windows smashed. There were reports that golf balls were catapulted at the office block.
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More than a hundred demonstrators dressed in white biohazard suits breached police lines at its Gogarburn HQ at around 5pm, the group said.
While China Opens The Throttle, Environmentally-Hypnotized USA Chokes Itself
Not only will China soon dominate the world’s energy markets, but as its biggest creditor, it will have the USA on its knees. Why? Because China is fueling its economy, while the USA chokes its own.
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China’s electrification program and its ability to secure future oil supplies are second to none. By contrast, the U.S. economy is growing more slowly and its energy strategy is limiting that growth.

China has doubled its energy consumption since 2000. And while the US government imposes moratoriums on drilling and fights energy production projects with environmental lawsuits, look at what China has done:
China has spent nearly $200 billion on oil deals during the past few years, joining with more than 19 countries —including Russia, Turkmenistan, Kuwait, Yemen, Libya, Angola, Venezuela and Brazil.

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