Tuesday, March 02, 2010

EU Referendum: A face of evil
Looking at Jones's picture, it is not easy to discern whether the man realises what he's been part of – the forces which he's contributed to letting loose. But that is the face of a man who will be responsible for no end of heartache as people struggle to pay their fuel bills, and suffer when they cannot.

Starkly, that is one of the many faces of evil. It never looks anything like you might imagine – although Pachauri gets close.
Report highlights deep environmental spending cuts in Mass. - Beverly, MA - Beverly Citizen
State government in Massachusetts has dialed back staffing in some environmental agencies to 1980s levels, cutting back far enough to impede project permitting, threaten a series of new ambitious laws, and require unstaffed parks and closed public pools, environmental advocates and a former top state official said Thursday.
Gore loses the first 2 years of the climate bet to Armstrong’s scientific forecast at The Global Warming Challenge
Armstrong said, “it is about as certain as one can be in forecasting that I would win if the bet were for 100 years, but I wanted to see what would happen, so I proposed only ten years.”
Prof Phil Jones, climate scientist, admits sending ‘awful’ e-mails - Times Online
Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former Conservative Chancellor and a leading climate sceptic, said that those who wanted to check the university’s research should not have been forced to resort to making requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

He said: “Proper scientists, scientists of integrity, wish to reveal all of their data and all of their methods. They don’t need freedom of information requests to force it out of them.”
Analysis: reaping what was sown - Times Online
It is right that the science underpinning trillion-pound decisions is subject to this degree of scrutiny.

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