There are a lot of politicians and scientists who do not feel the obligation to listen to sceptics like you. How come there is only one kind of truth?
Freeman Dyson (2016): Yes, this is of course a question I cannot answer. I have a theory about that. Which has to do with the evolution of humans. We evolved in small tribes. A hang-together-society in which we lived for a million years or so. As small tribes hunting in the forest, competing with each other. That’s how humans evolved. And under those conditions the important thing was loyalty to the tribe. It was absolutely the most important thing to have people totally loyal to the tribe. Holding the tribe together. And whether their beliefs where right or wrong was not so important. As long as they believed the same things they would survive. And I think that is very much driving us still. To be with the herd, to be thinking the same thoughts as other people is build into our nature. So it’s still more important to belong to the tribe than it is to speak the truth. And so I think that explains it a bit. And scientists are not different from other people, we have our tribes also. This believe in global warming, it is a tribal loyalty which is very strong. It’s always difficult for the heretic to find people to believe what he is saying. But still heretics are also important and luckily they are not burned at the stake anymore.
South African, "The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign is an alliance of labour, social movements and other civil society organisations in South Africa that are mobilising for real solutions to the threat of climate change. Cutting the pollution of those gasses that lead to climate change is urgent and involves doing many things. Overcoming unemployment and giving decent work to our people is just as urgent. By placing the interests of workers and the poor at the forefront of strategies to combat climate change we can simultaneously halt climate change and address our jobs bloodbath. This is why we campaign for our government to create a million climate jobs now. Our demand is based on well-researched solutions for how South Africa can immediately begin a just transition to a low carbon economy. + 7 point program
October 2010: The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.
Monday, 8th November 2010 is the date for a conference in London organized by the Royal Society entitled “Geoengineering: taking control of our planet’s climate” and it is likely that opposition to its proposals will be coming not only from supporters of
Shale Gas and its Implications reviews estimates that have been made for shale gas deposits in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, South Africa and the Western Sahara and highlights the challenges to their development. In a foreword to the report, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, affirms the Bank’s willingness to support these and any other member countries and sub-regions that have shale gas prospects
Terrapower. 13 February 2010. "Today we are always refueling the reactor so lot of controls and lots of things that can go wrong," Gates said. "That is not good. With this, you have a piece of fuel, think of it like a log, that burns for 60 years and it
"Our latest work (this link includes all our recent papers and PowerPoints) shows that even a "small" regional nuclear conflict could have severe global climatic effects, and that there are still enough nuclear weapons in global arsenals to produce nuclea
Robocks föredrag 2015 med referens till bl a Vladimir Alexandrovs forskning om nukleär vinter. Wikipedia-artikel om Alexandrov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Alexandrov
By M.V.Ramana, the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC, 7 Nov, 2018. Ottawa is pushing a new smaller, modular nuclear plant (SMR) that could only pay off if mass produced.
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 9, 2011 (IPS) - Argentina's soy boom has been a major source of foreign exchange. But the other side of the coin is the toxic effects among the rural population, from spraying agrochemicals.
"HAARP is investigating an atmospheric layer of charged particles known as the “ionosphere.” These charged particles impact long-range communications and space operations. HAARP’s goal is to understand this impact and help improve long-range communication
Le blog de Ben Cramer, un chercheur sur les guerres et les paix qui a repris l'enseignement de Bouthoul le père de la polémologie (une spécialité très française) " Si tu veux la paix, connais la guerre". Son dada : la géopolitique du développement durable, l'éco-politique internationale et l'insoutenable légèreté des adeptes de la destruction durable.
Pekka Mellergård, överläkare, medlem i svenska regeringens framtidskommission 26.3.13. : "Klimatfrågan har, tillsammans med andra miljö- och hållbarhetsfrågor, funnits med vid nästan alla kommissionens möten. Den sammanställning av fakta som finns i slutrapporten är omfattande och inte skönmålande. Bland annat sägs det tydligt att den ofta citerade minskningen av Sveriges utsläpp av växthusgaser sedan millennieskiftet inte ger en sann bild av verkligheten: om korrekt hänsyn tas till de koldioxidutsläpp i andra länder som är en konsekvens av svensk konsumtion har Sverige ökat sina koldioxidutsläpp med bortåt 10 procent."
