Oops: Chief Climategate investigator failed to declare eco directorship • The Register

Exclusive The peer leading the second Climategate enquiry at the University of East Anglia serves as a director of one of the most powerful environmental networks in the world, according to Companies House documents - and has failed to declare it.

Lord Oxburgh, a geologist by training and the former scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, was appointed to lead the enquiry into the scientific aspects of the Climategate scandal on Monday. But Oxburgh is also a director of GLOBE, the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment.
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One insider, who declined to be named, described Oxburgh's appointment as "like putting Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank".

HOneybees Stung by Harsh Winder, Pesticides

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BBC News - UN body to look at meat and climate link

UN specialists are to look again at the contribution of meat production to climate change, after claims that an earlier report exaggerated the link.

Sunil Sharan: Resolving the Global Warming Paradox

2010, and perhaps even 2011, then promise winters of discontent. An Einstein-like figure, with impeccable credentials and touchstone appeal, would surely have resonated with most Americans. In the absence of such a talisman, President Obama and Congress should consider setting up a bipartisan commission that will assemble and oversee a small team of credible scientists tasked to examine if the planet is heating, and if so, what the causes are and how harmful the effects. The scientists should complete their inquiry in a few months and publicize their findings widely in layman terms. Some would counter that there is no need to tread down beaten paths, but previous scientific attempts, howsoever thorough and well-intentioned, have clearly not engaged the general public sufficiently.