Random Musings:

More on Disinformation

I suppose the disinformation campaign is relentless, as in, Scaremongers shun scientific findings of no global warming.

Apparent Media Disinformation Re Global Warming

Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activits Have Fueled The Climate Crisis--and What We Can Do to Avoid Disaster is noteworthy for any number of reasons, including his documentation of how interests aligned with the carbon industries have been mounting an aggressive disinformation campaign against the science documenting Global Warming. This piece by associate editor Bill Steigerwald published on Pittsburglive.com seems to be, sadly, a case in point. Snippets:

A New Business Climate For Climate?

Will self-interest, enlightened or not, lead carbon-producing companies to take innovative steps in reducing emissions contributing to Global Climate Change? That's the main point of this Scripts-Howard syndicated article published on NewJersey.com. Snippets:

California Glaciers Buck Warming Trend

According to a Science Daily article, two glaciers in Northern California's Trinity Alps seem to be holding their own.  Snippets:

Message From Plankton?

In case you missed it, UPI's Dan Whipple's weekly column on climate addresses indicators of climate change its impact on biodiversity.

Norway Aims To Be A Low Carbon Country, Uses Scenario Planning To Get There

The Environmental News Service (ENS) has an article saying that the Norwegian Government has appointed a commission whose goals include making Norway a low-carbon country. Scenario planning will be a major tool of the commission. Snippets:

Malaria, Climate Change, Scenario Planning in South Africa

A recent article in the Cape Times address the consequences of global climate change on malaria in South Africa. The SA government is employing scenario planning to consider alternative outcomes. Snippets:

Scenario Planning and Knowledge Engineering

The "cards on the wall" tools and scenario planning generally can be applied to the broadest range of organizational, societal, and international problems. In addition to planning methods generally, I will focus on strategy development and implementation relating to The Future of:

• The Music Industry
• Global Climate Change
• Healthcare, Medicine, Pandemics, and
• (biological, chemical, nuclear) Terrorism
• Telecom

Why these issues? In part interest and in part to suggest that the strategy development and implementation tools we frequently use on Strategy Kinetics-led consulting projects are useful in addressing the broadest range of strategic problem areas, including those that are believed to entail exceedingly intractable social messes, such as global climate change or healthcare in the United States and as a global human issue.