Vilified – but chances are he is right
American climate scientist Michael Mann is one of the most vilified men in the highly vilified field of climate science, yet he is surprisingly jolly. Despite being the focus of a brutal campaign orchestrated by the fossil-fuel industry and senior politicians within the US Republican Party, Mann’s cheery stoicism is positively infectious. “I’ve been the focus for attack by those who deny the reality of climate change for so long that it almost seems like forever,” the professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University told the Guardian newspaper. “I’m a reluctant public figure, but I have embraced the opportunity to communicate the science.”
Amanda Carey: ‘Environmental movement is dead in the water’
Amanda Carey says the environmental movement has screwed up by hyping up the dangers posed by man’s activity on our planet. But is she right?
Environmentalists protest at Armenian mining site
More than 200 environmental activists and their supporters have marched to a forest in northern Armenia to protest its transformation into an open-pit mine that they say would severely damage the environment, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports.
Italy risks environmental disaster if cruise ship leaks fuel
As the Costa Concordia shifted dangerously on Januayr 16, Italy’s environment minister raised the prospect of an environmental disaster if the 2,300 tonnes of fuel on the half-submerged cruise ship leaks.
