Climate [scam] team stays even with ETS defeat

The federal Department of Climate Change will continue to have more than 150 staff work on introducing an emissions trading scheme even if the Senate stops it happening, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner says.

The Australian Climate Change Regulation Authority was established in June 2009 and given $81.9 million for this financial year to implement an ETS, The Canberra Times reports.

Senator Jim Inhofe's Photos - Inhofe Family Pokes Fun at Al Gore, Global Warming During DC Feb Blizzard | Facebook

Senator Inhofe and his family were in Washington DC this weekend as the blizzard hit the DC area. The Inhofe family had a little fun at the expense of Al Gore and global warming.

PM's stand on Copenhagen a snub to UN climate change secretariat - India - The Times of India

Speaking at an event where UNFCCC executive secretary Evo De Boer, many foreign dignitaries and international climate negotiators were in audience, the PM called the accord merely a catalogue of voluntary commitments.
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In the dying moments of the Copenhagen meet, the Indian and Chinese negotiators had made it clear that they did not want their names inscribed in the chapeau (opening and over-arching paragraph of the accord).

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DHS cites global warming as security threat. Um... worry less about temp of planet, more about temp of terrorist undies

Global warming: IPCC's 'Pic and Pac' techniques lead them to another disastrous error

It's very clear what is happening. The IPCC decides on a political point they wish to make. They search for an iconic illustration and decide that that will be the example the world sees. They then search for data to show the icon in danger. If the data doesn't suffice, it is laundered through successive paraphrasing with more distant sourcing until it is in effect sanitised. They pick the subject and pack the data. And it just doesn't matter what quality of data is used or if the claim is even true.
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These can no longer be considered as coincidental mistakes of differing gravity. It is now clear that these are the considered outputs of an institutional framework. In other words, the IPCC set up their reporting system to yield these statements, and the statements were far more important than the science that yielded them or the data that was meant to back them up. They needed the headline quotes, the soundbites. They hoped the data held up, or at least was hidden well enough to escape detection.

Rajendra Pachauri must resign. The IPCC must be reconstituted along more accountable and responsible lines. This must happen now.