The Reference Frame: Czech police uncovers a $20 million carbon credit fraud

...You may think that the two men above are just bad apples and exceptions. Well, one day after the information about $20 million carbon fraud above, we were told about another success in the Czech anti-corruption police's campaign against assorted environmental and renewable fraudsters that was celebrated just one day later, namely three hours ago.

Anti-corruption police accused 9 people, foiled a $100 million solar fraud (Czech radio, automatic translation)

Among the 9 accused people, three are pretty interesting because they're employees of the National Energy Market Regulation Office which supervises the photovoltaic industry in my country.

Why Won’t Obama Or Romney Talk Climate Change? | The New Republic

Boosting clean energy will help some on the climate front, but not enough to keep droughts like the one this summer from becoming more common and sea levels from rising.

Heartland Institute's Comments on October 23 PBS Frontline Special ‘Climate of Doubt’ | Heartland Institute

A third strike against the program occurs at the very end, when the off-camera voices of alarmists assert scientific confidence in predictions of an impending climate apocalypse while images appear of deserts and extreme weather events. Gone is any pretense of a balanced view of the scientific debate. This technique, typical of propaganda films such as “An Inconvenient Truth” and “The Day After Tomorrow,” cheapens and discredits an otherwise thoughtful program.

No scientist interviewed for the program offered proof that any of the climatic events shown at the end of the program were caused by human activity, nor could they. One suspects this ending was tacked on after production to address the expected criticism and disappointment of environmental activists who object to anyone in the mainstream media treating skeptics with respect.

Seven EU nations need to buy more offsets: EEA - News - Point Carbon

LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters Point Carbon) – The EU is close to meeting its goal to cut emissions by 20 percent under 1990 levels by 2020 without adopting new climate policies, but at least seven nations will need to buy carbon credits to meet individual goals, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Wednesday.