A Few Media Updates
This week's edition of Newsweek (available on-line), features a large section on leadership and the environment. Lots of information here, and a surprise or two. The print issue features California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the cover, and the cover story talks about the Republican's leadership role on green issues in the state and beyond California's borders. With California being the 6th largest economy in the world, the influences of changes made there spread far and wide.
I was surprised to see a column written by Richard Lindzen among the rest of the material in Newsweek. Lindzen argues that "The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week."
Also from the media files, The Discovery Channel, along with some of the other members of the Discovery family, notably Discovery Science and Discovery Times are heavily promoting their line-ups for next weekend, in celebration of Earth Day. Programming will include shows on alternative energy and global warming.
Comments (3)
Our total environment shapes us. The weather is an important part of our environment, but our peers shape us also {and we them}. My secret suggestion to you is to hedge your bets on this avalance of manmade global warming hysteria. Am I stupid enough to advocate that you suddenly become a
contrarian? Nope, the reality of all politics is that there is more quicksand than firm ground to stand upon.
Doyle Allen
Raleigh, NC
Posted by doyle allen | April 16, 2007 10:26 AM
more people like Lindzen are needed to be heard. This global warming scare is just a money making scheme for has beens, and never weres like Gore and Suzuki. Any computer projections are only as good as the data inputted. If the scare mongers want global warming, their data input reflexs that. How much money has Gore made on his "crusade?".
Glenn Jones
Alberta, Canada
Posted by Glenn Jones | April 17, 2007 3:32 PM
that was an interesting question about how much Al Gore is making with his "crusade". He appeared recently at Arizona State University for a $100,000.00 speaking fee. Well I guess all of those carbon credits are expensive.
Robert Yohn
Tucson AZ
Posted by Robert Yohn | April 21, 2007 4:38 AM