DOCSLIB.ORG

SOURCE MATERIAL SINGER ADMITS HE IS FUNDED by the MOONIES [Whose Extreme Anti-Democratic, Pro-Business, Anti-Environmenta1 Views

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
SOURCE MATERIAL SINGER ADMITS HE IS FUNDED by the MOONIES [Whose Extreme Anti-Democratic, Pro-Business, Anti-Environmenta1 Views 2 SOURCE MATERIAL SINGER ADMITS HE IS FUNDED BY THE MOONIES [whose extreme anti-democratic, pro-business, anti-environmenta1 views are well-known] "When asked by Nightline [ABC NEWS TV SHOW], Dr. Singer openly acknowledged accepting free office space, science conference travel expenses and contributions from the Unification Church, as well as funding from large industries. 'Every environmental organization I know of gets funding from Exxon, Shell, Arco, Dow Chemical,' and so on,' said Singer. _/Tf it doesn't taint their science, it doesn't taint my science.'" "Gore-Gate: An Abuse of Power" in Blue Ribbon Magazine (uploaded to CompuServe) April 1994 Quotes are from Ted Koppel's ABC Nightline program "Is Science for Sale". "Vice President Gore, Koppel told his viewers, was particularly concerned about Dr. Fred Singer of the Washington, D.C.-based Science and the Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), well known for debunking the ozone depletion and global warming scares. [Blue Ribbon, as above] SINGER'S PRO-WHALING ARTICLE, PUBLISHED IN THE MOONIE-OWNED WASHINGTON TIMES, IS USED BY PR FLACK FOR JAPAN WHALING ASSOCIATION. Alan Macnow of Tele-press Associates, is the U.S. public relations agent for the Japan Whaling Association, as well as the Japanese fishing industry. He uses Fred Singer's views, without explaining Fred's connections, to bolster his campaign on the Internet to defeat a whale sanctuary (Japan has been whaling in the Antarctic). Topic 151 WHALE SANCTUARY CRITICIZED amacnow talk.environment 11:10 am May 6, 1994 Following is the text of an article written by Dr. S. Fred Singer, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, as printed in the Washington, DC, Times, on May 5, 1994. Dr. Singer directs the Science and Environmental Policy Project. Fred Singer, Expert Expert 3 SCIENTIFIC SHALLOWS OF WHALE SANCTUARY IDEA The push to set up an international "sanctuary" for whales in the southern Oceans appears to be yet another example of the misuse of science to support an ideological agenda. The U.S. position, put forward by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the National Oceanographic and Atmo­ spheric Administration (NOAA), seems to have been shaped by years of pressure from special interests, like Greenpeace, thatfwant to outlaw any kind of whaling - even for abundant, non endangered species where there is no justification ..;. [edited for length] r HERE IS A PAID PRESS RELEASE, FROM SINGER'S MOONIE INSTITUTE, SAYING THAT U.S. GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS WRECKED A PLANNED CONFERENCE OF HIS, BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO SPEAK AT IT. THE ISSUE IS WHALING. COMMENTS: [Mr. Singer has in previous years spoken widely only on climate related issues, but here expands his expertise, suddenly, into marine mammals...The "conference" was to be stacked with a preponderance of pro-whaling and right-wing sources, including: * the "High North Alliance" founded after an anti-Greenpeace film made by Icelandic film-maker Magnus Gudmundsson. Gudmundsson was successfully sued for damages by Greenpeace in an Oslo Norway court, and certain passages were ordered removed. * "Putting People First" the then-Washington based fund-raising machine started by Bill Wewer and Kathleen Marquardt - her book being widely advertised in Larouche's 21st Century magazine, and her anti-environmentalist articles finding publication in magazines like the gun-crazy "Soldier of Fortune". * 3 representatives of the Norwegian government (who have been whaling despite IWC rules). * "Sportsmen"> Icelandic (pro-whaling country) and Canadian experts (Canada allows whaling for aboriginal people), etc. etc. And tossed out as seemingly neutral parties - "PUBLIC POLICY ORGANIZATIONS" - the far-right think-tanks Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Hudson Institute. The conference was never held, as U.S. scientists refused to attend. Environmentalists listed did not plan to attend, and the listing of the IWC phone number at the bottom of the press release is very misleading, as though the IWC promoted this press Fred Singer, Expert Expert 4 release and Singer's conference. In fact, the IWC also refused to send a representative. The list of "attendees” is purely fictional. [] PR Newswire