Thursday, June 21, 2012

Greenpeace launches campaign to create Arctic sanctuary - 21 Jun 2012 - News from BusinessGreen

"The Arctic is coming under assault and needs people from around the world to stand up and demand action to protect it," said Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo.

..."We're drawing a line in the ice and saying to polluters ‘you come no further'."  [Who gave Greenpeace the authority to draw any lines anywhere?]

Rio+20: Or, 20 Years of Conservatives Getting Worse on Global Warming

[English Major Mooney] I want to note–upon further research, the sources that I’ve found conflict on whether we get enough sunlight in a minute, or an hour, to power the planet. I’m not sure the difference matters much from an energy policy standpoint, but it is always important to get it right.

May 1934 : 111 Degrees In Iowa | Real Science

80 degrees of global warming in five days in 1934. Hansen would have declared this to be impossible without the emissions from your SUV.

Obama Buying Biofuels At $26 Per Gallon | Real Science

Green energy means stealing green bills from taxpayers wallets.

Nobel Laureate Says That We Are Walking Dead | Real Science

Inventor says that we would have already fried, except for the aerosols which we already cleaned up.

Dr. Paul Bain Responds to Critics of Use of “Denier” Term | Watts Up With That?

Comments about the use of the “denier” label are a fair criticism. We were focused on the main readership of this journal – climate scientists who read Nature journals, most of whom hold the view that anthropogenic climate change is real. It should also be noted that describing skepticism as denial is a term increasingly used in the social science literature on climate change (e.g. in Global Environmental Change, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society), and is used informally by some within the climate science community. So we were using a term that is known, used, and understood in the target audience, but which we thought  involved a stronger negative stereotype (e.g. being anti-environmental, contrarian) than skeptic.

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