Tuesday 2 February 2010
Sunday 31 January 2010
"Al Gore's Penguin Army"
This Video was made by the DCI Group a PR firm who were hired by ExxonMobil to further confuse the public on the topic of climate change and to bad mouth Al gore's attempts to change the worlds climate situation with his film 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Retort, not really much to do with environmentalism but a valid argument.
Friday 29 January 2010
The Telegraph - Exxon Mobile
ExxonMobil funds climate-change sceptics
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, is continuing to fund researchers who cast doubt on global warming, despite public promises to cut support for climate-change sceptics.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/5720655/ExxonMobil-funds-climate-change-sceptics.html
Company records for 2008 show that ExxonMobil gave $75,000 (£45,500) to the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas and $50,000 (£30,551) to the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
It also gave $245,000 (£149,702) to the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington.
The list of donations in the company’s 2008 Worldwide Contributions and Community investments is likely to trigger further anger from environmental activists, who have accused ExxonMobil of giving tens of millions to climate change sceptics in the past decade.
All three groups have raised questions about global warming.
The Heritage Foundation published note last year that said: “Growing scientific evidence casts doubt on whether global warming constitutes a threat, including the fact that 2008 is about to go into the books as a cooler year than 2007”.
ExxonMobil promised in 2006 to stop funding climate change sceptics after it was criticised by the Royal Society for giving money to researchers who were “misinforming the public about the science of climate change”.
In its 2008 corporate citizenship report, published last year, ExxonMobil repeated that it would cut funds to several groups that “divert attention” from the need to find new sources of clean energy.
The company has cut funding to several of the more controversial groups, including Frontiers for Freedom, who said in 2007: “The truth is, there is no conclusive or reliable scientific proof that the sky is falling or that Earth’s climate is experiencing cataclysmic warming caused by man’s activities.” The George C Marshall Institute also did not receive any Exxon money last year.
The oil giant also funded a range of environmental groups last year, giving $110,000 (£67,222) to the Alliance to Save Energy, $105,000 (£64,166) to the Annapolis Center for Science-based Public Policy, $100,000 (£61,113) to the Energy research centre at Columbia University and $35,000 (£21,389) to the Center for Clean Air Policy.
A spokesman for ExxonMobil said the company reviews its contributions annually and that it had “the same concerns as people everywhere, and that is how to provide the world with the energy it needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We take the issue of climate change seriously and the risks warrant action.”
ExxonMobil donated a total of $9 million (£5.5million) to environment-related groups in 2008, and a total of $225million (£137million) to charity, 1/200th of its $45.2billion (£27.6billion) profits for the year.
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, is continuing to fund researchers who cast doubt on global warming, despite public promises to cut support for climate-change sceptics.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/5720655/ExxonMobil-funds-climate-change-sceptics.html
Company records for 2008 show that ExxonMobil gave $75,000 (£45,500) to the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas and $50,000 (£30,551) to the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
It also gave $245,000 (£149,702) to the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington.
The list of donations in the company’s 2008 Worldwide Contributions and Community investments is likely to trigger further anger from environmental activists, who have accused ExxonMobil of giving tens of millions to climate change sceptics in the past decade.
All three groups have raised questions about global warming.
The Heritage Foundation published note last year that said: “Growing scientific evidence casts doubt on whether global warming constitutes a threat, including the fact that 2008 is about to go into the books as a cooler year than 2007”.
ExxonMobil promised in 2006 to stop funding climate change sceptics after it was criticised by the Royal Society for giving money to researchers who were “misinforming the public about the science of climate change”.
In its 2008 corporate citizenship report, published last year, ExxonMobil repeated that it would cut funds to several groups that “divert attention” from the need to find new sources of clean energy.
The company has cut funding to several of the more controversial groups, including Frontiers for Freedom, who said in 2007: “The truth is, there is no conclusive or reliable scientific proof that the sky is falling or that Earth’s climate is experiencing cataclysmic warming caused by man’s activities.” The George C Marshall Institute also did not receive any Exxon money last year.
The oil giant also funded a range of environmental groups last year, giving $110,000 (£67,222) to the Alliance to Save Energy, $105,000 (£64,166) to the Annapolis Center for Science-based Public Policy, $100,000 (£61,113) to the Energy research centre at Columbia University and $35,000 (£21,389) to the Center for Clean Air Policy.
A spokesman for ExxonMobil said the company reviews its contributions annually and that it had “the same concerns as people everywhere, and that is how to provide the world with the energy it needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We take the issue of climate change seriously and the risks warrant action.”
ExxonMobil donated a total of $9 million (£5.5million) to environment-related groups in 2008, and a total of $225million (£137million) to charity, 1/200th of its $45.2billion (£27.6billion) profits for the year.
Exxon Mobile Advert
An Exxon Mobil green ad was banned in the UK because it was said to be misleading, an ad-industry watch dog reported.
“We concluded that the ad misleadingly implied that natural gas was one of the cleanest sources of energy and that liquefied natural gas was environmentally friendly,” ASA said in a statement.
Exxon on the other hand said “they accurately stated that natural gas is one of the world’s cleanest fuels and that liquefied natural gas will play an important role in delivering new energy supplies.” Just to make up your opinion here is the advertisement.
Read more: http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/09/05/exxon-green-ad-gets-banned-in-uk/#ixzz0e1OouGmf
“We concluded that the ad misleadingly implied that natural gas was one of the cleanest sources of energy and that liquefied natural gas was environmentally friendly,” ASA said in a statement.
Exxon on the other hand said “they accurately stated that natural gas is one of the world’s cleanest fuels and that liquefied natural gas will play an important role in delivering new energy supplies.” Just to make up your opinion here is the advertisement.
