Wednesday, April 14, 2010

American Thinker Blog: UN Climate battle resumes
Bad ideas can be beaten back, but they never truly go away, especially if they have deep-pocket backers and an institutional structure as massive as the United Nations.
Visionaries: Polly Higgins - The Ecologist
‘The planet is currently enslaved to humans abusing its inherent rights – the right not to be enslaved or polluted,’ says environmentalist and barrister Polly Higgins.
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‘I realised that it’s not just about addressing the UN,’ she says. ‘I then had to make it happen.’ So she set up the Trees Have Rights Too campaign to promote and build the cause. The campaign is gaining support ‘at a political and legal level. The door is opening. It just needs to be pushed.’
What Do Your Kids Know About Climate Change? | News and Opinion | Philadelphia Weekly
“The debate is focused where it should be, not on whether climate change is a reality,” writes Scott Stein, head of the Science Department at Springside, in an email. “We try to help students become critical scientific decision-makers who don’t fall prey to political propaganda.”

But Springside science teacher Ellen Kruger revealed something that skeptics view as the ultimate in political propaganda: She shows her students Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and uses it as a framework for their studies on climate change.

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