HSBC climate change chief backs electric cars as batteries for renewable energy - Telegraph

There is one model that HSBC are quite keen to stick to, climate change may be a social and moral issue but one attraction for HSBC is more traditional, "the market for climate change [fraud] goods and services is now $530 billion a year", says Robins, "that's bigger than the aerospace sector."

The Reference Frame: Beaten with hockey sticks: Yamal tree fraud by Briffa et al.

In the case of Keith Briffa, the man who did the selection, it is statistically implausible that his "thin" sample was selected randomly. Most of the trees were almost certainly erased deliberately, as inconvenient truths, with a pre-determined result being his criterion.

But I think it is pretty obvious that pretty much all the relevant authors of the article must know that without any fabrication of the data, they don't get any hockey stick from the trees. It means that it can't be an innocent mistake and all of them, and not just Keith Briffa, are fraudsters who know very well what they're doing and why they're doing it. The next question is whether the society knows what it should be doing with such people.

Record flooding [allegedly] highlights urgency of progress in climate talks

BANGKOK, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- The record flooding that the Philippines is suffering demonstrated that the greenhouse gas emissions should be cut early and deeply, said the delegates from the Southeast Asia country Wednesday, as the UN Climate Change Talks here entered the third day.

[So what was highlighted by this flood in the year 1099?]

The Netherlands and England
1099
Death Toll: 100,000

A combination of high tides and storms flooded the Thames and the Netherlands, killing 100,000.