Thursday, April 22, 2010

James Cameron slams Alberta oil
"I think it's bad, I think it's the wrong solution for us to be doing greater and greater environmental damage pursuing a dead-end paradigm, which is fossil fuels, instead of spending those billions ... on building wind turbines," Cameron said Tuesday from his home in Los Angeles.

"Those same areas are a great wind belt and we could be generating ... wind energy out of the same place. Why aren't we doing that?"
To demonstrate the errors of our ways, why doesn't Cameron power his mansion (and all of his travel) solely by wind turbines and solar panels?

[Nice quote roundup here]: Twenty Years of Advocacy, Not Journalism, on Global Warming
Even After ClimateGate Scandal, Reporters Have Pushed a One-Sided "Sky Is Falling" Mantra on Climate Change
Labour and Lib Dems attack Tory climate scepticism - 22 Apr 2010 - BusinessGreen.com
Asked by the debate's chair, Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, if he could confirm reports from Conservative blogger Tim Montgomerie that six of the shadow cabinet did not accept the scientific case for man-made climate change and 80 per cent of the wider Conservative Party are climate sceptics, shadow energy and climate change secretary Greg Clark said that "was not my experience ".

He also countered that all of the three main parties have climate sceptics in their ranks. He argued that politicians should not vilify those who doubt climate science and instead should focus on persuading them of the wider case for cutting carbon emissions.
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » An Earth Day Message for Green Hollywood
Happy Earth Day folks, or as we like to call it: Guilt Day. And, of all the people who are going to spend today hoping to shame you into remorse for being a dirty, rotten, polluter who is gradually destroying Mother Earth through your brazen use of automobiles and the reckless abandon with which you utilize incandescent light bulbs (aka: light bulbs that actually produce light), is anyone more annoyingly hypocritical than the denizens of Hollywood?

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