A chair for the wind tycoon - Booker - Telegraph

Last week, I mentioned the curious fact that Tim Yeo MP serves as chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change while earning more than £140,000 a year working for firms that make money out of “green” energy. In the days that followed, everyone seemed to be piling in on this, with calls for Mr Yeo to resign. Perhaps they should also turn their attention to the role of John Gummer, now Lord Deben (right), nominated by David Cameron to be the new chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, set up under the Climate Change Act to advise on climate and energy policy.

The committee is described as “independent”, but it is packed with global-warming zealots, such as Lord May, the former president of the Royal Society, who turned it into a campaigning body on the issue. Lord Deben himself is chairman of Forewind, an international consortium planning to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea, and also president of Globe International, a body which co-ordinates responses to global warming by politicians across the world. (His predecessors in the post include Elliot Morley, before he was imprisoned for fiddling parliamentary expenses, and Stephen Byers, the former minister who was seen in a television documentary claiming that, as a lobbyist, he was now “a cab for hire”.)

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It really takes some amazing stones to grab a $32 million subsidized government loan on the promise to add 250 jobs just days before a planned 234-person layoff.

Summit Camp Missed The Imaginary Meltdown | Real Science

The Greenland Summit Camp takes part in a regularly updated Arctic blog. No one seems to have mentioned the NASA phony meltdown, apparently because it was a total non-event.

August 2012 – State Of The Climate Report | Real Science

Quietest tornado summer on record
Quietest hurricane summer on record
Quietest long term hurricane period since the Civil War
No global warming for 16 years
No change in sea level rise rates
Record cold in the midwest
Average fire season
A cyclical drought affecting portions of the country

Let’s panic and turn control of the US over to the UN, in order to stop all this bad stuff.