Tuesday, 15 April 2008
How journalism works
The Independent, leader column, 7th November 2005:
At last, some refreshing signs of intelligent thinking on climate change are coming out of Whitehall. The Environment minister, Elliot Morley, reveals today in an interview with this newspaper that the Government is drawing up plans to impose a "biofuel obligation" on oil companies. This would require major firms such as BP and Shell to blend a fixed proportion of biofuels with the petrol and diesel they sell on Britain's garage forecourts. This has the potential to be the biggest green innovation in the British petrol market since the introduction of unleaded petrol a decade and a half ago.
The beauty of biofuels - petrol made from sugar beet and diesel made from oilseed rape - is that they are "carbon neutral". The quantity of C02 they produce when burnt has already been absorbed by the crops used to make them. There is no reason why a biofuel quota should not work.
The Independent, front page, 15th April 2008:
From today, all petrol and diesel sold on forecourts must contain at least 2.5 per cent biofuel. The Government insists its flagship environmental policy will make Britain's 33 million vehicles greener. But a formidable coalition of campaigners is warning that, far from helping to reverse climate change, the UK's biofuel revolution will speed up global warming and the loss of vital habitat worldwide.
Amid growing evidence that massive investment in biofuels by developed countries is helping to cause a food crisis for the world's poor, the ecological cost of the push to produce billions of litres of petrol and diesel from plant sources will be highlighted today with protests across the country and growing political pressure to impose guarantees that the new technology reduces carbon emissions.
Never mind, guys; nobody died. What? Oh.
Labels: Hacks, Idiotarians, We're all doomed...
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Lefty journalists in 'changing their tune' shocker. What's next? Right wing journalists want to cut taxes?
It's a pity more people don't read New Scientist, especially those who write about such issues in the dailies.
I'm not exactly sure that the Independent has 'changed its tune' in the examples given. A great deal of things can change about any single subject within a three year period.
Mind you, just look at the Telegraph and what they think about biofuels (while the world burns)...
Biofuels by contrast are a here-and-now option to alleviate gasoline shortages or security-of-supply problems.
However, the investable companies in this space tend to be at the intermediate refining stage and subject to considerable commodity price risk from rising input (eg corn) prices or fluctuating ethanol or biodiesel prices.
Nonetheless, growth over the next 10 years could be formidable and good returns will be available to investors who time their entry shrewdly.
Mind you, just look at the Telegraph and what they think about biofuels (while the world burns)...
Biofuels by contrast are a here-and-now option to alleviate gasoline shortages or security-of-supply problems.
However, the investable companies in this space tend to be at the intermediate refining stage and subject to considerable commodity price risk from rising input (eg corn) prices or fluctuating ethanol or biodiesel prices.
Nonetheless, growth over the next 10 years could be formidable and good returns will be available to investors who time their entry shrewdly.
The worst bit? anyone with a scientific background who cares about the environment saw this coming from fucking miles away. There are environmental terrorists out there, those who lie to us about reality. One day they'll be found out and I want to personally shoot the fuckers.
Global warming, a global lie that makes the 45 min WMD lie look like a 2 year olds fib. The whole GW edifice is a crock of shit. But hey, the punters are as thick as pig-shit and academics need to put food on the table.
Bavid Blane would be proud.
Global warming, a global lie that makes the 45 min WMD lie look like a 2 year olds fib. The whole GW edifice is a crock of shit. But hey, the punters are as thick as pig-shit and academics need to put food on the table.
Bavid Blane would be proud.
The Independent has no soul anymore. They just go with the flavour of the month and end up looking like prats.
It's an EU measure and so we have to do it. And the government are too frightened of the EU to say anything about it.
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