Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Jake Schmidt: Toyota Seeks to Undercut Mexico's Action on Global Warming
Sadly the headline reads: Mexico takes a historic step to address global warming and Toyota sues to undercut the law.
What Killed Climate Change Legislation? - Business - The Atlantic Wire
It's easy to forget that early on in his first term, President Obama enjoyed a filibuster-proof majority in Congress. Why didn't he move to pass climate legislation?
Climate scientist Michael Mann sues over comparison to child molester | Fox News
John B. Williams, Mann's lawyer, did not immediately return FoxNews.com phone calls.

“There’s irony in a global warming proponent trying to freeze discussion of this issue,” Kazman told FoxNews.com.
New, improved “gold standard” IPCC: Business as (conflicted as) usual « The View From Here
I don’t recall reading anything in the IPCC’s conflict of interest guidelines regarding political candidacy and holding office within political parties, so perhaps Weaver’s choices do not concern the powers that be at the IPCC any more than they appear to concern Weaver.

But I suppose that one might consider this non-concern to be in keeping with the IPCC’s practice of weighting its reports heavily by choosing a green-advocacy laden stable of authors, as Donna Laframboise has documented in her book, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert.

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