EU Referendum: Pachauri: friends of friends

Friends of R K Pachauri, it seems, tend to do rather well out of their association with the man.

Bitter cold kills 13 in Aila-hit Dakope

Biting cold and cold-related diseases have claimed the lives of 13 people in Dakope upazila of Khulna district in last one week as the area, worst hit by cyclone Aila, sees serious crisis of food, proper shelter, drinking water, medicines and warm clothes.

Affected with cold-related diseases including pneumonia and bronchitis, 24 infants and four elderly people are now undergoing treatment at Dakope Upazila Health Complex while many more are suffering.
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The situation is gradually taking an alarming turn as severe cold wave continues, said Dakope Upazila Nirbahi Officer Kazi Atiur Rahman.

» ClimateGate: Maybe Models Really Are Dumb - Big Government

And yet, when it comes to their computer models being so wrong that they tell us it has continued to warm even as we experience observed cooling, they tell us there must be something wrong with the observations — the old “me or yer old lyin’ eyes” argument — because the models must be respected (tampering with the assumptions would, here too, produce another result, and they can’t have that).

But of course, everyone knows that models predicting the weather are very reliable. Trillion-dollar-policy reliable, apparently.

The scariest article you will read this year – Telegraph Blogs

And facts as far as the AGW lobby is concerned are sublimely irrelevant. They have already made their decision: never mind the truth – CO2 is a deadly poison. There are too many vested interests at stake for them to change course now.

Bitter Cold Grips Patna - PatnaDaily.Com

People of Patna on Tuesday experienced the coldest day of the year as the mercury dipped to a bone-chilling 6.4° Celsius (or about 43.5° Fahrenheit) forcing people to remain indoors and gather around bonfires.

[From soup to climate nuts] - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The main concern for Campbell — along with other food companies like Kellogg and Del Monte Foods — is that the House version of the climate bill, which would see the creation of a cap-and-trade scheme for limiting carbon-dioxide emissions, would provide free emissions permits for energy-intensive companies producing products on the international market, like steel and aluminum.

Oregonians horrified Walmart takes advantage of state energy tax credits | CLIMATEGATE

Those tree-hugging Oregonians must have jumped for joy out of their Birkenstocks when their state began handing out tax subsidies for renewable energy projects two years ago. But they’ve now discovered something, horrifying, absolutely horrifying–the Great Satan of companies, Walmart, is taking full advantage of it!

Open Left:: Why the right denies anthropogenic climate change

What's really happening is that anthropogenic climate change is a fundamental assault on right wing ideology and the solution requires a worldwide implementation of liberal policies that will undercut right wing ideas at every level well into the future. Right wingers maybe do not grasp this fear consciously, but intuitively everything about this issue stinks for them. Denial is the only way to save their worldview.

Flashback: [Note that on the global warming hoax, independents are moving away from the Democrats] - washingtonpost.com

In fact, more than six in 10 Americans see a lot of disagreement among scientists on the issue of global warming. That's the view of nearly eight in 10 Republicans and about two-thirds of independents. A smaller majority of Democrats, 55 percent, see general agreement among the scientific community.