“None have links to …IPCC” « Climate Audit

Inquiry:
None [of the Team] have any links to the Climatic Research Unit, or the United Nations’ Independent Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

FOXNews.com - Three Major Firms Pull Out of Climate Change Alliance

The sudden pullout of three corporate giants from a leading alliance of businesses and environmental groups could be the death knell for climate change legislation languishing on Capitol Hill.

National Briefing - Southwest - Texas - Dangers of Climate Change Are Questioned - NYTimes.com

Gov. Rick Perry and other top Texas officials on Tuesday announced a legal challenge to the federal government’s finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are dangerous to people...Environmental advocates criticized the announcement as stemming from Mr. Perry’s campaign supporters among heavy industry.

The Beginning of the End for Cap-and-Trade? (BP America, Conoco-Phillips, and Caterpillar bolt) — MasterResource

While the media isn’t covering this with the mad intensity that it covered Apple’s departure from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Google: “Apple leaves Chamber,” 1.8 million hits), it is no less a ground-shaking event.

RealClimate: Whatevergate: [Alarmist Gavin Schmidt]

As the various panels and reports on the CRU affair conclude, it is highly likely (almost certain in fact) that no-one will conclude that there has been any fraud, fabrication or scientific misconduct (since there hasn’t been). Eventually, people will realise (again) that the GW hoaxers are indeed cranks, and the mainstream window on their rants will close.

Global warming: A weblog's suicide note

Real Climate is the major weblog for the activist position on climate change. Its principal contributor, Gavin Schmidt, has always written with a calm and measured tone.
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With this post, he just insures that this story will live through another few media cycles, and may help to bring the American media in to take a look at what the fuss is about. He did no favors for his cause, his weblog or himself with his evening rant.

[Flashback to 2006: Is this Tom Fuller's "calm and measured" Gavin Schmidt?]: RealClimate: Cuckoo Science

Two pieces that have recently drawn some attention fit this mould exactly. One by Christopher Monckton (a viscount, no less, with obviously too much time on his hands) which comes complete with supplematary ‘calculations’ using his own ‘M’ model of climate, and one on JunkScience.com (‘What Watt is what’). Junk Science is a front end for Steve Milloy, long time tobacco, drug and oil industry lobbyist, and who has been a reliable source for these ‘cuckoo science’ pieces for years. Curiously enough, both pieces use some of the same sleight-of-hand to fool the unwary (coincidence?).