Coke [blows shareholders' cash on climate hoax] - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

“Climate change is real and the time to act on solutions is now,” said Muhtar Kent, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola. “Greenpeace has played a critical role in raising our awareness about the need for natural refrigeration. Our announcement today demonstrates a commitment to use our influence in the marketplace to drive innovation and help shape a low-carbon future.”

Atlanta-based Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) said it has spent more than $50 million in research and development to advance the use of climate-friendly cooling technologies. In 2010 alone, it and its bottling partners will buy at least 150,000 units of HFC-free equipment.

Climategate Is a Liberal 'News' Media Scandal, Too | NewsBusters.org

Two weeks ago, unnamed whistleblowers exposed years of e-mails from scientists working at Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU). The CRU’s Web site describes it as “one of the world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change,” but the e-mails paint the CRU as more of a political “war room” for radical environmentalists.

Climategate: Dissent on ice - The Boston Globe

Assuming the e-mails are genuine, they are nothing short of scandalous. They reveal celebrated climate scientists apparently conspiring to corrupt the peer-review process, to suppress or finesse temperature data at odds with global-warming alarmism, to silence or discredit climate experts who criticize their work, and to hide or eliminate the raw data on which their own much-trumpeted claims have been based.

In Wake of Climategate Revelations, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers Should Stop Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade Legislation

"If climate change is proven to be a fraud, the billions of dollars of carbon credits Rogers is seeking from cap-and-trade legislation will be worthless. There is no secondary market for a government contrived commodity such as carbon dioxide," added Borelli.

Report Says Md. A Global Warming Policy Leader - wjz.com

An environmental group says Maryland is a leader when it comes to global warming policies.

Reuters AlertNet - INTERVIEW-Denmark: Obama finance bid would help climate [swindle] deal

COPENHAGEN, Dec 3 (Reuters) - If U.S. President Barack Obama offered some financing for a global climate deal it would boost chances of reaching agreement in Copenhagen in the next two weeks, host Denmark's envoy to the conference said on Thursday.