UAW Isn’t Drinking the Green Kool-Aid - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Barack Obama and auto-state Democrats like Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan say there’s a green jobs boom coming — and that electric cars are a critical part of a revolution that will transform America’s Rust Belt into a Green Belt.

But somehow, Big Labor didn’t get the memo.

After a series of meetings with the UAW this week, the auto industry has launched an ad campaign attacking the Democrats’ radical plan for 56-mpg-by-2025 fuel efficiency standards that effectively mandate hybrid-electric cars.
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Green and blue-collar don’t mix. The UAW’s message: Stabenow & Co. need to come up with bigger bribes.

When You Are Saving The Planet, Sometimes You Just Have To Cheat | Real Science

Damn tree rings quit working in 1960. Especially those stupid Briffa trees. How is a mann supposed to do good science, when the data doesn’t do what you planned for it to do?

Ex-News of the World man advised UEA over ‘climategate’ - Crime - Eastern Daily Press

A man arrested as part of the Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World gave advice to the University of East Anglia over the Climategate affair.
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The 60-year-old, who was deputy editor under Andy Coulson’s editorship, was detained in a dawn raid on his west London home and questioned for several hours at Hammersmith police station.

It's war - carbon ad battle hits TV screens

The Sun-Herald has learnt the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance will launch a $10 million anti-carbon tax advertising campaign this week, which is backed by the coal industry and the Minerals Council. It is understood a long-time Liberal Party pollster, Mark Textor, is the architect of the testimonial-style ads, which follow a similar print campaign in newspapers last week.