Wednesday, March 28, 2012

BBC News - Welcome to the Anthropocene - what now?

At the end of Monday's morning session, conference host Nisha Pillai asked the packed hall of delegates for a show of hands on this most basic question - will the changes that "we need" happen?

The noes outvoted the ayes.

Best wishes for a balmy Anthropocene.

The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: Failure Flannery to be Face of Farts

News Ltd is carrying a story where Tim Flannery,  the author of the flawed The Weather Makers, is to be the face of a project to reduce the farts of cows.

Apparently the UK owes a big “Thank you” to Michael Hintze | JunkScience.com

Michael Hintze financially supporting organisation that regularly casts doubt on the science and cost of tackling climate change

Explicit statement from anticapitalists of their desire to destroy the global economy | JunkScience.com

The summit must sweep away a system that lets reckless growth destroy the planet’s health yet fails to help billions in need, they said.

1924 : Marble Bar, Australia Had 161 Days In A Row Over 100F | Real Science

Climate experts tell us that CO2 was too low in 1924 for this to have happened. Reality often confuses people who have their head planted firmly up their computer’s posterior.

The Duke of York puts the wind up turbine opposers | JunkScience.com

The Duke of Edinburgh has criticised onshore wind farms as “absolutely useless”, while the Prince of Wales is known to believe that they are a “horrendous blot on the landscape”. Backers of the huge turbines can, however, turn to the Duke of York for support.

EU push for ocean energy set to fall short | JunkScience.com

Europe’s wave and tidal power technology is likely to disappoint EU expectations for 2020 and take over a decade to contribute to energy supply in a significant way, even though it is chalking up rapid growth and drawing in big industrial investors.

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