Taiwan climate movie under fire for mistakes - Taiwan News Online

National Taiwan University atmospheric sciences professor Gloria Hsu and other academics and environmentalists who watched the movie not only found that a lot of footage came from public television, but also that so much content was wrong or avoided the facts that it subtracted from the value of the whole movie.

Hsu said that even the title was misleading, since a drop in temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius was unlikely to cause any problems.

Climategate: 'a lot of common data' – Phil Jones exposes AGW dominoes to Commons committee – Telegraph Blogs

Yet the most significant part of this exchange, largely buried by subsequent discussion of the issues already mentioned, occurred very early in Jones’s evidence. Referring to the CRU’s collaboration with two other climate units in America and another two in Russia and Japan respectively, Jones said: “We may be using a lot of common data, but the ways of going from the raw data to a derived product of gridded temperatures and then the average for the hemisphere and the globe is totally independent between the different groups.”

There you have the crisis in a nutshell. That is why the Climategate stakes are so high – $45 trillion, to be precise. If the CRU/East Anglia’s research is compromised (and who now seriously believes it is not?), then the dominoes all fall by cross-contamination. Jones tried to emphasise the apparent difference between these groups on whose work the whole IPCC edifice stands or falls. But this is cosmetic verbiage. It is the raw data that matters. If that is wrong, nuances of interpretation based on it are irrelevant – and how much significant difference is there in the claims of the IPCC contributing groups in any case?

Carbon Emissions Meets Financial Reporting: No Time to Waste |Triple Pundit

Companies must act now to rally their entire organization to prepare for auditable GHG inventories and adapt to the change necessary to compete in a carbon-constrained economy.

Point Carbon: US carbon offset supply hits record high - Risk.net

“Pre-compliance buyers are the most important, as they are looking to hedge against future compliance costs,” says Scott Nissenbaum, president of Finite Carbon, a carbon development company that works with forest owners to create and monetise credits from forestry projects. “We’ve talked with at least one industrial company that believes it could be 100 million tons a year short. For this company, buying tons at today’s price of $6 versus expected prices of more than $10 is a $400-million-a-year saving.”

CCX CFI End of Day Summary

[note that carbon offsets are going for 10 cents a ton here]