Ecologist and tourism consulant Richard Ladle is worried that blogs are harming both public support for pro-environmental policies and the minds of impressionable children. What to do about these people talking about science?:
This transition from individuals consuming their environmental news from traditional sources such as newspapers and television to selecting their news from the "electronic buffet" of the internet could have profound implications for the environmental movement and, for that matter, news providers such as the BBC.The challenge has been laid down: how to effectively communicate in this new virtual world of shifting environmental values and consumption patterns?
There are no easy answers but if we don't respond quickly we run the risk of creating a generation of eco-illiterate consumers and voters at a crucial time for the Earth's diminishing resources.
In a related story, the BBC reports that global warming is now causing glaciers to grow and summers to be cooler.
Is that bad or good?
UPDATE:
The climate goes retro!
Global cooling's all poised for a comeback.
Heh, it bothers them greatly that they can't jam their BS down our throats anymore without getting fisked.
"I love the smell of a lying psuedoscientist cooking in his own BS early in the morning.
It smells like the defeat of another chicken little claim that the sky is falling and we're all going to die tommorow for the sin of living."
(Appologies to Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Duvall in 'Apocalypse Now')
Posted by: Gmac at August 25, 2006 09:20 PMIt's scary what children can stumble across on the Internet. Maybe he can come up with some kind of filter.
Posted by: Donnah at August 25, 2006 11:12 PMGlobal warming can increase the size of glaciers under the right conditions, ie. when land mass begins to receive more moisture in the form of snow than it previously received. An increase in snowfall over a glaciated landmass will increase the size and mass of the glacier. An increase in snowfall can be triggered by slightly warmer annual temperatures because the atmosphere's ability to retain moisture increases with its temperature.
Should we really be discussing this? I don't think any of us are ordained eco-evangelists.
Posted by: Donnah at August 28, 2006 12:20 PMAddendum: http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,05394.cfm
Gorey Truths: 25 Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore or as I like to put it:
25 inconveinent facts to make envirowhackomentalists pull their hair out.
Nah, I'm no ordained eco-evangelist but I get pretty steamed when they start tossing my tax dollars at rathole idea's that accomplish nothing but feel good initiatives and enriching some insider that put a bug in the critters head.
Posted by: Gmac at August 28, 2006 02:38 PM