(November 30, 2009) For anyone who doubts the power of the Internet to shine light on darkness, the news of the month is how digital technology helped uncover a secretive group of scientists who suppressed data, froze others out of the debate, and flouted freedom-of-information laws.
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Fair Prices for Farmers: Simple Idea, Complex Reality
Despite good intentions, most consumers who shop according to their social convictions don’t know how much of their money makes it to the people they hope to help. Critics say too many fair trade dollars wind up in the pockets of retailers and middlemen, including nonprofit organizations.
Ethiopia’s Tekeze Dam fiasco
(November 28, 2009) The recently completed Tekeze hydroelectric dam in Ethiopia is said to be the largest public works project in Africa. It also could turn in to the biggest blunder with disastrous environmental impact, as the investigative report below tries to illustrate. There is so much secrecy surrounding the project that it is not even clear who really paid for it, although the ruling Woyanne junta claims that it has provided all the funding.
Google’s climate ‘scholars’
(November 27, 2009) Methods used to tabulate the number of experts who are skeptical of climate change leave something to be desired.
100,000 face drinking water shortages in central China city
(November 27, 2009) The decline of water level in the Xiangjiang River, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, has affected the drinking water supply for more than 100,000 people in central China’s Xiangtan City.
How to Forge a Consensus
(November 26, 2009) The impression left by the Climategate emails is that the global warming game has been rigged from the start.
A heated debate
(November 26, 2009) Why political orthodoxy must not silence scientific argument.
Mael-strom
(November 26, 2009) Leaked e-mails do not show climate scientists at their best.
Cordillera: Decommission San Roque Dam at Hearing
The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) reiterated its position for the decommissioning of the San Roque Dam during the 8th public hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Climate Change.
Cooking the climate books
(November 25, 2009) The Climategate e-mails seem to suggest that much of what the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims is "settled science" is based on data manipulated to confirm assertions that man is dangerously altering our climate.
The voices of climate change sceptics
(November 24, 2009) Former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson says he is not a climate change denier but is ‘sceptical’ about global warming policy.
The Knights Carbonic
(November 23, 2009) Yes, the hacked climate emails are damaging. But here’s the one you’d need to see if you wanted to show that manmade global warming is a scam.
Ethiopia’s Tekeze dam limps into operation
(November 23, 2009) The vastly over-budget and long-delayed Tekeze hydro-electric in Ethiopia is finally finished. The project, which was first proposed seven years ago and was scheduled to be competed in 2008, in the end cost $360-million—$136-million over budget.
In Climate Hack Story, Could Talk of Cover-Up Be as Serious as Crime?
(November 23, 2009) The University of East Anglia, whose stolen documents caused a furor of excitement among climate skeptics over the weekend, said today that it had called in police to investigate possible criminal activity. But university researchers may also find themselves in legal jeopardy if they deleted emails requested under the U.K.’s Freedom of Information (FOIA) legislation, a crime under U.K. law.
Green totalitarianism
(November 23, 2009) Lord Lawson was right to call in today’s Times for an inquiry into the global warming scandal.
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