BBC - Ethical Man blog: Have I discovered the world's most carbon efficient form of transport? [riding in a stranger's fossil-fueled car]

So what is the truly low carbon travel alternative? It was Simon Calder who suggested hitchhiking.

He says that his own personal offsetting scheme is to hitchhike wherever possible, arguing that hitchhikers do not generate additional traffic.

I think there a strong case for that.

Climategate goes American: NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations – Telegraph Blogs

This is a scandal to rank with Climategate.

What it shows is that, just like in Britain at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) temperature data records have been grotesquely distorted by activist scientists in order to exaggerate the appearance of late 20th century global warming. They achieved this – with an insouciant disregard for scientific integrity which quite beggars belief – through the simple expedient of ignoring most of those weather station sited in higher, colder places and using mainly ones in warmer spots. Then, they averaged out the temperature readings given by the warmer stations to give a global average. Et voila: exactly the scary “climate change” they needed to persuade bodies like the IPCC that AGW was a clear and present danger requiring urgent pan-governmental action.
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The idea that a man of Dr Hansen’s radical persuasion should be running an organisation as important as GISS is looking increasingly absurd.

EU Referendum: The big money

Why a dedicated childrens' charity should suddenly take it upon itself to fund so generously a European climate advocacy group is less than clear.

Striking spike in global warming coverage | CEJournal