By Linda Pentz Gunter and Kevin Kamps, Special to CNN November 7, 2013 : "From a purely practical standpoint — and ignoring for a moment nuclear power's other showstoppers such as cost, unmanaged nuclear waste, atomic weapons proliferation and catastrophic accident — there simply isn't time to choose nuclear power."
1 Sept 2009. "According to Tad Davis, the Army's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health, the military is fast developing a holistic strategy for greening its energy use. “We’re looking at ways we can reduce consumption
Gates: "Without a substantial carbon tax, there’s no incentive for innovators or plant buyers to switch.
Since World War II, US-government R&D has defined the state of the art in almost every area. The private sector is in general inept.
The climate problem has to be solved in the rich countries. China and the US and Europe have to solve CO2 emissions, and when they do, hopefully they’ll make it cheap enough for everyone else"
"But few ever ask what role the U.S. military plays in contributing to global warming. And as people like Al Gore and other environmentalists look for solutions, rarely is the Pentagon mentioned as a polluter and a place that we can look to for change if
China Daily December 11, 2020. Erik Solheim, the former head of the UN Environment Program, said that by showing the world a green recovery from the pandemic is possible, China can provide global leadership in sustainable development in the post-COVID-19 world.
En kinesisk solskenshistoria. Thursday, October 12, 2006 By Andrew Batson in Wuxi, China, The Wall Street Journal. "When he arrived in Australia 18 years ago as a physics student, Shi Zhengrong scraped by on a meager stipend from the Chinese government t
Chris Hedges 13.10.2014: "To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth—intellectually and emotionally—and rise up to resist the forces that are destroying us. " "But the game is up. " (om väst)
A key message of the report is that geoengineering is not simply a cheap technofix for climate change, but a political smokescreen that will be deployed by wealthy nations to avoid undertaking real domestic emission reductions and commitments to help the
Climate change is real Letters: If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny the reality of human-triggered climate change, we will not take part in the debate, say Jonathan Porritt, Caroline Lucas, Clive Lewis and 57 other writers, politicians and academics
Tom Goldtooth: We fear that at the end of the day, with agriculture now being included as part of REDD, REDD is going to be the largest legal land grab the world has ever seen. Back to colonialism, back to forced privatisation, especially for forest communities. Those with the most money and power can – by remote control, lock up the largest land areas in developing countries. And they are happiest to work with the most corrupt because it is easiest that way."
Jeremy Brecher , Dec 2013 "Based on the Justinian Code’s protection of res communes, governments around the world have long served as trustees for rights held in common by the people...
Susan George: "Geocide is alas more general: it is a massive assault against nature of which we are only a part, against all earthly life and against Creation as well as the complete denial of human rights; I submit that this ultimate act of destruction is underway and that we need a name for it. Without a name, we have no concept and without a concept we cannot combat it. This is why I searched for a new word."
"The real problem is that we are faced with determined, well-organised adversaries who care nothing about human rights or climate change; who would probably laugh at the very mention of geocide. They want only one thing: business as usual and a world in which they can make endless amounts of money using any and all available resources, no matter what the costs to nature and to human life. Unless we can accept this reality and confront these adversaries, as well as the public and private organisations they serve, I’m afraid we have no hope of ultimately preventing geocide."
The Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia calls on the peoples of the world, social movements and Mother Earth’s defenders, and invites scientists, academics, lawyers and governments that want to work with their citizens to the Peoples’ World
Controlling Climate Change, by Dr. Bert Metz and published by Cambridge University Press, provides an unbiased and comprehensive discussion of what can be done to solve the problem of man-made climate change. It gives an in-depth overview of issues, useful for both students and professionals, while using a minimum of technical jargon, and is accessible to non-specialised readers as well as those involved in climate change policy.
Video recordings of talks given at the Radical Emissions Reduction Conference (10-11 December 2013) are now available for viewing online. Links to the videos of individual talks have been included in this adapted programme of the conference.
