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Posts Tagged ‘skeptic’
Climate Change, Oct 27th, 2011,
Here are a few climate change stories making headlines of late. Thee great State of California has instituted a policy designed to limit its carbon emissions, otherwise known as a cap and trade bill. Cap and trade treats carbon emissions – or rather, lack thereof – as a sort of commodity to be traded and even profited on. There are plenty of criticisms of cap and trade or carbon trading systems, including among environmentalists. I’m not such a big fan myself, but I guess it’s better than nothing. From the New York Times: In a cap-and-trade system, the government sets a…
Tags: California, cap and trade, carbon, Climate change, geoengineering, skeptic
Climate Change, Politics, Oct 22nd, 2010,
The politicization of science class in the American public education system is nothing new, the main issue of contention being the teaching of evolution or natural selection in biology classes. Recently, however, teaching climate change in state schools has come under fire from skeptics in much the same way that evolution in the science curriculum has been challenged by creationism – most lately the proponents of intelligent design. A New York Times piece explores how in certain American states, advocates of climate change skepticism are campaigning to include their side of the climate argument in the curriculum. South Dakota has…
Tags: American, Climate change, creationism, New York Times, Politics, religion, school, science, skeptic, skepticism
Climate Change, Politics, Oct 6th, 2010,
10:10’s aborted short film ‘No Pressure’ was… an abortion. Not because of what it was – we see more shocking things on TV, the Internet and film all the time – but rather because of its context. It drove a brutal wedge into an already emotional ideological and political divide, which is entrenched in the West, especially in the US and UK. People are understandably sensitive about suggestions that they should be blown up. Of course, I get that. And there is a difference between a PSA and an episode of South Park or Family Guy. Never mind that it…
Tags: 10:10, climate, film, Gillian Anderson, Hugh Grant, No Pressure, skeptic
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, Jun 27th, 2010,
Today’s temperatures are predicted go as high hit 30C (85F) making it the hottest day of the year in England, with temperatures highest in London and the southeast. World cup fever – and the more civilized pursuit of eating strawberries and cream whilst watching a considerably smaller yellow ball move backwards and forwards at a much faster rate than a football ever could when North Korea are not playing – is gripping the country. But so is a heatwave. According to an article in the Guardian, ‘MeteoGroup weather forecaster Steve Ellison said the heatwave was caused by a ridge of…
Tags: Climate change, England, global warming, heatwave, london, skeptic, temperatures
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, 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, Politics, Mar 12th, 2010,
Poor George Monbiot. Is screaming at a wall finally taking its toll? In a entitled ‘The trouble with trusting complex science’ in Monday’s Guardian, Monbiot bemoans the illogical and tribalist political opinions associated with the climate debate. He aptly uses the words of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke: ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Yet so many, whether ‘denier’ or ‘warmist’, seem to think they know it all. Or, rather (let’s face it) those who accept man made climate change trust the scientific community and those who are climate skeptics don’t. And this seems to be determined…
Tags: change, climate, Monbiot, science, scientist, skeptic, sorcerer
Climate Change, Jan 8th, 2010,
It’s as predictable a feature of the British winter as log fires and roasting chestnuts: a national outpouring of idiocy every time some snow falls. –Guardian Ouch. No vitriolic venom is spared for so-called ‘climate skeptics’ in an Environment Blog opinion piece by Leo Hickman and George Monbiot in Wednesday’s Guardian. They are having none of the right wing politics masked as scientific skepticism by journalists and members of the U.K.’s parliament. True, Northern Europe and parts of the U.S. and China are experiencing a cold snap along with plenty of snow. Apparently this disproves decades of research concerning climate…
Tags: Climate change, climate skeptic, cold snap, global warming, Guardian, skeptic, snow
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
Climate Change, Dec 3rd, 2009,
![]( "<!--:en-->Breaking News: Australian Senate says")
' src='http://gf0.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/2372.jpg' alt='breaking-news-australian-senate-says-no-to-carbon-trading-bill' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has fought passionately for environmental legislation in his country and abroad. But conservatives, parliamentary opposition and climate change skeptics have been a thorn in Rudd’s side, inspiring strong statements by the PM. ”By slowing the actions of each individual country, they aim to slowly drag global negotiations to a standstill,” he said. ”By hampering decisive actions at a national level, they aim to make it impossible at an international level.” (source: The Sydney Morning Herald) It seems for the moment that the skeptics have succeeded, at least in Australia, where the Senate rejected a cap…
Tags: australia, carbon trading, climate, cop15, Green, Kevin Rudd, Rudd, skeptic
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Oct 13th, 2009,
The increasingly populist – and tabloid – nature of contemporary media would have us believe that there is legitimate and significant skepticism from within the scientific community concerning climate change and the science that observes, supports and documents it. Whereas there are certainly are a number of individual scientists who have doubts about global warming, there is no major scientific body that still maintains a skeptical position about climate change and that humanity is contributing to it. Let’s not mince words: there is a lot of money in climate change denial. Energy companies, especially the fossil fuels industry, do not…
Tags: Climate change, science, scientists, skeptic
