Posts relating to “Research Projects, Global Politics, and More” (35)

  1. “Oil and politics mix well, but I’m not sure if oil and science mix …


    Legal Planet: Environmental Law and PolicyAuthority 428
    By Alexa Engelman, UCLA Law delegation — one in a series of posts from COP 15 in Copenhagen: “Oil and politics mix […] , only one of which is Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia targeted by the hackers, and went to lengths to point to […] instead move on and make history.   While the IPCC is not ignoring the ClimateGate frenzy, it too has more significant
    1 week ago
  2. Advent Calendar – Can the Internet change the nature of modern…


    Intute blogAuthority 131
    them more accountable? Recently the Global Language Monitor announced that based on its annual global survey of English […] exposed and investigated by journalists. In the USA this trend is more advanced. The Sunlight Foundation is a leading […] organisation.  Its recent projects have included Party Time where users can find out what parties and social events their
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  3. Obama is not saviour of the world. Hes still an American president | …


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    pamphlets" . Official US policy now accepts that global warming is real and that man is the key cause. Obama can point to more […] bilateral deals with both China and India, undertaking joint research projects on clean coal and electric cars. Perhaps most […] stirred round the world a year ago, he will not be able to pull out his pen and, at a stroke, sign the deal that saves the
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  4. global warming, the gift that won’t stop giving


    weird thingsAuthority 555
    Here’s a forecast for blogs and sites that invoke global warming. Elevated comment accumulation with a high chance of […] shouldn’t do anything to mitigate global warming. In fact, the project was started in 1998 and used dubious tactics to get […] signatures that were then wielded for political machinations and propaganda tactics. More than half of the signatures on the
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  5. Head of Global Warming Research Unit Steps Down


    Tim Oren's Due DiligenceAuthority 486
    Dr. Phil Jones, head of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, and star of the leaked e-mail and document set from […] that institution , has stepped down pending an independent review of the unit and its research . So ClimateGate ( hate […] few comments elsewhere, but not posted here, as those with a lot more familiarity with the climatology data and
    2 weeks ago
  6. Can’t Change Energy Policy Without Revenue


    Matthew YglesiasAuthority 781
    legislation Monday to double U.S. nuclear energy output in 20 years and foster clean energy options with “mini-Manhattan Projects […] power, and recycling of used nuclear fuel. Completely leaving aside the merits of these projects, this costs money. Where […] various possible technologies. Finally, even as a matter of crass politics, Nordhaus and Shellenberger neglect a basic point
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  7. Proud to be Flesh: a Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after …


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    Proud to be Flesh: a Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net Edited by Josephine Berry Slater and […] murmurs of dissent and revels in the first signs of collapse. In the midst of a global crisis, Proud to be Flesh is an […] , artist projects, sound-art, websites and other Mute-flavoured ephemera from two decades of experimental publishing. Join us
    2 weeks ago
  8. Worst Potential Science Scandal of Century (Climategate) - “Under …


    EbioAntAuthority 141
    , taxpayers being burdened with research-and-development grants to improve the efficiencies of "clean" energy projects like wind […] ruled out, one-by-one. It is estimated that the pro-green, global-warming research and development programs enjoy a 1000-to […] locations and time is an "up-and-down" matter - simple to modify or overlook a few numbers: a bit more on the "up" side, a bit
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  9. I hope there is a scandal about Gates, that way it would be called …


    Rajan RishyakaranAuthority 468
    tendency to ignore or discount contrary evidence or alternate explanations – and in the case of East Anglia’s Climate Research […] Unit, mixing politics and science can corrupt science. Not shocking – politics is corrosive. At the same time, I find it […] house gas emission became a lot more damaging. Expensive subsidies are granted to “green” projects like biofuels (which
    2 weeks ago
  10. UN Climate Treaty: A Sneak Attack On Humanity


    PA Pundits - InternationalAuthority 561
    to support more than three thousand projects across the country.” Is this education or indoctrination? The EPA has gone […] environmental program in general and its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in particular, to impose an international […] in science. The pretext has been that “global warming” is the result of greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the
    1 week ago