Brussels targets carbon trading fraud ahead of Copenhagen summit | Business | guardian.co.uk

The European police agency Europol has said it is convinced many other carbon credit VAT frauds have been committed across Europe but the total losses to national governments are as yet largely unknown, although probably run in to the hundreds of millions of euros.

WEEKLY OUTRAGE: Stimulus package bails out Al Gore and his luxury car companies.

A start-up California based manufacturer of luxury electric and hybrid vehicles, backed by an investment firm owned by Al Gore just received over a half a billion dollars in stimulus funding. Fisker Automotive will receive the federally guaranteed loans to develop a plug-in hybrid luxury sports car with a sticker price of $87,900 which could be built here in the United States.

Roman on How Hockey Sticks are Made « the Air Vent

Anyway boys and girls, in the stock market you can’t choose your stocks after the trading day ends. Likewise in science, you don’t get to choose which data fits your conclusion after you collect it.

5 Surprising Divinity School Dropouts

Al Gore graduated from Harvard in 1969, but he’d always been interested in theology, so he decided to continue his studies. He didn’t exactly live up to his potential though. After enrolling in Vanderbilt’s prestigious divinity school, over the course of three semesters, he failed five of his eight classes. Gore’s allies claim that the birth of his first child and his duties as a reporter at the Tennessean newspaper kept him from his studies. For the record, though, Gore also later dropped out of Vanderbilt’s law school (in 1976), but this time for a truly higher purpose—to run for Congress.