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That's your opinion. There are plenty of scientists doing good work every day who don't support your assertion. There are plenty of citizens who know more than you give them credit for. And I would say that advocating we change our ways is not fear mongering, that is also information. Fear...

Canadian air drops 'save lives', avoid risky Afghan roads Matthew FisherCanWest News Service Sunday, September 30, 2007 Capt. Aidan Costelloe, left, briefs his C-130 Hercules crew before an airdrop. His loadmaster, Sgt. Rob Gearns looks on.ABOVE GHORAK, Afghanistan - Canada has begun making...

It's not outrageous at all. http://www.odi.org.uk/Publications/briefing/bp_july04_cotton.pdf When a farmer is only receiving $200 currently for a years worth of harvest (before accounting for pesticide and other farm costs), a distorted commodity price hurts the small farmers very much...

Okay, so maybe not loan sharking, but disturbing none the less. Recent grads losing millions in post-secondary tax credits: group Last Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2007 | 8:34 PM ET The Canadian Press Advocates for student loan reform are crying...

Dry cleaner closes after $67 million lawsuit over lost pants By LUBNA TAKRURI Associated Press WASHINGTON — The owners of a dry cleaner who were sued for $54 million over a missing pair of pants have closed and sold the shop involved in the dispute, their...

September 26, 2007 Op-Ed Columnist Lead, Follow or Move Aside By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN China today is entering a really delicate phase on the climate-energy issue — the phase I like to call “The Wal-Mart environmental moment.” I wish the same could be said of America and President Bush...

Global Poll: All Countries Need to Take Major Steps on Climate Change September 24, 2007Full Report (PDF) Questionnaire/Methodology (PDF) Large majorities around the world believe that human activity causes global warming and that strong action must be taken, sooner rather than...

What you call fear mongering, I call the bridging of the gap between what the public knows and what science tells us. Also, I could easily make the case for denialists and their fear mongering ways. Carbon credits absolutely do work. That all you can say is something about Al Gore shows your...

September 19, 2007 Sunny Outlook: Can Sunshine Provide All U.S. Electricity? Large amounts of solar-thermal electric supply may become a reality if steam storage technology works—and new transmission infrastructure...

The Nation Wed Sep 19, 2:23 PM ET The Nation-- Today the US Senate fell four votes short of restoring Habeas Corpus, the fundamental constitutional...

The bill which received Royal Assent on June 22nd, is nearing the end of the public consultation phase. There has so far been very little input, and without adequate input from the public, which becomes legally admissible to the process, the Government will be able to fulfill this...

And the political reality is that the majority of citizens are concerned with what they see. Never mind the reconstructions and proxies and forcings and solar constants, regular people are noticing the effects. Do you know how many times I heard global warming on my Aquaculture field trip this...

Something in the 10,000 posts thread reminded me of a little problem my universities associated granting body, Dalhousie University, is having. This summer, a Facebook group surfaced which borders on defamation of the university. The creator alleges that she has been down in the labs where there...

Russia unveils its ‘vacuum bomb' Reuters September 11, 2007 at 5:21 PM EDT MOSCOW — Russia has tested the world's most...

A kilogram ain't what it used to be Last Updated: Thursday, September 13, 2007 | 8:21 AM ET The Associated Press The official kilogram, a 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris...

The Government has been holding closed door consultations to try to ease laws, making access to telephone and internet records easier. The proposed plan would give enforcement agencies access to these records without a court order or other legal justification. Just recently, a US judge ruled...

Sounds awesome Juan. Thanks for sharing!

Water vapour is not the most powerful greenhouse gas, it is the largest greenhouse gas component by volume. Chlorofluorocarbons are the strongest greenhouse gas. Water vapour does not even reach the upper atmosphere, where we see increased absorption of the infrared through other greenhouse...

Steve Milloy of Junkscience has ties to Exxon. He helped develop the Global Climate Action Team. Millions of dollars invested to infuse manufactured uncertainty into the information on climate science, much like the tobacco companies did, whom Steven Milloy also has ties to.

I grow tired of the pointless waltz Extra. So here it is. Governments, corporations and the academic world have embraced the science which concludes we have a major effect on the climate, that our contribution represents more than 50% of attributed warming in the past 200 years or so. I have...