The smoking iceberg - Melanie Phillips

...Nothing wrong with that in itself – but it opens the way to ‘adjust’ the raw data somewhat, er, creatively. And that’s what Eschenbach discovered has taken place. When he looked at the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) dataset that the East Anglia CRU uses for its raw data, he found that at one Australian weather station from which this data was drawn, Darwin Airport, the results before homogenising the data showed temperatures in Darwin cooling at 0.7 Celcius per century … but after homogenisation, they were warming at 1.2 Celcius per century. So then he looked at precisely how this adjustment had been made. And he found what appears to be the smoking gun

Regulating CO2 with Common Sense is a Contradiction in Terms » The Foundry

Whether it’s disguised as clean jobs legislation or pollution reduction regulation, the reality is any cap and carbon dioxide is an energy tax – an attempt to drive energy prices so high that people use less. Because we use a lot of fossil fuel-based energy and there’s no low cost alternative, there’s no way around the economic pain that will ensue.

YouTube - [Breathtaking stupidity]: Eco Hypocrites Fly in Jets Across Atlantic to Attack AFP in Copenhagen

Radical Protesters storm an Americans for Prosperity broadcast from Copenhagen.

What happens when you try to debate climate change... | Fraser Nelson - The Spectator

The debate proceeded along the bizarre path that these types so frequently tread. I was asked about what the climategate emails mean: I said it shows people putting spin first and science second. And raised the prospect of data manipulation. Hope replied by saying, “it's remarkable about how the so-called sceptics have been using this as a propaganda tool to promote political end... People with a clear vested interest in creating public confusion because they want to udnermine action on climate change, they should shut up and wait until the investigation is done rather than carry on a witchhunt”. And things went downhill from there.

Anyway, some kind soul recorded it, so you can see it below

Brendan Demelle | Climate Contrarian Monckton calls young climate activists “Hitler Youth” and "Nazis"

Fifty young U.S. clean energy activists stormed the stage today in Copenhagen during a live webcast organized by Americans for Prosperity and featuring climate denier Lord Christopher Monckton.
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The young activists, representing a number of youth action groups including SustainUS, the Sierra Student Coalition, the Cascade Climate Network, and other American youth NGOs, kicked off the protest by holding banners in front of the cameras reading "Climate Disaster Ahead" and "Clean Energy Now."

When AFP staffers ripped the banners out of their hands, the students began a five-minute chant of "Real Americans for Prosperity are Americans for Clean Energy," leaving AFP organizers scratching their heads about what to do.

Climategate: ordering a better scare for Australia | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

CSIRO alarmist Barrie Pittock tells off Climategate scientist Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia for not presenting material that’s scary enough for green groups:

Video: Copenhagen’s Implications for American Sovereignty » The Foundry

Steven Groves, Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow in Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, discusses what YouTube sensation Lord Monckton made a wildly popular topic: a climate change treaty’s threat to American sovereignty.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Europol Reports Massive Fraud in the Carbon Credits Market

This is not terribly surprising, though I suspect that the problem is much more widespread than even this report alleges.