Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Government adviser Bill McGuire says global warming is causing earthquakes and landslides - Telegraph

Global warming is causing earthquakes and giant landslides, and could bring about an age of “geological havoc” including “volcano storms” and
tsunamis, a top academic told the Telegraph Hay Festival today.

Bill McGuire, Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College, London - and a member of the Government's Natural Hazard Working
Group, established after the 2004 tsunami – said: “climate change is already beginning to affect the solid earth. We are seeing the effects today”.

Homeless and Overweight: Obesity Is the New Malnutrition | Wired Science | Wired.com

A new survey finds that one in three homeless people in Boston are clinically obese, a number that casts in relief the strange reality of food in the 21st century United States.

German President Gauck Backs Germany Away From Alarmism – No More Mention Of Apocalyptic Climate Scenarios

Mann’s secret hot sauce | Watts Up With That?

Steve McIntyre finds yet another instance where Mann applies his special “secret hot sauce” to data, selling the sizzle, rather than the steak. It is another familiar tale of data holdback, gatekeeping, obfuscation, and cherry picking by The Team. One wonders just how long the rest of science will stand idly by.

Canadian Greens & their Twisted Democracy « NoFrakkingConsensus

As Ben Pile, who blogs over at Climate-Resistance.org points out repeatedly, greens have no sense of proportion. Everything is a crisis. Any government policy they happen to disagree with is the beginning of the end. Any attempt to enforce existing rules about charities and political activity is interpreted by them as an attack on “our freedom to speak, our freedom to assemble and our freedom to participate” to quote from the same Bennett blog post.

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