"Penélope Cruz is one of the most beautiful, attractive and hitherto classy women on the entire planet," points out Channel 4 Film's Catherine Bray.
Manuel informs me that Colombia is the second most biodiverse country on the planet, pointing out that juice menus in Bogotá – featuring fruit from the Amazon, the Caribbean and the Pacific – often run to a full page.
A commenter at Techdirt called "The Angry American," who probably read the article at The Times's Web site, which is viewed by tens of millions of readers all over the planet, pointed out the absurdity of all this.
But, though an environmentalist to the core, he puts people before planet, pointing out that the poorest three billion, around 45% of the total, are currently responsible for 7% of carbon dioxide emissions, while the richest 7%, around half a billion, are responsible for 50% of emissions.
The coordinate system in the HYB models is as follows: the x-axis points from the center of the planet to the Sun; the z-axis is perpendicular to the orbital plane of the planet pointing towards the angular momentum vector, and the y-axis completes the right hand coordinate system.
As he points out, such believers tend to have the least personal experience of the planet, a point once emphasised by the explorer-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt: "The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world".
From the planet's point of view that would mean a huge, and possibly catastrophic, increase in overall emissions.India's tough approach is supported by other developing countries.
Travelling alone in the car seems to be almost the most selfish decision I could have made from the planet's point of view.
A creature of history and ritual, Elizabeth might have been born in another century (or on another planet), a point Mr. Morgan lays out on the page and which Mr. Frears illustrates with lapidary attention to visual detail.
But the use of an alien as a sceptical surveyor of earthly madness is a laboured device that produces only hackneyed criticisms: it needs no visitor from another planet to point out that our frenzied obsession with getting and spending is a distraction from the prospect of death and annihilation.
