Denise Robertson: Save this mighty beast for the good of Britain

Some pundits are claiming that the real gain from axing Redcar is the saving Tata will make on its carbon allowances under the EU’s emissions trading scheme.

By ceasing to emit a potential six million tonnes of CO2 a year, they say, Tata could receive allowances worth up to £600m over three years. By replacing inefficient old plants with new ones which emit only "European levels" of CO2, Tata could claim a further £600m under the UN’s clean development mechanism, which is operated by the UN framework convention on climate change.

Tata, which has allegedly gained up to £1.2bn from "carbon credits", would thus get its new steel plants on the cheap – while the net amount of CO2 emitted worldwide will not have been reduced.

North to Alaska: Sarah Palin's Home State to House "NorthernWhite House" in 2500 A.D - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

Bloom, taking his cue from interviews with Lovelock, is predicting that millions, perhaps billions, of climate refugees will flood Alaska in the coming centuries, beginning around 2121 A.D. and continuing until well in what he calls "The Great Interruption" (a 10,000-year period in which all of mankind will migrate north to polar cities in the Arctic regions in order to serve as breeding pairs for the survival of the human species).

American Thinker Blog: About those 'anomalous' temperatures...

At some point, any sane, commonsense person must reach the conclusion that the evidence of harsh temperatures is ubiquitous, and what is occurring in the Peruvian mountains is no longer an anomaly.

Help Wanted: New headline writer, BBC News | CLIMATEGATE

We hear there is an opening for a new junior headline writer at BBC News.

Douglas Maraun [attempts to make us feel better about that absolutely massive ClimateGate fraud: Other scientific frauds were allegedly even worse!]

All the issues discussed about the hacked CRU e-mails are almost innocent against the behaviour shown by some scientists in other disciplines, and are far away from real scandals as those about gene therapies in the 1990s, the cloning affair, or the recent manipulation in quantum field theory by a prospective Nobel candidate.