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This rejected rough was written after I read about an iPhone app that provides ripostes to the arguments of climate sceptics. BB felt that the underlying [English] sarcasm wouldn’t come through and it would be playing into the hands of the sceptics. Probably right.
I do like the insult of "monkey-brained doofus"
Tags: anti-sceptic, cartoon, climate change, rejected rough, sceptic, skeptic
Great article in the Guardian about how Met Office data shows the dramatic warming in the Arctic and worldwide.
Climate change scientists have started a fightback against sceptics who argue that the observed changes in the Earth’s climate can largely be explained by natural variability. This comes after the email hacking furore.
A major Met Office review of more than 100 scientific studies tracking the observed changes in the Earth’s climate system finds that it is an “increasingly remote possibility” that human activity is not the main cause of climate change.
Met Office data presented graphically by the Guardian
Tags: analysis, arctic, Arctic ice, climate change, data, global warming, melting, science
Oscar makes a stand against climate change
Prevention is better than cure
It's a strange microclimate in Snowpeak
Tags: cartoon, climate change, comic, penguin, rabbit, sea level rise, stilts, termites
From today's Age newspaper
The organisers expected 10,000 people to turn up at the State Library yesterday to walk against warming. We wanted to send a strong message to the politicians at Copenhagen that we want a deal that will tackle climate change.
Meeting at the State Library
It takes a long time to walk down Swanston Street
Passing the centre of consumerism - Bourke Street
Flinders Station in a sea of people
Once on the bridge, we were corralled into letters
To try to spell Safe Climate Do It
We were in the cross bar of the E of SAFE. You can’t tell, even when you look at the biggest photo on the Walk Against Warming web site. But we were there.
Tags: climate change, copenhagen, march, negotiations, protest, talks, walk against warming
Frank sending a message to Copenhagen
Tags: climate change, climate talks, copenhagen, polar bear
Philip Wollen at Melbourne Sustainability Drinks
We went to a Melbourne Sustainability Drinks last week. The speaker was Philip Wollen:
Philip Wollen, former vice-president of Citibank, general manager at Citicorp and once one of the top 40 head-hunted executives in Australia – now facilitator of kindness will discuss how to use venture capital for good causes, radical banking and his aim to “give it all away”…
This was partly true, but the main thing he talked about was how not eating meat is by far the biggest thing any of us in the room could do to prevent climate change. Probably true and difficult to do. One of my friends left, depressed, shortly after he said that everyone in the room had one thing in common:
They all want to change the world as long as they don’t have to change themselves.
Ouch. After the talk, boyf and I went to dinner. I had aubergine parmagiana. He had spag bol.
Tags: chastised, climate change, drinks, vegan, vegetarianism
