I Love CO2: City of Vancouver and VPD: Green police state has begun

They decided to send a V8-powered Ford Crown Victoria all the way across town to, get this, tell me to turn off my truck engine! I'm not making this up.

Exclusive: Brochure reveals Gore accurately cited scientist's prediction of ice-free Arctic -- It is the Scientist who has the explaining to do -- not Gore | Climate Depot

COPENHAGEN - Al Gore's citation of a scientist predicting an ice-free Arctic within a decade appears to have been accurate. It appears the scientist Gore cited, Dr. Wieslav Maslowski, did in fact make this prediction and it was published on December 2, 2009 by the Danish Climate Centre, lending support to Gore's claim that the “figures are fresh.”

Jonathan Abrams: [Because he trusts other people to do his thinking]: Why I am no longer a skeptic on climate change - Full Comment

...most people, myself included, can be intimidated by all the climate models, core samples, and temperature charts that are tossed around. Because of this intimidation, we turn to other non-rational belief influences.  [Lots of good comments here]

[Don't miss this article on Pachauri]: EU Referendum: A busy man

One of his most interesting - and possibly contentious - positions, however, is his previous directorship with and current post as "scientific advisor" to GloriOil Limited. This is a company he set up himself in late 2005 - two years after he had become chairman of the IPCC. He is described as its "founder". It was set up in Houston, Texas, to exploit patented processes developed by TERI - of which Pachauri is Director-General - known as "microbial enhanced oil recovery" (MEOR), designed to improve the production of mature oilfields. It now has annual revenues of $2.5 to 5 million.

A few eyebrows were raised in June 2007 when Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that preaches the need to invest in green technologies and reduce global warming, invested in GloriOil.

U.N. climate chief turns carbon to green

In lucrative carbon trade 'all roads lead to Pachauri'

Who is calling global warming's tune?

Cue Huey Lewis: You don't need money, you don't need fame, you don't need a credit card to ride that train. (Pachauri is a railroad engineer, after all) But it helps to ride the train when you are steering the UN's scientific advisory organisation towards, umm, solar power, cap and trade, all in a triumphant march towards a sustainable future...

I think the train just went off the tracks.

Arrests, rattled nerves in Copenhagen - - POLITICO.com

Last week, Democratic House members joked that Inhofe’s presence would be more important than their own, in that the world could see what Obama had to deal with.