Thursday, May 31, 2012

CARB’s Mary Nichols disallows presentation of public concerns on cap-and-trade carbon trading | Watts Up With That?

CARB disallowed the presentation of public concerns.  Mary Nichols, in her authoritative overreach, simply adjourned the meeting when dissenting perspective tried to be heard, as seen in this video:

University of Florida News – Highway through Amazon worsens effects of climate change, provides mixed economic gains

Perz and his colleagues found that people are often ill-equipped to control fires by themselves and live in places that firefighters cannot access in time to extinguish outbreaks.

...“For an anthropologist it’s hard, because you kind of romanticize people who live sustainably,” said paper author Jeffrey Hoelle, an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder who interviewed Brazilian families when he was a UF graduate student working on the study. “But everyone has basic needs, and if the road gets people better access to education and health care, they are going to take advantage of it.”

Twitter / witfnews: @MichaelEMann says climate

says climate change "isn't only about the 'environmental left.' We should all be concerned about it."...

The Hockey Stick and Cimate Change Wars - witf.org

[comment] A typical one-sided smart-talk show where a "controversial" topic is presented with one side missing. Dr. Mann is allowed to speak for both sides even while holding clearly partisan viewpoints above and beyond the science. Dr. Brown was a parrot.

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