The taxman and the flaw in the perfectly logical idea of carbon trading – Telegraph Blogs

Catching up on the latest in the world of carbon trading ahead of my trip to the climate change conference in Copenhagen next week, I stumbled across some slightly alarming figures suggesting the scale of fraud that has been plaguing the market.

HeraldNet: Be skeptical of alarmists on climate

We now know that some of the world’s leading climate change scientists waged a loosely coordinated campaign of misrepresentation, intimidation, and — possibly — fabrication to further their agenda. The unauthorized release of thousands of e-mails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England, shines an unflattering light on the folks behind the curtain and shatters the illusion that climate change is settled science.
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Meanwhile in Congress, the House’s climate change legislation, which squeaked through 219-212 last June, looks like the high-water mark for the green team. Just 35 percent of Americans supported the legislation at the time, according to Rasmussen Reports. When received wisdom becomes doubted dogma, support erodes. Consider the legislation dead.

UA prof told to safeguard questioned climate files | www.azstarnet.com ®

"Please note that there are severe civil and criminal penalties, federal and state, for the destruction of certain materials," Inhofe wrote Monday. He sent similar letters to a host of other researchers, including Mann and Bradley, federal officials and other university officials around the country.

Key off to Copenhagen?

Adrian Macey is New Zealand's designated climate change ambassador, and he had already seen signs of a growing sense of international commitment to Copenhagen.

Compton: Politics inspire rumination | Kansan.com

1) It’s remarkable that the biggest news story of the year is being ignored by the mainstream media. Evidence of fraud among the most prestigious climate scientists at the esteemed University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit doesn’t appear to be newsworthy.

Elpida Receives "2009 Global Warming Prevention Activity Award" from Japan's Ministry of the Environment

Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that its primary chip manufacturing fab, the Hiroshima Plant, was named one of the recipients of the "2009 Global Warming Prevention Activity Award" bestowed by Japan's Ministry of the Environment.

Former NASA climate scientist pleads guilty to contract fraud | Washington Examiner

A former top climate scientist who had become of one the scientific world's most cited authorities on the human effect on Earth's atmosphere was sentenced to probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to steering lucrative no-bid contracts to his wife's company.
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[Mark] Schoeberl was the chief scientist of the Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth Sciences Division and the head of the Aura Project, a NASA mission to study the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. He has written extensively about the depletion of the ozone level, and the influence of humans on global climate change.