Politics of the plate: Salmongate. At the very least, there was something fishy about Alaska Governor (and Vice Presidential hopeful) Sarah Palin’s decision to speak out publicly against the state’s Clean Water Initiative late last month. There may also be something blatantly illegal about her advocacy for defeating the ballot initiative, which ultimately failed to pass when 57 percent of Alaskans voted against it. — Gourmet [via Grist]
GM Volt photos inadvertently posted on web. They were posted on the Internet for only 12 minutes, but General Motors says that was long enough for secret photos of the Chevrolet Volt rechargeable car to be distributed worldwide. — MSNBC
Silent streams? Escalating endangerment for North American freshwater fish. Nearly 40 percent of fish species in North American streams, rivers and lakes are now in jeopardy, according to the most detailed evaluation of the conservation status of freshwater fishes in the last 20 years. — Science Daily
Oreskes chronicles birth of climate change denial. Naomi Oreskes, the science historian whose landmark article 2004 Science article, finally put the lie as to whether there was a legitimate climate change “debate,” has written a new piece for the TimesOnline, describing on of the best early warnings the U.S. received about global warming, and revealing the efforts of scientist-turned-lobbyist Bill Nierenberg in beginning to sow confusion. — Desmog blog
Who denies climate change? it’s changing all the time, so where’s the proof it’s man made?
Feeding the troll …
Fay, what matters is not whether men and women have *already* changed the climate
but whether further climate change is likely to be so rapid as to devastate civilisation
(and the last wild areas of the Earth with it), and whether a change in human
activity can help to avoid that devastation.
Basic physics says the Earth would be frozen solid if it did not have heat-trapping gases
in the atmosphere. Fortunately, it does. The same basic physics says that if the
concentration of those heat-trapping gases is increased, the Earth will retain more
of the sun’s warmth and temperatures will rise. Climates will change.
Human activity *is* increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases.
Climate hasn’t changed much, yet, except in the Arctic and Africa.
But we’re adding more and more greenhouse gases all the time.
It’s very likely that this will cause devastating climate change in the coming decades.
There’s only one way to find out, for sure, if this is true.
Would you give permission to conduct the very first test of a possibly-fatal drug on your own body?
We have no guinea pigs. This is the only Earth we have.