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openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
The Long Revolution
The Long and the Quick of revolution Anthony Barnett
We live in revolutionary times... but what does this mean? Anthony Barnett
The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy Guy Standing
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Occupy movement
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James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
Book - Fred Halliday's oD essays
The Drugs Policy Forum
Demotix: photo partner
Environmentalists constantly keep reminding us that there is a scientific 'consensus' amongst scientists and experts as to the reasons behind global warming and climate change.
But hold on a minute - it has not even occurred to most believers of AGW that if you have a consensus, that does not mean you have 'The Truth'. In fact, consensus is not science; its politics. Scientific understanding is not achieved by voting.
Like most environmentalist policymakers, including the IPCCs Third Assessment Report Climate Change 2001: The scientific basis ignores one very important variable in climate change science - the Sun. Scientists and ecologists must first stabilise the Sun before they start tinkering with the earths climate.
The IPCCs Summary analysis may sound authoritative, but in reality it is a worthless guide to making policy decisions. Policymakers, political leaders and ecologists have used the IPCCs analysis to offer us their bogus solution: decarbonisation of the globe, or face total annihilation of us and the planet.
Why do environmentalists have this obsession with the reduction of CO2 emissions? In any case, CO2 is not a pollutant, we need it. It's a natural part of the atmosphere; it's vital food for plant life. Indeed, commercial farmers and growers use CO2 to enrich their greenhouses so that their fruits and vegetable grow bigger and better.
Read on: The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun - Earth Connection. 2004 By Willie Wei-Hock Soon (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics).