The Observer
A leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that claimed man-made global warming is a myth. Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, was 'grossly distorted' and 'as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two'. MORE...
CNN
The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water. At the same time, tens of millions of others will be flooded out of their homes each year as the Earth reels from rising temperatures and sea levels, according to portions of a draft of an international scientific report obtained by The Associated Press. MORE...
Associated Press
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that global warming posed the same threat to humanity as war and warned of an "unconscionable legacy" being left for future generations. In a speech to a UN International School Conference, Ban acknowledged that the "majority" of the UN's work still focuses on the prevention and resolution of conflict.
"But the danger posed by war to all of humanity -- and to our planet -- is at least matched by the climate crisis and global warming," he said. MORE...
Japan has had the warmest winter ever and central Tokyo has seen no snow so far -- the first time since records began, the official weather forecaster said on Friday. "We have never seen a year without snow in the central Tokyo area. We started taking snow records in 1877," an official with Japan's Meteorological Agency said. "If central Tokyo does not see snow before long, it will be for the first time since then." MORE...
The United Nation's International Panel on Climate Change released a report on Feb. 2 which stated in no uncertain terms that since the middle of the 20th century, humans have been the main driver of global warming.
The a IPCC report issued in 2001, stated that it was "likely," meaning there was a 66 percent chance, that humans were causing global warming.
Scientists stated in the 2007 IPPC assessment, which was released this month, there is a 90 percent probability that global warming is caused by human activity.
Associated Press
Last year was the warmest on record for the United States, with readings pushed over higher than normal by the unusual and unseasonably warm weather during the last half of December.
Preliminary data from the National Climatic Data Center listed the average temperature for the 48 contiguous U.S. states last year as 55 degrees Fahrenheit (12.8 Celsius). That is 2.2 degrees (1.2 Celsius) ) warmer than average and 0.07 (0.04 Celsius) degrees warmer than 1998, the previous warmest year on record. MORE...
Why did the National Science Teachers' Association refuse a gift of 50,000 DVDs of "An Inconvenient Truth," the award-winning film about Global Warming, while they distribute a film produced by the oil industry?
Hopefully by now you've seen "An Inconvenient Truth," the scary but true film on global warming. If not, as they say..., JUST DO IT.
The film is already required reading for ALL students in Norway and Sweden. So you'd think that if a gift was made to the National Science Teachers' Association of 50,000 copies of the film, they would at least make it available to teachers if they choose to show it. Well think again.
Turns out, NSTA refused the gift. Some people wondered why, and with a little investigation work found that an Exxon Mobile executive sits on their Board of Advisers, and they have received over $6 million from the oil industry. In their letter refusing the gift, they blatantly said they didn't want to jeopardize their funding.
Is this anything but pure censorship -- with corporations filtering the truth from your children?
In this radio interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviews the producer of the film, as they tell the strange tale of how the gift was refused and what they found about oil companies funding the NSTA.
This is very disturbing! Have your kid's teachers listen to this interview and complain to the Association!
For more great RFK Jr. Radio, go to Ring of Fire Radio.
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