Monday, July 02, 2007

The Global Warming Reader - Pt. I: The Hysteria

Global Warming causes terrorism, suicide, nightmares, genocide... and probably male pattern baldness, too. I think it also had something to do with the Red Sox winning the '04 World Series.

Terrorism Linked to Global Warming
About.com: According to a report by the Military Advisory Board, a group of retired general officers from all branches of the U.S. military, there is a clear link between climate change and terrorism. (June 12, 2007)

Global warming possibly linked to an enhanced risk of suicide
Department of Psychology, University of Cagliari, Italy: The global increase in surface temperature (known as global warming) was found to impact on mortality through ill health, particularly among the elderly and in summer. This study sets out to explore the impact of global warming on suicide mortality, using data from Italy.

Global warming worries keeps children awake at night
GMTV: Half of young children are anxious about the effects of global warming, often losing sleep because of their concern, according to a new report today. A survey of 1,150 youngsters aged between seven and 11 found that one in four blamed politicians for the problems of climate change. (Mar 19, 2007)

Climate change behind Darfur killing
Breitbart: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon. (Jun 16, 2007)

Worms are killing the planet, says top researcher
Materials Recycling Week: "Everybody loves them because they think they can do no harm but they contribute to global warming." (Jun 21, 2007)

Tourists cause global warming
News24: "Tourism is unfortunately one of the vectors of (climate) change at the moment and contributes, through its excesses, to the process of global warming," World Tourism Organisation (WTO) director general Francesco Frangialli told an international conference on meteorology in Madrid this week. (Mar 22. 2007)

Humans blamed for climate change
BBC: Climatic change is "very likely" down to human activities, the global body on climate science will say. (Feb 2, 2007)

France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax
President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012. He warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. (Feb 1, 2007)

Gore says Bush administration paying scientists to dispute global warming
CNN: "They've lost the argument and they don't want to stop dumping all this pollution into the Earth's atmosphere," Gore said in a short interview. "The only thing they have left is cash and now they're offering cash for so-called skeptics who will try to confuse people about what the science really say." (Feb 6, 2007)

RFK Jr. rips President Bush for environmental policy
Roanoke.com: The crowd that nearly filled Virginia Tech's 3,000-seat Burruss Hall Auditorium to hear environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak probably had an idea about what he thought of the Bush administration before he took the podium. "You can't talk honestly about the environment today ... without being critical of the president," he said. The university paid $20,000 for his visit. (Feb 27, 2007)

Dangerous denial
Frontline Magazine (India): If all the people of the world had the same living style as the average American, the holocaust would have already visited us. (Feb 24, 2007)

Global Warming: now it hits brothels
Metro.co.uk: Things Al Gore didn't tell you - global warming is harming Bulgaria's sex trade, according to brothel owners. (Mar 6, 2007)

Climate change blamed for cockroach migration
ABC (Australia): Climate change is being blamed for a changing of the guard among Sydneys cockroach population. (Mar 14, 2007)

Climate scientist sees cover-up
Washington Times: A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he'd done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years. (Mar 20, 2007)

Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet
AP: - Al Gore, who has reversed his political fortunes to become a potential contender in the 2008 presidential race, made an emotional return to Congress Wednesday in an appeal for an even more dramatic rescue - saving the planet. (Mar 21, 2007)

Global Warming Making Hurricanes Stronger
LiveScience: Is global warming making hurricanes more ferocious? New research suggests the answer is yes. Scientists call the findings both surprising and "alarming'' because they suggest global warming is influencing storms now -- rather than in the distant future. (Jul 31, 2005)

Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes
Reuters: Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a potentially positive result of climate change, according to new research released on Tuesday. (Apr 17, 2007)

Pending doom: Global warming crisis
Portland Press Herald: A group of fourth-graders in Portland creates a list of priorities to stop global warming. "Our school study of global warming started with lots of questions. What is global warming? What is happening now? What might happen in the future? What can each of us do tohelp? Why should we care? What will the future look like? A small group of students at our school has been researching and studying the effects of global warming. The evidence and data we collected is so overwhelming that we have decided to write about this issue. " (Jun 14, 2007)

The Earth today stands in imminent peril
The Independent (UK) Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming. (Jul 1, 2007)

U.S. leg of Live Earth hits key notes
Newsday: It was nonmusicians at this concert who made the most passionate pleas about demanding action for the environment. "Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy's son, who grew hoarse from shouting. "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." (Jul 1, 2007)

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