Blogosphere OWNS climate change debate: bad news if you own newspaper shares

Newspaper shares worth almost as much as RIM shares

The new global divide is over the Globe itself, over climate change in particular.

And unlike the tired old left versus right divide, it is largely being fought over on the blog-o-sphere, not in the mainstream media.

This is bad news if you are still part of the left and right wing or if you own newspaper shares.

Are Moslems the LAST modernists ?

Any professor who won tenure by arguing that in our post-1989 world, the new global divide was "moslem fundamentalism versus western modernity" should be hurled to their deaths off the top of the Burj Khalifa or the Petronas Twin Towers , along with the tenure committee members daft enough to buy this argument.

The tallest, most modernist, structures in the 21st century world - marvels of 19th to 20th century engineering technology - are being built by moslems.

In fact, one can argue ( well I will argue) that the only unreservedly modern modernists left in the world are moslems, chinese communists and the residents of Kansas.

Why the rise of the DENIERS is the best news for GREENs in 40 years

Soul Mates

If you are a physical scientist - or think like a physical scientist - the unexpected rise of the number of passionate climate change Deniers has to seem both a disappointment and a nightmare.

You had assumed that if only the world had sufficient evidence of human-caused global warming, then all nations would respond rationally and quickly move to change their behavior, if only out of selfish interest in their own survival.

But, seemingly, the more scientific evidence that is released, the more Deniers that have emerged out of the woodwork - each new one more angrier than the others, as if emboldened by the signs they are not alone but rather representative of a silent (slight) majority.

But if you are a more politically minded Climate Change believer,
(we'll call you a Green, for sake of argument) the rise of the Deniers is the best news your rag tag movement has had since it was formed in the 1970s, almost 40 years ago.

Because to you, the Deniers are almost (almost) soul mates.