sduford on Sep 29 2006 | Filed under: The Denial Machine
When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 26th September 2006.
On the letters page of the Guardian last week, a Dr Alan Kendall attacked the Royal Society for “smearing†its opponents. It had sent an official letter to Exxon, complaining about the oil company’s [...]
sduford on Sep 21 2006 | Filed under: The Denial Machine
It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers – Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role.
By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site, 19th September 2006
It takes quite a lot to get Britain’s most august scientific body, the Royal Society, riled. But now it has had [...]
sduford on Sep 19 2006 | Filed under: Environment
This article describes another of the plausible “positive feedback” processes which could lead to runaway warming.
Source: Scientific American, August 29, 2006
Since time immemorial, methane and oil have seeped from beds buried beneath the ocean sediment off the California coast. The methane bubbles up and out of the sea, adding to the store of greenhouse gases [...]
sduford on Sep 12 2006 | Filed under: Environment
This new blog will be dedicated to our planet, and saving it from Global Warming. I intend to post lots of information on the science behind global warming, what humans are doing about it, and what we should or could be doing. I also intend to denounce the naysayers and the denial machine that has [...]