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When even Dick Durbin (D-IL) says that Senate Democrats have to be “realistic” about their energy policy in light of a struggling economy, it means that Barbara Boxer and John Kerry had better get used to disappointment.
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Cap-and-trade is dead, at least for 2010, unless the Cultural Ministers for Corruption Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid can find more ways to bribe Democratic Senators into committing career suicide. I wouldn’t necessarily dismiss that possibility.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Insane AGW regulations hamstringing California

Greg Tholen, a principal environmental planner for the [Bay Area Air Quality Management District], said his agency was only trying to be helpful.

The UK Met Office “Subset” « Climate Audit

This leaves a number of puzzle-type questions about the Hadley Subset:
- how were these selected?
- why is the Jones version of GCOS stations not considered confidential?
- why is the Jones version of non-GCOS stations in the Hadley Subset not considered confidential?
- why was this not made available last summer?

EU Referendum: Pachauri: not $300,000 but $800,000 admitted

Certainly, Yale University has enough money in the kitty to pay Pauchari more than half a million a year. The Climate and Energy Institute to which he was been appointed head has been funded to the tune of $3 million, provided by an "anonymous donor," a base on which it aims to build "via private donor contributions."

Who these anonymous donors are, of course, we will never know, which makes the University itself a perfect way of laundering payments to Pachauri. By the time they have been transferred to the university and then TERI, they have passed through two "cut-outs" and are entirely untraceable.

With his Yale fee, though, Pachauri's known earnings are in the $800,000 bracket, and these only cover some of the organizations we named in our article. Add the rest, plus Pachauri's payments from the IPCC, and he must easily be in the million-dollar bracket for his annual earnings. Yet, about how much of that is paid to Pachauri by his own TERI, he remains curiously reticent.

EU Referendum: More lucrative by the day

By the time we have stitched this together, we will be able to show with some greater clarity the web of corruption and deceit that reaches into the heart of the IPCC and spreads its net globally, lubricated by billions of dollars with the promise of many more to come.

When it is all over though, we should have difficulty in being the least surprised. The IPCC is, after all, a UN institution, the same fundamentally corrupt organisation that brought us "food for oil" and other such delights. That anyone expected "climate change" to be handled any differently, or any less corruptly, should be the only surprise.

EU Referendum: Pachauri: the Deutsche Bank connection

On the face of it, therefore, this appears to be another example of Dr Pachauri working for his own commercial interests while booking his expenses to the IPCC.
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As for Deutsche Bank, it actually has four billion reasons for its interest in climate change and Dr Pachuari, something which its website so clearly explains.

Having identified climate change as "one of the mega-trends that would drive the global asset management business for the next generation and beyond," it has become "one of the leading climate change investors in the world." As of March 2009, it had approximately $4 billion under its management.

At a mere €100,000 - so far declared - they might think Pachauri comes relatively cheap.

Cold snap continues in northern China, spreads south

Thursday morning's low temperature in the north of Xinjiang averaged minus 30 degrees Celsius.

More than 20,000 people suffered damage to their homes or economic losses estimated at 10 million yuan (1.5 million U.S. dollars) in Altay Prefecture in northern Xinjiang, a prefecture official said.

More than 1,300 livestock died and almost 2,000 homes were damaged while 34 collapsed under the snow. More than 100 vegetable greenhouses and livestock sheds also collapsed.

Finding an incongruent truth in Copen-haten - RON HART - The News Herald

Obama and Prince Charles sheepishly went to the Copenhagen climate change summit in a flimsy, last-ditch effort to spend our money on a political shakedown disguised as science.