Burn the Future

dalekboy has a report from The Guardian: a think-tank funded by ExxonMobil and linked to the Bush administration has offered scientists cash to cast doubt on the IPCC's report Climate Change 2007. (Greenpeace comments: "They lost on the science; they lost on the moral case for action. All they've got left is a suitcase full of cash.")

Meanwhile Down Under, angriest responds to the PM's assertion that "There is undeniable evidence that our climate is changing but the answer is not knee-jerk responses that harm the national interest." (The Kyoto Protocol will be ten years old this year.)

You know, there was a time when rulers could only manipulate religion to political ends. Then we hadda go invent science.

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Having a trough. Not as bad as this poor pussy cat. In fact this afternoon I was beginning to suspect myself of malingering, then failed to be able to conduct a simple conversation about possibly getting together with shellshear. Will simply have to wait for neurons to knit back together.

Weirdly, written language seems much easier to handle than spoken, I suppose because it's not in real time. I wrote 1000 words, albeit very slowly, and yesterday was able to blog crap even when I wasn't capable of anything else besides sitting in the same position for minutes at a time.

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