A relaxing — some would say sleepy — beach resort, with little beach due to some serious
environmental errors made in its recent past.
Not exact matches
To
make such a leap of logic is to commit the other glaring
error often
made by proponents of animal rights and
environmental ethics: they fail to see that the rights endowed to animals are not identical with the rights of human beings.
Now, it is apparent from reading even the first few pages of The Skeptical Environmentalist that Lomborg proposes to
make the case that not just environmentalists, but a considerable part of the heretofore respectable
environmental - science community, have been misunderstanding the relevant concepts, misrepresenting the relevant facts, understating the uncertainties, selecting data, and failing to acknowledge
errors after these have been pointed out in other words, that the scientist contributors to what he calls «the
environmental litany» (namely, that
environmental problems are serious and becoming, in many instances more so) have been guilty of massively violating the scientists code of conduct.
Bye - bye 40 mpg: Hyundai and Kia are lowering the fuel economy ratings of some 900,000 vehicles due to a «procedural
error»
made during the
Environmental Protection Agency's testing cycle.
This says to me that some journalists quite rightly trust Schmidt to filter out the most egregious immediate scientific
errors that could
make environmental journalists look stupid and help the jounalist to correct the NGO's.
A second horrific
error has been
made by
environmental organizations, many developed country governments, and the United Nations by promoting reductions in the emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels to obtain energy that has
made possible the high standard of living now found in developed countries.
It doesn't
make sense as an growth curve, it does as an
environmental signal of the late 20th century — it's not sampling
error as that would be as likely to cause downticks as upticks on that part of the curve.
And if they're trained on materials denying an
environmental problem (admittedly the vast bulk of misinformation in this field), does it
make them better able to spot materials that
make similar
errors in somehow overstating one?
Factors that contribute to personal injury accidents include: Negligence Human
Error Disasters and Acts of Nature
Environmental and Man -
made Hazards