You can’t Google your way out of climate change | Peter Garrett

But just as relying on fake emails to mount a political case has its pitfalls, Googling facts and peddling them as truth opens up more cracks in credibility than a last-day pitch at the SCG.

Tony Abbott’s extraordinary revelation last week that the only basis for his false claims about the cost of the Government CPRS on Australian households was ‘reports’ plucked from a Google news search left the Liberal Party’s new leader without a fig leaf of credibility.

Worse, it demonstrated just how far Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party are prepared to go to mount a climate change fear campaign.
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The CPRS makes such obvious economic, social and environmental sense – it puts a cap on emissions, and makes polluters rather than taxpayers pay for the pollution.

Twitter / Marnae

Pretty sure global warming does not exist in the USA. Half of the states will be -10, -20 with wind chills this week. Gross.

Britain's weather in 2009: wetter, [allegedly] warmer and sunnier - Telegraph

Britain was wetter, warmer and sunnier than usual in 2009, the Met Office is set to announce this week.

EU Referendum: Pachauri: nose in the honey jar

Interestingly, the Chairman of the entire Climate Exchange PLC group, Dr Richard L Sandor, is a member of the TERI School of Management Advisory Committee in India.

All this puts Pachauri, with his institute, as a direct player in the creation of a lucrative carbon trading market in India, alongside direct evidence that he was using his position as chairman of the IPCC to advocate a "definite agreement on placing a price on carbon" at the Copenhagen COP15 Summit.

Acting with a coterie of other UN officials, when it comes to a conflicts of interest, they do not come any stronger.
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Thus, it seems, not only has Dr R K Pachauri got his nose firmly stuck in the honey jar, Her Majesty's Government is supplying some of the honey – at the British taxpayers' expense.