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http://pajamasmedia.com [Pajamas Media] Samizdata thinks Greenpeace—rather than whales—is the real issue at the International Whaling Commission. “How long would the Japanese government subsidise its whaling industry if the passion was sucked out of the debate?”

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http://pajamasmedia.com  Pajamas Media: Frater Libertas quotes a climatology professor who thinks “the enormous uncertainties surrounding the global warming issue are conveniently missing in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’”. Andrew Sullivan believes that, despite the uncertainties, Gore is onto something. (via Cosmos)

http://conundrum.blogspot.com  Conundrum - the Cosmic Pilgrim: A story on Samizdata about the fishy goings on at the World non-Whaling Conference led me to hook up with this burger saga about whaleburgers. This is one of the reasons I want to go to Japan - so I can eat some good cetacean. (via Cosmos)

[Not PC] Careful with that harpoon, Eugene!: And once you've had your fill of all that political correctness, you can get out the Hawaiian Harpoon and do some serious fishing. Sadly, no game as yet apparently to give you practice with sinking whalers by ramming them with a 'can-opener,' or shooting at said rammer with the guns of a Japanese frigate.

Samizdata.nethttp://www.samizdata.net [Samizdata.net] Tell the lot of them to get stuffed | Samizdata.net: This is a considerable strategic defeat, because secret ballots would have significantly enhanced the appeal of Japan's chequebook diplomacy in the eyes of swinging IWC members, who might otherwise be concerned about domestic political consequences should they choose to vote with the Japanese. Regardless of the relative unimportance of the Japanese camp's win - and the relative importance of the anti-whaling bloc's success at the meeting - the usual suspects are up in arms, like they always are.

Hurryupharry.bloghouse.nethttp://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net [Hurryupharry.bloghouse.net] Harry's Place: Although the Wikipedia page on Whaling states that "It is a widely held belief in pro-whaling countries that conservation is a mere excuse used by anti-whaling side whose stance largely originates from cultural rather than scientific reasoning", the same page lists 25 species of whale, of which 20 are described as being somewhere between "near threatened" and "critically endangered". The Times points out that any figures like these are necessarily unreliable - "Whales are difficult to count, and they breed slowly" - in which case it doesn't seem a great idea to give Japan the benefit of the doubt, given the quote in the Times from one of their officials at last year's meeting - alluding to the countries they'd been bribing, he said:

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