Clearly it isn't enough to simply measure and then report the increasing polar temperatures, Keiran. When saying there's no evidence are you referring to some accepted source or are you playing troll?

Sams included authoritative links to support his post. Try it sometime!

Bloodly good point Bennie. "Environmental awareness in the developing world is sorely needed....". (agree...)

I found however that environmental issues around forest milling and similar industries are exactly like the illegal drug trade when you consider who gains what....

Timber for example is a capitalistic industry. The workers on the other hand are often as vunerable as those poor farmers caught-up in harvesting opium... These farmers are not the owners and work for less than adequate wages, in usually poor work conditions just to feed "whole" families and sometimes "whole" extended families.

I find the business cultures - owners of the resource assets, do in the developing world exactly as they do world-wide.

Worse is the multi-national companies with permission of the host governments DO get away with this. Money is worth more than humanity, and idea's of sustainablity is more often reduced to subsistance at household village productive levels, which more often rest on organic farming methods.

Look at us, ourselves. Look at the problems in fertiser sales, a corrupt market place that our farming industries along side many others trade in regardless of the equity issues that make it in some cases illegal. (ie: People starve while we eat!)

Consider the plight of the Sarahawi people in the Western Sahara. ie: the refugue camp at Tindorf where even water is trucked in by the UN.

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS?

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Saharawi&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Saharawi+Fetilisers&btnG=Search&meta=

and I have the odd link on miacat.com.

My point, imagine "trying" to ask our Australian National Party and the Liberals to "care" enough, to help find a real strategy to CLEAN-UP THIS MARKET MESS?

A crux problem, our dinner-table is so obviously more important than those living in the refuge camps that we avoid finding a better solution... one that might benefit the owner's of the resource rather than leaving them completely in excile.

Until business, farmers and governments unite... and recognise that 'Every act of corruption is a deliberate act by someone in a position of authority'... you and me and others must just persist with the global citizen calls.

http://www.miacat.com/
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Now that global cooling and global warming seems to be dead we can probably congratulate ourselves here in Australia that we have made such a huge impact. Sam's list is one of 'scientist' whose careers depend upon towing the line (similar to the flat earthers).

IanC, thankyou for your valued contribution - can we now move on?

Journalists reporting facts?

since when?

In fact many journalists are just like a (to modify a quote) a school of fish, they have a tendency to, as a group follow one and other, until one notices something different, then they will swim off in the direction that that fish(journalist) took.

The aim of journalism is to make money and they do this by modifying stories and playing of the biases and prejudices of their sheep (readers).

Journalist(most) just regurgitate information given to them, without any indepth investigation.

Sam,
GISS is not NASA. That GISS endorses the warming story is hardly a surprise. Run by Hansen, they could hardly do otherwise. They are committed to the cause and the cause isn't necessarily the facts. But GISS is a division of NASA and can't talk for NASA. It would be the equivilent of saying Sydney University accepts creationism because the religious faculty does.

I suspect many of those on your list are in a similar vein. Someone or some part of a body makes the right noises and the entire group goes into the 'true believer' column.

As to the Russian Academy of Science your can look here...
http://www.russia-ic.com/education_science/science/breakthrough/709/

or if your read Russian...
http://nkj.ru/news/12622