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IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: World Water Day; Remembering a champion of conservation; Record Canadian winter, record Beijing dust storm; No ban for the Bluefin Tuna (Sorry, Charlie!)… PLUS: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce grows its own astroturf group!… All that and more in today’s Green News Report!
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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’: USDA’s Organic regulators let offenders slide; Study backs efforts to save Delta fish; Washington becomes 5th state to outlaw BPA; Global cooling is bunk: study; Does Health Care Affect The Climate Debate At All?; Oil Co. CEO says refiners won’t invest if EPA regulates; Ford to save over $1 mil by turning off computers; EPA boosts chemical restrictions for water … PLUS: The Best Argument Against Global Warming …
Info/links on those stories and all the ones we talked about on today’s episode follow below…
- IT’S WORLD WATER DAY:
- United Nations World Water Day (World Water Day.org)
- Of All The Water in the World, Just 0.08% Makes It To Our Faucets (Infographic) (Treehugger)
- Stand In Line (Joyfully) At The World’s Longest Toilet Queue for World Water Day! (Video) (Treehugger)
- Waste Water Kills Millions Of Children, Pollutes Sea (Planet Ark)
- YOU CAN HELP: Charity:Water: Helping Haiti recover by providing long-term clean water solutions.: 100% of donations directly fund water projects in 11 areas in Haiti.
- HOW STUFF WORKS: WATER (How Stuff Works.com)
- The Story of Bottled Water: Fear, Manufactured Demand and a $10,000 Sandwich (Huffington Post Green):
- Remembering A Champion of Conservation: Stuart Udall, 1920-2010
- Stewart L. Udall, 90, Conservationist in Kennedy and Johnson Cabinets, Dies (NY Times)
- In His Own Words: Stuart Udall Interviewed by Bill Moyers (PBS Now With Bill Moyers, 11/14/2003)
- TWO MORE for the Record Books: Warmest, Driest, and Dust-Stormiest:
- Drought blankets Beijing in thick, yellow dust storm (RAW STORY)
- Massive China Sandstorm Seen from Space (Live Science)
- Sandstorms across China prompt health warnings (Globe and Mail)
- More than 50 million hit by drought in south of China
(Irish Times) - Beijing: Onslaught of The Mongolian Cyclone (Time)
- Canada’s warmest winter ever ‘beyond shocking’; Season was balmiest, driest on record.: From the balmy Arctic, to the open water of the St. Lawrence and snowless western fields, this winter has been the warmest and driest in Canadian record books. (Calgary Herald)
- Canada: Early thaw strands trucks on winter roads (AFP)
- Yes, it’s been the warmest Canadian winter on record (CBC)
- No Ban For Bluefin Tuna
- Extinction Countdown: Secret ballot kills hopes for bluefin tuna protections (Scientific American)
- Gone Fishin’: Nations now free to fish bluefin tuna to extinction (Grist)
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Grows Its Own Astroturf:
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce grows into a political force: A swelling tide of money could put the business group in a better position to sway elections. (LA Times)
- The new Capitalist Anarchy and the Lobbyist Bubble: 261,000 lobbyists signal death of ‘invisible hand,’ America’s moral compass (MarketWatch)
- As Chamber Builds Up Political Operation, Treasury Officials Express Frustration With Group’s Distortions (Think Progress)
- SOURCE WATCH: U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Source Watch)
‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’: More green news not covered in today’s audio report…
- USDA’s Organic Enforcers Let Offenders Slide, Audit Says (Greenwire)
- Study backs efforts to save delta fish (SF Gate)
- Washington becomes 5th state to outlaw bisphenol-A; other environmental bills also inked (The Olympian)
- Does Health Care Affect The Climate Debate At All? (The New Republic)
- Valero CEO says EPA rules will freeze investment (Reuters)
- Global cooling is bunk, draft NASA study finds (The Daily Climate)
- Ford to save over a million dollars by turning off computers (Gizmag)
- U.S. Bolsters Chemical Restrictions for Water (NY Times)
- The best argument against global warming (SF Gate)
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Oh, right. There isn’t one.
Ha HA! Cute but there are MANY scientific arguments against man-made global warming. And many mainstream credible scientists that think warming is not man made. Scientists are as susceptible to corruption and manipulation and error as anyone. Many are paid to report only certain data sets.
Oh right- temperatures have been flat for a decade- there was a medieval warming period warmer than our own, Mars was also warming and what else??? oh, lot’s of glaciers are growing. Just check the first comment after that guys hokey article. As if science were some perfect system!
Why not report something that is really dangerous? Like genetic manipulation of plants and animals, which brings no benefits other than profit, yet imperils our health and the health of the planet. And report how the media lies about them, esp. WSJ and NY Times and NPR, and total silence from The New Yorker. And Bill Gates just LOVES them. betcha he eats ALL organic, don’t you? Start here:
Clarence Thomas , former Monsanto lawyer, to hear case against Monsanto.
http://www.organicconsumers.org...icle_20437.cfm
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_...-to-yield.html
cheers,
cauldron
Thanks for your comment, Cauldron. We have reported on GMOs, Monsanto, and other aspects of consolidation and corporate control of global agriculture, and will continue to do so.
Yes, there are “many scientific arguments against global warming”, but all have already been examined, addressed and dismissed, or otherwise been superseded by new field data. ALL of the common zombie assertions you have made have ALL been debunked.
Luckily, you can pre-bunk yourself next time by looking up any skeptic argument you’re about to make at SkepticalScience.com. It’s the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand compilation of all the denier/skeptic arguments, with an equally accessible overview of what we currently know, and don’t know, in the science today.