Monday, March 04, 2013

Suggestion For The New York Times | Real Science
The New York Times just killed their green blog, because no one wants to read bullshit.

The most popular blogs are the skeptic blogs, because people want to hear the truth. If NYT wants to gain readership, a good idea would be to fire their staff, drop the left wing agenda – and stop lying to people.
Warning Signs: Signs of the Times: New York Times Kills Green Blog
Fewer and fewer people care about the apocalyptic claims and outright lies of the environmental movement these days. The end of the world is nowhere in sight unless a stray asteroid is headed our way and, after some seventeen years of a natural cooling cycle, it’s hard to convince people that global warming is a problem...Tim Graham, the Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center, noted that Revkin’s paycheck is being underwritten by financing from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and, if that dries up, Revkin will have to take his fear-mongering somewhere else.
Yale Students Call For Divestment from Fossil Fuel Investments - YouTube
A score of Yale students gather with a banner and flyers calling for Yale to sell off its investments in companies in the fossil fuel business. The concern is that the overuse of fossil fuels will cause catastrophic climate changes. A Yale freshman, Max Weinriech briefly explains.
Manufacturing Earth Hour | NoFrakkingConsensus
Canadian students are so jazzed about Earth Hour they need to be bribed to do volunteer work.
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There’s a big clue here regarding Earth Hour’s essential nature. This isn’t about genuine, authentic, spontaneous expression. Instead, Earth Hour is a media event. One that is being deliberately and cynically manufactured.

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