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The head of the UN’s climate change panel (the IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri has released a novel that combines lessons on climate change with sexy story lines.
The protagonist in Pachauri’s book is eerily similar to Pachauri himself: an environmentalist and former engineer who inexplicably has a lot of sex with women (I can’t say whether the last part as any basis in reality). According to The Times the book: “mingles lectures on climate change with descriptions of Sanjay’s sexual encounters, including frequent references to “voluptuous breasts”.
Following last week’s visit from the Skeptic Dark Lord Mockton (who looks and sounds like an evil mastermind from a new climate themed Bond film) I can’t help but wonder if some of the increasing confusion about climate change stems from the eccentric oddballs who we’re told to believe.
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Just once I’d like to see a celebrity, the kind that make a lot of fuss about pledging money to a cause like Haiti, to follow through.
It doesn’t matter which one. I just want to see them turn up again a few months-even a year- later to check how things are going. After the camera’s been turned off and around the time we’ve all started to forget how badly we cared about it.
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BT says:
MarK, what you are saying is true, and I think a lot of people are sincere about wanting to help those in impoverished nations, however my point is that people give their hard earned cash, willingly or as part of foreign aid spending allocated by government, without any accountability for… Read more »
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MarK says:
Sogge is not against helping/giving aid but the they way thigns have been done, you have failed to serperate Joe blogs giving to disaster relife, from NGOs implementing effective long term developemnt projects, government directed foreign aid and the likes of the IMF/World Bank and their path of destruction. Joe… Read more »
As the rescue operation in Haiti begins to shift to one of recovery, the global community is now beginning to see the true scale of the disaster which has struck the tiny Carribean nation. Natural disasters such as the Haitian earthquake, the Samoan and Tongan tsunami of last year and the Asian tsunami of 2004 always bring out a truly astounding expression of a shared humanity.
Natural disasters bring poverty to the fore but the fact is extreme poverty is a daily reality for far too many people around the world.
25,000 children will die today from preventable diseases, 900 million people around the world will go to sleep hungry tonight, and tomorrow 1.4billion people will be forced to survive on less than US$1.25 for the day – more than two-thirds of them women and children.
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Dan Lewis says:
Is there any chance we can fly Marilyn Shepherd over to Haiti, permanently? Actually, never mind. Those people have suffered enough already. Read more »
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Marilyn Shepherd says:
$15 million and a few airport controllers? WE spend over $100 million per year locking up a few hundred innocent refugees and another $300 million in illegal activity all over Asia to stop a few hundred more from getting here. You need to take your hand off it old son. Read more »
If Mr Sarkozy does not sack the French Culture Minister, Frederic Mitterrand, the international community should impose a travel ban on the Minister, tout de suite.
Mitterrand has reportedly confessed to what he euphemistically describes as “offences against the idea of human dignity” – which is French, it seems, for having sex with young prostitutes in Asia. Part of his defence is that such offences are ‘commonplace’.
Apparently the more commonplace an obviously objectionable practice, the less it has to do with morality.
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acker says:
Amazing how America screams about a Hey Hey balckfaced skit. Yet sits almost in stony silence about bringing convicted peadophile Roman Polanski to trial, and it’s Secretary of State Hilary Clinton offers no comment about the very pro-active role France and this self confessed peadophile French Minister have played supporting… Read more »
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