Europol Arrests More Than 100 In Carbon Trading Fraud

- Estimated 5 billion euros in damage for European taxpayers
- Massive fraud involving criminal networks / Middle East

Kyoto Protocol: Bad Science = Bad Policy | Watts Up With That?

My Christmas message to farmers in Australia and around the world is this: I don’t intend to allow the recent Senate enquiry here to gather dust. I am an urban dweller who just happens to think that the ‘unsettled’ science and restriction of technology has brought about bad policy by way of the Kyoto Protocol and subsequent disastrous consequences for our farmers, their families and anyone who values sound science, property rights and our democratic freedom.

ABC’s Harris: Climate Scientists ‘Embattled’ by ‘Controversial’ Skeptics ‘Despite Compelling Evidence’ of Global Warming | NewsBusters.org

On the Wednesday, December 22, Nightline on ABC, inspired by recent extreme weather, correspondent Dan Harris filed a report on global warming in which he gave attention to the views of a proponent of global warming theory, while giving a lesser amount of attention to two skeptics, one of whom he labeled "controversial."

Harris related that, "despite all that compelling evidence" of global warming, climate scientists "feel more embattled than ever," taking heat from "politicians on the right." He even went so far as to highlight examples of reported harassment of climate scientists, including anti-Semitic insults.

Scientists Say Movies Can Inspire Their Successors | Hollywood Blockbusters, Popular Culture & Entertainment | LiveScience

"The 'reel' can create the 'real,'" Singhal said.

Panel moderator Sidney Perkowitz, a physics professor at Emory University in Atlanta and author of the book "Hollywood Science" (Columbia University Press, 2007), backed up that sentiment, referencing the 2004 climate-change disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow."

"It actually changed people's minds about global warming," Perkowitz said.

The impact of feature films dwarfs that of most other genres, he added. "The Day After Tomorrow" grossed $544 million in international ticket sales. Al Gore's Oscar-winning global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," raked in just $49 million.

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