Chief scientist makes £500,000 from fishery firm ‘jeopardising’ sea life - Times Online

THE government’s chief scientist and his wife have made £500,000 in the past year in a company overseeing commercial fishing that allegedly threatens one of the world’s most pristine marine environments.

Professor John Beddington and his wife, Caroline, are joint shareholders in Marine Resources Assessment Group (MRAG), a London-based consultancy that manages fisheries and provides specialist advice around the world.
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In his role as a £165,000-a-year senior civil servant, Beddington has warned of the dangers of overfishing the oceans.

UK leads the way in spending billions to achieve no benefit | CLIMATEGATE

The UK government wants to encourage people to put solar panels on their roofs. I don’t like to state the obvious, but clearly the government is as clueless about UK weather as the University of East Anglia.

- Bishop Hill blog - BBC presenter can't question AGW

I'm grateful to Charles Crawford for this item, in which BBC Radio Five Live's Peter Allen tells a listener that he is not allowed to question manmade global warming. The programme will soon disappear from the BBC website so an excerpt is attached below.

Peter Allen on AGW [MP3]

Biased BBC: BLACK AND PEW....

So, Mr Black and Ms Moffat are both firmly within the paid orbit of Pew, one of the little-known but hugely influential bodies that pull the strings of the climate change debate. It shows yet again, in the world of climate science, the more you scatch the surface, the more there is evidence of strange linkages and vested interests at work; and that BBC employees are well and truly in bed with those shadowy forces.

EU Referendum: What is the point?

...as one of my sharp-eyed readers notes, if you google the photographer Eric Lefranc you will find the picture of the two polar bears on the ice was taken in August 2007.

Chinese authorities block reporting of wild Siberian tiger's death | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Regional media said the cub had probably sought shelter after being separated from its mother in the unusually deep winter snows.