EU Referendum: And now for Africagate

Even the mildest critics of the IPCC and Dr Pachauri might now be moved to observe that they have eschewed uncertainty, to project the most pessimistic scenario imaginable – with no scientific support and a great deal of embellishment. After "Climategate", "Glaciergate", "Amazongate" and now "Africagate" can either survive?

Monckton’s Australian tour so successful two new tour dates added. Enjoy these video extracts. | CLIMATEGATE

Due to the overwhelming success of the tour by Lord Monckton in Australia, two extra tour presentation dates have been arranged in Perth and Sydney.

‘Green’ Ideas Have Consequences - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Wow. It would stink if someone from Chicago were instituting ill-considered "green" policies for the entire nation. Oh, wait . . .

How well do scientists understand how changes in Earth's orbit affect long-term natural climate trends?

ScienceDaily (Feb. 5, 2010) — The notion that scientists understand how changes in Earth's orbit affect climate well enough for estimating long-term natural climate trends that underlie any anthropogenic climate change is challenged by findings just published.

Dear Geoffrey Lean, let me explain why we're so cross… – Telegraph Blogs

Certainly the most erroneous is the utter nonsense that the measures being proposed to deal with “climate change” will “make the world a better, more prosperous place.”

No they won’t Geoff, and that’s why so many of us are so angry; why some of the emails you get are filled with such poison. We see, as you apparently do not, that in the name of this AGW scare you and your environmental correspondent colleagues have been helping to cook up these last few years our world is being destroyed.

You rightly cite biofuels as an example of green zealotry gone horribly wrong. If only it were the only one.

But how about the fact that, in the name of preserving the environment, the choicest parts of our magnificent British landscape are going to be ruined for generations by ugly, energy-inefficient, wind farms which are really little more than a means of transferring taxpayers’ money into the pockets of a few canny businessmen and pandering to EU bureaucracy but which will contribute nothing to our “energy security” because their power output is negligible?

EU: clear cutting rainforests for palm oil plantations OK at Heliogenic Climate Change

“Palm oil plantations are now ‘forests,’ says EU“

FOXNews.com - Penn State Probe into Mann's Wrongdoing a 'Total Whitewash'

Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Foundation, a conservative research and educational institute, proposed that the state legislature conduct an independent investigation of the charges and Mann's research.

A spokesman for the foundation said it was a "conflict of interest" for Penn State to investigate itself. Republican State Rep. RoseMarie Swanger also called for a separate investigation to be conducted by the state.

Graduate School Dean Henry C. Foley, who headed the investigation, referred all calls on the subject to media representatives for the school, who failed to return phone calls.

Climate makes money move in mysterious ways - Telegraph

In all the coverage lately given to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its embattled chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, one rather important part of the story has largely been missed. This is the way in which, in its obsession with climate change, different branches of the UK Government have in recent years been pouring hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money into a bewildering array of "climate-related" projects, often throwing a veil of mystery over how much is being paid, to whom and why.