UN WARNED THAT CORRUPTION UNDERMINING SAVING THE PLANET

If governing plans to halt global deforestation are difficult, as highlighted by John Vidal in this article in the U.K Observer, imagine the difficulties with an intangible, invisible, unmeasurable property, such as greenhouse gas emissions as proposed by the IPCC.

"A revolutionary scheme backed by the World Bank to pay poor countries billions of dollars a year to stop felling trees is the best way to stop logging and save the planet from climate change, according to wealthy countries and conservationists, yet documents seen by the Observer show the plan is actually leading to corruption and possibly more logging."

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THE TREE RING CIRCUS

At Quadrant Online, John Dawson gives a detailed account of a book by Andrew Montford, The Hockey Stick Illusion.

"The Hockey Stick Illusion is the shocking story of a graph called the Hockey Stick. It is also a textbook of tree ring analysis, a code-breaking adventure, an intriguing detective story, an exposé of a scientific and political travesty, and the tale of a herculean struggle between a self-funded sceptic and a publicly funded hydra, all presented in the measured style of an analytical treatise."

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GLOBAL WARMING'S UNSCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE

Peddlers of phony scare stories are afraid to release the data.

The Washington Times editorialises about the latest revelation in the continuing disgraceful saga that is Climategate.

"In the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Law and Management, Australian researchers evaluated the community of so-called climate scientists and found them to be "antagonistic toward the disclosure of information."

Professor John Abbot of Central Queensland University, a chemist and lawyer, and biologist Jennifer Marohasy studied the response of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU) and the Met Office - Britain's national weather service - to various information requests."

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PACIFIC OCEAN STILL COOLING

Could ocean temperature variables possibly be naturally occuring events? Huh?  Who would like to have a go at separating natural variances in the climate with man-made influences?

Latest from the Bureau of Meteorology on a cooling Pacific Ocean.

RECENT PAPER ON CELESTIAL ORIGIN OF CLIMATE OSCILLATIONS

Nicola Scafetta at the Department of Physics, Duke University North Carolina investigates large climate oscillations in this paper from the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestial Physics.

BIASED LENDERS - THE CARBON PRICE CON

Dan Denning at the website The Daily Reckoner writes of the need for money by governments around the globe.

"The other big tax con game is the assertion that carbon needs a price. We have yet to see a compelling argument about why this is so."

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