- Bishop Hill blog - 2012 Annual GWPF Lecture - Cartoon notes by Josh

allAfrica.com: African Govts Urged to Support Unhindered Reporting on Global Warming

Ahead of the Rio+20 conference in Brazil next week, African journalists have called on governments to allow them to report independently on issues related to global warming.

At a gathering last week in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, dozens of journalists deplored the restrictions by some states, whom they accused of colluding with big business and turning a blind eye to their environmentally unfriendly operations.

George Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture: Article in Current Issue of QJAE Squelches Evidence on Environmentalism

As I have shown, McCaffrey arbitrarily decides that statements that demonstrate the actual nature of environmentalism are simply to be disregarded, allegedly representing mere “exaggeration for literary and pedagogical effect.” In effect, he argues, they’re only a kind of joke, not meant to be taken seriously. In this way, he gives environmentalism a free pass, as it were, on its expressions of a desire for mass human death and of enjoyment at the prospect of human terror.