Posts tagged Bad News

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Climate Change Scepticism On The Rise?

BBC News has caused controversy with a new public opinion poll on climate change. In a poll asking “Do you think global warming is taking place?” 25% of the British public replied No. This is a 10% increase from the 15% that replied no in the same poll only 3 months ago.

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So what does this mean? BBC News has interpreted this poll to mean that “climate scepticism is on the rise“. I interpreted this poll to show that the BBC are stupid. Firstly, you will often catch me reinforcing the point that public opinion on climate change is totally irrelevant. We cannot simply wish away the damage we have done and continue to do to our environment. Second, the question. The question was not ‘Do you think climate change is taking place?’. They blatantly substituted the correct phrase for global warming, one possible effect of climate change, only to then call it a phrase on climate change. But perhaps the stupidest part of this servery is the timing. It is hardly surprising that less people will believe the world is getting hotter, weeks after their country experiences one of the coldest and snowiest winters on record. Had you asked them if they thought the climate was changing, perhaps we would have very different statistics.

Verdict: BBC Fail (Again) See here for previous fails.

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Highway to Hate

We have all laughed hard recently at Obama’s supposed Nazi leanings, but it seems that the real life Nazi Party is alive and thriving in the USA in 2010. It has been ruled that the ‘National Socialist Movement’s sponsorship of highways in thestate of Colorado cannot be blocked on constitutional grounds. The far-right group will be picking up Trash along Colorado’s highways. In exchange they have been allowed to erect signs along the roadways. Signs like this:

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This is a 100% genuine roadsign alongside a Colorado highway. Must be a real heart warming sight for any WWII veterans passing by. Whether the states image of the Nazi ideology can be rehabilitated by trash free verges and Stormtroopers planting flowers is doubtful. One thing is for sure, this is a true moment of WTF for Colorado.

Haiti Earthquake – Stop Squabbling

Can you believe this comment made following the Haiti earthquake?

I notice from TV that there is a christian 1 million aid…. wonder where the muslim aid is?……

Christian aid, muslim aid it matters not – what matters is we do what we can to help send urgent aid to the victims of the Haiti earthquake catastrophe, not just re-build Haiti, if you re-build an outhouse its still an outhouse – what we need to do is “build” Haiti into atleast a 2nd world country. If Brazil can be borderline 1st world and  2/3rd of them live in shanty towns, then the least Haiti deserves is a couple of schools and maybe a hospital. Put the Muslim bashing to one side its isnt’ the time or the place for petty your God is bigger than my God stuff (I do have some issues with fundermentalism but painting all Muslims with that brush is wrong).

How about we all say this weekend the 1st drink we buy will be for Haiti and drop a fiver in the box? Lets just pray its enough.

In Peace

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