French Researchers Ask Science Minister to Disavow Climate Skeptic - ScienceInsider

PARIS—More than 400 French climate scientists [there are over 400 French climate scientists?!] want science minister Valérie Pécresse to take a clear stand against the country's most vocal climate skeptic, geochemist Claude Allègre of the Institute of Geophysics of Paris (IPGP). On Wednesday, the group sent Pécresse a letter denouncing Allègre's latest book, L'imposture climatique (The Climate Fraud), and asking her to express confidence in the climate research community. Allègre was science minister from 1997 until 2000.

The book—a series of interviews with journalist Dominique de Montvalon—includes a harsh attack on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which Allègre calls a "mafia-like system" that propagates a "baseless myth." Climate scientists and journalists at several newspapers have argued that the book is riddled with errors, distortions of the data, and outright lies.
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"I couldn't care less," Allègre was quoted as saying today by Libération. He called the letter a "useless and stupid petition." Climatologists "have wasted a lot of public money [studying climate change] and they're afraid of losing their funding, afraid of losing their jobs," he said.

Ark. Senate hopeful says he's embracing Dem label - BusinessWeek

[Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Arkansas] also highlighted her opposition [to] "cap-and-trade" climate change legislation in which overall pollution reduction targets are met by allowing facilities to buy and sell pollution credits.