How reputation could save the Earth - opinion - 15 November 2009 - New Scientist

If information about each of our environmental footprints was made public, concern for maintaining a good reputation could impact behaviour. Would you want your neighbours, friends, or colleagues to think of you as a free rider, harming the environment while benefiting from the restraint of others?

Greg Gutfeld  » Daily Gut: Publicly Shaming Your Carbon Footprint

It’s not like they’re actually condemning you for authentic, immoral behavior. Nope – rather than shaming an Islamic radical for killing innocent people, they’d rather go after those of us who didn’t bring a reusable hemp shopping bag when visiting the local Whole Foods.

And that’s a real shame. These simps are manufacturing phony righteousness when, these days, real righteousness is so desperately needed. And for that, I’d happily recycle my foot in their ass.

And if you disagree with me, then you’re probably a racist.

Gore has no clue – a few million degrees here and there and pretty soon we’re talking about real temperature « Watts Up With That?

This is mind blowing ignorance on the part of Al Gore. Gore in an 11/12/09 interview on NBC’s tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, speaking on geothermal energy, champion of slide show science, can’t even get the temperature of earth’s mantle right. Oh, and the “crust of the earth is hot” too.

Kiwi farms left alone to struggling with emissions trading - 17/11/2009

Don Nicholson, from Federated Farmers, says the NZ Government is determined to keep agriculture involved in a scheme, and that could put local farmers out of business.

"I think it's all turned into an accounting nightmare," he says.

"Effectively the climate, even if you're a sceptic or a believer, this is nothing about the climate now.

"It's actually about accounting and money."

The other denialisms : Gene Expression

This discussion between Michael Specter & Chris Mooney pointed me to an interesting new book, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives.