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[Economist's View] Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Stranded in Suburbia: For example, some major public transit systems are excited about ridership gains of 5 or 10 percent. But fewer than 5 percent of Americans take public transit to work, so this surge of riders takes only a relative handful of drivers off the road.

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: George Monbiot's Heat: How to Stop ...: I heard George Monbiot speak at the Campaign Against Climate Change public meeting in London, last night (4th October) and found him eloquent and engaging. The difficulty of getting over the need for a proven 90% cut in carbon emissions in the developed world by 2030 is that of being believable, and I think Johann Hari - who also spoke - put over a very important point to complement GM's work : We must say "we are upset that this is happening, and wish it were not so".

[Chosen: The Light of Life Ministry Newsletter] Chosen: End Times Newsletter - Issue 81 - Vox: The phenomenon has been discovered in a variety of flora, ranging from tropical rainforests to British sugar beet crops. It means they are soaking up at least some of the billions of tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere by humans that would otherwise be accelerating the rate of climate change.

[naplesnews.com Stories] Letters to the editor: May 10, 2009 : Letters : Naples Daily News: If you took the "wealthy", banking and credit industries out of Naples, what kind of schools would there be? What kind of infrastructure and sanitation would there be?

[ROR Sitemap for http://www.ukessays.com/essays/] Marketing Essays - Brands in Social and Environmental Issues: According to the anti Bodyshop website www.boycottbodyshop.com, “L'Oreal claim to have stopped testing on animals in 1989, EU Legislation states that new chemical formulas must be tested on animals”, but they also claim that companies such as Lush, Faith in nature and Co-op have produced ethically compliant cosmetics.The Daily Mail reported that L’Oreal “while having banned animal testing of its cosmetics in 1989, still allows ingredients tested on animals to be used in them”.

[Daniel Pinchbeck's blog] Reality Sandwich | Alien Dreamtime: My Fight with Whitley Strieber: But I was astonished at the way Strieber personalized your disagreement, and at his insulting, below-the-belt (and I might add, after the bell, so to speak) remarks at the conclusion of the interview segment, insinuating that you are some sort of .

[WE Blog] Open thread 5/5 | WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs: “WASHINGTON ”” President Obama is eager to seek a bipartisan solution to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security, people who have spoken with him say, but he is running into opposition from his party’s left and from Democratic Congressional leaders who contend that his political capital would be better spent on health care and other priorities.” NYTIMES

[Checklist Toward Zero Carbon] Global Warming 101 - a short reading list for everyone « Checklist ...: On the other hand, like the delusional, and ideological, who brought us the Iraq War, there are a fair number willing to dispute AGW on completely dishonest and fundamentally immoral grounds. If there is a debate - it’s as to whether we are facing 30% species extinction at this point or are we going to 70% species extinction: whether the coastal cities will need to be abandoned in our lifetimes or in our children’s lifetimes.

[About.com UFOs / Aliens: What's Hot Now] Obama and UFOs: On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

[Comments for Climate Audit] The Dendroclimatologists are Angry « Climate Audit: Statistically we simply cannot defend global warming, therefore it is going on too short and it is too complex, but if we wait we are too late. I think actually that the tendency of scientists to insist that global warming is real and dangerous to convince ...... Connelly really is a fairly conservative climate scientist; you should probably take a lesson from him; it doesn't take huge global temperature changes to make the world change in ways which we do not want. ...

[God's Politics] God's Politics - Jim Wallis blog, faith blog, religion, christian ...: I think it is fairly clear that we as Christians are meant to have a proper distance from culture. Miroslav Wolf says "Through faith one must depart from one's culture because the ultimate allegiance is given to God and God's Messiah who transcends every culture." This doesn't mean becoming culture-less, or taking flight into a new Christian culture, but that by being freed by the gospel to step outside my own culture, I can have a "vantage point from which to perceive and judge the self and the other not simply on their own terms but in the light of God's new world."

[The Blair/Bolt Watch Project] Seven graphs which do not end the warming hype « The Blair/Bolt ...: And so we have, above, as an example of how belief permeates and alters a person’s ability to think rationally the pathetic attempts by Rad Pipper to defend the indefensible - Bolter’s use of the simple rainfall totals; it prevents Rad from understanding how the changed distribution of rainfall is the very essence of the effect of climate change, predicted by the climate scientists who have warned of global warming, not a global drying-up, which is what I would like to see Bolter’s believers do.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - The Editors: Part of the conspiracy? (2): Sadly, I have to say that it is very difficult for me to trust the BBC - their Conspiracy Files documentary was very biased (they chose not to interview credible academics like Prof. Steven Jones and Ray Griffen), they did not make any attempt to interview the many hundreds of people (and many of them journalists) who clearly reported explosions at ground and sub-basement levels in the twin towers, and they have totally failed to raise any questions about the errors and omissions contained in the 911 Commission Report, which like the Hutton Inquiry, was far from satisfactory in it's remit and independence.

[Casaubon's Book] Casaubon's Book » Blog Archive » George Monbiot is Arguing with Me ...:  An even better example is this - when faced with a national crisis, young men and some women from many nations, including the US and the UK, chose voluntarily to go to war.  Yes, we instituted a draft, but in both World Wars, in both the US and the UK, the military enrolled literally tens of thousands of volunteers, people volunteering not to give up hot showers, but life itself.    They still do it today.  I find Monbiot’s claim that we cannot convince people to cut energy usage unlikely - we’ll die for a patriotic ideal, but we won’t carpool?  I admit, I find the idea that we won’t sacrifice somewhat mystifying - the world is full of people who defer all sorts of gratification for a greater cause - they give money to charity even when they are short themselves, they make voluntary choices to deny themselves gratification for reasons of religion or cultural preference, they serve their nation whether in the military or at protest, trying to improve it.  They die doing this.  They go to jail doing this.  The idea that we are soft cowards who will not sacrifice maligns us, and I think it is fundamentally wrong.  I do not claim that Monbiot believes this, but I think that underlying the notion that sacrifice doesn’t work is this deep doubt about the kind of people we are at heart.  I don’t really blame anyone who has that doubt - after all, we have been called upon over the last decades, not to sacrifice, but to ever greater self-indulgence, but what I do not believe is that the self-indulgence has driven out the capacity for sacrifice -instead, they are sides of the same coin.  We indulged because our collective definition of goodness was defined by consumer culture.  But the vast void and emptiness of this has left people literally longing for something richer and deeper.  Service to community, nation and family is likely to be bread and meat to many who have been starving for something other than the empty calories consumer culture has served them. 

[Bad Astronomy Blog] Is science faith-based? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine: Challenging the pervasive, black-and-white mind-set of typical reasoning, inherent uncertainties of conversational deductive reasoning, and of all inductive reasoning, set limits to certainty in all intellectual disciplines (e.g., religion, law, history and science). Among these disciplines, and despite the uncertainties, only the weighted, skeptical, agnosticism of the scientific approach, using these two reasoning tools, continues to discover, and ever more firmly establish, increasing numbers of empirical ”˜truths’.

[Comments for RealClimate] RealClimate: [Response: My guess is that this will not be covered in the mainstream media at all, so it’s in a slightly different class: relatively obscure papers that get the blogosphere all excited because they over-interpret the results, in this case with a little help from the authors - (and me apparently if you read the acknowledgments!)Maybe I’ll do something at the weekend….

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