How to combat modern slavery - 27 millions in 2010

In this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories from his on-the-ground research -- and names the price of freeing every slave on earth right now.

Earth Hour participation in Canada fell 14.7% this year.

On average the participation to Earth Hour lost 14,7% in 2010 compared to 2009.
Only Québec when up 1%, all other provinces fell.



I am not a big fan of those events myself. This article by Donna Laframboise and Ross McKitrick will give you a sense of how I feel about those type of events.

Poll Source

The Climate Peer-Review Process: Hopelessly Broken

Source

The Climategate scandal showed how several of the world's top climate scientists were hell bent on keeping "skeptical" views out of the scientific literature and in particular, the IPCC reports.  If you wanted an illustration of how this actually worked in practice, then economist Ross McKitrick has a doozy for you.

Ross realized that one of the IPCC's central claims, one that could be regarded as foundational, was fabricated and provably false.  He wrote a paper demonstrating this and proceeded to be given the run-around by every climatic journal he submitted it to, despite mostly positive reviews.  In the end he had to publish it in a statistical journal, where it will likely be ignored by the climate science clique community.

Ross concludes:

In the aftermath of Climategate a lot of scientists working on global warming-related topics are upset that their field has apparently lost credibility with the public. The public seems to believe that climatology is beset with cliquish gatekeeping, wagon-circling, biased peer-review, faulty data and statistical incompetence. In response to these perceptions, some scientists are casting around, in op-eds and weblogs, for ideas on how to hit back at their critics. I would like to suggest that the climate science community consider instead whether the public might actually have a point.

Read the whole thing by downloading Ross's paper here (PDF link).

Roger Pielke Jr agrees with Ross here, noting:

This is exactly the situation that has occurred in the context of disaster losses that I have documented on numerous occasions. In the case of disaster losses, not only did the IPCC make stuff up, but when challenged, went so far as to issue a press release emphasizing the accuracy of its made up stuff.

Cartoon from Cartoons By Josh.

We are afraid that "Guam will tip over" because of overpopulation!!!

WARNING: This is not a JOKE!!!

Congressman Hank Johnson asking questions to an Admiral about environmental concern on the use of the Island of Guam by the military.

Could this be the most stupid question ever asked.

You wonder how those people in office can take decisions when they believe an island could tip over!!!

Listen to the video... It is funny in a way but very worrying

That was an elected official. The man has no more concept of reality than does a child.

Nuclear: YES we can recycle.

Here's a nice virtual tour of the La Hague reprocessing plant in France.

They explain how the reprocessing plant work.


Want to understand why the USA is not recycling?
Listen to the latest podcast from Rod Adams