Massive fraud threatens cap-and-trade - LORRIE GOLDSTEIN - Ontario, CA

Canadian investors (public and private) could now be fleeced for billions, lowering our standard of living.

And when the speculative carbon market crashes, it will make the recent global stock market meltdown and recession look like a minor correction.

Finally, we'll be paying billions of our tax dollars annually to some of the world's most corrupt regimes, in the faint hope they'll lower their GHG emissions.

That's the real scandal in Copenhagen.

Don't miss this new stuff from Jim Hansen:

Indeed, it is likely that the sun is an important factor in climate variability. Figure 4
shows data on solar irradiance for the period of satellite measurements. We are presently in the
deepest most prolonged solar minimum in the period of satellite data. It is uncertain whether the
solar irradiance will rebound soon into a more-or-less normal solar cycle – or whether it might
remain at a low level for decades, analogous to the Maunder Minimum, a period of few sunspots
that may have been a principal cause of the Little Ice Age.
...
Furthermore, the assertion that 1998 was the warmest year is based on the East Anglia –
British Met Office temperature analysis. As shown in Figure 1, the GISS analysis has 2005 as
the warmest year. As discussed by Hansen et al. (2006) the main difference between these
analyses is probably due to the fact that British analysis excludes large areas in the Arctic and
Antarctic where observations are sparse. The GISS analysis, which extrapolates temperature
anomalies as far as 1200 km, has more complete coverage of the polar areas. The extrapolation
introduces uncertainty, but there is independent information, including satellite infrared
measurements and reduced Arctic sea ice cover, which supports the existence of substantial
positive temperature anomalies in those regions.
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The nature of messages that I receive from the public, and the fact that NASA
Headquarters received more than 2500 inquiries in the past week about our possible
“manipulation” of global temperature data, suggest that the concerns are more political than
scientific. Perhaps the messages are intended as intimidation, expected to have a chilling effect
on researchers in climate change.
The recent “success” of climate contrarians in using the pirated East Anglia e-mails to
cast doubt on the reality of global warming* seems to have energized other deniers. I am now
inundated with broad FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests for my correspondence, with
substantial impact on my time and on others in my office. I believe these to be fishing
expectations, aimed at finding some statement(s), likely to be taken out of context, which they
would attempt to use to discredit climate science.