Government food safety scientists report political, corporate interference
kim Geiger | LA Times.com Scientists and inspectors at the federal agencies responsible for food safety say they face political and corporate interference with their work, according to a survey released Monday by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonpartisan advocate for unbiased science in government. The survey suggests a continuation of problems that government [...]
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UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
Arthur Max | AP Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel of the world’s leading economists to raise a staggering $100 billion a year to fight climate change. British economist Nicholas Stern told international climate negotiators Thursday that government regulation and public money also will [...]
Leaked document reveals US government strategy to obtain passage of Copenhagen climate treaty
John Vidal |guardian.co.uk A document accidentally left on a European hotel computer and passed to the Guardian reveals the US government’s increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN climate talks. Titled Strategic communications objectives and dated 11 March 2010, it outlines the key messages that the Obama administration wants to convey to its critics and [...]
UN climate change claims on rainforests were wrong, NASA study suggests
Richard Gray | Telegraph.co.uk A new study, funded by Nasa, has found that the most serious drought in the Amazon for more than a century had little impact on the rainforest’s vegetation. The findings appear to disprove claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that up to 40% of the Amazon rainforest could [...]
USDA drops NAIS plan to require every farm animal have a number
Jeff Fobes | MountainX.com Word is spreading on Twitter and on small-farm listserves that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will drop its program to monitor the movement of all livestock, a plan that encountered widespread resistance from farmers, particularly those from small farms, who argued it would bankrupt them. The New York Times wrote on [...]
Meteorologists Reject U.N.’s Global Warming Claims
Heartland Institute Environment & Climate News > February 2010 Environment > Climate: Consensus Email a Friend Written By: James M. Taylor Published In: Environment & Climate News > February 2010 Publication date: 02/01/2010 Publisher: The Heartland Institute Only one in four American Meteorological Society broadcast meteorologists agrees with United Nations’ claims that humans are primarily responsible for recent global [...]
After this awful fiasco over swine flu, we should never believe the State scare machine again
Christopher Booker | DailyMail.co.uk So the Government, as the Daily Mail has revealed, is trying to get rid of £1billion-worth of unwanted swine flu vaccine – because the deadly epidemic they were promising us all last year never materialised. Several things are shocking about this revelation, not least the charge by the Council of Europe’s [...]
Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
Katherine Goldstein | Gazelle Emami | HuffingtonPost.com In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats. According to the study, which was summarized by Adam Shake at Twilight Earth, “Three varieties of [...]
Canadian Newspaper Calls for Malthusian Global Population Reduction Policy
Kurt Nimmo |InfoWars.com Diane Francis, writing for Canada’s Financial Post, begins an editorial by declaring a myth — the world is over-populated. “The ‘inconvenient truth’ overhanging the UN’s Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world,” she writes. “A planetary law, such as China’s one-child [...]
Science According to Al Gore: Earth Interior “Millions of Degrees”
Kurt Nimmo | InfoWars.com Not only did Al Gore invent the internet, he has also redefined earth science. The puffed up phrophet of the phony climate change movement went on the Conan O’Brien Show in mid-November and told the world the temperature of the interior of the earth is “millions of degrees.” O’Brien didn’t flinch. [...]
Bombshell Poll on Climate Change – 77% don’t believe!
briefingroom.typepad.com A nationally televised ‘debate’ on global warming followed by a viewers’ poll has delivered a landslide result: 77% don’t believe global warming is man made.
World Trade Center Health Effects: Finding the Links
Dana Farrington | GothamGazette.com Impatience was contagious in City Hall today as three City Council committees heard from concerned parties about the World Trade Center Medical Working Group’s second annualreport, released in September. Of particular concern was a bill, currently stalled in the U.S. Senate health committee, which would provide long-term medical care for those affected by the [...]
More than 50 papers join in front-page leader article on climate change
Chris Tryhorn | Guardian.co.uk The Guardian has teamed up with more than 50 papers worldwide to run the same front-page leader article calling for action at the climate summit in Copenhagen, which begins tomorrow. This unprecedented project is the result of weeks of negotiations between the papers to agree on a final text, in a process that [...]
A Message to the Environmental Movement: Your Movement Has Been Hijacked
Transcript: This is James Corbett of corbettreport.com and I come here today with a message for you. You the environmentalists, you the activists, you the campaigners. You who have watched with growing concern the ways in which the world around us has been ravaged in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. You who are concerned with [...]
UK climate scientist to temporarily step down
AP Britain’s University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change. The university says Phil Jones will relinquish his position until the completion of an independent review into allegations that he worked to alter [...]
The Dog Ate Global Warming
Patrick J. Michaels | NationalReview.com Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) [...]
