Friday, February 19, 2010

Here's where your £9 million of Climate Challenge Fund money went | CLIMATEGATE
Now the UK TaxPayers’ Alliance has made a video that shows where some of the money was wasted. After watching their video, read their exceptional full report in this PDF–it’s unbelievable.
North, South Reach for New UN Climate Change Chief
Pasztor also said de Boer's resignation had nothing to do with recent controversies about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and allegedly hyped data on the melt rate of Himalayan glaciers.

"Absolutely nothing" had been produced that would call into question the fundamental IPCC conclusions on the issue of climate change and its impact, Pasztor said, although he acknowledged mistakes had been made and recognized, and needed to be corrected. Pasztor said the fundamental science of climate change, however, had not changed in any way.
If climate science is dubious, shouldn't governments give carmakers a break? | detnews.com | The Detroit News
In a sane world, European governments would be scrambling to rescind tight regulation and extortionate taxation introduced in the name of saving the planet from the ravages of global warming, induced by CO2 emissions from cars.

After all, the science justifying action to raise the cost of energy generally and forcing the European automotive industry to raise its fuel economy to unattainably high levels, has been shown to be in doubt, if not downright fraudulent.
Republicans exploit the muddle in the middle - Salt Lake Tribune
Kimball Rasmussen is an energy executive who travels the West with a slick presentation purporting to address concerns over climate change. CEO of Utah-based Deseret Power, Rasmussen downplays the threat of global warming with cute cartoons and a pickle barrel of plain talk. He ends by "debunking" the myths about global warming.

The myths happen to be of Rasmussen's own creation, carefully worded to misrepresent the findings of mainstream climatologists. And his sources include some of the more tainted global-warming "skeptics." One of his scientific experts, Christopher Horner, is actually a lawyer at the right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute. Another is Dr. Roy Spencer, whose calculations have been widely discredited by his peers and who, by the way, also questions evolution.
Global doubting: Scientists need some humility - Salt Lake Tribune
Even if you throw out the tainted research, the trends -- rising sea levels, temperature changes and retreating polar ice -- are convincing and have been documented over many decades by different groups of scientists around the world.
Increasing global warming could cause longer-lasting weather patterns - Global Warming - Environment - Home - The Times of India
WASHINGTON: In a new study, University of Missouri (MU) researchers are studying whether increasing planet temperatures and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could lead to atmospheric blocking and when this blocking might occur, leading to more accurate forecasts.

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