The big trend for [last] year was the growth of environmental language: of ecocentrism, referring to the philosophy in which the ecosphere is more important than an organism or human activity … of climate porn, referring to alarmist predictions about the progress of global warming. Read more here.
Archives for January 2009
Comedian George Carlin on ‘Saving the Planet’
Here’s a video for those tired of the righteous and what Bob Carter calls hubris: Click to play.
Magazine Duped by anti-GM Activist – A Case of More of the Same
I SUBSCRIBE to a magazine called Quadrant. It comes out every couple of months and often includes interesting articles by well-known Australian conservatives, libertarians and mavericks on a range of topics from dinning in New York to global warming and it is the only magazine I read that includes pages of poetry.
When I first took out my subscription to the magazine it was edited by a fellow called Paddy McGuinness – a Veteran Sydney journalist who apparently once worked for a Russian bank in London and for many years was editor of the Australian Financial Review. In an interview before his death last year, Paddy said that he had been able “to ‘re-establish’ Quadrant as a ‘sceptical and non-ideological’ journal in the conservative spirit of Samuel Johnson, the literary colossus of 18th century England.”
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More on Global Warming and Malaria
Dear Jennifer,
Prof Paul Reiter has just informed me of a recently published article of his in Malaria Journal that may be of interest to you.
The article is based on the chapter he wrote for the Civil Society Report on Climate Change.
It is freely available at http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/S1/S3.
I would especially recommend reading the ‘Review’ section where Paul Reiter dissects the existing alarmist literature on vector-borne diseases and global warming (what is really a tiny group of individuals who self-reference each other to uphold unjustifiable claims).
Caroline Boin
International Policy Network
www.policynetwork.net
www.sdnetwork.net
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Paul Reiter, 2008, Global warming and malaria: knowing the horse before hitching the cart, Malaria Journal 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S3doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-S1-S3
http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/S1/S3
It’s Cold in Europe
Governments across Europe declared states of emergency and ordered factories to close as Russia cut all gas supplies through Ukraine yesterday in their worsening dispute over unpaid bills. Read more here.
A Cold Snap in a Warming World?
“A COLD front is sweeping across Europe after gripping swathes of North America last month, but the deep freeze does not mean the threat of global warming has abated, caution scientists.” [Read more here.]
But at least one cartoonist in Belgium appears to be fed-up with the pronouncements from the warmaholics, inparticular Al Gore. [Via Anthony Watts.]
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.