"If you listen to the climate scientists- and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should"

Georgina Wilcock, Don Valley West Federal Green Party nominated candidate, invites you to an exlusive afternoon of classical music.

Sunday April 25th from 2:00pm - 4:00pm, acclaimed concert pianist Shaya Petroff will be performing an intimate concert in his home at  245 Banbury Rd. North York.

There is limited seating for this event, so please RSVP to receive your ticket to: Nicholas Austin EDA CEO at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call  416 721 5085/ 416 721 5085.

This event is a fundraiser for the DVW Green Party: minimum donation per guest:  $100.
(A 2010 tax receipt will be issued for the full amount of your donation)

Shaya Petroff studied music with Alberto Guerrero (the teacher of Glenn Gould), and with the great Swiss musician Pierre Souvairan (himself a student of Alfred Cortot and Rudolf Serkin). Shaya is the recipient of many scholarships and awards from local musical festivals as well as the Royal Conservatory of Music. He has appeared in public performances with some of Canada's finest musicians including violinists Martin Beaver, Catherine Manoukian, Moshe Hammer, cellist Ofra Harnoy and clarinetist Shalom Bard.

By Bill McKibben, The Nation
February 25, 2010

 

Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more interesting reviews came from the Wall Street Journal. It was a mixed and judicious appraisal. "The subject," the reviewer said, "is important, the notion is arresting, and Mr. McKibben argues convincingly." And that was not an outlier: around the same time, the first President Bush announced that he planned to "fight the greenhouse effect with the White House effect."

I doubt that's what the Journal will say about my next book when it comes out in a few weeks, and I know that no GOP presidential contender would now dream of acknowledging that human beings are warming the planet. Sarah Palin is currently calling climate science "snake oil," and last week the Utah legislature, in a move straight out of the King Canute playbook, passed a resolution condemning "a well-organized and ongoing effort to manipulate global temperature data in order to produce a global warming outcome" on a nearly party-line vote.

 

For the full article, please see http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100315/mckibben