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Post by Kahlessa on Jun 10, 2007 19:22:34 GMT -5
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dudleyb
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Dr. I. M. Winklestein (my alter ego)
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Post by dudleyb on Jun 13, 2007 11:31:53 GMT -5
Ah gess it has-ta do wit what yo def-ni-shun of is, is! What a bunch of gobbledy-gook! Consensus language and science, indeed! What planet are these people from? Oh, yeah, the 7th. Every single scientist on Earth can be simultaneously wrong! On some things they probably are. The only thing they didn't come right out and say was, "state which way you would like things to be, make a wish, then blow out the candles."
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Post by Kickup on Jun 13, 2007 12:42:19 GMT -5
With all these scientists up to each other, no wonder we haven't gone back to the moon, or more pointedly, straightened out every problem the United States has. With brains like these it's an awful waste. If I had 'em I certainly wouldn't be sitting around talking about how to agree to agree. I'd be figuring out antigravity and alternate propulsion. Then of course, there are the work programs for the poor in the Ozarks to organize, and teachers of construction to send to Louisiana, and exactly how to air-condition the oceans, if it is all that URGENT, as they say. Hmmm? Edit: Darn those typos when you've had 4 hours sleep! It's anti (gravity) not anit (gravity)! Derrr...
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Post by Kahlessa on Jun 17, 2007 15:09:23 GMT -5
The July 2007 issue of Discover magazine has headline on the front cover:
“Politically Incorrect: Is the Sun Causing Global Warming?” It refers to an interview with Henrik Svensmark, director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research in Copenhagen. Svensmark thinks the sun may be the real cause of global warming and he has published a book titled Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change. I don’t have a link yet, but I’ll post it as soon as it becomes available. The issue just hit the newsstands on Friday.
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Post by Kahlessa on Jun 20, 2007 19:14:04 GMT -5
Here are two good links: Global Warming: Truth or DareDenis G. Rancourt, February 2007 activistteacher.blogspot.com/2007/02/global-warming-truth-or-dare.htmlGlobal warming is often presented as the greatest potential threat to humankind and as the greatest environmental and ecological threat on the planet. It is also presented as a problem that could be solved or contained by determined international collaboration - by political will if it were present.
I argue: (1) that global warming (climate change, climate chaos, etc.) will not become humankind’s greatest threat until the sun has its next hiccup in a billion years or more (in the very unlikely scenario that we are still around), (2) that global warming is presently nowhere near being the planet’s most deadly environmental scourge, and (3) that government action and political will cannot measurably or significantly ameliorate global climate in the present world.
Rancourt's climate blog is here: climateguy.blogspot.com/Dissidents Against DogmaBy Alexander Cockburn, June 10, 2007 www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06092007.html(A much shorter version of this piece ran in the print edition of The Nation that was released last week.) We should never be more vigilant than at the moment a new dogma is being installed. The claque endorsing what is now dignified as "the mainstream theory" of global warming stretches all the way from radical greens through Al Gore to George W. Bush, who signed on at the end of May. The left has been swept along, entranced by the allure of weather as revolutionary agent, naïvely conceiving of global warming as a crisis that will force radical social changes on capitalism by the weight of the global emergency. Amid the collapse of genuinely radical politics, they have seen it as the alarm clock prompting a new Great New Spiritual Awakening.
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Post by Kahlessa on Jun 25, 2007 12:24:18 GMT -5
From Filippo Turturici at Climate Audit, comment #74: www.climateaudit.org/?p=1771#commentsSwedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who’s been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their point. Mörner was recently interviewed by Gregory Murphy of Executive Intelligence Review: Executive Intelligence Review
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Post by Kahlessa on Jun 25, 2007 16:57:10 GMT -5
"At Home Depot, How Green Is That Chainsaw?"By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, NY Times, June 25, 2007 www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/business/25depot.htmlATLANTA — Home Depot sent a note a few months ago to the companies that supply the 176,000 products it sells, inviting them to make a pitch to have their products included in its new Eco Options marketing campaign. "Business Prevails in Environmental Case"By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, NY Times, June 25, 2007 www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Scotus-Endangered-Species.htmlWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court sided with developers and the Bush administration Monday in a dispute with environmentalists over protecting endangered species.
The court ruled 5-4 for home builders and the Environmental Protection Agency in a case that involved the intersection of two environmental laws, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act.
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Post by Kahlessa on Jun 29, 2007 5:19:47 GMT -5
Father of Scientific Climatology Calls Global Warming Theory HooeyBy Samara Kalk Derby, The Capital Times, Madison, June, 18, 2007 Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey.
The UW-Madison professor emeritus, who stands against the scientific consensus on this issue, is referred to as a global warming skeptic. But he is not skeptical that global warming exists, he is just doubtful that humans are the cause of it. www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/index.php?ntid=197613
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Post by Kahlessa on Jul 2, 2007 22:28:51 GMT -5
Interesting article in the NY Times on buying “green”: Buying Into the Green MovementBy ALEX WILLIAMS, NY Times, July 1, 2007 www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/fashion/01green.htmlHERE’S one popular vision for saving the planet: Roll out from under the sumptuous hemp-fiber sheets on your bed in the morning and pull on a pair of $245 organic cotton Levi’s and an Armani biodegradable knit shirt.
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Post by Kahlessa on Jul 3, 2007 21:32:54 GMT -5
BBC – Public Skeptical Over Climate ClaimsBBC Website, Tuesday, July 3, 2007 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6263690.stmThe public believes the effects of global warming on the climate are not as bad as politicians and scientists claim, a poll has suggested.They'll probably blame Michael Crichton for this!
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Post by Kahlessa on Aug 9, 2007 7:45:05 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Aug 15, 2007 14:20:38 GMT -5
Here’s a good rebuttal to the Newsweek cover story by Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post. Samuelson also writes a column for Newsweek. Global Warming Simplicities
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Post by Kahlessa on Aug 31, 2007 8:53:32 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Oct 1, 2007 6:30:16 GMT -5
Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age physorg.com/news110121579.htmlCarbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records.
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 4, 2007 11:05:56 GMT -5
Here’s some of the latest news in the New York Times: U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate ChangeBy ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, November 17, 2007 I remember Michael Crichton telling Charlie Rose that he hadn’t read the latest UN report because he doesn’t read the summary for policies makers—he waits and reads the actual report. Crichton has said before that there’s a big difference between the findings of the scientists and what the summaries claim. Currently there are talks in Bali about what to do after the Kyoto Protocol expires: Climate Talks Take on Added Urgency After ReportBy PETER GELLING and ANDREW C. REVKIN, December 3, 2007 JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 2 — Thousands of government officials, industry lobbyists, environmental campaigners and observers are arriving on the Indonesian island of Bali for two weeks of talks starting Monday that are aimed at breathing new life into the troubled 15-year-old global climate treaty…
And it seems that Australia has now signed the Kyoto treaty: New Leader Ratifies KyotoFrom everything I’ve read, the Kyoto Protocol is the Maginot Line of global warming. Here’s a very interesting essay: The Death of EnvironmentalismI just started reading a book based on this essay titled Break Thorough: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. What I’ve read so far is very intriguing. While they view global warming as a threat, they are at odds with the approaches espoused by many environmentalists.
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