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Nuclear Fission Can Help Solve George Monbiot’s Environmentalist Dilemma

May 16, 2011 by Rod Adams
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George Monbiot has recently published some thought provoking articles about the dilemmas facing people who are focused on protecting the natural environment. Those articles have made me think hard about trying to share my own thoughts on the matter, perhaps offering a way of overcoming at least some of the challenges.One of my favorite... [read more]

Monbiot: There is no simple way to battle public hostility to climate research. As the psychologists show, facts barely sway us anyway

March 18, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: what would it take to persuade you? In most cases the answer seems to be nothing. No level of evidence can shake the growing belief that climate science is a giant conspiracy codded up by boffins and governments to tax and control us. That’s UK... [read more]

Munk debate on climate change gets it wrong

December 2, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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I’ve just returned from the Munk Debate featuring Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, Guardian columnist and Heat author George Monbiot, the skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, and British global-warming skeptic and author Nigel Lawson, who insists on having “Lord” precede his name. At debate was the following statement: “... [read more]

Fighting For Windmills

September 12, 2009 by Big Gav
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The Guardian has a debate between 2 factions of doomer thought - George Monbiot arguing for a relatively optimistic radical transformation of the present against Paul Kingsnorth's darker vision - Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse?.Dear GeorgeOn the desk in front of me is a set of graphs. The horizontal... [read more]

Deniers on parade

August 24, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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If you want a couple of quick, albeit stomach-turning examples of the tactics the deniers and their ideological friends will stoop to, I can't think of anything more fitting than these two: Climate Progress: Obama’s science adviser targeted by smear campaign: [Quoting a Huffington Post piece, linked from the original] Conservative... [read more]

What Is Progress?

December 6, 2007 by Jesse Jenkins
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George Monbiot recently wrote a piece in The Guardian about what a new international climate treaty should do. His piece is below:When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist. Let me show you why.There is now a broad... [read more]