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May 16, 2005
George Monbiot has a piece, published by The Guardian, showing exactly how a scientist — David Bellamy — came to the get a letter published in New Scientist that claims that 555 of the 625 glaciers being monitored are in fact growing in size. That figure is crap. Bellamy is president of the Conservation Foundation, the Wildlife Trusts, Plantlife International and the British Naturalists' Association, so his statement has been picked up all over the place. Unfortunately, it's total crap. Monbiot traces it back to a web site touting a book published by the paranoid demagogue Lyndon Larouche. The "555" apparently was Bellamy's mistyping of the site's figure that "55%" of glaciers are increasing, which is itself unsourced and false. Fascinating article by Monbiot. Depressing conclusion about the reliability of big-time science journals. Heartening conclusion about the truth getting out anyway. (Thanks to Gary Nexcerpt Stock for the pointer.) [Technorati tags: science GlobalWarming] Posted
by D. Weinberger at May 16, 2005 12:00 PM
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For an entertaining presentation - and a message that may change your mind about Global Warming...
http://www.fcpp.org/media_file_wm.php?StreamID=160
Posted by: Richard | May 20, 2005 03:44 PM
George Monbiot makes some "interesting" claims himself. Apparently the next strategy for terrorists is to run around turning lights on. Perhaps Walt Disney World is actually a WMD by the tourists it attracts??
"Everything we thought was good turns out also to be bad. It is an act of kindness to travel to your cousin’s wedding. Now it is also an act of cruelty. It is a good thing to light the streets at night. Climate change tells us it kills more people than it saves. We are killing people by the most innocent means: turning on the lights, taking a bath, driving to work, going on holiday."
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/05/24/a-restraint-of-liberty/#more-932
Posted by: Richard | May 24, 2005 09:36 AM
Here is an interesting article about censorship: http://www.geofffox.com/MT/archives/2005/05/06/global_warming_revisited.php
"Dr Peiser submitted his findings to Science in January, and was asked to edit his paper for publication - but has now been told that his results have been rejected on the grounds that the points he make had been "widely dispersed on the internet"."
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Posted by: Calvin Jones | July 22, 2005 05:42 PM