September 15, 1993, Wednesday ' SECTION: Washington Dateline DISTRIBUTION: TO NATIONAL AND BUSINESS EDITORS , LENGTH: 780 words HEADLINE: SEPP CONFERENCE ON WHALING POSTPONED; NOAA REFUSES TO ALLOW U.S. SCIENTISTS TO SPEAK ON 'TOO SENSITIVE' ISSUE PRIOR TO CLINTON'S DECISION ON TRADE SANCTIONS AGAINST NORWAY, DUE OCT. 4 DATELINE: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — Under Secretary of Commerce Dr. D. James Baker, administrator, 202-482-3436 — Rebecca Roots, 202-482-6076 Norwegian Embassy — Olav Berstad, first secretary for economic affairs, 202-944-8926 — Birgir Xarsen, counsel, 202-333-6000 Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, U.S. House of Representatives — Dallas Miner, 202-785-9153 SCIENTISTS: — Dr. William Aron, director, Alaska Fisheries Research Center,206-526-4000 — Dr. Milton Freeman, Canadian'Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta, expert on community-based whaling, 403-492-4512 — Dr. Daniel Goodman, adviser to Canadian minister of fisheries, 613-990-0284 — Dr. Philip Hammond, former chairman, IWC Science Committee, marine population biologist with the Sea Mammal Research Unit, Cambridge, England, 011-44-223-311-354, fax: 011-44-223-328-927 - Dr. John Knauss, former U.S. IWC commissioner and NOAA administrator, 401-294-4877 — Dr. Eugene LaPointe, former secretary general of UN-CITES, 813-734-4949 — Dr. Brian Rothschild, University of Maryland, 410-326-4281 — Dr. Johann Sigurjonsson, Marine Research Institute (Iceland), 011-354-1-20240 — Dr. Tim Smith, Woods Hole Marine Research Institute, 508-548-5123 Fred Singer, Expert Expert 5 ECONOMISTS/INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERTS: — Dr. Daniel Esty, Institute for International Economics, 202-328-9000 — Dr. Ted McDorman, University of Victoria, expert on legality of trade sanctions on the whaling issue in relation to GATT, 604-721-8181 ANTI-WHALING ACTIVIST GROUPS: — Earth Island Institute: 415-788-3666 — Humane Society of the United States, 202-452-1100 * — Sea Shepherd Conservation Society: 310-394-3198 — Greenpeace: Gerald Leape, 202-319-2401 PRO-WHALING ACTIVIST GROUPS: — High North Alliance: Georg Blichfeldt, 011-47-88-92-414 (Norway) — Putting People First: Mark La Rochelle/ Kathleen Marquardt, 202-364-7277 INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS: — National Fisheries Institute: Lee Weddig, 703-524-8880 PUBLIC POLICY ORGANIZATIONS: — Competitive Enterprise Institute: James M. Sheehan, 202-331-1010 . — Hudson Institute: Dave McIntosh, 317-545-1000/ BODY: T)ie conference, 11 From 'Moby Dick' to 'Free Willy': Conflicting Views on the Whaling Issue," scheduled for Sept. 15 on Capitol Hill, was forced into a last-minute postponement last week when the sponsoring organization, The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), was informed by Under Secretary of commerce D. James Baker, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), that no U.S. government scientist would be cleared to participate prior to President Clinton's decision on possible trade sanctions against Norway. A similar response was received from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), through its Secretary Dr. Ray Gambel. According to Rebecca Roots of Baker's office, the issue is just "too sensitive." The Norwegian government, which played a vital role in the just- signed peace agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, came under threat of U.S. trade sanctions on Aug. 5, when U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown "certified” Norway under the Pelly Amendment to the Fishermen's Protective Act. Norway's harvest of 296 minke whales this year was deemed to have ’’diminished the effectiveness of the conservation program of the International Whaling Commission.” As Fred Singer, Expert Expert 6 a result of the certification President Clinton must report to Congress on actions taken within 60 days, or by Oct. 4, 1993. Said SEPP President S. Fred Singer: "The United States is threatening economic sanctions to accommodate environmental extremists who want an outright ban.on all whaling. This is contrary to the principle of sustainable development, which permits the harvesting of a renewable resource based on scientific data. What we have here," he concluded, "is yet another example of environmental policy based on the deliberate avoidance of scientific evidence." * Plans for the SEPP conference were set in motion after the abrupt resignation of Dr. Philip Hammond, chairman of the International Whaling Commission's Science Committee. As reported in the June 18, 1993, issue of the journal "Science," Hammond