Prêt à La Guillotine–The French AGW Revolution? « SOYLENT GREEN

First it was the courts who killed Sarkozy’s Carbon Come tax as unconstitutional. Now, former Science Minister and a member of the French National Academy Claude Allegre has penned a book titled L’imposture climatique, in which he calls the UN IPCC a “mafia-like system” that promotes a “baseless myth” about climate change. It has sold 110,000 copies to date. Magnifique.

India goes all out for UN climate change [scam] post

One of the important factors that could favour Sharma is that he was the coordinator for the G-77 countries and China in 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was signed. Also, he is an experienced IAS officer and wrote the white paper based on which the Delhi High Court ordered the use of CNG for transport in New Delhi.

A factor that could obstruct his nomination, though, is that South Africa has fielded a candidate - its Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk.

Greenpeace is coming: “We know where you live.” « JoNova

There are nut-cases out there, and this kind of post from Greenpeace has two aims — one, hoping to intimidate skeptics into silence, and two, hoping to ignite a nutcase to DO something, then pretend that Greenpeace can hide behind it’s corporate mission statement, and deny all responsibility.

Greenpeace can’t get away with inciting terrorism. You can’t pretend that there were any lines in that article designed to reign in the eco-loonies, there were no conciliatory statements about skeptics being scientists who have a different opinion. GreenViolence is just as evil, noxious and nasty as fascist-violence. –JN

[Blast from the past: From Twitter, Revkin just linked to this article, written near the peak of CO2 hysteria] - New York Times

[April 2007] ...Disparities like these have prompted a growing array of officials in developing countries and experts on climate, environmental law and diplomacy to insist that the first world owes the third world a climate debt.

The obligation of the established greenhouse-gas emitters to help those most imperiled by warming derives from the longstanding legal concept that “the polluter pays,” many experts say.

“We have an obligation to help countries prepare for the climate changes that we are largely responsible for,” said Peter H. Gleick, the founder of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security in Berkeley, Calif. His institute has been tracking trends like the burst of new desalination plants in wealthy places running short of water.

“If you drive your car into your neighbor’s living room, don’t you owe your neighbor something?” Dr. Gleick said. “On this planet, we’re driving the climate car into our neighbors’ living room, and they don’t have insurance and we do.”