EDITORIAL: Osama and Obama on global warming - Washington Times

In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama said there was "overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change." In his most recent message to the world, Osama bin Laden said that climate change "is not an intellectual luxury but an actual fact." It's nice to see these two leaders can agree on something.
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The hitch is that the man-caused catastrophic global warming theory is dead, and it needs to be buried.
The simplistic and increasingly discredited theory of carbon-based, man-caused global warming needs to be discarded, and the scientists who sought to squelch skeptics and artificially inflate their own reputations must be disciplined. Alas, Mr. Obama and Mr. bin Laden need to update their talking points.

Nigel Lawson vs Bob Watson on C4 News (UK) | CLIMATEGATE

[video] Channel 4 in the United Kingdom ran a story on climategate and then had on Nigel Lawson and Bob Watson in a debate. Watch them go at it.

No apology from IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri for glacier fallacy | Environment | The Guardian

The embattled chief of the UN's climate change body has hit out at his critics and refused to resign or apologise for a ­damaging mistake in a landmark 2007 report on global warming.

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said it would be hypocritical to apologise for the false claim that ­Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035, because he was not personally responsible for that part of the report. "You can't expect me to be personally responsible for every word in a 3,000 page report," he said.
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In a robust defence of his position and of the science of climate change, Pachauri said:

• The mistake had seriously damaged the IPCC's credibility and boosted the efforts of climate sceptics.

• It was an isolated mistake, down to human error and "totally out of character" for the panel.

• It does not undermine the "basic truth" that human activity is causing temperatures to rise.

• That he would not resign and was ­subject to lies about his personal income and lifestyle.
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Pachauri also rebutted newspapers' claims that he lives a lavish lifestyle and wears $1,000 suits. He said: "It's ridiculous and it's a bunch of lies."

His salary from the research institute that employs him is fixed in the range of 190,000 rupees (£2,600) a month, he said, while he receives only travel expenses for chairing the IPCC.

Stern denies he's a Tory adviser as Labour scents Osborne gaffe | Politics | The Guardian

The economist and climate change expert Lord Stern today distanced himself from the Tories shortly after the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, announced that the peer had become an adviser to the Conservatives.

Climate scientist at centre of email row defends his research | Environment | guardian.co.uk

He said he was "concerned" that the latest allegations, coming hot on the heels of errors uncovered in the IPCC's 2007 report, would undermine some aspects of climate science. "It makes me quite worried people are beginning to doubt the climate has warmed up," Jones said.

"I feel tremendously pressurised by all this but I'm trying to continue my work in the science. I think it's very important and it's potentially very serious for the future of mankind in decades to come." And he said he "wholeheartedly" stood by the part of the IPCC's report which he contributed to.

He added: "The work we do at the University of East Anglia is only a small part of (climate science), there's thousands of climate scientists around the world supporting our results."