Swimming to the North Pole
After all the bad news I've heard about the environment and what we're doing to it, you'd think it would be hard to be shocked anymore - and then something: a fact; a statistic; a statement; an image - comes along and I'm straight back there gawping at the insanity of it all.
Like with this photo of the North Pole which accompanies the fact that "Arctic ice cover had disappeared so much last month that a ship could sail unhindered from Europe's most northerly outpost to the North Pole itself." Reported by Agence France-Presse and presented via Yahoo News.
2 comments:
Surely not James...
I mean, if all that were true would articles like this not stop and hang their heads in shame...?
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles/archives/001557.html
Surely Melanie Phillips wouldn't lie to us or be serving some hidden agenda? She's so feisty and independent, not at all in thrall to big corpa...
Ah, the cynicism eats my devilry and yawns the spiral sulphurs through the nonsensesphere - we're all gonna die...
It's rather telling regarding the amount of actual science forming Phillips's opinions that she has to admit that "The version of this article published in The Daily Mail said in error that water vapour formed most of the atmosphere." Rather typical of a lazy journalism that wants to batter the reader into submission with opinion rather than substance.
I enjoyed George Monbiot's latest spat with Phillips (and the other "Fossil Fools") played out on Channel 4 News, where he sat there with the facts and all she could muster to defend her foundationless claptrap was go somebody said this, somebody said that. Monbiot chasing down her somebodies revealed them as the corporate PR apologists cloaked in eco colthes that they are.
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