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Italy is furious with Britain after UK blocks its bid to ban plastic shopping bags across Europe | Mail Online

Britain's decision not to back a European law banning plastic bags has caused friction with Italy and stunned environmental campaigners.

Peer review falls for recycled manuscripts | Watts Up With That?

With fictitious names and institutions substituted for the original ones (e.g., Tri-Valley Center for Human Potential), the altered manuscripts were formally resubmitted to the journals that had originally refereed and published them 18 to 32 months earlier. Of the sample of 38 editors and reviewers, only three (8%) detected the resubmissions.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Finally: The UK government is cutting the number of useless climate change bureaucrats

Global warming stopped at least 15 years ago. But international organizations and governments are still crowded with thousands of overpaid climate change bureaucrats dealing with this non-issue.

Reference List Of Media Reports On UBA-Gate…German Environment Agency Goes After US And American Skeptics

What follows is just a list media reports on the German Umweltbundesamt abusing its power by singling out, naming and defaming climate skeptics in a 122 page pamphlet that was funded by tax payers. It’s for your reference and hopefully it will help German readers.

Obama Campaign Group Targets Climate Change - Yahoo! News

"Weather is the thing we talk about the most," Frishberg said. "There's lots of work to be done on connecting the dots between climate change and droughts and wildfire…. What's going to change public opinions over the near term is weather and the facts. People's response and their understanding is so driven by their local experience. We can help that along and shape it."  [Wait, so now, for political purposes, Obama's group wants us to confuse climate with weather?]