Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Climategate: the corruption of Wikipedia – Telegraph Blogs
Get that? The guy who has been writing Wikipedia’s entry on Climategate (plus 5,000 others relating to “Climate Change”) is the bosom buddy of the Climategate scientists.

Nope, this isn’t a problem that is going to go away. Wikipedia may well be beyond redemption – as this useful resource site for Wiki-inaccuracies would seem to suggest. Like so many hippyish notions, Jimmy Wales’s idea of a free encyclopedia for everyone was a noble intention which has been cruelly and horribly abused by some very ugly people.
Express.co.uk: Traders who will make a mint out of global warming
Carbon trading, which involves companies buying and selling permits giving them the right to pollute, might sound innocuous but it is developing into a massive scam which enriches banks and big businesses at our expense.
Green tax warning for Britain
BRITAIN would return to the Middle Ages if we took on the huge financial burden of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to levels pledged at the Copenhagen summit, a leading climate change expert warned.
Excess of carbon allowances casts further cloud over Europe - Times Online
The Copenhagen failure is reviving fears of a growing mountain of surplus carbon permits. European industrial companies may be holding as much as 100 million tonnes of allowances, according to Société Générale.

The recession has left energy intensive companies with more EUAs than they need to meet their 2009 emission targets. Because unused allowances can be rolled over for use in future phases of the ETS, companies may have been hoarding, anticipating that Copenhagen might lead to tighter carbon regulation. The lack of a deal could change their strategies.
A sense of due proportion | The SPPI Blog
The bottom line is this. Any statesman with a sense of due proportion would not dream of placing any restriction whatsoever on the emission of CO2 by our industries and enterprises. The economic cost of trying to mitigate imagined “global warming” by reducing our CO2 emissions must in all circumstances extravagantly, monstrously, absurdly outweigh any conceivable climatic benefit. It is this central economic truth, which we have here demonstrated by simple, robust, irrefutable calculation, that the media and the politicians can no longer ignore. For it is this central economic truth, above all, that is the reason why the attempted bureaucratic coup d’etat in Copenhagen has ended in ignominous and fortunate failure, and why it shall not succeed in future.

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