Read more: http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/09/05/exxon-green-ad-gets-banned-in-uk/#ixzz0e1OouGmf
Sunday 17 January 2010
Latest Sites
BBC Cotton Coverage - Uzbekistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7068096.stm
The Silencing of Uzbekistan's voice
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7073388.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7068096.stm
The Silencing of Uzbekistan's voice
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7073388.stm
Friday 8 January 2010
Thursday 7 January 2010
Latest Sites
Again a few sites i have visited to help my dissertation
The Kimberley Process:
http://www.kimberleyprocess.com/
Blood Diamond:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/trivia
Edward Zwick:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001880/
Da Beers Group (Diamond trade):
http://www.debeersgroup.com/Sustainability/Ethics/Conflict-diamonds/
The Kimberley Process:
http://www.kimberleyprocess.com/
Blood Diamond:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/trivia
Edward Zwick:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001880/
Da Beers Group (Diamond trade):
http://www.debeersgroup.com/Sustainability/Ethics/Conflict-diamonds/
Wednesday 6 January 2010
Lateset Sites
A few of the latest sites i looked at for information on my dissertation
World wide carbon emissions: click here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
Industry Of China: click here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_of_China
Gross Domestic Product explanation: click here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
China Information: click here
http://english.gov.cn/chinatoday.htm
World wide carbon emissions: click here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
Industry Of China: click here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_of_China
Gross Domestic Product explanation: click here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
China Information: click here
http://english.gov.cn/chinatoday.htm
Monday 2 November 2009
Global Warming Conspiracy Theory
HAHA
http://www.petitionproject.org/
The Link above is one to a website which is petitioning against global warming, the idea that people honestly believe that global warming is a conspiracy theory and does not actually exist is astonishing to me.
Global Warming, its effects and how it is effected is all fact, there should be no speculation abut this.
The Cause and Effect relationship between man and the earths temperature is clear.
http://www.petitionproject.org/
The Link above is one to a website which is petitioning against global warming, the idea that people honestly believe that global warming is a conspiracy theory and does not actually exist is astonishing to me.
Global Warming, its effects and how it is effected is all fact, there should be no speculation abut this.
The Cause and Effect relationship between man and the earths temperature is clear.
Sunday 20 September 2009
Marxism and the Environment
http://www.marxist.com/capitalism-environment-ecology-marxism210806.htm
Global warming – the ‘population time bomb’ – nuclear energy – pollution – environmental issues are always in the news. There is even a party – the Green Party – that claims to put the environment at the centre of its concerns. The Green Party claims to be neither right wing nor left wing as, they say, environmental issues transcend the traditional issues of class and the division between rich and poor that define conventional political discussions and divisions.
This is poppycock. Environmental issues are vitally important to us inhabitants of the planet earth. But the environmental problems, and the potential environmental catastrophe, we face are creations of the capitalist system.
Global warming – the ‘population time bomb’ – nuclear energy – pollution – environmental issues are always in the news. There is even a party – the Green Party – that claims to put the environment at the centre of its concerns. The Green Party claims to be neither right wing nor left wing as, they say, environmental issues transcend the traditional issues of class and the division between rich and poor that define conventional political discussions and divisions.
This is poppycock. Environmental issues are vitally important to us inhabitants of the planet earth. But the environmental problems, and the potential environmental catastrophe, we face are creations of the capitalist system.
Deep Ecology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology
Deep ecology is a somewhat recent branch of ecological philosophy (ecosophy) that considers humankind as an integral part of its environment. The philosophy emphasizes the equal value of human and non-human life as well as the importance of the ecosystem and natural processes. It provides a foundation for the environmental and green movements and has led to a new system of environmental ethics.
Deep ecology's core principle is the claim that, like humanity, the living environment as a whole has the same right to live and flourish. Deep ecology describes itself as "deep" because it persists in asking deeper questions concerning "why" and "how" and thus is concerned with the fundamental philosophical questions about the impacts of human life as one part of the ecosphere, rather than with a narrow view of ecology as a branch of biological science, and aims to avoid merely anthropocentric environmentalism, which is concerned with conservation of the environment only for exploitation by and for humans purposes, which excludes the fundamental philosophy of deep ecology. Deep ecology seeks a more holistic view of the world we live in and seeks to apply to life the understanding that separate parts of the ecosystem (including humans) function as a whole.
Deep ecology is a somewhat recent branch of ecological philosophy (ecosophy) that considers humankind as an integral part of its environment. The philosophy emphasizes the equal value of human and non-human life as well as the importance of the ecosystem and natural processes. It provides a foundation for the environmental and green movements and has led to a new system of environmental ethics.
Deep ecology's core principle is the claim that, like humanity, the living environment as a whole has the same right to live and flourish. Deep ecology describes itself as "deep" because it persists in asking deeper questions concerning "why" and "how" and thus is concerned with the fundamental philosophical questions about the impacts of human life as one part of the ecosphere, rather than with a narrow view of ecology as a branch of biological science, and aims to avoid merely anthropocentric environmentalism, which is concerned with conservation of the environment only for exploitation by and for humans purposes, which excludes the fundamental philosophy of deep ecology. Deep ecology seeks a more holistic view of the world we live in and seeks to apply to life the understanding that separate parts of the ecosystem (including humans) function as a whole.
Enviromental Justice Foundation
EJF - Who We Are from Environmental Justice Foundation on Vimeo.
For millions of people around the world, a degraded natural environment means hunger and brutal poverty that costs lives.
By providing film and advocacy training to partners in the global south EJF protects the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by empowering local communities to investigate, expose and peacefully resolve abuses.
EJF campaigns internationally on the issues our grassroots partners work locally to solve including cotton production, pirate fishing, shrimp farming, pesticides and wildlife.
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