Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Lone Liberal Rumble - Could a GOP hurricane be a sign? - YouTube
Marc Harrold, Libertarian Commentator & S.E. Robinson, The Blaze join Thom Hartmann...Would a hurricane hitting the RNC be the irony of ironies - a subtle way of the universe telling Republicans that climate change is actually happening - and their policies are to blame?
The day the world went mad | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk
As record sea ice melt scarcely makes the news while the third runway grabs headlines, is there a form of reactive denial at work?
Contrarian conservationist: Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist riles old-school greens | Grist
Among his crimes: He thinks environmentalists should empathize more with the “other side” — the loggers, fishermen, and developers. He works with big smoke-puffing, water-polluting, chemical-creating corporations such as Dow Chemical, which he calls a “keystone species” in the corporate ecosystem. And he refuses to accept the conservation mantra that nature is fragile; in fact, he thinks nature is resilient in most cases.
Gruen tasks agencies to sell the carbon tax - mUmBRELLA
The brief for the segment is: “The Federal Government has spent millions employing its best minds, but clearly has no hope of ever convincing us to like the carbon tax. Could two ad agencies do it in under a minute?”
Bangkok talks face climate funding stand-off - 29 Aug 2012 - News from BusinessGreen
International climate change talks will kick off in Bangkok tomorrow with diplomats hopeful the wide-ranging meeting can revitalise negotiations ahead of the UN's annual climate summit in Qatar at the end of the year.

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