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Perhaps someone should tell the Mad Monk… Seemingly disconnected, these far-flung disasters are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes.The collective answer of the scientific community can be boiled down to a single word: probably. via In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming – NYTimes.com.  Rodney Tiffen writes on the last of three inquiries into the so-called Climategate emails however in his conclusion that the media created damage to popular support for action on carbon he fails to state the obvious question. Why? Why did the mainstream media give so much credence and coverage to what was transparently a sensationalist stunt [...] Three months after the explosion and fire that killed 11 workers and released millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico BP seems to have finnally manged to cap the well. Kent Wells (unfortunate name) announced rather stupidly that “I am very excited that there’s no oil in the Gulf of Mexico,” I am [...] Union Climate Connectors joined volunteers from The Climate Project and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in a day of direct democracy. We met politicians at Parliament House to tell them, “Get on with it! The hundreds of thousands of Australians we represent and connect with want you to act on climate change.” As the tropical storm season kicks in BP’s dubious contribution to a better world continues to poison the gulf with “current official estimates suggesting between 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day are leaking from the rogue well.” BP estimates it has collected over 24,000 barrels on Friday and about 11,640 barrels in the first half [...] Despite reports that oil continues to leak into the gulf at an alarming rate the continuing pressure on the stock of BP and the need for other oil companies to stay afloat has forced one man, a judge in the US, to overturn the Obama moratorium on new oil wells in the Gulf. Oil companies [...] Memory of the tragic Greek protests of a few weeks ago are fading fast, washed away in the never ending gush of Gulf Oil or rendered insignificant by Israeli bloody arrogance.Yet something in this report on Dublin protest organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement struck me as defining the greater problem. Maybe it’s the slogan [...] BP’s Robert Dudley and Obama Administration’s Carol Browner singing from the same song book…it works everywhere else and it worked before so it must be right. He (Dudley) also said that the failure of the blowout preventer, the mechanism that was meant to cut off the flow of oil in case of an emergency, is “something [...] Another depressing instalment in BP’s disaster. Oil workers killed, a quarter of the Gulf declared off limits to fishing, millions of litres of oil and dispersant dumped into the ocean and a criminal series of mismanagement before and after the explosion on Deepwater Horizon. BP’s response…relief wells and they are not expected to be working [...] Obama’s sudden public posturing on Deepwater is all the more curious in light of this article over at Thruthout. If the buck stop with Mr Obama, it would be fascinating to know why the subject of a criminal investigation isn’t on the public agenda. The public admission by BP of an environmental disaster may be [...] |
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