What climate change deniers and the Kop have in common - BusinessGreen Blog

Anyone attempting to challenge the increasingly vocal battalion of sceptics, deniers and assorted right wing nut jobs who have somehow emerged as "expert" media commentators on the recent run of global extreme weather events would be well advised to heed the words of that great modern-day philosopher Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter: "A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who."

Playing Fair With Climate Science | Mother Jones

Stuart is no climate skeptic, just someone who thinks data ought to be presented clearly and transparently. I agree. Especially in the current post-Climategate atmosphere, the climate community needs to be purer than Caesar's wife about this kind of thing. There's no reason to withhold this satellite information, but it should be clearly labeled as preliminary, non-significant, and with error bars attached.
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Kevin Drum is a political blogger for Mother Jones.

Crackdown on carbon credit scam - Telegraph

Carbon credit trading is to be subject to reverse value-added tax (VAT) charges in a bid to prevent fraud.

Global warming fix equals 'smelly, dehydrated, unsanitary' people

"Prince Charles thinks we should take shorter showers, Al Gore demands we use less air-conditioning, singer Sheryl Crow says we must limit our use of toilet paper to one square at a time, and Stanford professor Paul Erhlich says patriotic Americans will not have more than two children – all in the name of stopping global warming," says Brian Sussman. "If these fools had their way we'd all be smelly, dehydrated, unsanitary and on our way to extinction."

Standing by Mann: Small but punchy protest blasts Cuccinelli’s ‘climategate’ inquest | The Hook News Blog

“Ken Cuccinelli wants to take away the most precious things we can leave to the next generation: a healthy environment and a healthy and strong university. Don’t let the history books read, ‘When climate scientist Michael Mann was ignored, the planet burned up.’”
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“Bad timing,” McElveen admitted as just two students and two professors rallied with him on the marble steps of the UVA Rotunda.
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Back at the rally, microbiologist Jay Brown wondered how many people might have died if polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk had to endure a Cuccinelli-style inquest, and another faculty member cast the inquest investigation in similarly stark terms.

“The political right in this country hates the University,” said anthropology professor Richard Handler. “If it is a politically motivated attack on a scientific position, then it’s a dishonorable and shameful misuse of governmental power, and I would hope that voters, the next time Mr. Cuccinelli stands for an elected office, would reject him on that basis.”