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Australian Prime Minister on climate change sceptics

Nov 8, ’09 12:51 PM

Aus­tralian Prime Min­is­ter on cli­mate change scep­tics:

… these do-nothing cli­mate change scep­tics are pre­pared to des­troy our children’s future … cli­mate change skep­tics in all their guises and dis­guises are not con­ser­vat­ives. They are rad­ic­als. They are reck­less gam­blers who are bet­ting all our futures on their arrog­ant assump­tion that their intu­itions should tri­umph over the evidence.

My mes­sage to the cli­mate change skep­tics … is this: You are bet­ting our children’s future and the future of our grand­chil­dren. You are bet­ting our jobs, our houses, our farms, our reefs, our eco­nomy and our future on an intu­ition – on a gut feel­ing; on a polit­ical pre­ju­dice you have about science.

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Climate change denial spreading like a contagious disease

Nov 7, ’09 12:13 AM

George Mon­biot spec­u­lates on reas­ons for the spread of cli­mate change denial.

There is no point in deny­ing it: we’re los­ing. Cli­mate change denial is spread­ing like a con­ta­gious disease.

There are some obvi­ous answers … But there might also be a less intu­it­ive reason, which shines a light into a fas­cin­at­ing corner of human psychology ..

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Neptune Storm

Nov 5, ’09 10:05 PM

May I present Nep­tune Storm by Night Star Fire­works.

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Iran should tell the West to fuck off

Nov 2, ’09 7:37 PM

As part of nego­ti­ations with Iran over nuc­lear fuel Mohamed ElBaradei of the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency recently pro­posed that Iran trans­fer about 70 per­cent of its low-enriched uranium to Rus­sia for fur­ther enrich­ment by the end of this year, then to France for con­ver­sion into fuel plates for med­ical use, effect­ively neg­at­ing its use in alleged poten­tial nuc­lear weapons.

Iran has appar­ently made the per­fectly jus­ti­fi­able sug­ges­tion that rather than send their fuel off, and cross their fin­gers that it comes back, they instead do a dir­ect swap of their low-enriched uranium for fuel plates. This makes even more sense when you real­ise that the U.S. and France have reneged on com­mer­cial deals in the past to sup­ply Iran with nuc­lear fuel.

Accord­ing to this Reu­ters report (typ­ic­ally vague on sources) this sug­ges­tion is “unac­cept­able” to “West­ern diplomats.”

If you wanted evid­ence that these nego­ti­ations are not being car­ried out in good faith then here you have it. What does it mat­ter to the West if a dir­ect swap is made? The only reason it could mat­ter is that peace is not the West’s aim.

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