George Monbiot on ClimateGate & the climate denial industry

Prolific environmental campaigner and columnist, George Monbiot, explains the significance of the "ClimateGate" hacked emails affair, and why it exploded so enormously in the right-wing media.

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• COP15
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• Copenhagen
• George Monbiot
• Climategate
• CRU
• hacked emails

[abyssquick]

Climate denialism is a glaring example of two things:

1: The US public's downright scientific illiteracy and disinterest

2: The media's unconcern with facts, or being fair and balanced. By giving vastly disproportionate "voice" to that .25% of actual scientific dissent.

While the rest of the world decides the proper course of action, the USA still argues whether the phenomenon exists. The media simply ignores piles of ecological data, making people think it's just "climate scientists"....

[cbhardie]

Wee doddie does stand-up,

It takes 30 seconds for you to tell a lie dod, and 30 minutes to debunk it. That's the truth you and your ilk hide behind.

[dantronamus]

Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of todays problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time. Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution

[dantronamus]

In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways. Dr. Robert Muller, UN Assistant Secretary General

[dantronamus]

A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income. Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment. Al Gore, Earth in the Balance

[dantronamus]

Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced  a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level. UN Agenda 21

[dantronamus]

The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature. Rene Dubos, board member Planetary Citizens