Copenhagen deadline dead | CLIMATEGATE

It really hasn’t been pretty for global warmers since the East Anglia emails hit the internet. The dominoes are falling, one after another. So much pomp and enthusiasm at Copenhagen, now dashed with the reality that on 20 of 192 countries have actually “signed up.”

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Castles Built on Sand

So to summarize: Contrary to its procedures the IPCC chose to emphasize a paper that was not peer reviewed to support claims that were contrary to all of the peer reviewed literature on this topic. The IPCC created (or had others create) a graph that appeared nowhere in the literature and was highly misleading. When the paper was eventually published several years later as a book chapter, it was revised in such a substantial fashion so as to eliminate unambiguously any basis for the claims that had been made by the IPCC justified by the earlier version of the paper.

CO2 good for Amazon rainforests

They're gobbling up all that increasing CO2

The IPCC boss and his little donor | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

India’s Times Now reports on the tangled conflicts of interest of Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. So which statesman is featured in the clip alongside Pachauri, accused of earning millions in fees or donations to associated interests?

Why it’s the man [Kevin Rudd] who has just handed $1 million of our money to Pachauri’s The Energy and Resources Institute

The Whited Sepulchre: John Stossel. T. Boone Pickens. Wind Farm Scams. Light Rail.

[Stossel] had a funny montage of all our recent presidents vowing and declaring that we would reduce our dependence on foreign oil, kinda like me vowing and declaring not to write any more about Climate Change Scams.
When Nixon was president, we imported 25% of our oil. Then we got the Department of Energy, it was charged with lowering this percentage, and we now import almost 70%. Stossel showed some T. Boone ads touting the purity and wholesomeness of wind power.
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Stossel closed by arguing that the phrase "energy independence" is a feel-good phrase with no merit. To promote energy independence is to oppose trade, and trade is what makes us richer. He quoted Adam Smith:

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy...What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.