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12541 [lbo-talk] the Eocene -- rank: 1000

Alexander Cockburn: > It's a notorious inconvenience for the Greenhousers that data also > show CO2 concentrations from the Eocene period, 20 million years > before Henry Ford trundled out his first Model T, 300 to 400 > percent higher than current concentrations. Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Climate>: > Marking the start of the Eocene, the planet heated up in one of the > most rapid (in geologic terms) and extreme global warming events > recorded in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 13:04:35 PDT 2007

12542 [lbo-talk] Alex "Ace" Cockburn debunks anthropogenic climate change -- rank: 1000

The Nation - May 14, 2007 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070514/cockburn BEAT THE DEVIL Is Global Warming a Sin? by Alexander Cockburn In a couple of hundred years historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. Then as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet's rapid downward slide. Then as now, a buoyant ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 12:57:24 PDT 2007

12543 [lbo-talk] "the whole of Greenwich is backing Obama" -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 25, 2007 Another top hedge fund chief backs Obama By Deborah Brewster in New York Paul Tudor Jones, the wealthy hedge fund manager, has become the latest in a growing band from his profession to throw their weight behind Barack Obama, the US senator vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr Jones is said to be planning to host a 500-guest fundraiser for Mr Obama on May 19. The event will be held at Mr Jones's seaside mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut,a big ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 11:45:32 PDT 2007

12544 [lbo-talk] Hijacking -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Last month I was roundly hooted down for posting to the list this > comment: > "I think experience shows that the secret to any kind of successful > bargaining is to start from an extreme, unreasonable, uncompromising > position." Hooted down? I think it's a sound position. At the very least, you need a gang of crazies to strike fear into the rulers' hearts, so the mere reformists look sweetly reasonable by comparison. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 10:43:28 PDT 2007

12545 [lbo-talk] more carbon nonsense -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 25, 2007 Beware the carbon offsetting cowboys By Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent Deciding to go carbon neutral in late 2004 was a pioneering step for HSBC. The bank s board agreed that it should become the first big company to cancel out all of its impact on the climate. It was a leap of faith, said Francis Sullivan, deputy head of group sustainable development at HSBC. But we knew it was something we should do. First, the bank would cut its greenhouse gas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 09:18:47 PDT 2007

12546 [lbo-talk] carbon offset fraud -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 25, 2007 Industry caught in carbon smokescreen By Fiona Harvey and Stephen Fidler in London Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on carbon credit projects that yield few if any environmental benefits. A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place. Others are meanwhile making big pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 09:16:54 PDT 2007

12547 [lbo-talk] Hijacking (was: Patrick Bond on climate change) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:10 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > But seriously, if you believed what you say, I think you would > inconvenience > yourself a bit more. I don't mean wear a hair shirt, necessarily, > but I > think it would be incumbent on you to abandon your commitment to > social > betterment and embrace the programme of austerity, income > reduction, and > probably population reduction as well that flows from the belief > that we are > burning up the planet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 09:03:57 PDT 2007

12548 [lbo-talk] reversion to the mean -- rank: 1000

Word is that the new head of NYU's cultural journalism program, succeeding the late Ellen Willis, is the ineffable Katie Roiphe. A great feminist journalist succeeded by someone who once described herself to me as "anti-feminist." Sad news, and a posthumous fuck you. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 05:04:06 PDT 2007

12549 [lbo-talk] We will conserve 17 to 21 million gallons in fuel annually ... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Andy F wrote: > Any idea on how to maintain current, much less projected, levels of > air travel with 80% CO2 reductions? I don't think that's possible.

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Date:	Thu Apr 26 04:59:47 PDT 2007

12550 [lbo-talk] Here she goes again -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > But the delicious irony lost on the neocon knuckleheads is that > Shakespeare was, as close readers of the sonnets have shown, > fabulously > gay, occasionally anti-royalist and pro-plebian, and generally smitten > with the young black men working in Britain's ports as sailors. Yeah, the canon is full of perverts. Even the American canon. Melville, total flamer. And Whitman, my god. Good thing they don't understand middle Engl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 25 13:02:49 PDT 2007

12551 [lbo-talk] more elite greenery -- rank: 1000

This time, from Mayor Mike: <http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/ plan/download.shtml>. He's endorsing a London-style congestion pricing plan. Two pillars of the NYC establishment - the Partnership and the Citizens Budget Commission - support it. It will be very interesting to see if these high bourgeois forces can get their way despite substantial popular objection. Unlike many other places, we've got the public transportation here, so it's not like there are no alternatives to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 25 12:53:09 PDT 2007

12552 [lbo-talk] Hijacking (was: Patrick Bond on climate change strategy) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2007, at 12:14 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug, I think there is a kind of slippage in your language, despite > what you > say to Wojtek. > > When you are in 'climate change' mode, you (demagogically?) lump > workers and > elites together as "you, me and the rest of us in the handful of rich > countries". First off, handful implies few, but there are more than > a few > rich countries if you count West Europe, Japan, Korea. And in > popula ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 12:48:17 PDT 2007

12553 [lbo-talk] Hijacking (was: Patrick Bond on climate change strategy) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > It was the populist anti-market rhetoric and subsidies on > consumption for > small farmers that provoked my reaction. But Patrick is talking about really poor people in the slums of South Africa who can't afford enough water to power a faucet, or the electricity to power a light bulb! Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 09:45:24 PDT 2007

12554 [lbo-talk] more Halberstam wank -- rank: 1000

[my god, what bombast - for a "nice" guy he was a dick to factcheckers, I hear] -------------- next part -------------- Poynteronline ROMENESKO WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 Allen: Halberstam's death was not just the death of a hero Washington Post "It was like the death of the great Hollywood stars -- Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable," writes Henry Allen. "Who would replace them? No one has. Maybe no one ever does." He adds: "[David Halberstam's] schoolboy earne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 25 09:42:21 PDT 2007

12555 [lbo-talk] help wanted -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 25 09:00:58 PDT 2007