Monday, December 06, 2010

First recorded “casual aside” marks decline in scaremongers credibility « JoNova
Ladies and gentlemen, its only a small sign, a crumb, but it’s revealing. When Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of the Wall St Journal, was looking for an example of something that doesn’t work well, he thought of climatology.

No one will suddenly announce the skeptics were right, instead we’ll get a steady stream of small advances that show that a more realistic assessment of the uncertainties involved in climate modeling have spread to the wider world.
From Nopenhagen to Yes We Cancun | The SPPI Blog
What these ramblings conceal is the remarkably rapid rate at which dozens – no, hundreds – of new bureaucracies are being created as The Process grinds on. As anyone at the Playboy Casino will tell you, “somebody gotta pay for all those lights.” And that somebody is you, gentle taxpayer. No one has yet managed to discover just how much these hundreds of new supranational climate-change bureaucracies are costing us. That is an international state secret – until Wikileaks gets hold of the figures, of course.
Cancun summit: cutting carbon emissions will help combat obesity - Telegraph
Cutting carbon emissions will help combat obesity even if global warming is a myth, a senior scientist has said.
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Professor Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said there is a direct correlation between and carbon emissions and expanding waistlines.
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“The world needs to go on a fossil fuel-controlled diet even if climate change is a hoax – which I do not think it is – the world would still have to go on a fossil fuel controlled diet otherwise our healthy systems will just break down, we will not be able to deal with the growth in obesity..."

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