Medical experts hit out at climate change sceptics - irishhealth.com
Denying the links between greenhouse gas emissions and man-made climate change "is akin to denying the links between HIV/Aids and unprotected sex, smoking and lung cancer, or alcohol consumption and liver disease", according the the UK Climate and Health Council.
This organisation represents senior editors of medical journals, including The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, as well as top public health doctors....
The council says that despite this, Nigel Lawson's foundation consistently secures significant media coverage, which wrongfully distorts public and policy debate over climate change.
"Perverting the course of evidence-based policy on climate-change adaptation and mitigation damages our health resilience, our economic prosperity and our environmental stability," the council said.
"Transparency around climate-sceptic funders is essential. We support freedom of information to reveal those deliberately preventing the UK's sustainable future."
The increase in body size in the higher elevation species, presumably a plastic effect due to a longer growing season and thus prolonged food availability, opposes the expected direction of selection for decreased body size under chronic warming.
Gov. Brown: High-speed rail system will be 'a lot cheaper' than $100 billion - ContraCostaTimes.com
LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Jerry Brown told a Los Angeles TV station today
that the state's proposed high speed rail system will cost much less than
$100 billion, and will partly be funded by new taxes on major air pollution
emitters.The governor told ABC 7's "Eyewitness Newsmakers" program that
environmental impact fees paid by industries that emit large amounts of
greenhouse gas will help fund the big train project. California has a "cap and
trade" law that will collect fees if businesses do not reduce emissions, the
governor said.
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"environmental impact fees paid by industries that emit large amounts of greenhouse gas will help fund the big train project"
Hate to break it to Mr. Brown, but there will be no "industries that emit large amounts of greenhouse gas" or any other industries for that matter left in this state to fund his project. If they haven't left yet they are on their way out.
Huge point, DCON. CA is going down the drain... worse than Europe. People are going to flee, and business is going to tank, no matter what.
But the truth is that the CA cap & trade idiocy won't survive long. The people aren't even aware of what's going to hit them. When the costs to business, and the economy, and esp. when the high electricity costs start appearing on bills, you've got the makings of a collective WTF moment.
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