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Posts Tagged ‘Lawson’
Politics, Nov 29th, 2011,
The UK is bracing itself for the largest public sector strike in over 30 years, prompted by the frozen and cut wages of state employees. The Conservatives sell these cuts as ‘necessary austerities’, but many aren’t buying that. And in light of a constant rise in income inequality and unfair EU subsides towards the wealthy, it’s not hard to see why. Case in point: George Monbiot writes in the Guardian on the outrageous Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies, which take up 43% of the European budget (totalling £47bn per year). And the more land you own, the more money you…
Tags: Dominic, elite, European, farm, George, Lawson, Monbiot, nurses, private sector, public sector, strike, subsidies, teachers, UK, workers
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
Climate Change, Health, Politics, Jul 20th, 2010,
During the last few days the British press has run some relatively prominent articles once again highlighting the correlation between meat eating and climate change, also resulting in a few additional commentary pieces and the usual backlash. Perhaps biggest of all is the Observer Food Monthly magazine’s OFM vegetarian recipe special edited by none other than the McCartney family (Sir Paul, Mary and Stella). Far from simply a collection of recipes – including several from Gwyneth Paltrow and other veggie celebs – the OFM special contains interviews with each of the three McCartneys, plus one piece that specifically connects environmentalism…
Tags: change, climate, Dominic, footsoldier, Kenya, Lady, Lawson, Lettuce, Lord, McCartney, meat, Observer, Paul, PETA, skeptic, vegetarian, vegetarianism, veggie
Climate Change, Politics, Jun 4th, 2010,
Christopher Monckton, aka Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, is a loud critical voice in the highly politicized publicity war against mainstream climate science in the UK. A former journalist who worked in Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government during the 1980s, Monckton also favored compulsory AIDS testing for the entire population and lifetime quarantine for those with the disease. He later gave up that crackpot cause and took up climate science denial during the last decade, joining the likes of other right wing British journalists like James Delingpole and Dominic Lawson, brother to the lovely Nigella and son of another prominent climate…
Tags: Abraham, climate, Climate change, denial, Guardian, Lawson, Minnesota, Monckton, professor, science, skeptic, UK
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 14th, 2009,
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour interviews two prominent figures from different sides of the climate debate: Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, a prominent African environmentalist; and Lord Lawson, a well-known British politician and noted climate skeptic. Lawson is also father to another notable skeptic, journalist Dominic Lawson, as well as alluring cooking sensation Nigella Lawson. Far from a heated debate, Lawson is not extreme in his opinions about climate change, but rather maintains that the science is undecided and the future unsure. Maathai affirms her faith in the science, yet agrees with Lawson that an inquiry should be made into the…
Tags: Climate change, climate change debate, CNN, Lawson, Maathai, science, skeptic