stepped down after the IWC failed to adopt the committee's unanimous recommendation on quotas for whale catches that would not harm a species population. (At the request of the IWC, the Science Committee has spent five years developing a computer model for the purpose of establishing quotas* The IWC must adopt the model before it can lift its seven-year-old moratorium on commercial whaling.) The refusal of the IWC to accept the Science Committee's report has led to fears that it is moving toward a permanent ban on whaling — despite evidence that many whale populations are not endangered — thus violating its basic management mission. In his resignation letter to IWC Secretary Ray Gambel, Hammond questioned the point of retaining a Science Committee whose advice is "treated with such contempt."
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 2020-04-11 (April 11, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP ( the Science and Environmental Policy Project
    The Week That Was: 2020-04-11 (April 11, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo [International Space Hall of Fame] In Memory S. Fred Singer (Sept. 27, 1924 – April 6, 2020) A Quest for Knowledge: Show me your best data. (physical evidence) Fred Singer’s journey through physical science was marked by endless curiosity and the belief that physical evidence (data), not theory, were needed to resolve controversies in science. At the age of 16 he tackled the difficult Maxwell Equations that are the foundation of electromagnetism, of which visible light is a part. Singer’s Ph.D. thesis at Princeton was on then- poorly understood cosmic rays. His advisor was John Wheeler, who had worked with Niels Bohr in explaining nuclear fission with quantum physics. (All Wheeler’s students were a very exceptional cadre, including the Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.) Earlier, Bohr had a noted public dispute with Albert Einstein on quantum physics, after Einstein objected to the probabilistic view used, making precise prediction impossible. Bohr’s views are generally accepted and the great admiration he and Einstein had for each other remained. This is an outstanding example of scientists disagreeing publicly, without personal accusations, which are too common today. Singer was a pioneer in exploration of space, particularly the upper reaches of the atmosphere. He measured characteristics of cosmic radiation in the upper atmosphere, and discovered, or co- discovered, upper-atmospheric ozone, and the equatorial ‘electrojet current’ which intensifies the geomagnetic field.
    [Show full text]
  • Title Search Realism
    A New View of Science: Title Search Realism Naomi Oreskes Erik M. Conway Consensus and Dissent •Past several years: numerous talks on the scientific consensus on climate change •Focused on the epistemic basis for that consensus: evidence. • Crammed with “facts”… Carbon Dioxide as Greenhouse Gas • John Tyndall (1820-1893) • Established “greenhouse” properties of carbon dioxide, water in 1850s 1900s: Svante Arrhenius suggested that increased atmospheric CO2 from burning fossil fuels could warm Earth • Early calculations of effect of doubling CO2: – 1.5 -4.5 o C. • Swede.. Thought global warming would be a good thing… http://cwx.prenhall.com/petrucci/medialib/media_portfolio/text_images/FG14_19_05UN.JPG First empirical evidence of both increased CO2 and warming detected in 1930s by G.S. Callendar • Callendar argued that increase in CO2 was already occurring (in the 1930s). • Quarterly J. Royal Meteorological Society 64: 223 (1938) suggested that temperature might be increasing, too. • Wonderful new biography by J R CO2 inventory: Charles David Keeling Keeling curve began in 1958 as part of the IGY 1960s: Clear trend of increasing atmospheric CO2 “This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through…a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.” --Lyndon Johnson Special Message to Congress, 1965 By the 1970s, there was a consensus among scientific experts that, given the steady rise of CO2 that Keeling had demonstrated, that sooner or later global warming would occur: “A plethora of studies from diverse sources indicates a consensus that climate changes will result from man’s combustion of fossil fuels and changes in land use.” National Academy of Sciences Archives, An Evaluation of the Evidence for CO2-Induced Climate Change, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Climate Research Board, Study Group on Carbon Dioxide, 1979, Film Label: CO2 and Climate Change: Ad Hoc: General Big question was when? Surprising answer: just a few years later….
