Companies May Oust Suppliers Over [Climate Hoax] Goals, Group Says - Bloomberg

“We are yet to see a transformational impact on suppliers’ emissions,” Frances Way, program director for the Carbon Disclosure Project, said today in a statement.

Two-thirds of the companies surveyed train procurement staffs on supply-chain carbon management, up from a quarter of respondents in 2009, according to the report.

Last year, companies whose climate-change strategies incorporated procurement guidelines rose to 90 percent, from 79 percent in 2010, according to the report.

Carbon bubble: Bank of England's opportunity to tackle market failure | Ben Caldecott and James Leaton | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The response from the vast majority of conventional energy analysts to the idea of climate risk has been largely negative, with one recently saying publicly: " I think it's a bollocks subject. I'm not interested in this kind of subject. I think this is complete hot air."

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The misery of -40: Europe's deadly chill - World - NZ Herald News

The homeless population has borne the brunt of the deaths, with dozens of transients freezing to death in unheated apartments, fire escapes or in makeshift street shelters.

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...Thanks Erik. Like I said, if the paper can generate good discussion and alternative hypotheses, I'll be happy :)

Renewable Energy Boss Turns Climate Sceptic

A leading energy executive launched a book Monday that aims to persuade Germans, who are among the world's most fervent believers in global warming, that burning fossil fuels is harmless.

Fritz Vahrenholt, 62, a former chemistry professor and leftist state politician who is known to go against the grain, heads the renewable energy division of RWE, Germany's second-biggest utility company.

The book, which is jointly authored with Sebastian Luening, a scientist at the company's oil division, argues that the sun is growing colder and the greenhouse-gas effect, which they say has been exaggerated, will handily compensate for this.