RAK
04-18-2006, 09:23 AM
While Orwell popularised the phrase, "doublespeak", I doubt that he ever imagined it would evolve into the process of "double-do". Here are a couple of amazing examples:
UK scientists attack oil firms' role in huge Arctic project
Sixty-country survey to search for fossil fuels in pristine environment
David Adam, environment correspondent
Tuesday April 18, 2006
The Guardian
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2060, scientists warn. Photograph: Corbis
British scientists are at loggerheads with US colleagues over a controversial plan to work alongside oil companies to hunt for fossil fuel reserves in the Arctic.
The US Geological Survey is lining up a project with BP and Statoil to find oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, under the auspices of a flagship scientific initiative intended to tackle global warming.
But the head of the British Antarctic Survey, which coordinates UK activity at the poles, has said he is "very uncomfortable" with the idea and has questioned its ethical and scientific justification.
So we tackle global warming by discovering more fossil fuels,which,er, cause global warming, in new areas of exploration that have been unearthed due to,uh global warming? This may sound crazy until you take into account that the Bush Administration is also considering declaring golf course water hazards as "Protected Wetlands".
http://www.fieldandstream.com/fieldstream/columnists/conservation/article/0,13199,1179434,00.html#
And, on a sadder note; Say goodbye to Shamu, Moby Dick and Flipper:
The environmental movement is facing one of its biggest-ever reverses, over one of its most cherished causes: Save The Whale.
In a remarkable diplomatic coup, Japan, the leading pro-whaling nation, is poised to seize control of whaling's regulatory body, the International Whaling Commission (IWC), and so hasten the return of commercial whale hunting, which has been officially banned worldwide for the past 20 years.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article358190.ece
I saw this story yesterday, but when I looked for it today, it had all-but dissapeared from news services. Even took a while to find it on GOOGLE. Wonder if there was some serious diplomatic pressure to bury this news.
RAK
UK scientists attack oil firms' role in huge Arctic project
Sixty-country survey to search for fossil fuels in pristine environment
David Adam, environment correspondent
Tuesday April 18, 2006
The Guardian
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2060, scientists warn. Photograph: Corbis
British scientists are at loggerheads with US colleagues over a controversial plan to work alongside oil companies to hunt for fossil fuel reserves in the Arctic.
The US Geological Survey is lining up a project with BP and Statoil to find oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, under the auspices of a flagship scientific initiative intended to tackle global warming.
But the head of the British Antarctic Survey, which coordinates UK activity at the poles, has said he is "very uncomfortable" with the idea and has questioned its ethical and scientific justification.
So we tackle global warming by discovering more fossil fuels,which,er, cause global warming, in new areas of exploration that have been unearthed due to,uh global warming? This may sound crazy until you take into account that the Bush Administration is also considering declaring golf course water hazards as "Protected Wetlands".
http://www.fieldandstream.com/fieldstream/columnists/conservation/article/0,13199,1179434,00.html#
And, on a sadder note; Say goodbye to Shamu, Moby Dick and Flipper:
The environmental movement is facing one of its biggest-ever reverses, over one of its most cherished causes: Save The Whale.
In a remarkable diplomatic coup, Japan, the leading pro-whaling nation, is poised to seize control of whaling's regulatory body, the International Whaling Commission (IWC), and so hasten the return of commercial whale hunting, which has been officially banned worldwide for the past 20 years.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article358190.ece
I saw this story yesterday, but when I looked for it today, it had all-but dissapeared from news services. Even took a while to find it on GOOGLE. Wonder if there was some serious diplomatic pressure to bury this news.
RAK