In the course of Why Channel 4 has got it wrong over climate change Robin McKie says:
The Observer's travel desk already gets hate mail merely for highlighting interesting destinations that might seem to encourage carbon-producing air travel
Well no. Without condoning the hate mail (which probably isn't) the grauniad and observer frequently (almost always) runs travel sections on places you can only plausibly get to by air. They do this because their readers want them to. They run these alongside articles bemoaning the rise of CO2 from air travel. Its a contradiction they would do better admitting than try to pretend away.
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Forget smoking cessation. This is a patch everyone can use. From the August 10 edition of ScripNews (subscription only):
There are a lot of industries that will suffer mightily if there were an influenza pandemic so it's hard to single out any one that will be hit harder. But among the most vulnerable certainly must be the travel industry. At the height of a pandemic the problem is probably moot.
I've been getting questions about whether it is safe to send sons and daughters to travel to places where there might be a lot of swine flu about. Many are from people in North America whose children are due to travel to Asia or Africa.
NASA is putting together a memo giving guidance on conference funding and travel under the 2009 fiscal year budget.
University scientists may be allowed to travel on NASA funds, when all is clear.
This is from SARA:
William, is 'greenyness' (greeniness?) another coining drawing on the Colbert Rule (ie based on the 'truthiness' model)? Is it yours? (Colbertiness-spotting has become a minor hobby of mine...)
[I made it up myself -W]
Mr or Ms Robin McKie didn't notice one key detail about the "conspiracies": in the case of the global warming, it is the alarmists who are the conspiracy theorists and who argue that a conspiracy of humans is going to create something really big.
A person who doesn't believe conspiracy theories and who prefers a rational and natural explanation is normally called a skeptic.