Canada Is Shutting Down Green Departments, One By One | JunkScience.com

The Canadian government has cancelled its funding for the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a research site in northwestern Ontario that has led to the re-shaping of international policies.

It is the latest target in a string of research programmes to have been scaled back, shut down or left in limbo in the wake of massive cuts to this year’s federal budget.

Henry Payne: Turning their backs on progress | JunkScience.com

Last week at Washington University’s (and my son’s) graduation ceremony, one of the Midwest’s most prestigious universities honored one of its city’s most prominent citizens – a man whose company has developed technologies that have transformed agriculture and fed millions while making cropland more environmentally sustainable.

But when Chancellor Mark Wrighton called the name of former Monsanto CEO Richard Mahoney to receive his honorary degree, some 100 green student activists and alumni stood up and turned their backs in protest.

That Mahoney, who spearheaded the development of game-changing, genetically-modified crops, is a controversial figure says a lot about the American Left today.

Griff Rhys Jones joins the fight against the evil wind farms – Telegraph Blogs

Wind farms are an abomination. As I've said before, I would rather a child of mine went into business manufacturing land mines (which at least have a valid defensive purpose) than got involved in the wind farm industry, which is the sole domain of grubby, conscience-free, exploitative, mendacious, rent-seeking corporatist scuzz balls and has about as much to do with saving the environment as the European Union has to do with free markets, democracy and national sovereignty.

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