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Posts Tagged ‘debate’
Politics, Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Mar 19th, 2011,
The debate over nuclear energy has heated up in Europe. Though always controversial, the events post earthquake and tsunami in Japan have brought the issue to the forefront in the media and political arenas in some European countries. In May a government safety review of nuclear plants in the UK will be released, taking account of the events at Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. For more on this story see this article from BBC News. In Germany, where nuclear power is always especially controversial, the issue has sparked political action of late. From Deutsche Welle: The governing CDU/FDP coalition…
Tags: debate, earthquake nuclear, Europe, Germany, japan, plant, power, tsunami, UK
Climate Change, Politics, Sep 1st, 2010,
In the wake of a summer that spawned harsh heat waves and forest fires in Europe; and catastrophic floods in China, Pakistan and elsewhere in Asia, climate debate is back in the news. Debate about the significance or even existence of anthropogenic global warming featured prominently the headlines last winter during the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, the ‘Climategate’ scandal the IPCC and the Met Office were embroiled in; and when parts of Europe and the US experienced unseasonably cold temperatures. These major events were followed by a relative lull in media coverage of climate issues, punctuated by the odd…
Tags: Bjorn, Climate change, ClimateGate, copenhagen, debate, global warming, IPCC, King, Lawson, Lomborg, news, Pachauri, report, review, science, skeptical
Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Aug 22nd, 2010,
Though around half of the oil spilt into the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April remains unaccounted for, scientists have mapped out a 22-mile (35 km) underwater plume of petrochemicals. The fact that so much oil has remained underwater instead of floating to the surface is surprising to scientists and also problematic because it makes the oil more difficult to locate. This means that they don’t know what damage may still be occurring in the Gulf and where. Other unknowns include why the oil didn’t disperse as expected and the unpredictable – and undependable – nature…
Tags: BP, debate, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf, Mexico, oil, plume, spill, unknown
Politics, Aug 5th, 2010,
The Catalan parliament recently voted to ban bullfighting, a decision scheduled to go into effect in 2012. At the first bullfighting event in Barcelona since the ban, the industry and its supporters were out in full force to protest the ban and assert their ‘right’ to tease, abuse and stab young bulls to death for the amusement of the crowd. A manifesto by the group La Mesa del Toro was to be read out at all bullfighting events in Spain, France and Portugal and included these words: We demand respect for the individual freedom to take part in a spectacle…
Tags: ban, bullfight, bullfighting, Catalan, cultural, debate, parliament, protests, Spain, video
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 15th, 2010,
Physicist and climate historian Dr. Spencer Weart offers a historical and cultural perspective on the current debate about climate science – specifically, how it might be viewed by the historians of the future. As a history graduate and lover of futurism, this imagined perspective naturally piqued my interest. What stand out in Weart’s social history of the climate wars are the observations concerning the public’s loss of respect vis-à-vis the scientific community. This erosion of political capital came from the diversification of authority in terms of scientific information: we got our info about the climate from politicians, journalists, economists and…
Tags: climate, debate, future, historian, history, media, Politics, science, scientific, scientists, Spencer, Weart
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 10th, 2010,
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' src='http://gf3.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/7217.jpg' alt='skepticism-politics-and-profits' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> The current public ‘debate’ on climate science and global warming is for the most part essentially an ideological argument. Since climategate and ‘glaciergate’, the onslaught to discredit any scientist whose research supports ideas of anthropogenic global warming has grown noticeably. Yet those who are most vociferous in their denunciations of the IPCC, climate scientists and environmentalists as ‘warmists’ and ‘alarmists’ are usually not debating from a scientific standpoint, but from that of ideology or politics. Such propaganda wars seem to be lending support to groups that could be called ‘soft skeptics’, who are not flat out deniers of climate change…
Tags: climate, Climate change, debate, deniers, Exxon, ExxonMobil, Independent, oil, Politics, scientist, skeptics
