Joanne Nova - Climate Money: The Climate Industry: $79 billion so far – trillions to come

The US government has spent over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, education campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks. Despite the billions: “audits” of the science are left to unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity of the theory and compete with a well funded highly organized climate monopoly. They have exposed major errors.

GOP Questions Commerce Secretary on China Emissions Stance - Environmental Capital - WSJ

More fallout today from Commerce Secretary Gary Locke’s suggestion last week that American consumers should pay for some of the greenhouse-gas emissions produced in Chinese factories: The GOP wants to know what Secretary Locke was thinking.

Specifically, in a letter from Texas Rep. Joe Barton, ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the GOP seeks “clarification about your apparent proposal that the U.S. consumer should be additionally burdened with the carbon costs of other nations over and above the costs that will be imposed on U.S. consumers under the pending legislation.”

[There's nothing like a good burlesque climate fraud dance]

“ Her daughter, Emily, sits at her table. Now 25, she’s a twenty-first century credit to her mother, an environmental-studies graduate who founded a Web site selling sustainable party products… She is also a member of an electro hip-hop dance duo called Suspicious Package. “Sometimes we make songs about environmental themes,” says Emily, who is wearing a pink-and-green vintage dress bought by her mother and texting on her pink-covered iPhone. “We did a global warming evening with these fun burlesque dances that kind of taught the lesson of climate change at the same time.:
Vogue Magazine, August 2009 (the full article is only in the magazine, not online yet)