UN Biodiversity Officials Fail Transparency Test – ‘Provides no CVs for most members of its influential panel’
https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2019/05/13/un-biodiversity-folk-fail-transparency-test/ By Donna Laframboise IPBES provides no CVs for most members of its influential panel. The United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is a clone of the IPCC, the UN’s climate body. But there are some notable differences. We’re told that a great deal of power resides with the Multidisciplinary […]
Claim: Joe Biden’s Climate Views are Not Radical Enough to Win Democrat Nomination
Claim: Joe Biden’s Climate Views are Not Radical Enough to Win Democrat Nomination https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/13/claim-joe-bidens-climate-views-are-not-radical-enough-to-win-democrat-nomination/ Guest essay by Eric Worrall Biden has yet to formally announce a climate policy, but hints that a Biden presidency might allow industrial civilisation to survive have angered Democrat activists. Could climate change submerge Joe Biden’s presidential bid? The former vice-president […]
Not Threatened By Climate Change: Bengal Tigers
Not Threatened By Climate Change: Bengal Tigers https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/14/not-threatened-by-climate-change-bengal-tigers/ Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The Big Cats — lions, tigers, panthers, cougars, leopards — have always fascinated and frightened mankind. Tales of tigers and lions — once they have gotten a taste for human flesh — terrorizing villages as they search for another human to eat […]
WINNING: Even Millennials Don’t Care President Trump is a Climate Skeptic
WINNING: Even Millennials Don’t Care President Trump is a Climate Skeptic https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/14/winning-even-millennials-dont-care-president-trump-is-a-climate-skeptic/ Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Trump’s approval ratings are higher than President Obama’s approval was at this stage of the Obama Presidency. Trump approval at 51%, winning millennials, trusted more than Democrats on economy by Paul Bedard | May 14, 2019 10:01 AM […]
Brazil cancels UN climate conference, sacks militant Greenie, calls environmentalists an ‘industry’ – ‘Unashamedly backing out of green schemes’
http://joannenova.com.au/2019/05/brazil-cancels-climate-conference-sacks-militant-committee-head/ By Jo Nova Brazil, eighth largest economy in the world is unashamedly backing out of green schemes. In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro is “dismantling” environmental agencies and missions. Brazil pulled out of hosting the 2019 U.N. climate summit, and has now canceled a United Nations climate change event that was to be held in […]
Spiked: ‘Teen climate school strike leader Greta Thunberg: Autistic prophet?’ – ‘Climate science is elevated to the status of revealed truth, as ‘The Science’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/07/greta-thunberg-autistic-prophet/ By Michael Fitzpatrick Excerpt: ‘I speak on behalf of future generations’ was Thunberg’s opening line in her speech to British parliamentarians. These are indeed the words of a prophet – one claiming an even bigger constituency than the ‘99 per cent’ of humanity whom the Occupy Movement of 2011/2012, forerunner of today’s Extinction Rebellion, […]
Heh! Mini AOC Is Back To Explain The Green New Deal
https://lidblog.com/mini-aoc-back-funnier/ by Joe Newby And Jeff Dunetz | May 14, 2019 | Politics 226SHARES Share Tweet On Monday morning, Ava Martinez, the adorable young eight-year-old known on Twitter as “Mini AOC,” posted another video to Twitter mocking newly-elected Democrat Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Green New Deal. “Like, hello America, AOC here again,” she said […]
Biden Defends His Record on Climate Change, Tells AOC to ‘Calm Down’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/14/joe-biden-defends-his-record-on-climate-change-tells-critics-to-calm-down/ Former Vice President Joe Biden defended his record on climate change on Tuesday, asking critics like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to “calm down” until he releases his plan. “I’ve never been middle of the road on the environment … This is a long campaign and everybody should calm down a little bit,” Biden said to reporters […]
Joe Biden under pressure from left on climate change
https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-under-pressure-left-climate-change-195325315.html Washington (AFP) – Democratic 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden was forced into defending his environmental record Tuesday after a popular progressive in Congress demanded presidential hopefuls abandon a “middle-of-the-road” approach to combatting climate change.
Jared Diamond in NY Mag His New Book, Upheaval: ‘The chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050’
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/jared-diamond-on-his-new-book-upheaval.html Excerpt: We have to solve climate change because if we don’t solve climate change but we deal with a nuclear holocaust, we’re finished. If we solve climate change and don’t have a nuclear holocaust but we continue with unsustainable resource use, we’re finished. And if we deal with the nuclear problem and climate change […]