Via Watts Up With That, this: A new study by researchers in the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York calls for better engagement of older people on climate change issues. The report, prepared in partnership with the Community Service Volunteers’ Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme (RSVP), urges the scrapping of stereotypes which suggest that older people are incapab...
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MrEugenides on 26th Aug 2010 (via mreugenides.blogspot.com)
Another day, another bullshit propaganda report into climate change. Oxfam says that climate change is killing poor people because of failing crops and losing water supplies to droughts. Climate change was first seen as a scientific problem, then an economic one,” explained report author Kate Raworth. “Now it is becoming a matter of international justice. Erm, no -
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WonkosWorld on 9th Sep 2008 (via wonkosworld.co.uk)
Meg Hillier MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, commenting on the committee on climate change’s report released today, said:
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LabourParty on 30th Jun 2011 (via labour.org.uk)
More robust and realistic annual climate-change targets are required to ensure that Scotland will contribute to the reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions over the next decade, according to a report published by the Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee today.
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ScottishParliament on 24th Apr 2009 (via scottish.parliament.uk)
Ed Markey, chairman of the House energy and environment subcommittee, says he will press forward with climate-change legislation ahead of December's UN Climate Change summit in Copenhagen
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FT on 11th Feb 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Presumably the folks at the Wildlife Conservation Society don't think that we're taking climate change seriously enough. A couple of days ago they released a report listing 12 pathogens that they believe "could spread into new regions as a result of climate change". Snappily labelled the Deadly Dozen, the WCS report warns that not only might we expect to see an increase in the prevalence of such d...
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LPUK on 10th Oct 2008 (via lpuk.blogspot.com)
Nortern Ireland - The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a “hysterical psuedo-religion”. In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said he believed it occurred naturally and was not man-made. “Resources should be used to adapt to the consequences of climate change, rather than King
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LiberalConspiracy on 5th Sep 2008 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
To dismiss the implications of climate change based on an error about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting is an act of astonishing intellectual legerdemain. Yet this is what some doubters of climate change are claiming. But the reality is that our understanding of climate change is based on
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TimWorstall on 27th Mar 2010 (via timworstall.com)
The Climate Change zealots have never made a real secret of wanting to change our lives in a manner that they think is best. But to what totalitarian extremes they are willing to go was illustrated by Mrs. Tara Garnett of Surrey University. In a report sponsored by the University of Surrey, she calls on government to start rationing meat and dairy products: Climate Change Report Calls for Mandator...
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KleinVerzet on 7th Oct 2008 (via kleinverzet.blogspot.com)
For a year or so I have been sitting on the European parliament’s Temporary Committee on Climate Change, which of course with a few honourable exceptions is populated by passionate climate alarmists and Little Green Devils. I have been not quite a lone voice crying in the wilderness, but close to it. The rapporteur is German
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RogerHelmer on 3rd Sep 2008 (via rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com)