Video: Energy Sec. Chu claims government played ‘intimate role’ in all U.S. tech development

If you have some extra time and want some laughs, go back to the 28:25 mark of Chu's speech and watch him try to explain how the government was really responsible for airplanes.

Of course, the Wright brothers invented it, Chu says, but if it weren't for military spending or allowing private companies to deliver the U.S. mail (amazing how he considers deregulation to be “intimate” government involvement, but I digress), no doubt airplanes would have faded away.
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Of course, given that Chu was at a conference designed to promote government subsidies to private businesses, false claims are par for the course.

Another professor caught spreading disinformation about natural disasters

Jeffrey Sachs and all the other academic scaremongerers do not seem to realize that by continuing to mislead and deceive the public, they are seriously damaging the reputation of real scientific study. Obviously that is not a concern if your interests are foremost in promoting the religion of global warming/climate change.

Ecosystem Marketplace - Macquarie builds a Partnership worth $25 Million

“I am confident about the macro-trends in recognizing forest in future carbon and climate change agreements. In the mean time, we are seeing sufficient depth in the voluntary market to support this business,” says Adams. “We, as BioCarbon, see market links as the best way to enable sustainable finance for forests. That is certainly what the policy makers say.”

The Reference Frame: Nir Shaviv: The CLOUD is clearing

Last, given that the CRF/climate link is alive and kicking, it naturally explains the large solar/climate links. As a consequence, anyone trying to understand past (and future) climate change must consider the whole effect that the sun has on climate, not just the relatively small variations in the total irradiance (which is the only solar influence most modelers consider). This in turn implies (and I will write about it in the near future), that some of the 20th century warming should be attributed to the sun, and that the climate sensitivity is on the low side (around 1 deg increase per CO2 doubling).