Noami Oreskes on obscuring global warming

Here is science historian Noami Oreskes giving a talk back in March 2010, I think. The talk is about her book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.

Canterbury earthquake links

Here are some cool Canterbury Earthquake links

Relive your sleepless night.
Christchurch earthquake map

Bob Parker did it and he is a lizard. Did I mention he is an alien?
Bob Parker Engineered the Earth quake

See the Canterbury earthquake page on Wikipedia.
A substantive 78-footnote page has sprouted in 4 days.
Canterbury earthquake

Secret government geo-engineering vis vapour trails.
New Zealand Chem Trails

Delayers against elephants

A new group is on the political scene. "Delayers against elephants", protecting your family's right to pollution from fake elephants.

The Elephant in the room

What did I do at lunch time today? I was out with Tom Bennion as he walked up and down Lambton Quay in Wellington's CBD, in an elephant suit holding a sign saying "Time to stop flying".

The elephant in the room being Climate change.

Tom had released a media statement about why he did it.

Iraq A trillion-dollar catastrophe

Simon Jenkins writes in the Guardian that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the United States and the United Kingdom was and is A trillion dollar catastrophe.

Jenkins notes:

Two million remain abroad as refugees from seven years of anarchy, with another 2 million internally displaced. Ironically, almost all Iraqi Christians have had to flee.

Jenkins does not hold back.

It was a wild overreaction by a paranoid, overmilitarised American state to a single spectacular, but inconsequential, act of terrorism on 9/11. As such it illustrated how little international relations have advanced since the shooting of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Its exponents are still blinded by incident.

I could not agree more.