E continua ... diversas leituras feitas em Dezembro sobre as questões das alterações climáticas (I)

Acumulei muito material durante o mês de Dezembro: vou começar a colocá-lo à vista de todos. Este é a primeira nota de arrumação:

• The coming climate panic? « Climate Progress: "Will U.S. conservatives usher in the era of permanently big government? January 1, 2010 This decade will largely determine whether humanity gets on the path to a low-carbon economy fast enough to avert catastrophic climate change. And the single biggest obstacle to action today is the same as it’s been for two decades — anti-science conservatives. As Revkin explained in 2008 piece about a major conference of disinformers, “The one thing all the attendees seem to share is a deep dislike for mandatory restrictions on greenhouse gases.” What unites these people is their desire to delay or stop action to cut GHGs, not any one particular view on the climate (see Krauthammer, Part 2: The real reason conservatives don’t believe in climate science)." I have made a different argument in my book and on this blog — if you hate government intrusion into people’s lives, you’d better stop catastrophic global warming, because nothing drives a country more towards activist government than scarcity and deprivation. Small, relatively unintrusive democratic government works best when there is abundance and prosperity, so people and cities and states and countries aren’t fighting over critical necessities and other matters of life and death (see “Veterans Day, 2029“). 
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• The denial industry case notes | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "My Guardian Comment column this week is about how the climate denial industry achieves its aims. What follows is a list of footnotes and references to go with that article" e The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian: "Think environmentalists are stooges? You're the unwitting recruit of a hugely powerful oil lobby – I've got the proof. Read the case notes for this article here" 
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• Anti-science groups funded by ExxonMobil hype email story « Climate Progress: "[...] Note that the oil giant had said it would stop funding the anti-scientific disinformers, but that was one more lie (see “Another ExxonMobil deceit: They are still funding climate science disinformers despite public pledge“). Over the past decade, oil giant Exxon Mobil has paid millions to organizations and “think tanks” in an attempt to deceive the public about the science behind global climate change. It’s no surprise that those very same organizations are now doing everything in their power to please their benefactor by drawing attention to the so-called “Climategate” scandal involving hacked emails from the University of East Anglia in England." 
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• Copenhagen climate summit: Nearly half the world will suffer from water shortages 'within 30 years| Climate Ark': "Global leaders gathering at the Copenhagen climate change summit urgently need to address the fact that 40pc of the world will suffer from water shortages within 30 years, according to the chief executive of Suez Environnement, Europe's second biggest water company."