Wednesday, June 20, 2012

What Do Creationists and Climate Change Deniers Have in Common?

 Climate deniers often do well on tests of so-called science literacy. I think that’s an important piece of this story and one I hope to explore in an upcoming Inquirer column.

Christ Turns 'Green' at UN Earth Summit — (Literally) -- Rio bathes iconic statue of Christ in green light | Climate Depot

Green guru James Lovelock was right. He warned last week that 'the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion.'

UN Censorship: Rio Earth Summit text is now secret -- Senior official of 'transparent' UN admits Rio negotiating text is classified | Climate Depot

RIO DE JANEIRO -- In a shock move, officially-accredited non-government delegates who had traveled thousands of miles to attend the UN's Rio+20 sustainable development conference in Brazil have been refused all access to the central negotiating text.

This key document, containing all of the environmental conference's decisions, is now restricted to governmental delegates only.

Global warming linked to penguin decline | JunkScience.com

This would be reasonable – if only southern hemisphere sea ice were actually in decline rather than increase.

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