The Green Files > 'Science' - Environmentalism's Fig Leaf
[Climate Resistance] Environmentalism has a lot to hide, and uses science as a fig leaf. Sceptics (and skeptics), in whatever political colours (or colors) they wear should not be afraid of bringing political perspectives to the discussion.
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[Biologist, Biology & Environment - UNITED COLOURS OF NATURE] Environment News (02/12/08): Work starts on Gulf 'green city'.: The money is being channelled through the Masdar Initiative, a company established to develop and commercialise clean energy technologies, and Abu Dhabi hopes it will lead to international joint ventures involving much more money.
[In The Balance Blog] Are you wearing a green fig leaf?: About 200 people showed up at CalPoly in little San Luis Obispo -- and it's no easy place to get to (for me, 2 planes and a 4 hour drive from LA in pouring rain.) But it was worth the trip, especially if it helps keep me from wearing a green fig leaf.
[The Bristol Blogger] EXCLUSIVE: Bradshaw exposes himself!: Never really anything more than a cynical attempt by Bradshaw to get the charity on board and provide a fig leaf of environmental credibility as cover for his madcap scheme to concrete over the last few bits of inner-city East Bristol his Labour Party missed in the 60s and 70s, Sustrans have obviously seen Bradshaw coming and rejected his offer out of hand.
[businessgreen Blog] The Bad, the Good and the Ugly of the government's green policy: A junior minister knocking meekly on the door of the Treasury or Home Office asking for more action on climate change would be at best an outrider for the environment minister and at worst a glorified fig leaf for the government's decidedly ropey environmental record.
[Jonathon Porritt] Answers to your questions: The overwhelming weight of evidence now points to a rapid acceleration in human-induced changes in the climate, with rapidly worsening consequences for humankind. And every government in the world (including China, India, Saudi Arabia and the benighted Bush Administration in the United States) signed up to that consensus when they accepted the 2007 Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
[World Prout Assembly] Waste Basket India: Importers find imported paper waste to be of superior quality than waste from the local kabariwallahs. India sourced a meagre 15 percent of its waste paper domestically, according to industry data from 2003, three years after India notified the Municipal Solid Waste Rules mandating source segregation of wastes.
[The Garden Variety: Cleveland Botanical Garden's Blog] Houseplants need love too. Protect them from Spider Mites!: I have 2 Big Rubber trees.During the Summer they had Spidermites. So I took a Spraybottle and used a mixture of Dishdetergent and water.
[Ericaayanna's Weblog] Problems with the Ice Core data: вÐÑScientists from numerous disciplines have been examining CO2 since the beginning of the 19th century, and they have left behind a record of tens of thousands of direct, real-time measurements. These measurements tell a far different story about CO2 вД they demonstrate, for example, that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have fluctuated greatly, and that several times in the past 200 years CO2 concentrations have exceeded todayвÐâs levels.
[Crazyhippiemom's Weblog] Allergies: Changes in our environment and the human diet have predisposed many of us to allergens. Symptoms of allergies have become so commonplace, very rarely are the root causes identified and eradicated.
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