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Conservative think tank launches climate-skeptic TV ads:
“Carbon dioxide: They call it pollution; we call it life.” Nope, not a story in The Onion. That’s the punch line of two TV ads that the industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute began airing in 14 U.S. cities yesterday, timed to correspond with the big-screen debut of Al Gore’s climate-change movie …
I’m… Speechless. Hooray for politicizing science. Ya arseholes.
(Via Daily Grist.)
Ugo writes - “If the production of cement is one of the highest carbon dioxide emitters in the world today, how can we reform the way we build in order to reduce these emissions? One of the answers might lie in the use of rammed earth as a material for construction of buildings.” - Link.
(Via MAKE Magazine.)
Greenwire Breaking News, posted May 10, at 1:35 p.m.
* 1. CLIMATE: House appropriators OK resolution on need to cap emissions
The influential House Appropriations Committee went on record this afternoon in support of addressing global warming through a mandatory cap on U.S. emissions. The Republican-led panel accepted a nonbinding climate change amendment that endorses capping greenhouse gas emissions as long as the program does not harm the U.S. economy. The amendment also requires participation from international trading partners.
‘Bout freakin’ time!
Asia Looking Hard at Biofuels:
Asian countries have big plans for biofuels development, but experts worry that they may be setting their sights too high
(Via sustainablog.)
Faking it | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Magazine: “I found these paragraphs especially enlightening, and their tone is representative of the rest of the book”:
With hyperbolic interest groups trying to either exaggerate or downplay the disastrous effects, it’s little wonder that Chernobyl’s long-term health effects remain so controversial, allowing the nuclear industry to claim limited consequences, while some politicians, activists and the victims claim a profoundly negative impact on health.
Journalists, both domestic and foreign, fuel the fire with their macabre tendency to focus on sensationally deformed children even if they were born far from Chernobyl and the maladies cannot be traced to the disaster. In fact, the descendants of A-bomb survivors have shown no increase in congenital deformities and the same is true of Chernobyl survivors. What deformities occur are those that sadly occur in any population.
One thing is for sure; the disaster was a godsend to the plants and animals in the contaminated zones, now Europe’s largest wildlife preserve. Being radioactive is less detrimental than living in close proximity to human beings — and believe me, I am not suggesting that being radioactive is a good thing.
(Via Gristmill @ Grist Magazine .)
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