    [Show full text]
  • Back to the the Future? 07> Probing the Kuiper Belt
    SpaceFlight A British Interplanetary Society publication Volume 62 No.7 July 2020 £5.25 SPACE PLANES: back to the the future? 07> Probing the Kuiper Belt 634089 The man behind the ISS 770038 Remembering Dr Fred Singer 9 CONTENTS Features 16 Multiple stations pledge We look at a critical assessment of the way science is conducted at the International Space Station and finds it wanting. 18 The man behind the ISS 16 The Editor reflects on the life of recently Letter from the Editor deceased Jim Beggs, the NASA Administrator for whom the building of the ISS was his We are particularly pleased this supreme achievement. month to have two features which cover the spectrum of 22 Why don’t we just wing it? astronautical activities. Nick Spall Nick Spall FBIS examines the balance between gives us his critical assessment of winged lifting vehicles and semi-ballistic both winged and blunt-body re-entry vehicles for human space capsules, arguing that the former have been flight and Alan Stern reports on his grossly overlooked. research at the very edge of the 26 Parallels with Apollo 18 connected solar system – the Kuiper Belt. David Baker looks beyond the initial return to the We think of the internet and Moon by astronauts and examines the plan for a how it helps us communicate and sustained presence on the lunar surface. stay in touch, especially in these times of difficulty. But the fact that 28 Probing further in the Kuiper Belt in less than a lifetime we have Alan Stern provides another update on the gone from a tiny bleeping ball in pioneering work of New Horizons.
    [Show full text]
  • Iceland's Whaling Comeback
    Iceland’s Whaling Comeback: Preparations for the Resumption of Whaling from a humpback whale that was reported entan- 4.3. Contamination of Whale Meat 37 gled in a fishing net in June 2002 . However, ac- The contamination of whale meat with toxic chemi- cording to radio news Hagkaup halted sale shortly cals including heavy metals has drawn the attention afterwards, presumably because the meat had not of the public in several nations and the concern of been checked by the veterinary inspection. the IWC. For example, ten years of clinical trials of almost 1,000 children in the Faroe Islands have An unknown number of small cetaceans, mainly directly associated neurobehavioral dysfunction with harbour porpoises and white-beaked dolphins, are their mothers’ consumption of pilot whale meat killed in fishing nets. Regular entanglements of contaminated with high levels of mercury. Concerns harbour porpoises are reported from the inshore have also been expressed about the health impacts 38 spring fishery for lumpfish . One single fisherman of high levels of organic compounds including PCBs reported about 12 harbour porpoises being entan- in whale tissue. As a consequence, the Faroese gled in his nets and he considered this number to be government recommended to consumers that they comparatively low. reduce or stop consumption of whale products41. While the meat is often used for human consump- Furthermore, studies by Norwegian scientists and tion, the blubber of small cetaceans is also used as the Fisheries Directorate revealed that blubber from 39 bait for shark fishing . According to newspaper North Atlantic minke whales contains serious levels reports, small cetaceans killed intentionally are of PCBs and dioxin42, 43.