Rachel Smolker: "The proliferation of "public-private partnerships" is one of the manifestations of this political and economic reality. These are presented in diplomatic terms as attempts to "bring together" the public and private sectors with civil society, to ensure all "stakeholders" are represented in working toward various goals. Many are either initiated by, or granted a platform in, the UN. One such partnership in particular that was in the limelight at this climate summit was the "Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture." "
The signatories of this Appeal demand that the governments of the world seriously address this neglected issue, and agree on a global plan for disarmament at the Rio Summit in June 2012.
QUESTION by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission Subject: Aircraft condensation trails which no longer only contain water but cause persistent milky veils, possibly due to the presence of barium, aluminium and iron
The 2013 Human Development Report hails better than expected progress on health, wealth and education in dozens of developing countries but says inaction on climate change, deforestation, and air and water pollution could end gains in the world's poorest countries and communities.
All quantities are presented in units of gigatonnes of carbon (GtC, 10[upphöjt]15 gC), which is the same as petagrams of carbon (PgC; Table 1). Units of gigatonnes of CO2 (or billion tonnes of CO2) used in policy are equal to 3.664 multiplied by the value in units of GtC.
Diana Bronson: "...we still believe that there should be an exclusion for geoengineering technologies, for any of the enhancement measures that are now envisaged under this new technology body, and that there should be means of assessment and also of prec
A Wired article 2019. Nuclear war doesn't have to be big to devastate the world, inducing years of famine and climate catastrophe alongside all that death and radiation.
"Like the other search engines, Ecosia also has to access a network of servers to deliver search results. Our own servers run on green electricity, but since Bing and Yahoo servers do not, an Ecosia search still causes almost the same amount of emissions
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Skolt Sámi negotiated treaties with successive Russian czars. These agreements—which the Sámi collectively call the Gramota—guaranteed the tribe's access to traditional hunting, fishing, and herding grounds.
In October, UNESCO affirmed that the treaties collected in the Gramota are the first written political recognition of indigenous land rights in human history.
Ilmatieteen laitos on ilmakehä- ja meriosaamisen edelläkävijä maailmassa. Sen huippututkimukseen perustuvat tuotteet ja palvelut auttavat suomalaista yhteiskuntaa sopeutumaan sään ja ilmaston muutoksiin. Ilmatieteen laitoksen tietotaito ja teknologinen os
President Obama’s proposed “Copenhagen Accord” aims to shift from developed to developing countries the balance of “common but differentiated responsibilities” that have been bedrock principles of equity in the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Clim
FOCUS ON TRADE: Number 146, July 2009 Print E-mail IN THIS ISSUE SAVING CHINA’S ECONOMY AND THE CLIMATE: CAN THE TWAIN MEET? Dorothy Grace Guerrero CLOSER TIES, LARGER MARKETS: EXAMINING THE ASEAN FTAS Joseph Purugganan ROBERT MCNAMARA’S SECOND
By By Barry Saxifrage in Opinion | National Observer, July 31st 2019,
Global fossil burning keeps rising relentlessly as the world sprints away from climate safety. Here are ten charts from the latest data to show you what's happening and who's doing it.
AFP 29 Augusr 2009 - Russia plans to purchase a French naval helicopter transport ship this year and is interested in jointly producing more of the vessels, the head of Russia's armed forces said here Wednesday... The French navy currently has two Mistral
17.9.14 Par La Voix de la Russie | Skyguards, qui a tenu à Bruxelles le 8 et 9 avril 2013 un débat (intitulé Au-delà des théories sur la modification climatique – la société civile contre la géo-ingénierie) sur la géo-ingénierie répandant par des épandages quotidiens des agents chimiques dans le ciel, attend de passer à la commission des pétitions. Du 18 au 21 août a eu lieu à Berlin une conférence sur la géo-ingénierie et le climat. Josefina Fraile de Skyguards, qui était à Berlin, témoigne de la volonté des experts du climat d'introduire de manière durable le contrôle du climat par les épandages dans le ciel. Josefina Fraile Martin nous parle de ces nouveaux nuages qui nous sont devenus familiers dans notre ciel et qui n'existaient pas dans notre enfance.
March 9 BY PATRICK HYNES: Germany, which just appointed the head of Greenpeace as its climate czar, has been the world’s most ambitious adopter of this radical approach. Patrick Hynes is the editorial associate with the American Conservation Coalition and a commentator with Young Voices. He also serves as the chair of the Libertarian Party of Washington, D.C.