Category: Environment
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The SCMP is often an even greater disappointment than usual on a public holiday, but today I feel I got full value for my HK$7. Firstly, there is that old standby the Patkin letter. This one (Shrill alarmism – subscription required) is up to Simon’s normal high standards: Your paper’s desire to cause an outcry…
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I see that after Spike’s complaint, the SCMP published a series of sensible letters on Friday (Denying our role in global warming will cost the Earth – subscription required), including this one which I thought summed it up quite well: Correspondents like Richard Straw miss the point. The argument that it has not been conclusively proved…
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Al Gore is in Hong Kong to promote his film An Inconvenient Truth, and to mark this occasion, the SCMP published a sceptical piece on global warming [all SCMP links require a subscription] by Bjorn Lomborg. I have Lomberg’s original book The Skeptical Environmentalist and I think he puts forward some interesting ideas. I have also…
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Yesterday when I was standing waiting for a minibus I was very conscious of the hot air being pumped out by a succession of KMB buses as they waited to pick up passengers, and today The Standard has a story today about the over-use of aircon that makes passengers too cold and pedestrians too hot. …
Ordinary Gweilo 