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Here’s an article on another such event.

Here’s an excerpt:

Like an addict kicking a habit, we will have to go through a period of painful withdrawal. But the good news is that, in time, we will all agree it was for the best.

Well, here’s a great dismantling of that “documentary” by George Monbiot:

Distortions, Falsehoods, Fabrications

He is perfectly OK with authorizing drilling for oil off the pristine coast of Alaska, but he has just put a freeze on solar farms in the desert because he is worried about their potential impact on the desert’s environment.

This is the same guy who said America needs to fix its addiction to oil.

The idiocy (or is it dishonesty?) is just absolutely staggering!

“We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path,” Mr. Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press. “This is the last chance.”

Read the whole story…

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-3/final-report/default.htm

Despite the satellite having been completed at a cost of $100M, NASA mysteriously decided to mothball it, and refused any offers by other agencies and other countries to launch it and manage it. Obviously, this would be a very inconvenient scientific tool for the Bush administration and their energy industry friends.

Now looks like Congress is going to force NASAкомпютри втора употреба to provide some answers and move forward with it.

Keep in mind that CH4 is several times more effective than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Also, for the conspiracy theorists out there, this is the NOAA, an American organization, so they can’t possibly be falsifying data to get more grant money given the views of the Bush administration.

The latest government data about the state of the Earth’s climate.mebeli

Now a survey of EPA scientists on this very subject just came out, and it isn’t pretty!

Political Manipulation of EPA Science, by the Numbers

Here’s the whole cynical breakdown of the sad report, in the words of the Union of Concerned Scientists. (Note that not all respondents answered all questions, so response percentages are derived from different total respondents.)

• 889 (60%) scientists said they had personally experienced at least one instance of political interference in their work over the last five years.
• 783 (51%) said EPA policies do not let scientists speak freely to the news media about their findings. Scientists also shared anecdotes about being barred from presenting their research at conferences and their difficulties clearing research publication articles with EPA managers.
• 492 (31%) felt they could not speak candidly within the agency about concerns about the EPA’s work without fear of retribution, and 382 (24 percent) felt they could not do so outside the agency.
• 409 (43%) of the 969 agency veterans with more than 10 years of EPA experience, said interference has occurred more often in the past five years than in the previous five-year period. Only 43 scientists (4%) said interference occurred less often.
• 394 (31%) scientists personally experienced frequent or occasional “statements by EPA officials that misrepresent scientists’ findings.”
• 285 (22%) scientists said they frequently or occasionally personally experienced “selective or incomplete use of data to justify a specific regulatory outcome.”
• 224 (17%) scientists said they had been “directed to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information from an EPA scientific document.”
• Nearly 100 scientists identified the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the primary culprit. In scientists’ responses to an essay question, “How could the integrity of scientific work produced by the EPA best be improved?,” OMB took center stage.

(Source: The Daily Green)

I wrote them a comment to complain about this ridiculous article:

Lorrie Goldstein is a complete idiot and the Toronto Sun should ashamed for having published such a misguided diatribe on such an important subject. But at the same time, maybe I should thank you for proving that the climate change deniers have lost the battle, and their arguments are purely based on emotions and politics rather than facts and science.

If you are really so convinced that Global Warming is a non-issue, why don’t you present some scientific data and some rational arguments?

I suspect that is because you have no idea what you are talking about, you don’t understand the basic facts of physics behind the greenhouse effect, and you’ve never read a single piece of climate science research. What you don’t get is that it isn’t that scientists can’t tolerate disagreement with their views. In fact, science is completely built on arguments and counterarguments and having to meet strict standards of proof before a theory is accepted. What they have no tolerance for is people like you, who know absolutely nothing about science, but are motivated by politics or corporate greed and pretend to be making scientific arguments.

Absolutely shameful.

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Airbus hopes these attention-grabbing efforts will jump-start competition and collaboration for continued development of alternative fuels. “Testing today will support future second generation bio-fuels,” said the company’s press release. “Fuel and energy are key challenges aviation is facing and for which technology and international research collaboration open up new horizons,” said Airbus President and CEO Tom Enders. Enders cited “cross industry and cross border collaboration” as the key to an “eco-efficient enterprise.”

At a time when the aviation industry is already under great pressure over the impact of aircraft emissions, Airbus’ record-making flight will no doubt spark an alternative-fuel fire.