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Posts Tagged ‘Margaret’
Climate Change, Politics, Jun 23rd, 2010,
Back in 1989 UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called on the UN for action against man-made global warming. Maggie warned that rapid increases in the use of fossil fuels, the rise of industrial agriculture and population growth were ‘a massive experiment’ on the planet. James Delingpole quotes Thatcher in a recent piece for the Telegraph: Recently three changes in atmospheric chemistry have become familiar subjects of concern. The first is the increase in the greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons—which has led some to fear that we are creating a global heat trap which could lead to climatic instability. We…
Tags: Bob Ward, climate, Climate change, global, Left, Maggie, Margaret, Right, skeptic, Thatcher, warming, wing
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Mar 14th, 2010,
Over the last few years I’ve read a lot of science fiction – or rather ‘speculative fiction’ on floods. Massive, destructive, Earth-drowning floods. You know, when runaway climate change causes the polar ice caps to melt and suddenly the Statue of Liberty is nothing but a torch thrusting out from the waters of the New York Bay. I like reading about stuff like that – apocalyptic dystopia’s, disastrous future scenarios – so long as I’m warm, dry and well fed. After all, I don’t want to actually live them. So imagine how pleased I was to find that Canadian writer…
Tags: Atwood, dystopia, flood, Margaret, Year of the Flood
