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	Scientific American: The Flipping Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Environmental groups who cry doom and gloom to keep donations flowing only hurt their credibility.
		Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable.
		It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=000B557A-71ED-146C-ADB783414B7F0000 (678 words)

	CNE Environment : Stagnaro Blog Archive 2006
		Environmental, especially climate, fundamentalism has been the rule and those who dared to raise Verheugen’s point were dismissed as skeptics or Big Business’ puppets.
		Now that the costs of EU environmental policies are becoming unsustainable — as the gap between the American and European rate of growth shows — “skepticism” begins to gain consideration.
		First, as a briefing (pdf) by the European Environment Agency shows, it is still unclear whether the alleged environmental benefits of biofuels (no net CO2 emissions) are large enough to balance their environmental impact (increased land use, loss of biodiversity in Europe, etc.).
	www.cneenvironment.org /blog_archive/archive_2006_stagnaro.htm (9055 words)

	Environmental Impact Assessment: The Quest for a Holistic Picture
		To the extent that environmental impact was considered, it was assessed primarily by reduction in pesticide use or by indicators important to implementing IPM (for example, the impacts on beneficial arthropods).
		Another important concern with the use of biocriteria in environmental impact assessment is that it is often difficult to infer from measures of biological integrity the cause of biological impairment.
		Depending on the environmental values of the assessment developers and target audience, assessments of environmental impact of alternative decisions could be primarily focused on the short-term versus the long-term consequences and on site-specific versus regional or national impacts.
	www.pmac.net /eialois.htm (9801 words)

	16 CFR 260 - Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims
		In addition, the guides address eight specific categories of environmental claims: general environmental benefits, "degradable," "compostable," "recyclable," "recycled content," "source reduction," "refillable," and "ozone safe"/"ozone friendly." Each guide describes the basic elements necessary to substantiate the claim, including examples of qualifications that may be used to avoid deception.
		The new example addressing "environmentally preferable" claims states similarly that the term is likely to convey a broad claim of environmental superiority to consumers, which must be substantiated or adequately qualified.
		Unqualified general claims of environmental benefit are difficult to interpret, and depending on their context, may convey a wide range of meanings to consumers.
	www.ftc.gov /os/1996/10/16cfr260.htm (9235 words)

	In Support of Skepticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		And the same applies to model testing; there are scientists who attempt only to validate models, and others who state that the true application of the scientific method includes attempts to invalidate models and to show the limits of applicability of models.
		Without the boldness and perseverance of earlier skeptics, who risked ridicule and being branded as heretics, we would still believe Earth to be the center of the Universe and continents to be motionless.
		To protect science in the long term, "a healthy dose of skepticism" should be introduced into every young scientist's education, and more training should be provided for studying and expressing uncertainty at all levels of professional development.
	www.sws.uiuc.edu /hilites/skepticism/skepticism.htm (1064 words)

	Action Plan cont.
		Developing country governments are concerned that integration of the trade-related environmental agenda into the WTO will result in costly mandates for international environmental regulations and, ultimately, increased barriers to trade.
		Although, in the past, international environmental regulations have not reflected the local environmental problems of developing countries, the global eco-label program uses the concept of mutual recognition and equivalence to ensure that producers from developing countries can obtain an internationally recognized eco-label based on local environmental standards.
		Some environmental organizations may be critical of the global eco-label because it will rely on mutual recognition rather than absolute standards for its certification criteria.
	www.commercialdiplomacy.org /ma_projects/jahnke4.htm (1851 words)

	Chevron - Texaco Speeches Archive - The Spirit of Environmental Enterprise
		To replace the last remnants of skepticism and environmental resistance with one better suited for the demands of the 21st century: A New Spirit Of Environmental Enterprise.
		And that is why managers of our operations have a vested interest in environmental excellence; not just because of our shared values, but because we translate those values into currency by linking compensation to their environmental, health and safety performance.
		The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that when it shifts its approach from lawsuits and threats to "compliance assistance," the resulting cooperation yields big environmental results, and an eagerness by industry to race ahead of what is required.
	www.chevron.com /news/archive/texaco_speech/2000/pib_norway_6-26.asp (2456 words)

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		Environmental issues resonated through the presidential campaigns of both Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush this weekend.
		Both of the major party candidates claimed environmental victories in their pasts - claims that were met with some skepticism by environmental groups.
		While environmental groups are almost unanimous in their criticism of BushÂ’s environmental record, not all are jumping on the Gore bandwagon.
	www.iwrc.org /news/ia_full_story.cfm?NewsId=84 (690 words)

