Gold for Greenwash « The Daily Bayonet

There were early signs of the green fail last Fall, but the promises were were all marketing anyway, mostly to prevent hippies from getting in the way of hosting plans. Fortunately for London organizers, hippies are so gullible they bought the greenwash and stadium and event construction has been uninterrupted by gap-year malcontents. London 2012 almost deserves a gold medal for fooling greens into supporting the Games for this long.

But now the truth is out, aggrieved greens still have over a year to train for the hippie pentathlon – wailing, moaning, crying, tie-dyes and bong juggling. Should be a great games.

The Reference Frame: David Suzuki, wife: despair, huddle at night, weep

To err once is human, to err twice is accident, to err thrice is coincidence, to err four times is dumb, and to err 12 million times is to be David Suzuki.

Taking On Climate Skepticism as a Field of Study - NYTimes.com

Also, if you can’t define solutions on climate change and you’re asking me to accept it, you’re asking me to accept basically a pretty dismal reality that I refuse to accept. And many climate proponents fall into this when they give these horrific, apocalyptic predictions of cities under water and ice ages and things like that. That tends to get people to dig their heels in even harder.