Saturday, January 22, 2011

Wartime posters to fight climate change - Telegraph
Caroline Lucas, the leader of the Green Party, said global warming will cause food shortages, high fuel costs and social upheaval, just as the threat of Nazi invasion forced the country to make cuts in the 1930s and 40s.
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The New Home Front Initiative will look to the war time generation for inspiration and advice on how to stop waste and make resources go further. For example by teaching grandchildren how to grow vegetables or repair clothes.

Artists and even the public are being asked to design a poster inspired by wartime propaganda, such as the campaign to reduce petrol use with the slogan ‘Don’t be Fuelish’.
- Bishop Hill blog - Conservation of worry 
This was sent to me by a reader. It compares discussion of climate change and nuclear war in books by date. Click here for source and a larger version of the graph.
- Bishop Hill blog - More BBC propaganda?
Sure looks like it. It's been, what, months since the BBC last gave global warming enthusiasts free rein to spout their views, so why not? I mean, what is the BBC for if not for acting as the voice of the vested interest?

The latest addition to the BBC's impressive back-catalogue of one-sidedness is an hour of the new president of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse, looking at "attacks" on climate scientists.
Hockey Stick Found In The Arctic! | Real Science

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