“Sustainable justice” = redistribution of scarcity | Watts Up With That?

The UN Rio+20 agenda means less freedom, happiness, true justice and human rights progress

Rio+20 conference suffers lack of leadership | JunkScience.com

“There is no energy here. It’s an empty shell”: Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Programme.

Climate panel adopts controversial ‘grey’ evidence | JunkScience.com

Climate scientists are likely to face charges of putting politics before science, following two controversial decisions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this month.  

The IPCC decided for the first time to impose strict geographical quotas on the scientists who author its major assessment reports. There will also be a push to increase the representation of women among its authors.

Controversially, it also voted to increase the role in those assessments of “grey literature”: publications not subject to peer review. Using such material in the last assessment is what led to the “glaciergate” scandal in 2010, when the report was found to have vastly overestimated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are losing ice.

How to convince climate sceptics to be pro-environment | JunkScience.com

I’ve never met a climate skeptic (or anyone else) who wasn’t pro-environment but that doesn’t mean they have to be misanthropic nitwits like professional environmentalists