Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore film “An Inconvenient Truth” wins the Oscar for best documentary. It is so cool (sorry for that adjective) that this film about global warming won the price. The film follows Al Gore, former US Vice President, as he goes around the globe, shows slides and tells dry facts about climate crisis. It seems that time has come, when people will rather hear unpleasant truth than convenient tales of energy lobbyists.
The report from the Union of Concerned Scientists reveals, that ExxonMobil used the same kind of tactics trying to confuse the public on global warming science, than Big Tobacco used when they campaigned to diminish health risks of smoking. And that’s not all, they used partially same people too!
When I heard the news that flagship of the Japanese whaling fleet, Nisshin Maru, was gought fire in the Southern Ocean, I got a deja vu feeling. This has happened before.
24th November 1998 I had made a cartoon about this unlucky vessel and published it with following text:
“The Japanese whale processing ship Nisshin Maru burned at sea 19.11.98. Japanese Whaling float was heading to the Southern Ocean sanctuary area to research whales with harpoons.
More about Scientifically correct Japanese Whaling habits… (link to the Greenpeace site)”
The recent accident cost a life of one crew member. Nisshin Maru has no power, and New Zealand authorities want the stricken ship moved away from the area where it caught fire. There is still a risk of oil spill if the weather turns bad.
Greenpeace has their ship Esperanza at the place.
Heidi Hautala from Finnish Greens says Mr. Paavo Lipponen, Speaker of the Parliament in Finland has abused his position as a head of the parliament. Mr. Lipponen has promoted Nuclear Power in Europe by quoting his word straight from the papers of the European Atomic Forum (FORATOM). Paavo Lipponen has been a keen advertiser of the nuclear energy for years. The cartoon is made 29th of May 2002.
