Al Gore's March of the Masseuses

This week's Enquirer, which began hitting newsstands Wednesday, says one "purported incident" took place at the rooftop spa of a hotel while Gore was in Hollywood for the Oscars for "An Inconvenient Truth." According to this Enquirer tipster, "the therapist claimed that when they were alone, Gore shrugged off a towel and stood naked in front of her. He pointed at his erect penis and ordered her, "Take care of this." The woman allegedly fled the spa and complained to a superior. She is now said to have moved to San Francisco.

The Enquirer reports that the Tokyo masseuse complained to hotel management and threatened to call police about "sexually inappropriate" conduct that allegedly occurred after Gore spoke at Keio University. No details were provided, although the source is quoted as saying "the alleged incident soon became known among some Tokyo journalists."
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The latest edition of the Enquirer says Hagerty had a "secret July 7 meeting" with Portland Police Bureau investigators, who also interviewed "several others."

Another Oil Smear

On 19 July, the Times published a frontpage lead story about a number of U.S. American think tanks that have received funding from Exxon Mobile. Some of these organisations were co-sponsors of the March 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York.

In its article, the Times gave the false impression that the GWPF was represented at the March 2009 New York conference and that the GWPF may have received Exxon Mobil funding too. In fact, the Foundation did not exist at the time. The GWPF was only founded in November 2009.

Gillards non-plan for the Climate « JoNova

ABOUT 150 ordinary Australians would be randomly chosen to develop the nation’s response to climate change under a re-elected Gillard Government.

Quadrant Online - The price of carbon

What is of greater interest is the use of the phrase “carbon price”. We already have carbon prices - quite a few of them. As with any commodity the price varies according to the form and quality of the product but carbon is unique in the range of prices which it commands. The diamond industry begins with carbon obtained from volcanic pipes and either transforms this carbon into industrial diamonds which are used for cutting and abrasive purposes or into cut diamonds for the jewellery trade where they fetch large sums of money. A tonne of cut diamonds, ready for the international diamond trade, would be worth billions.

Meltdown at Scienceblogs.com – bloggers jumping ship | Watts Up With That?

I find the whole Sb revolt thing hilarious. It’s a tempest in a pop can. Of course, PepsiCo could have defused this whole thing simply by making an announcement to stop putting deadly earth killing CO2 in their sodas, and instead sequestering it out back, underground. Then they’d be heroes, right?