EU Referendum: The Tiger Woods Index

Using the TWI as a comparator, the public in general are more interested in "Climategate" than Tiger Woods, by a factor of nearly 20 times.

BBC News - Today - 'The political implications of this are huge'

[12 minute audio: Richard Black, Philip Stott, Jonathon Porritt]

Climategate goes uber-viral, Gore flees leaving evil henchmen to defend crumbling citadel – James Delingpole - Telegraph Blogs

Monbiot’s position on Climategate is now rapidly returning to the status quo ante. During the debate he kept stressing how very few scientists were implicated (”three or four”, he said) and how while, of course, scientific integrity is terribly important the vast majority of evidence is still behind AGW and the scientists suggesting otherwise are a bunch of fruitcakes whom we can safely ignore.
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...the AGW wagon train will trundle on, regardless. And true believers like Monbiot and Porritt will be defending it to their dying breath.

[Clowns weigh in: Massive climate fraud won't harm economy] | Reuters

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Countries could adopt more ambitious carbon pricing schemes to pay for climate change without disrupting the still-fragile global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday.

[We're saved!]: ERA Completes Third Sale of 100,000 Tonnes of Voluntary Emission Reductions to an Integrated Oil and Gas Company | Benzinga.com

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 4, 2009) - ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd., (TSX VENTURE:ESR) through its wholly owned subsidiary ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates Inc. ("ERA") is pleased to announce they have completed their third sale to an Integrated Oil and Gas Company (the "Company") for 100,000 tonnes of Verified Emission Reductions (VERs).