	Welcome to Wolfman Productions
		In this dramatic lecture the bestselling author, Skeptic magazine publisher, and Scientific American columnist Dr. Michael Shermer recounts how he flipped from being a long-time global warming skeptic to fully embracing the theory that humans are dramatically heating the earth.
		Shermer shows why the environmental movement has for decades hurt its own cause by exaggerating claims beyond the data, but that in the past three years the evidence has accumulated beyond doubt that we need to act soon to halt global warming.
		Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com), the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the co-host and producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series, Exploring the Unknown.
	www.wolfmanproductions.com /shermer.html (1477 words)

	Fed-Soc.org -BOOK REVIEW: The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law - Fall 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Michael Greve is cofounder and executive director of the Center for Individual Rights, an organization best known recently for its successful challenge of the University of Texas's racial and ethnic quotas for law school admission.
		But Greve is also an accomplished expert on environmental law, the subject of his latest book, published by the American Enterprise Institute.
		The demise of environmentalism has reopened this long-forgotten challenge." My only point is that the challenge is not "long-forgotten"; we are reminded of it every day in nearly every policy debate.
	www.fed-soc.org /Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/environmentallaw/el010105.htm (941 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Nuclear Winter Reappraised - Starley L. Thompson and Stephen H. Schneider
		The potential global environmental effects of nuclear explosions that were known before 1982?radioactive fallout and the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer?were almost universally accepted in the strategic weapons community as being far short of true doomsday proportions.
		From a scientific standpoint, this skepticism of environmental doomsday effects was probably justified in the sense that a large nuclear war would have been more devastating to the superpowers than any known indirect effects.
		The discovery of "nuclear winter" has challenged this skepticism because it has been much more compelling scientifically than the earlier predictions of global environmental effects.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19860601faessay7798/starley-l-thompson-stephen-h-schneider/nuclear-winter-reappraised.html?mode=print (814 words)

	EconPapers: Global Environmental Politics
		The Rearguard of Modernity: Environmental Skepticism as a Struggle of Citizenship pp.
		Environmental Policymaking: Assessing the Use of Alternative Policy Instruments pp.
		Environmental Policies of the U.S. and the E.U pp.
	econpapers.repec.org /article/tprglenvp (805 words)

	EPA: Federal Register:
		The Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims or ``guides'' were issued by the Commission on July 28, 1992, and [[Page 53312]] published in the Federal Register on August 13, 1992 (57 FR 36363).
		They noted that the SPI code is required by laws in thirty-nine states to be placed on plastic containers and that if the Commission advises that the use of the code is deceptive on products and requires that it be changed there will be a conflict.
		Therefore, the Commission concludes that an environmental impact statement is not required in conjunction with the 1996 modifications to the Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-GENERAL/1996/October/Day-11/pr-23738.html (8909 words)

	Will "Inconvenient Truth' Shake America Out of Its Global Warming Apathy?
		Indeed, after numerous international and U.S. government reports in the last couple years saying that global warming has already started, that it is caused by humans, and that it will lead to serious and unpredictable changes in life on earth, no reputable scientists and few journalists today continue to deny that global warming is real.
		Michaels, who edits World Climate Report, a blog for skeptics of climate change, denies charges that he is biased against global-warming research from his connections with the libertarian Cato Institute and the coal industry's Western Fuels Association.
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	www.evworld.com /view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=12180 (2404 words)

	Alaska Gold Mine Threatens Pristine Waters, Wilderness - The NewStandard
		On Tuesday, environmental groups re-filed their legal complaint against the US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Forest Service over a permit allowing a gold-mining company to dump some 4.5 million tons of waste products into Southeast Alaskaâs Lower Slate Lake over a ten-year period.
		But in their legal complaint, the environmental groups expressed skepticism that environmental engineering could fully reincarnate a habitat after a decade of deadening pollution.
		Environmental groups expressed skepticism that environmental engineering could fully reincarnate a habitat after a decade of deadening pollution
	newstandardnews.net /content/index.cfm/items/3037 (1649 words)

	Climate change: the debate is over \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		Indeed, it is precisely because the climate crisis is so profound that we need to encourage the American debate on the subject to move on, finally and for good, and start to focusing on how to build a bright green future as quickly as possible.
		Climate change is here, it's scarier than we thought, we're causing it, and (especially in combination with other large-scale environmental and social problems) it's going to demand radical innovation and major reforms.
		What I do know is that having this debate online is no longer helpful: many of the folks making these comments seem most interested not in learning more about the science, but rather in spreading propaganda and disrupting conversation about how to take action.
	www.energybulletin.net /16271.html (1068 words)

	Environmental Concerns Now More Personal
		It's cropped up in an ongoing Environmental Protection Agency study of the health effects of processing agents used to make fluoropolymers, and debates about brominated flame retardants used in the plastic in our computers.
		Part of the reason it's coming up more is that we're getting much better at testing for minute amounts of chemicals in our bodies, and for finding their subtle effects.
		The public also has some skepticism about the chemical industry - some of it sensible - which explains why the industry is looking to spend $20 million a year on an image-boosting campaign.
	www.healthybuilding.net /pvc/more_personal.html (987 words)

