Alaska seeks to show polar bears aren't threatened - Politics Wire - News & Observer

ANCHORAGE — Alaska's state legislature is looking to hire a few good polar bear scientists. The conclusions have already been agreed upon — researchers just have to fill in the science part.

A $2 million program funded with little debate by the legislature last month calls for using state money to fund an "academic based" conference that highlights contrarian scientific research on global warming. Legislators hope to undermine the public perception of a widespread consensus among polar bear researchers that warming global temperatures and melting Arctic ice threaten the polar bears' survival.
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Legislative leaders said they are frustrated that researchers skeptical of the doomsday scenario get marginalized as crackpots or industry shills by the media and scientific agencies. Critics say it's a waste of state money because all the hard scientific research points in the other direction.

The “Little Ice Age” and the Fraud of Global Warming « MN Prager Discussion Group

If the mass media folks were more honest and professional than the devoted left wing bigots they were programmed to become while they were in college, student body president, Barrack Obama, would not be student body president. Trillions of dollars would not be transfered from the world’s economy into the fraud of “Global Warming”, the cultural effect of which would be headline news today.

Carbon action cohesion crumbles - National News - National - General - The Canberra Times

It was a week of mixed messages from the Rudd Government on climate change. On one hand, a further $2.2billion was allocated to big polluters to help them adjust to emissions trading while weathering the global downturn. On the other, a successful climate change research agency was dumped to save $13million.

On Monday, the Prime Minister announced changes to the Government's emissions trading scheme. The start will be delayed by a year, the upper limit of the conditional 2020 emissions reduction target has been upped to 25 per cent, polluters got more free permits and a carbon price was fixed at $10 a tonne.

There was swaggering talk of climate policy as ''big stuff'' and the need to get the balance right.

The next day, the Government axed Land and Water Australia, the nation's peak climate change research agency for farms, rural industries and Aboriginal land management groups. More than 200 agricultural and environmental science jobs will be lost, almost all relating to some aspect of climate change research.