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Deze vraag werd gesteld door Twigg op GoeieVraag met deze toevoeging: "Genieten vogels bijvoorbeeld van de zonsondergang als ze mooi hoog in de boom zitten?"
a) Jazeker, wel eens een vogel horen zingen?
b) Nee, wel eens een muis horen piepen?
c) We zullen het nooit weten.
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Pavel Constantin, Romania
There is a lot of planning involved in becoming a 'supreme bully'. Even Santino the chimpanzee knows that.
From his enclosure in Furuvik Zoo in Sweden the chimp plans his actions with care. He has always bullied visitors he doesn't like but with the years he has become more like an expert.
Researcher Mathias Osvath: "After a group had left the compound area, Santino went inside the enclosure and brought a good-sized heap of hay that he placed near the visitor's section, and put stones under it.
After this, Santino sat down beside the hay and waited. When the visitors came back, he waited until they were close by and, without any preceding display, he threw stones at the crowd."
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After being ridiculed in the American press and drasties yesterday, the conservative Heartland Institute, an anti-science thinktank financed by the oil, coal and tobacco industry, decided to take down their billboards on Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago.
On the billboards climate scientists are compared to serial killers, marxists and terrorists like Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Charles Manson, Fidel Castro and Osama bin Laden.
Amazingly, apart from Big Oil and Coal, Heartland gets money from companies like Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Nucor, and Time Warner. So apparently supporting hateful morons is good for your image in the U.S.
This is what Heartland wrote on their website about the campaign:
Of course, not all global warming alarmists are murderers or tyrants. ... The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society. This is why the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen.
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In America the word is spread that wind turbines kill millions of birds every year. It's based on research by thinktanks financed by Big Oil and Coal and other enemies of renewable energy sources. Bird experts and statisticians don't agree.
Now there's a report on the damage 84,000 communication towers in the U.S. does to birds. Tv and radio towers kill almost 7 million birds a year. Some of the towers are hundreds of meters high.
The taller the tower the greater the threat, the study found. The 1,000 or so towers above 900 feet accounted for only 1.6 percent of the total number of towers. Yet these skyscraper towers killed 70 percent of the birds, about 4.5 million a year.
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Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle
Five hundred million trees have died in the state of Texas as a result of an unsual severe drought, Till now Texas has lost $7.62 billion wearth in crop and livestock.
Conspiracy theories are used by people who can only understand the real world when it's simplified to the level of a ten year old. The rightwing Tea Party, which represents about 30 percent of American conservatives, is full of it.
Like: Obama is born in Kenia, JFK was shot for wearing a hoodie.
This one from Arizona State Senator Judy Burges is great too. It has a good chance of becoming the law in Arizona. It's a bill to block all environmental programs administered or funded by the government for the use of green energy.
Burges and her Tea Party friends fear that clean energy programs are nothing more than a plot by the United Nations to create a single world government to control people’s lives. She has made that fear into law.
Burges’ Senate Bill 1507 is based upon a conspiracy theory about “Agenda 21.” That was a non-binding international plan for sustainable development created by the United Nations and adopted in 1992 by 178 countries, including the U.S. under Bush senior.
The bill bars Arizona “from adopting or implementing the United Nations Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.”
Under the provisions of Burges’ bill, the state, counties and cities could not accept funds from, spend funds from or give funds to “certain non-governmental organizations,” including non-profit groups and contractors, for any of the declaration’s initiatives.
Is the American Senate really gonna take away the subsidies and tax breaks for those struggling oil companies? There's a vote tomorrow and a yes vote would safe the U.S. about $24 billion, a big part of which will be used to give incentives for clean energy.
The Chevy Volt is an electric car that is produced by General Motors. It's green so that logically means in America that conservatives are against it. They are all for using oil and coal.
So their outlet Fox News has been demonizing the car (dangerous, expensive, ugly, it's created by Obama) from the start. And the sales of the Chevy Volt are disappointing.
The relentless rightwing campaign against the green car has been so successful that General Motors said: “We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become.”
But yesterday there was a remarkable interview on Fox News, normally not interested in real facts, when conservative guest Spieckerman, who 'loves Fox News', debunked all the destructive myths about the green car:
read full articleSpieckerman: They are spreading the myth that the Volt was some kind of Obama administration green energy fantasy that as you say was forced on GM during the bailout.
Wrong. It’d been in development two years before Obama was elected. And it was championed by … Bob Lutz, who is a conservative and a climate change skeptic. So you know it’s a myth.
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One of the campaign slogans of President Obama in the upcoming general election in november will be: "The U.S. Congress can stand up for the oil companies or they can stand up for the American people.”
That is what Obama said In a speech in Maryland this week about ending expensive subsidies for the largest U.S. oil companies amid rising gas prices.
Is that true for Europeans too, one wonders?:
An analysis spanning more than 40 years has found that today's young Americans are less interested in the environment and in conserving resources - and often less civic-minded overall - than their elders were when they were young.
Don't expect any move towards clean energy from the U.S. if Mitt Romney becomes president. America will produce at leadst as much CO2 as now under his leadership. Why? Well, his campaign is heavily subsidised by Big Oil and Coal. But also because of this:
Romney: "We all like wind and solar, but you can’t drive a car with a windmill on it."
One of the strongest opponents of the theory of manmade global warming is the Heartland Institute in the U.S.A.
This thinkthank was created in 1984 to fight those crazy scientist's who said smoking was bad. The tobacco industry paid for it. The institute probably succeeded in delaying concensus on the risk of smoking with decennia. Sadly for them in the 90's enough people had died of lungcancer to convince every sceptic that smoking was indeed bad for your health.
Luckily they found new customers soon: Big Oil and Big Coal.
Fossil fuel companies wanted to prove there was no manmade climate change and the Heartland was the institute to get the evidence. The first thing it did was find experts and set up a body of evidence to show that global warming was baloney.
And they, with others, were very succesful, especially in the U.S. Less than half of Americans now believe in climate change, less than ten years ago.
How did the Heartland Institute do that? Just like in the old days with lots of money.
Recently confidential internal documents from Heartland came to light showing the disturbing lengths to which the...
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