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Remember how the US gasoline-powered automobile market would never have developed without the massive government grants to Standard Oil to build out a gas station network? Yeah, neither do I.

The Clamour Of The Times

The lamentable fact that David Cameron has appointed Chris Huhne [pictured], Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh, Hampshire, as the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, underscores one’s profoundest fears that our leading politicians have still still not grasped, despite all the red flag warnings, the depth and urgency of the UK energy crisis. This, after all, is the man who is avowedly opposed to the development of a new generation of nuclear powers stations, who believes that we can fill our looming energy gap with wave, wind, and waffle, and who is totally uncritical of the ‘global warming’ message.

Environmental fund obtains $ 4.25 billion record infusion

More than 30 nations have pledged $4.25 billion for the Global Environment Facility to carry out Copenhagen commitments, as well as other critical environmental agreements.

100 attend rally to protest UT's plans to award Gore honorary degree » Knoxville News Sentinel

About 100 attendees representing a hodgepodge of conservative causes turned out at World's Fair Park on Thursday night to protest the University of Tennessee's plans to award an honorary doctorate to former U.S. Sen. and Vice President Al Gore.
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"It's really the anti-man-made global warming movement," said state Rep. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, one of several speakers at the evening. "It's all people who think Al Gore is just a fraud."

Former Vice President Al Gore's Commencement Address Streamed Live via Mediasite

View the ceremony live at 8:30 a.m. EDT at http://sofo.com/049de.

In addition to his commencement speech, the Nobel Peace Prize winner will be honored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with only the third honorary degree granted by the campus, an Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the College of Arts and Sciences.

UN science chief defends work, welcomes review - CTV News

Pachauri said the panel is comprised of volunteer scientists contributing several years of their own time and who disband after issuing their report. The panel has no mechanism for responding to criticism once the reports are issued, other than the small secretariat.

"We need to develop an ability and a capacity to communicate better with the outside world," he told the 15 top scientists from around the world summoned to sit on the review committee..