U.N. clouding the debate over climate change
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/13/tom-harris-un-clouding-the-debate-over-climate-cha/…
Bernie Sanders: Climate Change Is The Biggest National Security Threat
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-climate-change_561db3bbe4b0c5a1ce610f4c…
Bolivian President: ‘Capitalism is Mother Earth’s Cancer’
Decrying capitalism as a “threat to life,” an estimated 7,000 environmentalists, farmers, and Indigenous activists from 40 countries convened in the Bolivian town of Tiquipaya for this weekend’s World People’s Conference on Climate Change, aiming to elevate the demands of social movements and developing countries in the lead-up to upcoming United Nations-led climate talks.
“Capitalism is Mother Earth’s cancer,” Bolivian President Evo Morales told the crowd, which also heard over the course of the three-day conference from United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon as well as other Latin American leaders.…
Update: Media Hoaxed by Story about Climate Activist Living in Freezer
Via Hoax-Slayer.com: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/activist-living-in-freezer-fake-news.shtml
FAKE-NEWS – ‘Climate Change Activist Spends a Year Living in a Freezer’
According to a story that is making its way at speed around the interwebs, an environmental activist in California has spend an entire year living in a small commercial freezer in order to raise awareness of climate change issues and pressure the US government into taking more action. The report features an image of a young woman looking up through the glass lid of the freezer.
Supposedly, the woman intends to continue her protest by spending at least another year in the freezer.
However, the claims in the story are utter nonsense. There is no such protest and the story is fiction. The picture of the woman in the freezer is taken from a kylker.com article that features images of ‘Girls in Appliances’.
The story comes from the fake-news website World News Daily Report (WNDR). The site is responsible for a long string of nonsensical stories that have gone viral via social media. Nothing published on the site should be taken seriously. WNDR includes the following disclaimer as part of its About Us section:
WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle.
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The story was reported on by the Herald Weekly on October 11, 2015 and went viral.
…Can a carbon tax prevent you from getting a ‘Mind-Eating Parasite!? – ‘How Global Warming and Mind-Eating Parasites Are Creating a Global Intelligence Gap’
…Global warmists tell feds: Use anti-mafia law to prosecute ‘climate deniers’
http://canadafreepress.com/article/76007
The RICO threat is intended to shut down debate because it can inflict treble damages upon a defendant. Enacted to stop organized crime and specifically to prosecute individuals tied to loansharking and murder-for-hire, it was long seen as so powerful a tool that the government warned prosecutors to limit its use.
“The demand by Senator Whitehouse and the 20 climate scientists for legal persecution of people whose research on science and policy they disagree with represents a new low in the politicization of science,” says Georgia Tech’s Judith Curry on the Fox News website. She should know, as one of seven academics investigated last winter by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D., Ariz.) for their climate research.…
‘Not only is there not increasing trends because of extreme weather, but there are actually either no trends or declining’
http://www.ktrh.com/articles/houston-news-121300/are-you-getting-the-facts-about-14025070/…
‘Three Cheers for Carbon Dioxide’
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/10/three-cheers-for-carbon-dioxide.php…
Belief in climate change not linked to wildfire mitigation actions
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uoca-bic101215.php
People who believe that climate change is increasing the risk of devastating wildfires in Colorado are no more likely to take mitigation actions to protect their property, a new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and the U.S. Forest Service has found.
The study, which was recently published in the journal Environmental Hazards, examined the role that climate change beliefs play in a homeowner’s choice to undertake risk mitigation activities such as installing a fire-resistant roof to reduce the ignitability of their home or thinning surrounding vegetation that could act as a potential fuel source.
Respondents in the study were placed on a continuum from ‘believer’ to ‘skeptic’ based on their attitudes about the degree to which climate change affects wildfire risk in Colorado. Although over half of the study respondents agreed that climate change has increased wildfire risk in the state, those respondents were not necessarily more likely to take action on their private property to mitigate potential damage from future blazes.
The researchers did, however, find a correlation between climate change denial and risk mitigation actions.
“A small but distinct portion of respondents who reject climate science as a ‘hoax’ are also the ones who reported doing significantly more risk mitigation activities than other respondents,” said Hannah Brenkert-Smith, a research associate in the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at CU-Boulder and lead author of the study.
The findings suggest that attitudes and actions related to climate change and risk mitigation are more nuanced than they are often portrayed in the media, and that focusing on locally relevant hazards may be a more useful tool for educating and galvanizing residents in fire-prone areas of Colorado.…
‘The Climate Mafia Rewrites Science History’: ‘RICO statute was passed to fight the mafia. Now it’s being used by the climate mafia to silence dissent’
http://www.thegwpf.com/rupert-darwall-the-climate-mafia-rewrites-science-history/
The belief that to reject climate catastrophism (aka climate denial) constitutes a moral failing is a hallmark of pseudoscience – See more at: http://www.thegwpf.com/rupert-darwall-the-climate-mafia-rewrites-science-history/#sthash.iafFb5JB.dpuf
Scientists were able to prove the threat to health from smoking because there is a very strong statistical relationship between smoking and lung cancer. The strength of those initial findings was further validated by passing a tough predictive test. In 1953, Richard Doll, one of the first researchers to have found the link, predicted that in 1973 there would be 25,000 lung-cancer deaths in Britain. In fact, there were 26,000. By contrast, climate models have been systematically over-forecasting temperature rises this century, demonstrating that climate scientists know much less about the climate system than they would have us believe. In the New York Times, Oreskes complains that climate scientists are ridiculed for predicting catastrophic climate change. If climate scientists’ predictions had been more accurate, they might be taken seriously.
Climate activists have highlighted the history of research on tobacco smoking and lung cancer not to illustrate the weakness of climate science compared with the epidemiology of lung cancer, but to intimidate those who disagree with them and close down debate. Last month, 20 climate scientists wrote to President Obama requesting that the government use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to bypass Congress and, they hope, muzzle dissenting views. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the letter’s organizer, Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University, and his family have been doing very well indeed out of federal research dollars, reaping more than $1 million in 2014 alone.
– See more at: http://www.thegwpf.com/rupert-darwall-the-climate-mafia-rewrites-science-history/#sthash.iafFb5JB.dpuf…