    [Show full text]
  • S. FRED SINGER, Ph.D. Professional Background
    Professional Background, Dr. S. Fred Singer Page 1 of 4 S. FRED SINGER, Ph.D. Professional Background POSITIONS HELD: Director and President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project. 1989- Foundation-funded, independent research group, incorporated in 1992, to advance environment and health policies through sound science. SEPP is a non-profit, education organization. 1994- Distinguished Research Professor, Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 1 9 8 9 J9 9 4 Distinguished Research Professor, Institute for Space Science and Technology, H Gainesville, FL. Principal investigator, Cosmic Dust/Orbital Debris Project. Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation. Also: Deputy Administrator, 1987-1989 Research and Special Programs Administration; Chairman, Navigation Council (GPS applications). Technical advisor on Air Traffic Control System procurement. Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 1971 I 9 9 4 ^ anetary science; global environmental issues (acid rain, greenhouse warming, ozone ^depletion); cost-benefit analysis; oil and energy(economics and public policy); economic and environmental impacts of population growth. Deputy Assistant Administrator (Policy), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1970-1971 Also, chaired Interagency Work Group on Environmental Impacts of the Supersonic Transport. 1967 i970^ePuty Assistant Secretary (Water Quality and Research), U.S. Department of the u Interior. Also, integrated atmospheric/oceanographic activities within the Department. (First) Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of 1964-1967 Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Expanded the oceanographic institute and added departments of atmospheric sciences and geophysics. (First) Director, National Weather Satellite Center (now part of NOAA), U.S. 1962-1964 Department of Commerce. Established operational systems for remote sensing and for management of atmosphere, ocean, and land surface data.
    [Show full text]
  • The Confusion Over Global Warming: Is It Getting Hotter Or Isn’T It?
    The Confusion over Global Warming: Is It Getting Hotter or Isn’t It? Jack Fishman Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Center for Environmental Science Saint Louis University St. Louis MO Presentation to the Air Quality Advisory Committee East-West Gateway Council of Governments St. Louis, MO May 24, 2016 No Wonder the Public is Confused! • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCSnKNo yWtw Sources of Error in Satellite Temperature Measurements • Orbital Decay • Overlapping Data Records • Stratospheric Contamination Orbital Decay: Satellites Lose Altitude Over Time which Alters “Equator Crossing Time” over their Operational Lifetime Overlapping Measurements and Cross‐Calibration Temperature Measurements Have Been Made from Nearly 20 Different Satellites since 1979 The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU/MSU) Instrument is Used on Each Satellite Satellites Do Not Measure Surface Temperature! They Measure Microwave Radiation Emitted from Different Regions of the Atmosphere Satellites Measure Microwave Radiation Emitted from Different Regions of the Atmosphere: AMSU has 15 Channels Although the Lower Troposphere is Warming, The Lower Stratosphere is Cooling! (Measurements from Radiosondes) It is Critical that “Troposphere” and “Stratosphere” is Defined Consistently: Height of Tropopause is Dependent on Latitude and Existing Synoptic Conditions at Time of Measurement After Careful Analysis of UAH and Other Satellite Datasets, It was Found that they Are in Good Agreement UAH: University of Alabama – Huntsville RSS: Remote Sensing System Much of the Information about Global Climate Change Comes IPCC Reports Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change: Contributions from 259 Authors 5th Assessment in 2013 (AR5) (previous ones in 1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007) Information Summarizing the Two Sides of the Climate “Debate” Can Be Found in these Reports Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) Funded by the Heartland Institute “The Holy Father is being misled by ‘experts’ at the United Nations who have proven unworthy of his trust.
