Daily Archives: 12/04/2009

(Community Matters) NYT best selling author Barbara Ehrenreich’s blog

So welcome to the Women’s Movement 2.0: Instead of the proud female symbol — a circle on top of a cross — we have a droopy ribbon. Instead of embracing the full spectrum of human colors — black, brown, red, yellow, and white — we stick to princess pink. While we used to march in protest against sexist laws and practices, now we race or walk “for the cure.” And while we once sought full “consciousness” of all that oppresses us, now we’re content to achieve “awareness,” which has come to mean one thing — dutifully baring our breasts for the annual mammogram.

Hat Tip: Jan Hill

(Community Matters) I haven’t had the time to read up on the email/global climate change controversy but am doing just a bit today.  The below CNN piece gives some context to the controversy.  Appears mostly communication between colleagues at one UK university –  with some outside engagement including Prof Michael Mann director of Penn State’s Earth Science Center.

Discussing this last night, a friend in the academy noted the risk of reviewing email exchanges between academic colleagues since there’s a presumption of knowledge and integrity and the language of quick email exchanges read out of full context could easily yield misleading interpretations.  In the video, the explanation of “tricks” within the context of scientific experiment is but one example.

That Oklahoma’s Senator Inhofe is leading the charge to publicize & exploit the emails, interestingly on the eve of Coppenhagen, should be a huge flag.  Senator Inhofe receives more oil & gas industry support than all but a few US Senators, and the disingenuous  involvement of the oil & gas industry in global climate tricks & skuldruggery is legendary (eg. Exxon Mobil’s $16mm tobacco-like disinformation campaign). As an aside Inhofe denies evolution and compares global climate change concerns to Nazi big-lies.

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