Friday, June 10, 2011

Iranian president blames global warming on capitalism | MNN - Mother Nature Network
While speaking in Copenhagen at the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) -- which Iran, Turkey and Pakistan founded in 1985 -- Ahmadinejad said that climate change is the result of the greed and behavior that comes from capitalism. “The main factor behind the destruction of the environment is the greed and the ceaseless avarice and insatiable hunger of the world's capitalists,” he said.
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So there you have it folks, Ahmadinejad is playing the green card.
Thomas Friedman and the Liberal Apocalypse - Politics In DuPage County
Now the normally rational Tom Friedman is ringing that bell in a New York Times piece. He is embracing the work of doomist Paul Gilding and announcing that "The Earth is Full." Friedman and Gilding are a little late to this party. Environmentalist Paul Ehrlich predicted population doomsday almost half a century ago. So how are those predictions turning out?
[Guy takes pictures of cracked mud, claims that it's "climate"]: Telling detail puts climate danger in focus - Entertainment - NZ Herald News
One of the shows devoted to faraway places is the exhibition at Whitespace by Michael Hall called Climate.
Leyne: Clark gets way out of cap-and-trade plan
The professor who supplied a lot of the intellectual horsepower behind the Liberals’ war on climate change changed gears this week.

Simon Fraser University carbon-pricing expert Mark Jaccard is now advocating that B.C. hold off on joining California’s cap-and-trade program next year.

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