    [Show full text]
  • Keynote Address*
    Keynote Address* DR. S. FRED SINGER Professor of Physics, University of Maryland INTRODUCTION G. C. TEWI:\KEL, Past President, .ISP Our Convention is honored this year in having as its guest speaker Dr. S. Fred Singer, Professor of Physics, University of Maryland. [ rnld that his work has been associated with such nebulous topics as: The Upper Atmosphere; High Altitude Sounding Rookets; Geophysical Re­ search with Artificial Satellites; Primary Cosmic Rays and their Origin; Environment in Space Vehicles; Orbits of Rockets and Space Vehicles; Theory of Relativity; Origin of Meteorites; [on 0­ spheric Currents; Magnetic Storms and Aurora; and R.adiation Belts. Dr. Singer has earned for himself distinction as one of the most brilliant of our space scientists. He designed satellites before there were any. He pre­ dicted the existence of radiation belts which later were discovered by Dr. Van Allen. Dr. Singer was commended by President Eisen­ hower for outstanding achievement in the develop­ ment of satellites for scientific purposes. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus DR. S. FRED SINGER :\ward by Ohio State University in 1958. He was selected as olle of the Ten Outstanding Young excltI11g problems that exist in outer space, Men of 1959 by the U. S. Jr. Chamber of Com­ merce. particularly in connection with the planets. It is my pleasure and honor to present to you lI·hat their scientific importance is, and why Professor Singer of the University of Maryland. it is so vital that measurements be made. The start "'ill be the Moon-our nearest INTERESTING PROBLEMS IN neighbor-sometimes called a satellite of the OUTER SPACE Earth, because it in fact revolves around the RESlDEKT Tewinkel, President Karo, Earth.
    [Show full text]
  • North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission
    North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission ANNUAL REPORT 1995 Layout & editing: NAMMCO Secretariat Printing: Peder Norbye Grafisk, Tromsø, Norway ISSN 1025-2045 ISBN 82-91578-00-1 © North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission 1995 Søndre Tollbugate 9, Postal address: University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø Tel.: +47 77 64 59 08, Fax: +47 77 64 59 05, Email: [email protected] Preface The North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission was established in 1992 by an Agreement signed in Nuuk, Greenland on the 9th of April between the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Norway. The objective of the Commission, as stated in the Agreement, is to “... contribute through regional consultation and cooperation, to the conservation, rational management and study of marine mammals in the North Atlantic.” The Council, which is the decision-making body of the Commission, held its inaugural meeting in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, 10-11 September 1992 (NAMMCO/1), and has convened four times since: in Tromsø, Norway 19-20 January 1993 (NAMMCO/2); Reykjavik, Iceland, 1-2 July 1993 (NAMMCO/3); Tromsø, Norway 24-25 February 1994 (NAMMCO/4); and most recently in Nuuk, Greenland, 21-23 February 1995 (NAMMCO/5). The present volume contains proceedings from NAMMCO/5 - the fifth meeting of the Council, which was held at the Hotel Hans Egede in Nuuk, Greenland 21-23 February 1995 (Section 1), as well as the reports of the 1995 meetings of the Management Committee (Section 2) and the Scientific Committee (Section 3), which presented their conclusions to the Council at its fifth meeting. Included as an annex to the Management Committee report is the report of the second meeting of the Working Group on Inspection and Observation.
    [Show full text]
  • Global Warming and the Paris Agreement
    GLOBAL WARMIN GAND TH EPARIS AGREEMENT ) 0 . 2 y b C C ( a n a c i x e M a c i l b ú p e R a l e d a i c n e d i s e r P / s n o m m o C a i d e m i k i W Delegates to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, from which the Paris Agreement emerged. There is little doubt that the Earth is warming. But there is The Evidence of Climate Change considerable controversy over global warming’s future im - To be sure, there are a number of ways that the Earth pact on the world’s climate and what we should do about it. can become warmer naturally. Periods of global warm - Researchers at the University of Alaska, University of ing in the past were caused by changes in the Earth’s Washington, and the U.S. Geological Survey reported in orbit, volcanic eruptions, and variations in the Sun’s ra - 2015 that Alaskan glaciers had been sending 75 billion tons diation output. But natural causes apparently cannot ex - of water into the sea every year for 19 years. A consensus plain the current warming of the Earth. of the world’s scientists (almost all scientists) has con - In 1988, the United Nations established the Intergov - cluded that changes in the environment like this one pro - ernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The purpose vide convincing evidence of a gradual heating up of the of the IPCC is to review the work of scientists around the Earth’s surface.
