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Climate Change evidence doctoring by Bush investigated
The Title says it all. The investigating is by Congress at February 2007 but the tampering had occurred for years and many of us knew it was going on, so its nice to see the US Congress finally catching up with what the rest of the world knows already.
With everyone from Tony Blair to big business pledging their support for green initiatives, environmental campaigner George Monbiot investigates whether their claims to be combating climate change are just hot air. Channel4 on 5th March.
Review of the Stern Report Recommendations, and an interview with Sir Nicholas Stern himself, followed by a GEEK Report on the technological 'fixes' that are being floated. Link below will start another Newsnight item debating the Stern Report from the Newsnight website (wmv - 16 min): http://news.bbc.co.uk/media_acl/avdb/news/video/63000/bb/63699_16x9_bb.asx
Jeremy Paxman, anchor person of the BBC's flagship Current Affairs Newsnight show, presented this program on 21st December 2005, arguably a watershed item in the BBC's presentation of energy issues and climate change. Paul Mason: "The end of the oil age - Running on empty?" BBC Science Editor Susan Watts: "The end of the oil age - What cost to the planet?" BBC Historian Greg Neale: "The end of the Oil age - What comes next?" Discussed by: James Howard Kunstler, Author: The Long Emergency Tom Burke, Academic and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, who has advised Rio Tinto on environmental issues. Richard Dean North, writer and Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Sonia Shah, Author: Crude - a History of Oil. Professor Paul Ormerod, Author: Why Most things Fail. Professor Felipe Fernandez Armesto - Author: Ideas that Changed the World.
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