Sunday, July 22, 2012

Climate change [scam] conference ends with calls for action
Micah McCarty, chairman of the Makah and the First Stewards steering committee, said climate change has had many different names in the past 30 years, such as the greenhouse effect and global warming.

Whatever it's called, McCarty said, it is important to know about the changing environment.

“It doesn't matter how you spin it; climate change is happening, and it's happening faster and faster than it ever has,” McCarty said.
The Greening of Professional Sports - NYTimes.com
THE White House is hosting a conference on the greening of sports on Thursday to recognize the sports industry’s growing embrace of energy efficiency, water conservation, recycling, healthier food and the role it plays in spreading the environmental message.
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At Major League Baseball’s 83rd All-Star Game last week, the hosts, the Kansas City Royals, bought carbon offsets certified by the Environmental Protection Agency for emissions from the 120,000 kilowatt-hours of energy used during All-Star Week events
So expensive a tax that even Plibersek can’t believe it | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Professor Sinclair Davidson works out that when Health Minister Tanya Plibersek tries to prove the carbon tax doesn’t cost nearly $2000 for each hospital bed, she actually confirms it.
What the 1930s Look Like | Real Science
There have been 34,000 fires this year, compared to 185,000 in 1939.

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