Environment

London Judge: Protect Environmentalism Like Religion

Time (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

In an unprecedented ruling, a British judge says that a former sustainability chief was unlawfully laid off for his climate-changeconvictions

Breaking The Law for the Environment

Truthdig (Free subscription) | yesterday

“Illegal” protest has received a new baritoned bedfellow. While speaking on the Copenhagen climate change conference, former vice-president Al Gore has publicly accepted civil disobedience to be justified, believing that the climate crisis requires more forceful methods of political activism. The Guardian: Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying...

Successful Environmentalism

VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday

Actually, there are a lot of examples of environmental policies working. You don’t hear much about them, though. For whatever reason, nobody ever promotes environmentalism by referring to past successes. Ozone layer — Saved by getting rid of certain chemicals, although their replacements might be causing global warming. Acid rain — Better scrubbers on smokestacks have largely [...]...

Is Environmentalism a Religion? A British Court Fight

Time (Free subscription) | yesterday

In an unprecedented ruling, a British judge says that a formersustainability chief was unlawfully laid off for his climate changeconvictions

Environmentalism Officially Ruled A Religion

Tai-Chi Policy (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Albeit, indirectly. Actually though, that brings up a couple of things I’ve been meaning to blog about for a while:We’re finally seeing global warming brought down to more scientific levels, i.e. debunked in just about every timescale except the one the scientists originally projected of several hundred years, and that debunking is making the religious believers [...]

As the stomach turns

Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

There's something about this slimy fucker's face that provokes a strange mixture of reactions: on the one hand, I can't see myself ever tiring of smacking that with a (preferably aluminium so that it never wears out) baseball bat; on the other, there is a rage that this slimetard politician who failed to convince the electorate of his merits has found another way to impose his views and his commercial...

Past climate of northern Antarctic Peninsula informs global warming debate

Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Science Daily : The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss of glacial ice are unprecedented. "At no time during the last 14 thousand years was there a period of climate warming...

• Climate warming and loss of ice unprecedented in last 14,000 years - Sify
• More “unprecedented” warming in the Antarctic - Watts Up With That?
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

It's Official: David Cameron is a sanctimonious, smug git!

Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Matthew D'Ancona (via Iain Dale ): "It's not even that I am especially sceptical about climate change. It's the sanctimonious style of the green lobby and their ministerial accomplices I cannot stand: the collective smugness that comes with absolute moral certainty of any sort and the readiness to disdain and scorn anyone who dares to dissent, even slightly, from any aspect of the new orthodoxy."...

More 'underlying warming trend' tomfoolery

Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

From today's Times : “The number of people claiming climate change isn’t happening is minuscule, and they have no authority among the scientific community,” [Chris Smith, head of quango The Environment Agency] says. “They are mavericks, not backed up by the evidence.” It is irrelevant, he says, that the world has recently been getting cooler. “You have to look at...

David Miliband's lessons from Obama

Next Left (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

The Fabian Global Change We Need conference is, one year on, asking whether and how 'movement politics' and citizen engagement can influence major global issues, from the global economy, climate change and the Middle East. (You can follow some live tweeting from @thefabians and the David Miliband speech on the Fabian website . Foreign Secretary David Miliband recalled watching Obama's Chicago speech...

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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....

The Loofah Project - a tale of community solidarity in Ecuador

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

The Origins of Earth Day

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