    [Show full text]
  • Environmental Change and Local Foodways in the Faroe Islands, A
    Environmental Change and Local Foodways in the Faroe Islands, a North Atlantic Artisanal Whaling Society Russell Fielding, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University; USA Abstract In the short term, the direct effects of global warming upon artisanal whaling in the Faroe Islands may be negligible. However, other environmental changes now underway—some of which share causal elements with global warming—show signs of having immediate and possibly terminal effects on this traditional cultural practice. These same environmental changes are likely to have similar effects on other artisanal and aboriginal whaling activities throughout the circumpolar North. The Faroese pilot whale harvest—known locally as the grindadráp—is currently being threatened by the increase of industrial and agricultural pollutants found in the tissues of pilot whales. The consumption of pilot whale meat and blubber that is high in these pollutants has been shown to contribute to a variety of health problems. In 1998 the Chief Medical Officer of the Faroe Islands recommended that pregnant women no longer consume pilot whale meat or blubber and that everyone limit their consumption. Now, ten years later, this fall will likely see the new recommendation that no one should eat any pilot whale meat or blubber at all. Because the only practical purpose of the grindadráp is food production, it would seem that the new recommendation also suggests terminating this longstanding and traditional method of Faroese food production. This paper will briefly discuss the history of the grindadráp in the context of its broader human-environmental interactions. It then describes the various threats to the grindadráp’s continuance over the years, including the pollution problem and the research that has been done into its health effects.
    [Show full text]
  • Lexical Semantics As a Tool for Developing Critical Reading in the Language Classroom
    Lexical Semantics as a Tool for Developing Critical Reading in the Language Classroom Semántica léxica como herramienta para desarrollar lectura crítica en el salón de clase Alexandra Isabel GARCÍA MARRUGO Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia) Abstract This paper illustrates how a detailed analysis of lexical choices can evince the author’s ideological message in seemingly expository texts. The activity described, part of the content- based course English V: Technology, Environment, and Progress in the International Relations Program at the Universidad del Norte, leads students to the realization of their tendency to accept every written text as an objective depiction of reality without questioning the writer’s purpose or intentions. Furthermore, the comparison of two texts dealing with the same topic but written from opposing points of view helps the students understand how language can be manipulated for particular purposes. Key Words: lexical analysis; collocation; lexical semantics; reading strategies. Resumen Este ensayo ilustra la manera en que un análisis detallado de las selecciones léxicas puede manifestar el mensaje ideológico del autor en textos aparentemente explicativos. La actividad expuesta, componente del curso basado en contenidos Inglés V: Tecnología, Ambiente y Progreso del Programa de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del Norte, lleva a los estudiantes a una comprensión de su tendencia a aceptar todo texto escrito como una representación objetiva de la realidad sin cuestionar el propósito o las intenciones de quien lo escribió. Además, la comparación de dos textos que tratan el mismo tema pero que se han escrito tomando puntos de vista opuestos ayuda al estudiante a entender cómo la lengua se puede manipular con propósitos particulares.
    [Show full text]
  • Tracing Climate Change Denial in the United States and Looking for Impacts on the United States’ Science Diplomacy
    CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE FORMATION EUROPEENNE SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT INSTITUT EUROPEEN · EUROPEAN INSTITUTE Tracing Climate Change Denial in the United States and Looking for Impacts on the United States’ Science Diplomacy By Stephanie Baima A thesis submitted for the Joint Master degree in Global Economic Governance & Public Affairs (GEGPA) Academic year 2019 – 2020 July 2020 Supervisor: Hartmut Marhold Reviewer: Christian Blasberg PLAGIARISM STATEMENT I certify that this thesis is my own work, based on my personal study and/or research and that I have acknowledged all material and sources used in its preparation. I further certify that I have not copied or used any ideas or formulations from any book, article or thesis, in printed or electronic form, without specifically mentioning their origin, and that the complete citations are indicated in quotation marks. I also certify that this thesis has not previously been submitted for assessment in any other unit, except where specific permission has been granted from all unit coordinators involved, and that I have not copied in part or whole or otherwise plagiarized the work of other students and/or persons. In accordance with the law, failure to comply with these regulations makes me liable to prosecution by the disciplinary commission and the courts of the French Republic for university plagiarism. Stephanie Baima 10 July 2020 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgements........................................................................................................................ 3 Abstract
    [Show full text]