Friday, December 04, 2009

[But who provides the money to bribe everyone?]: Tories plan to make climate change worth your while - Telegraph
And, as Clark explained, the Tories aim to do this though “treating the public as the friends rather than the enemies of the Earth” and by presenting “environmental action as an opportunity, not a threat”. So instead of penalising people for doing the wrong thing, the party would encourage them to do the right thing – as through the money-for-energy-efficiency scheme, or by rewarding them for recycling.
Hacked E-mails and “Journalistic Tribalism” : CJR
Now is a good time for journalists to reassess their coverage of climate change, weed out any bias from their reporting strategies, do what they can to disentangle politics from science, and be more aggressive about covering what many scientists, business figures, policymakers, and activists think is the most important climate story of this still-new millennium. If the science stands up to the test, it will emerge even stronger than before.
Robert Costa:  Skeptic Man
“There is now a veil hanging over the IPCC,” says Inhofe. “The EPA must begin to back off using its reports in its policies. Billions are at stake here. The CRU cooked the science, now we must make sure that truth, not climate spin, wins out.”
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“I’m not at all surprised that the alarmists are the ones now in a panic,” he says. “They don’t know how to handle this. Senator Boxer knows that Penn State and the CRU are conducting their own investigations into this matter, but the Senate won’t? Doesn’t that seem a bit odd? She says she has to still study the documents, which I understand, but it’s time to move forward with this. We need to put people under oath and ask tough questions.
Jim Webb: Climate Curmudgeon | Mother Jones
A moderate, coal-state Democrat, he's supported energy legislation but balked at capping emissions—I included basically everything he'd ever said on the subject in this short profile in July.

But in recent weeks, Webb has emerged as a major pain in the ass for Democratic leaders on climate issues.

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