WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 3–A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry’s disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations...
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Himalaya’s receding glaciers suffer neglect
Scientists monitor only a few of India’s vital glaciers, which are receding by as much as 100 feet each year. By Janaki Kremmer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor NEW DELHI – Billions of people in China and the Indian subcontinent rely on South Asia’s Himalayan glaciers – the world’s largest store of fresh water outside the polar ice caps. The massive ice floes feed seven of the world’s greatest Asian rivers in...
Scientists say 2007 may be warmest yet
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer LONDON – A resurgent El Nino and persistently high levels of greenhouse gases are likely to make 2007 the world’s hottest year ever recorded, British climate scientists said Thursday. Britain’s Meteorological Office said there was a 60 percent probability that 2007 would break the record set by 1998, which was 1.20 degrees over the long-term average. “This new information represents another warning that climate change is happening...
CBC’s The Denial Machine
This is an excellent don’t hold any punches investigative report by CBC’s The Fifth Estate. It talks about how Big Oil and the Republicans have systematically created a denial machine and instilled doubts in the public’s mind. Well worth watching until the end. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=522784499045867811&q=Fifth+Estate&hl=en-CAÂ
Middle Stance Emerges in Debate Over Climate
By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: January 1, 2007, The New York Times Amid the shouting lately about whether global warming is a human-caused catastrophe or a hoax, some usually staid climate scientists in the usually invisible middle are speaking up. The discourse over the issue has been feverish since Hurricane Katrina. Seizing the moment, many environmental campaigners, former Vice President Al Gore and some scientists have portrayed the growing human influence on the climate...
Wind power faces gathering storm
RICHARD BLACKWELL Globe and Mail, January 2nd, 2007. Canada’s wind power business could face a tough year in 2007, with increasing doubts about this green energy source promising to buffet the industry. While a record amount of wind power is likely to come on-stream next year, with close to a dozen projects across the country set to be commissioned, questions about the safety of the turbines and the reliability of the power they generate...