Via the TimesOnline:
HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a 4×4 car and failing to reuse plastic bags, according to a report to be published tomorrow by a green think tank.
The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) will say that if [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2007 by pwyll
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Posted on March 25th, 2007 by pwyll
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Last October Senators John Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) sent a letter to the Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil. The Senators wanted to browbeat him for the crime of funding research at odds with the officially approved theories of global warming. The text of the letter is available here; a Wall Street Journal analysis [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2007 by pwyll
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THEY cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
Oops, wrong picture. Let’s try that again.
THEY cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2007 by pwyll
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Harvard astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas recalls the medieval use of the precautionary principle to fend off climate change.
Posted on March 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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Sometimes I laugh at something, and then think that maybe I shouldn’t have laughed. But what the hell, it was funny.
MINNEAPOLIS - A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2007 by pwyll
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