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POPSGW sceptic: Kenneth Green at Fraser Institute and AEI Climate Controversy and AEI: Facts and Fictions You can follow the link to PDF named "PDF version of the Guardian story and AEI's February 2 responce" on the page. On the page 9 of the PDF, there's an article of the author, Kenneth Green. There are a couple of what is noteworthy; 1) Kenneth Green is said to be a global warming sceptic, and 2) He'd worked at Fraser Institute, whose latest work named "Independent Summary for Policymaker", written by Ross McKittrick, also a global warming sceptic, was criticised by scientists at realclimate, due to dismissing the scientific ground. Since he'd come from the same think tank, his research could be politicised more or less.
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POPSPostcard from NZ to Japan, saying "stop whaling!"
Hmm... this action is out of focus in these points; 1) Whaling is politically done. There are no private companies which capture whales but the government as a political actor. So talking directly this issue to the public doesn't have recognisable effect. It's like saying to people in America in this way about global warming; " Stop driving! America is a land of tradition. Driving is one of them, but please make it history ". It doesn't actually make sense, you see. 2) NGO don't have political power in Japan, if any. In Japanese politics, the preasure from any interest groups, even though it's working for the general sake of society like global warming, should be excluded. 3) No room for environmental issue to be discussed in the Diet. If you know well about Japanese politics, the discussed issues nowadays especially are social insurance, schooling, and social gaps. Of course environmental issue is argued, but it's at government department instead of the Diet.
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POPSBook: "Wall of Foolishness", it's what fundamentalists have Why cannot you have the correspond understand your ideas? It's due to the wall inside his/her mind. If the human beings hadn't this wall, the world could've been aufheben very well. Though the title is named in that way, including "Foolish", relative provoking the public, it comes from the circumstance this book isn't written for the scientists, academics, but for ordinary people, where the aim is to sell at maximum. The person who sits in the center of Japanese politics is undoubtedly Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. I'm not sure on what ground this writer claims this point. Also, the points of this book isn't whether foolishness is good or bad, or should be or not.
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