ADB hosts climate [hoax] investment forum to scale up Asia`s response to climate change on Environmental Expert

Senior government officials and climate change experts from around the world will gather in the Philippines this week to discuss financial measures to help developing countries mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.

Hosted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the 15-19 March meetings are an opportunity to review the impact of Climate Investment Funds (CIF), and to strengthen developing country participation in CIF climate action schemes.

The TaxPayers' Alliance - Economics 101: New Research: Government refuse to tell us how much they think their pledge to cut emissions 42% by 2020 will cost

This morning, the Times reports on the Department of Energy and Climate Change's refusal to answer our Freedom of Information request for their estimate of the cost of meeting a target of a 42% cut in emissions by 2020.

C3: Chinese Researchers Find That Rice Production Will Increase Almost 20% With More Warming & More CO2

Climate alarmists claim that increased CO2 and the supposed wicked warming it will produce will cause agriculture to decline, leading to starvation and death. Peer-reviewed research refutes this mindless speculation when applied to rice production.

Sir John Houghton: AGW is real because I've got a knighthood, I'm a scientist and I say so – Telegraph Blogs

I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Sir John. But I’m sure I’d recognise him instantly by his extraordinarily long nose.

Mercury News interview: Energy Secretary Steven Chu - San Jose Mercury News

One can honestly say that if we don't do this [tax carbon dioxide], we will not be economically competitive. [Why would we need to do this to compete with countries that don't do it?!]
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Take agriculture: Rural America can benefit greatly from clean technology. They have land, so they can have wind turbines. They can have carbon offsets from planting trees. They can have biofuel from biowaste. Now you have three different income generators in rural America that could dwarf or at least be comparable [or not] to the cash you'd get from growing food crops. [So growing food crops is less important than fighting carbon dioxide?]