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'Green' electricity certification scheme attacked for not being green, taking advantage of consumers

Written by Harry Wallop, Telegraph | February 09 2010

From Tuesday any energy company advertising or selling a "green" electricity deal needs to prove its environmental credentials to a new panel set up by the industry regulator Ofgem.

Only those companies who pass certain tests can call their tariffs as eco-friendly. Previously, some suppliers have merely repackaged the renewable energy they are legally required to sell under European rules and called it "green".

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Anti-warming scam at work in NY

Written by Paul Chesser, NY Post | February 09 2010

New York state is frittering away millions to "buy" prefab anti-global-warming advice that would just be more bad news for the local economy.

Last November, Gov. Paterson issued an executive order setting up a Climate Action Council. This panel of state bureaucrats will supposedly address ways the state can fight warming. In fact, the fix is in: The report will push strongly toward a phase-out of New York's fossil-fueled power plants and motor vehicles.

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Winds of change

Written by Jennifer Harper, Washington Times | February 09 2010

It's reinventing-the-wheel time. The Obama administration has announced intentions to create a big, fat, shiny, new federal office called the "Climate Service" to track global warming, complete with six regional offices and lots of good intentions.

"It looks like the [warming] empire strikes back. Obama is attempting to engineer a global warming bailout. This is a classic response of the federal government: Bail out a corrupt and dying industry," Marc Morano, editor of the watchdog site ClimateDepot.com, tells Inside the Beltway.

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Attempt to Combat Global Warming Falls Victim to Cold Sting of Irony

Written by Bret Baier, FoxNews | February 09 2010

Eleven green-energy wind turbines in Minnesota, which are supposed to provide environmentally safe electricity and fight global warming, cannot operate because they are frozen stiff.

The Star-Tribune reports the machines were supposed to be spinning by Christmas, but so far have been motionless. The state's power agency says cold hydraulic fluid has turned to gel and oil lubricants are getting sluggish.

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Will no one rid us of this meddlesome AGW nonsense?

Written by Clarice Feldman, American Thinker | February 08 2010

AGW, the never ending story..*sigh*. It seems the President is not ready to give up the anthropogenic global warming faith.

AP is reporting that the Obama administration is setting up a new "climate service" in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It will "operate in tandem" with the NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.

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Droughtgate: Study Finds IPCC had Temperature - Drought Connection Backwards

Written by Marc Sheppard, American Thinker | February 08 2010

As I mentioned in last week’s IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks, in Chapter 9 of Assessment Report 4’s (AR4) Working Group One (WG1) Report, the IPCC claimed that manmade CO2-driven higher temperatures drive higher evaporation, and thereby cause droughts. As readers are all too aware, droughts are favorite ingredients in most alarmists’ recipes for manmade climate disaster. But a paper published last month in Geophysical Research Letters lays out a compelling argument that the IPCC has it completely backwards – that droughts are actually causing warming, not the other way around.

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How to blame humans for anything

Written by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun blogs | February 08 2010

Niche modeller David Stockwell is profoundly unimpressed with what’s billed as the latest “proof” of man-made warming - that winds are now pushing rain away from Western Australia, and dumping snow on Antarctica. And the funny thing is that not even the man spruiking this ”proof”, Professor Tas van Ommen, seems to have much faith in it:

The basic conclusion is that if this is being driven by human impact then you would expect it to continue but as climate change continues to change, the current situation changes too.

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Democratic Climate Revolt

Written by Wall Street Journal Editorial | February 08 2010

Putting the kibosh on Jackson's grab for world domination.

The Obama Administration has been moving full-speed ahead on anticarbon regulation, never mind waiting for Congress to pass a bill. But now opposition is building among senior Democrats, with two powerful committee Chairmen introducing a bill last week to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from declaring that carbon is a dangerous pollutant.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is busy writing new rules that would let her drive a tax-and-regulation bulldozer through the U.S. economy under laws never meant to apply to greenhouse gases. Ms. Jackson is expected to issue new anticarbon regulations for cars and trucks next month before moving on to power plants and other industries.

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The Great Unraveling

Written by Investor's Business Daily | February 08 2010

Professional global warming alarmists better think about looking for new jobs. It looks like they're in for a long, cold winter — and a frigid spring and summer as well.

Those who've been spreading global-warming fears must be waking up each morning and asking themselves: What's going to happen today? A new revelation about the corruption of climate science has become almost a daily event.

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Panel on Climate Faces Challenges

Written by Keith Johnson, Wall Street Journal | February 08 2010

Pachauri: One more IPCC error and I'll resign. Promise. Really. I will.

Pachauri: One more IPCC error and I'll resign. Promise. Really! I swear on all that is holy I will! Trust me!

The Nobel-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces new challenges following a call for an investigation of its conduct and for its chairman to resign amid continuing criticism of the scientific basis of its reports.

Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming called on Thursday for the independent investigation and for Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Geneva-based panel, to resign.

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I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones

Written by Richard Girling, Times Online | February 08 2010

Prof. Phil Jones on suicide watch?

THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.

Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”. He acknowledged similarities to Dr David Kelly, the scientist who committed suicide after being exposed as the source for a BBC report that alleged the government had “sexed up” evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

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IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!

Written by Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post | February 08 2010

The past chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced current IPCC chair, now faces criticism from his immediate predecessor, Robert Watson. The Telegraph reports that Watson “stressed that the chairman must take responsibility for correcting errors.” In another indication that Watson is taking pains to distance himself from the organization he once headed, the Sunday Times, in a story entitled Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility, reports that Watson warned the IPCC that it must tackle its blunders.

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Written by James Delingpole, Telegraph | February 08 2010

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'Green' electricity certification scheme attacked for not being green, taking advantage of consumers

Anti-warming scam at work in NY

Winds of change

Attempt to Combat Global Warming Falls Victim to Cold Sting of Irony

Will no one rid us of this meddlesome AGW nonsense?

Droughtgate: Study Finds IPCC had Temperature - Drought Connection Backwards

How to blame humans for anything

Democratic Climate Revolt

The Great Unraveling

Panel on Climate Faces Challenges

I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones

IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!

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