Friday, September 03, 2010

C3: Should Fanatical Environmental Literature Be Used In The U.S. Public School System?
As the recent Maryland green-terror incident reveals, environmentalists are ramping up the level of violence. The Al Gore, Greenpeace-type of fanatical propaganda is definitely having an impact and it raises serious questions about whether school systems, teachers and administrators could ultimately be held accountable.

Do the many emotionally, dysfunctional young people who populate our schools really need to be scared-out-of-their-wits by ludicrous, catastrophic enviro-fanatic predictions?
[Why are trace amounts of CO2 utterly failing to make our lives miserable?]: The environmentalist’s paradox: we do better while the earth does worse | Grist
His argument is pretty simple: More people have more money, better health, more mobility, more food, and more security than ever before in human history. That chart on the right is from the Human Development Index, which tracks life expectancy, literacy, and other indicators of human well-being. The lines are heading up almost everywhere. Humanity doesn't seem to be suffering unduly for its environmental sins.
Mexico's foreign minister dampens hopes of Cancun climate [swindle] deal | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Patricia Espinosa says success of talks should not be measured by whether countries agree on a new legally binding text
If Rajendra Pachauri goes, who on Earth would want to be IPCC chair? | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk
If Pachauri goes – and the decision can only be taken by governments – two years into his second six-year term, then no future IPCC chair can ever feel safe....Ousting the IPCC chairman mid-term again would be the ultimate victory for scepticism of the wildest kind.
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Pachauri, in fact, has been a rare find and a staunch defender of international science.

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