Volkswagen. The Dark Side. | Greenpeace

Despite its green image, Volkswagen is spending millions of Euros every year funding lobby groups who are trying to stop Europe increasing its commitment to greenhouse gas reductions from 20% to 30% by 2020. Progressive companies – from Google to Ikea, Sony, Unilever and Philips – support the target. Volkswagen can’t afford to be left behind.

Greenpeace London VW forecourt.mov - YouTube

While VW fund lobbying against European climate change laws, the campaign will continue.

Highlights from the National Climate Change Competition 2011 - YouTube

The National Climate Change Competition 2011 was organised by the National Climate Change Secretariat (Singapore)

Running Q&A next Monday night at @sciandthecity... - Revkin.net

Running Q&A next Monday night at @sciandthecity with @DJSpooky + Gavin Schmidt of http://realclimate.org

A crude carbon tax rebate would be a missed opportunity | Ben Caldecott | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Done right, support for energy intensive industries could help green our economy. But at worst, it'd just be a carbon tax rebate for our worst polluters

Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest pace in almost 40 years | Environment | The Guardian

The German [Bremen] researchers said the record melt was undoubtedly because of human-induced global warming.

Bremen Is The New Ice Authority | Real Science

By claiming a record low that doesn’t exist and no one else saw, Bremen leaps to the top of the experts list. No one in the US press heard of them before this week, but now they are the trusted authority.

Shock News : Bremen is Missing September, 2007 Data | Real Science

I went to their site and found a few major problems.

They don’t have archived data for September, 2007. These are all the months in 2007 which they have data for.
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That is strike three right there, but they have another major problem. Their current image is FUBAR.