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• Aircraft Parts and the Precautionary Principle - © 2006

  
  911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related News — Authority: 601
  
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• Good Point

  
  The Sietch Blog — Authority: 127
  \ The sad part of course is that it is not a hoax, and if we fail to act the outcome will be most dire.
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• The Precautionary Principle and Global Warming

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Those advocating that we upend the global (and particularly the U.S.) economy to stave off climate change resort to a concept called the “precautionary principle“. Simply stated, it is that if there is some risk of an irreversible disaster in taking an action, then that action should be foregone. In this ...
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• The Precautionary Principle and Global Warming

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 817
  How much risk from climate change should there be before we spend trillions of dollars to address the problem?
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• Friedman’s Climate Change Is The Stuff Of Miracles

  
  The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE — Authority: 574
  (about Tom Friedman’s “Going Cheney on Climate“, IHT print edition, Dec 10, 2009)From: Maurizio MorabitoTo: Letters IHTDear EditorsIn a slightly unsettling if not miraculous development on his way to fight climate change, Tom Friedman tells us today that Dick Cheney’s “instinct” (treating any ...
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• Applying the Precautionary Principle Consistently

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 781
  One major problem with most invocations of the precautionary principle is that people tend to apply it to whatever danger they want to prevent, but largely ignore it in considering the potential dangers created by the policies they advocate. For example, Dick Cheney applied a version of the principle to the threat ...
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• Hari Drama Hari Gaia

  
  Climate Resistance — Authority: 452
  In Friday’s Independent, Johann Hari has achieved a quite remarkable feat. How I wish that the global warming deniers were right Are you prepared to take a 50-50 gamble on the habitability of the planet? In just 1400 words he manages to cram in just about every fallacy from the environmentalist’s ...
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• James Hansen, Climate Scientist Hopes Copenhagen Fails

  
  Conservative Zone — Authority: 130
  Not what you think!!! Or maybe it is what you think. James Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute earth sciences unit and he says, according to ABC News , that any agreements that might be reached in Copenhagen next would be so flawed it would better to start over from scratch………whatever exactly that means. ...
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• James Hansen, Climate Scientist Hopes Copenhagen Fails

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 485
  Not what you think!!! Or maybe it is what you think. James Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute earth sciences unit and he says, according to ABC News , that any agreements that might be reached in Copenhagen next would be so flawed it would better to start over from scratch………whatever exactly that means. ...
  2 weeks ago

• What everybody needs to know

  
  The Best Shark Dive in the World! — Authority: 420
  I stand corrected.I was intuitively of the opinion that oceanic Sharks are most likely doomed for extinction, a hypothesis that reverberates in some of my posts like this one.I was obviously influenced by the fact that I live in the South Pacific where fishing for coastal Sharks, compared to the killing of Sharks by ...
  3 weeks ago

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