The Reference Frame: Environmentalist in TV shot dead: thank God

James Lee was a typical environmentalist. His opinions were indistinguishable from those of e.g. Alexander Ač and millions of others.
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Nothing surprising over there. It's the same rubbish that you have heard hundreds of times from the likes of James Hansen.

NC Media Watch: Where did the 97% AGW consensus come from?

“Close examination of the source of the claimed 97% consensus reveals that it comes from a non-peer reviewed article describing an online poll in which a total of only 79 climate scientists chose to participate. Of the 79 self-selected climate scientists, 76 agreed with the notion of AGW. Thus, we find climate scientists once again using dubious statistical techniques to deceive the public that there is a 97% scientific consensus on man-made global warming; fortunately they [citizens] clearly aren’t buying it.”

Bill McKibben tells Letterman why he’s bring solar back to the White House | Grist

[11-minute video] Bill McKibben chats with David Lettermen about 350.org, his book Eaarth, and a new tour to bring rooftop solar back to the White House (Jimmy Carter installed panels; Ronald Reagan took them down; and students from Unity College in Maine, where they've been stored, are traveling to Washington to have them put back up).

How Buddhism could be a way out of the environmental mess we are in | Jo Confino | Environment | guardian.co.uk