Benefits Street – filmed in James Turner Street, Birmingham – attracted some negative comments, including accusations it exaggerated the extent of welfare dependency, contributing to a public climate where those reliant on social security are dismissed as scroungers.
"reliant on climate model projections" Untrue.
It's basic physics - not reliant on climate models at all.
At present, Obama's "scientists" are a sorry looking bunch, being advocates of a hypothesis lacking any scientific rigour, testable data or evidence worthy of the name, but reliant on climate model projections that can be made to produce any required result.
As Newsweek pointed out in a feature story published earlier this year, the technology could be an invaluable tool in fighting world hunger, potentially making crops less susceptible to climate change and less reliant on chemicals like pesticides.
Alternatively, higher temperatures may be more damaging in poor countries because their economies are reliant on climate-exposed sectors such as agriculture and natural resource extraction, or because risk management options such as insurance or air conditioning are not as widely available.
"We could all be more resilient if we weren't reliant on one climate zone.
The economic development is heavily reliant on more climate change sensitive agriculture.
They find themselves living through a deepening global economic crisis and an even more terrifying shift in Earth's climate, caused by an economic system reliant on fossil fuel energy and managed by centralized, top-down command and control systems.
"We're similar in population, climate and temperament — dour and self-reliant, but prepared to try a little invention," he said.
With coal-reliant Poland hosting UN climate talks, the fossil fuel industry will get a rare chance to play a more visible role in the global warming debate.
