‘Merchants of Doubt’ Misuse Science to Mislead the Public
A dark ideology is driving those who deny climate change People who claim that climate science is a conspiracy or the work of charlatans are talking rubbish by Robin McKie The Observer, August 1, 2010 Cross-posted from BC-SEA News Life can be hard in Moscow. The Russian capital is sweltering in temperatures that reached a [...]
Long Term Effects of Global Warming Will Be Far Worse than Gulf of Mexico Catastrophe
Although the BP oil spill seriously threatens those who live along the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. intransigence on climate change threatens the entire world; a fact that is causing rising anger around the world. Yet the U.S. Congress continues to resist action on climate change on the basis that it will harm some U.S. economic interests, while ignoring our duties, responsibilities, and obligations to others to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. fair share of safe global releases. For this reason, while the BP oil spill can be rightfully be understood as a disaster, U.S. Congressional inaction on climate change must be understood as a huge moral failure leading to an even greater disaster.
