National road charging is inevitable, warns head of UK motoring group | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Professor Stephen Glaister, head of the RAC Foundation, was speaking at the launch of a report advocating "radical" measures to dramatically reduce carbon emissions blamed for climate change, including flattening roads that go up and down hills, replacing busy roundabouts and traffic lights with bridges, and even a system for booking slots on the roads just as people now book seats at the theatre or on trains.

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Climategate 2.0 reveals familiar cast of characters' blundering glory | FP Comment | Financial Post

Michael Mann, the Penn State scientist who has been the focus of conflict over the long-range temperature records, called the new flood of emails “pathetic” and claimed the “fossil fuel industry” was behind the leak.

Since the fossil fuel industry is currently in a major boom cycle and on the brink of massive expansion around the world, it would seem to have little motivation to get into a low-level program of document leaks to discredit climate theory. Big Oil is doing just great, thanks. Who cares about global warming?

Furthermore, with climate policy already on the back burner around the world, in part due to an increasing focus on economic crises, the Durban climate conference was already expected to end in paralysis.