Peter Foster: Cleaning up at the UN | FP Comment | Financial Post

When Mr. Ban assumed his job as Secretary-General in 2007 — succeeding Kofi Annan, whose son was deeply implicated in oil-for-food — he declared that his top priorities were transparency, accountability and pushing the global climate agenda.

Uncomfortably for him, those issues became inextricably linked last December, just before the failed UN climate conference at Copenhagen, with the release of the Climategate emails.

McDonnell Kicks Off Town Hall Meeting Tour

[town hall speaker] "We seem to be buying into the Al Gore sponsored global warming ponzi scheme that most of the people in this room probably scoff at."

After ClimateGate » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

It seems to me that boiling down policy statements from nuanced scientific research undermines both the work of good scientists and our faith in their project. If we are simply told what to do, or if scientists become just another form of late night infomercial “experts,” then our capability of choosing well, our most important privilege, is damaged. And of course, no one likes being told what to do.

Greens defend climate tactics - POLITICO.com

“The reason why I’m not looking around, hearing a lot of people scared for their jobs, I think the general view within the environmental community is consistent with mine: We ran a very effective, well-coordinated effort,” said Dan Lashof, director of NRDC’s climate center.
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How much money was spent is difficult to pin down. NRDC, the Sierra Club and Clean Energy Works declined to open up their books to show how much they spent on the climate campaign. EDF had spent $20 million on climate legislation since October 2008. Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection pledged in 2006 to spend $300 million, but it’s unclear how much it ended up using.
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“We really got our ass kicked in August during the town halls,” EDF spokesman Tony Kreindler said.