UK Indymedia - What did the UK Climate Movement do in 2008?

Without a doubt, 2008 was an incredible year for the UK climate movement. There’s been a diverse display of incredible actions from Scotland to Plymouth throughout the year, as more people than ever before are realising its up to us to prevent climate catastrophe as no one’s going to do it for us!...

Arkansas: Global warming 'ruse' continues 01/07/09

On Monday, Dr. Richard Ford, commission member and economist and tenured faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, thumbed through a notebook on his desk, stopping at a copy of the law Act 696 that set up the global warming commission.

"Right here," he said, pointing to the law's emergency clause. "It says that 'it is imperative that Arkansas study the scientific data ... to determine whether global warming is an immediate threat to the citizens in the State of Arkansas.' We did not do that."

According to Ford, the only economist on the commission, the group wasn't allowed to do what it was instructed by law to do. He explained that the commission never "studied or even debated the scientific data" on global warming.

So why would a commission set up to study and make policy recommendations about global warming not study it? It's simple; CCS wouldn't allow it, according to a memo entitled "Proposal to Develop an Arkansas Climate Action Plan" sent to Morril Harriman, Gov. Beebe's chief of staff on June 27, 2007.

Under the heading "Participant Guidelines," the memo stated, "Participants will not debate the science of climate change or the directive of the Act, but will instead provide leadership and vision for how Arkansas will rise to the challenges and opportunities of addressing climate change."

This information was deleted from a similar memo on the GCGW's Web site.
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It's becoming clearer: CCS helped set up the GCGW, then got hired to advise the group, limited the terms of the debate, pushed its policies, which were eventually adopted, and then found liberal donors sympathetic to the cause to pay the bill.

A bargain? No. A ruse? Yes.