Green Movement 'Hijacked' By Politics

Lord Krebs, the former chairman of the Food Standards Agency and current principal of Jesus College Oxford said Greenpeace was set up to pedal fear on environmental issues. "Greenpeace is a multi-national corporation just like Monsanto or Tesco. They have very effective marketing departments...Their product is worry because worry is what recruits members," he said. He added that in some areas, such as warning about the effects of climate change, this approach was justified, but that Greenpeace sometimes chose the wrong issues – for example over nuclear power and GM crops.

Chairman of energy and climate change [fraud] committee branches out: Elliot Morley claimed £16,000 for mortgage that did not exist: MPs' expenses - Telegraph

Elliot Morley, the former Labour minister, claimed parliamentary expenses of more than £16,000 for a mortgage which had already been paid off.
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Mr Morley was a minister under Tony Blair and was made a privy councillor in December 2006. Since January, he has been the chairman of the House of Commons energy and climate change select committee. He has claimed close to the maximum amount allowable in expenses over the past four years.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Why are Republicans offering a carbon tax?

So why propose a carbon tax as a rebuttal to cap-and-trade? Eric Zimmerman at The Hill postulates that Flake and Inglis hope to use the proposal to give some Democrats cover for breaking away from cap-and-trade. Obama’s proposal is not popular with Rust Belt representatives, who want an excuse to bail on the White House’s pet energy project. The carbon tax will go nowhere, they hope, but will create enough inertia to stop cap-and-trade, too.

I’m not so sure. It sounds as though Flake and Inglis are more or less endorsing the prime motivation behind cap-and-trade while Rust Belters want to reject the notion that CO2 presents any proximate harm at all. I hope the strategy works, but it has a high risk of backfiring.

AP Interview: Gore, volunteers target Congress [PS - we forgot to mention his mysterious $300 million climate scam promotion fund]

At a meeting this weekend in Nashville, Gore is urging the volunteers to sell voters on a "cap and trade" system, setting a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions and taxing them, to counter the influence of industry lobbyists on members of Congress.