Environmental Evaluation: Perception and Public Policy (Environment & Behavior) (Environment and Behavior)
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | yesterday
LifeNews.com | Nov 19, 2009 by Piero Tozzi New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) — The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual State of the World Population Report yesterday, linking efforts to promote “sustainable development” and affect “climate change” to its “reproductive rights” agenda. Critics see the report as a thinly-veiled attempt to...
AAEA Hollywood (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Holly Wood Oprah Winfrey, left, has announced she will end her talk show on September 9, 2011 and it is rumored that Environmental Man will begin his new show, "The Environment Man Show" on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) on September 9, 2010. It is being reported that Ms. Winfrey will concentrate exclusively on her forthcoming cable channel, while Eman will concentrate exclusively on...
The Cornish Democrat (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Following the Cornish Zetetics call for a coalition of Mebyon Kernow , the Cornish Greens and any other progressive democrats from the Duchy in time for the next general election here's an idea. OK the French Republic is quite different from the United Kingdom, and the problems faced by Brittany and its Celtic sister, Cornwall, are far from identical, but perhaps some ideas can cross the water. To...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Protecting The Environment Against Its Protectors On the specific level, this is bad for environmentalism and for sound policymaking. On a larger level, how’s that new transparency working out? Hilarious: Rudd enlists Galileo’s help | Australian Climate Madness So in order to attack the climate sceptics in the Opposition, Kevin Rudd enlists the help of probably the most famous scientific...
Suitably Despairing (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This week's One Planet , the environmental magazine show from the BBC World Service, is from Edinburgh and Scotland. The programme gets a listener to interview Roseanna Cunningham, the Scottish Environment Minister. He asks whether the government should, in essence, ignore public opinion for the greater good when it comes to climate change. The Minister replies that it is not the Government's job...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
New Delhi - Not much was expected from the climate change summit in Copenhagen except for a mandate to continue negotiations, Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday. We need to be proactive, aggressive and ruthless in our domestic o...
Framing Science (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Richard Kerr's recent news feature at Science magazine offers a compelling look at the many communication challenges on climate change, especially at a time of apparent " climate fatigue ." As Roger Pielke comments in the Science article, by sounding the alarm on climate change too loudly, campaigners may be causing important segments of the audience to tune out their message. In a separate...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday. The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, but said: "Women with access to reproductive health services ... have lower fertility rates that contribute...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The twin rivers that bring thousands of tourists to Cockermouth turned on the town after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, driving 250 people out of their homes. Torrents flung cars across the picturesque centre, sweeping through Wordsworth's birthplace and ransacking one of the largest concentrations of small, independent shops in the north. "See that oven," said Keith Fair,...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last night the Tech Awards kicked off in San Jose, California, honoring some incredible innovation happening across several categories, including the environment, education, health, biosciences and more. The competition in the environment section was tough, with GRUPEDSAC, a project providing customizable eco-techniques toolkits for self-sufficiency, the Electronic Field Guide, which encourages citizen...
We The Free (Free subscription) | yesterday
clipped from hotair.com From: Kevin Trenberth To: Michael Mann Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0600 Cc: Stephen H Schneider , Myles Allen , peter stott , “Philip D. Jones” , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl , Gavin Schmidt , James Hansen , Michael Oppenheimer Hi all Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming ? We are asking...
Going to the Mat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes, you can go from one potential global disaster to a global epidemic in just two steps, if you are a U.N. Official. Climate change increases HIV/AIDS infection. So says a representative from the U.N. . The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
ManBearPig ! A funny thing happened on the road to global warming. Mother Nature is simply not cooperating. Germany's Der Spiegel noted this "problem" for global warming alarmists yesterday: Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while...
Globalisation and the Environment (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the inbox: To demonstrate that "Globalisation and the Environment" is "down with the kids" here is a rap about climate change and Copenhagen. It is vaguely amusing actually and certainly worth 5 minutes of ones short life. .
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the desperate attempt to link every evil under the sun as caused by "climate change" ( the phrase "global warming" has suddenly become, ahem, unhelpful ), we've seen a lot of stupidity, but this instance -from the UN , natch - may take the cake : The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous...
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wowgold | 23/10/2009
Our earth wow gold is prone to disasters. With great ability: The potential savings vacant by a car with a combustion engine, are so virtually exhausted, in laptop technology can take a stake with. WirtschaftsBlatt: "It's circulating many scenarios on Climate Telekom Austria's climate annals, processor playoffs and again hard. Future Matthias Horx strut at the Dialogue on the property of networks....
Eileen Murphy | 23/10/2009
In the Imbabura province of Ecuador lies the beautiful Manduriacos Valley, a sub-tropical zone surrounded by primary forest and rich in bio-diversity. Life for the valley’s human inhabitants, however, hasn’t been easy. The continuing decline in farming income, poor infrastructure and limited economic resources have all had an impact on the 500 families that make up the area’s twelve communities. The
bsalmons | 22/04/2009
Since the inception of Earth Day, the holiday has become an international effort to improve environmental sustainability from air quality and global warming to wildlife protection and recycling efforts. In 1992, the United Nations recognized the growing need to maintain environmental health with an Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. While Earth Day has changed a great deal from its original demonstration-based
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