Well, it seems that there have been more laps and lapses in Lima than one could shake a stick at! A close to never-ending story if ever there was one! Not the least of which were Greenpeace’s attention-seeking and appallingly disrespectful acts of destruction. Nonetheless, this annual dance to nowhere land was supposed to have…
A funny thing happened when I checked my snail-mailbox the other day … out popped an unsolicited calendar (and request for funds) – courtesy of the Canadian Wildlife Federation [CWF]: CWF, evidently has been part of the Canadian scene since 1962. Via their “interactive timeline“, I learned that (for example): As early as 1963, CWF…
I had concluded my previous post on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s declarations regarding the “great partnership” of a “global dynamic duo” i.e. the UN and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), by asking: When considering the foundations, legacies and values of the UN (and its offspring, particularly the IPCC) and those of the IOC, do we…
A few years ago, I had commented on the fact that in 2010 the United Nations (in perhaps yet another of its many endeavours to deflect attention from its abysmal failure in meeting its original mandate) took the progressive (and “precautionary”, no doubt) step of appointing a “space ambassador to greet alien visitors”. Contemporaneous news…
Last December, on the heels of a pronouncement from former United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) head honcho, Yvo de Boer, I had asked the question: Where’s the scare in AR5? The UNFCCC is the “main client” of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). de Boer had told an Australian newspaper that:…
[04/23/2013: Please note update, below -hro] A few days ago, I was taking stock of the many framings of climate. I was also wondering about the various and sundry footprints with which enviro-activists are so concerned. Here, thanks to wordle, is an illustration of what I found: I very quickly realized that I had forgotten…
Almost two years ago to the day, in my very first post, I wrote about Mike Hulme and his involvement in the circulation of a virtual chain-mail prior to Kyoto. In June of this year, during a lecture, Hulme claimed that he had completely “forgotten” about his role until he read the (first release of)…
As Andrew Montford (aka Bishop Hill) noted the other day, Donna Laframboise’s The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert is a very important work. Following an excerpt from Peter Foster’s review in the National Post, Montford wrote: Getting some MSM coverage can make a big difference to a book. The…
About a year ago (well circa Sept. 26, 2010 to be precise), there were several reports in the media that the United Nations was to appoint a “space ambassador to greet alien visitors”. One such report appeared in the U.K. Telegraph: Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, is set to be tasked with co-ordinating humanity’s response…
As I wrote yesterday, there’s a new kid on the UNEP generated alarmist block: “unprecedented loss of biodiversity seriously compounded by global warming”. Looks like the Guardian was first to jump on the biodiversity bandwagon with an editorial: Biodiversity: Variety as the spice of life Conservation is quite literally vital. This is a challenge that…
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