Sunday, November 13, 2011

Students rallied against climate change | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

“Mechanical engineers should be warriors for global survival by taking the initiative to go to communities and address the sensitive issue of climate change,” Alvarez said.

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“Climate change is a veritable threat. More than 200 gigatonnes (Gt) of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) is now in the atmosphere and we need the mechanical engineers’ understanding on how to reduce these harmful GHG emissions in the atmosphere,” said Alvarez.

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The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), composed of more than 2,000 scientists, reported that the current global tem-perature is at 1.4 degrees Celsius.

Only a totalitarian New World Order can save us now says Naomi Klein – Telegraph Blogs

No Logo author Naomi Klein has a solution to climate change and it goes like this: punitive taxation; massive wealth re-distribution; the abolition of free trade and free markets; a state-enforced end to to the "cult of shopping"; the whole to be supervised by a New World Order of selfless illuminati (who presumably resemble Naomi Klein).

If it weren't so scary it would almost be funny, the way the leftie Canadian activist on the basis of no evidence whatsoever declares that the time has come to strip the human race of all its hard-won freedoms in order to save the planet from a non-existent problem. Unfortunately, Klein means it and her audience takes her seriously.

A Republican ex-climate skeptic explains how people avoid the truth about climate change

[Barry Bickmore, who evidently has no Internet access] There is almost no scientific debate over whether humans are largely responsible for the temperature rise over the last 50 years or so.

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