Friday, September 30, 2011

Socolow Re-Reaffirms 2004 ‘Wedges’ Paper, Urges ‘Monumental’ Levels of Clean Energy Deployment ASAP | ThinkProgress
The single biggest failure of messaging by climate scientists (until very recently) has been the failure to explain to the public, opinion makers, and the media that business-as-usual warming results in simultaneous, ever-worsening impacts that, individually, are each beyond catastrophic, but combined are unimaginablly horrific .
Monbiot bares all – Telegraph Blogs
What's more the documents show that in a period of five years, Hansen earned in outside income between $1.47 million and $2.67 million, in addition to his basic salary as a government employee of $180,000.

Under the terms of contract governing that salary, Hansen is forbidden from privately benefiting from public office and from taking money for activities related to his taxpayer funded employment.

Maybe Monbiot, for whom transparency is clearly such an issue, should investigate.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Indian expert on carbon credits: "We call it the corrupt development mechanism"
Hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits were awarded to Indian companies even though they did not reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate change consensus? Just ask the believers - The Lakeland Times - Minocqua, WI
Nobel winner, Obama supporter resigns from physics group over climate change as skeptics' ranks grow

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