	Amazon.com: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World: Books: Bjorn Lomborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		The Skeptical Environmentalist is a triumph." The Economist
		Lomborg is truly skeptical, in the sense of taking nothing for granted and approaching all the issues dispassionately.
		This is particularly important for environmental issues because for things like global warming, potentially trillions of dollars can be spent on actions that might make people "feel" they are doing something positive, but which has very limited benefit.
	www.amazon.com /Skeptical-Environmentalist-Measuring-State-World/dp/0521010683 (3489 words)

	Correcting myths from Bjørn Lomborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		There is now general consensus that global warming is a genuine phenomenon, but the uncertainty among studies as to its scope and speed provide more than enough ammunition for those determined to seek weaknesses in the arguments, and thus dither away while the problem intensifies.
		The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjørn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2001) has become the most popular "brownlash" book ever, and has led to a large number of rebuttals and counter-rebuttals.
		As reported by the BBC Lomborg is turning up his rhetoric, equating environmental claims with holding a gun to your head.
	info-pollution.com /lomborg.htm (1138 words)

	Ross & Associates—About the Firm
		In 2006, Ross and Associates made a commitment to analyze the firm’s environmental footprint and look for ways to reduce it.
		Ross and Associates' staff combine expertise in the analysis of environmental and organizational issues, strong skills in multi-stakeholder facilitation, and experience helping agencies innovate and implement changes.
		These skills are complemented by senior staff with extensive, first-hand experience in public sector environmental management at all levels of government and throughout the country.
	www.ross-assoc.com /firm.asp (252 words)

	Environmental Magazine Advocates War Crimes Trials For Global Warming Skeptics
		Some are proposing that skepticism about the effects of global warming and climate change should be illegal.
		The US-based environmental publication Grist Magazine is a significant player in the global warming movement.
		4) I have never heard of any respected global warming skeptic propose Nuremberg-style trials for global warming proponents, or that proponents be stripped of credentials, or even brought MIT climate scientists with inconvenient views into lawsuits designed to impugn their integrity, and get them to shut up.
	tailrank.com /666101/Environmental-Magazine-Advocates-War-Crimes-Trials-For-Global-Warming-Skeptics (1617 words)

	Blogosphere, Unite! \| DeSmogBlog
		Indeed, essentially the last remaining credible skeptic, Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer announced this month that, despite his dislike for environmental groups,"[D]ata trump politics, and a convergence of evidence from numerous sources has led me to make a cognitive switch on the subject of anthropogenic climate change.
		From that compelling dismissal of skepticism (and that's a nail in the coffin if I ever read one), Alex goes on to note that climate change skeptics have become a new form of "troll" in the blog world, turning up in comments to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
		To that end, he's asking for help in creating a "Universal Climate Skeptic Response Post" for WorldChanging.Org, which will then be made available for other bloggers everywhere to use also.
	www.desmogblog.com /blogosphere-unite (483 words)

	Tide turns on global warming \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		As an environmental commentator, I have a long record of opposing alarmism.
		He debunks the theory that these changes are “cyclical”: Scientists have studied all the environmental cycles since the last Ice Age, he says.
		Patrick Michaels, a University of Virginia climatologist, Cato Institute scholar, and long-time climate change skeptic, offered a bet back in 1998 that the globe's average temperatures would decline over the next decade.
	www.energybulletin.net /16335.html (1856 words)

	Michael Shermer on Global Warming: "data trumps politics" (TreeHugger)
		Michael Shermer was a well known global warming skeptic until he publicly changed his position in the June 2006 issue of Scientific American.
		Michael Shermer (born 1954) is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.
		3) CFL skeptics point to the mercury vapor as an argument against using them, but the truth is that incandescents are still responsible for more of the toxic metal.
	www.treehugger.com /files/2006/06/michael_shermer.php (2609 words)

	Putting Global Warming "Deniers" On Trial
		Roberts wrote in the online publication on September 19, 2006, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg.
		It sounds like the "objective science" of global warming may be tied very closely to the goals of some less-than-objective political extremists.
		This wasn't at all shocking: A U.S. based environmental magazine that both former Vice President Al Gore and PBS newsman Bill Moyers, for his October 11th global warming edition of "Moyers on America" titled "Is God Green?
	tailrank.com /667028/Putting-Global-Warming-Deniers-On-Trial (1005 words)

	The Democratic Daily » Blog Archive » Gore Convinces Skeptic
		There certainly has been a lot of unscientific nonsense promoted by environmental groups.
		The errors of some, however, do not prove that the warnings of others are not valid.
		After further discussion of global warming, this skeptic concluded, “Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable.
	blog.thedemocraticdaily.com /?p=3186 (775 words)

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