Climategate—The CTM story « Watts Up With That?

Now I get to go all Andy Rooney Paul Harvey [D'0h! ~ ctm] on y’all. Many wonder why I selected Steven Mosher to be the first recipient of the files. Well, I knew he was eminently qualified to examine them, much more qualified than myself. Proximity was also a factor. Steve Mosher is my roommate. So I saw him sweating on the phone with Steve McIntyre for a day and a half while I was calmly making coffee in the kitchen espousing patience. And since this story is too important to have any contributors remain anonymous, my name is Charles Rotter and I live in San Francisco. And that’s the rest of the story.

Economic Stimulus Funds Went to Climategate Scientist

Washington, DC - In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy.

[Someone forgot to tell the fish: It's just weather!] » Naples Daily News

NAPLES — The news is not good. Apparently we are experiencing one of the worst cold weather fish kills in many years. Everywhere from Tampa to the Keys -- sport fish, bait fish, and even trash fish were succumbing to the frigid air pouring into Florida.

Water temperatures dipped into the low 40s and stayed there for quite a while and many of our species just can't handle that.

FinSoul: U.S. Deputy special climate change envoy [allegedly] optimistic for climate change [hoax] bill in 2010.

FinSoul understands that Pershing was quoted as saying, "We will have to see how it plays out and we will have to start working on alternatives if it doesn't happen,” without indicating what such alternatives might be.

Abbott's $750m green pledge | Murray-Darling Basin

TONY ABBOTT has proposed a 15,000-strong ''standing green army'' and pledged to take steps towards a federal takeover of the Murray-Darling Basin, as he seeks to position himself as a practical and pragmatic alternative to Kevin Rudd on the environment.

Rudd's taxing climate policy is a liability | The Australian

As with the tax office, the Climate Change Regulatory Authority will have powers to monitor, audit and impose penalties where necessary to enforce compliance with this system, all of which will require a growing taxpayer-funded bureaucracy.

Australians do care about the environment. What they don't care for are more taxes.

EU Referendum: Haiti – a gathering storm

But while the NGOs and their fellow-travellers get fat and rich speculating over the consequences of a hypothetical threat, the poor get poorer – and now they die. Still, I guess Oxfam will not be holding a climate change conference in Haiti any day soon.