Judge denies Cuccinell's demand for U.Va. records, for now

Written by Julian Walker, Virginian-Pilot | 30 August 2010

Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli

An Albemarle County judge today ruled that the University of Virginia does not have to respond to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's current subpoena for records linked to grant-funded research by a former U.Va. climate scientist.

It wasn't all bad news for Cuccinelli, however. The decision doesn't immunize U.Va. from future demands for records in the attorney general's investigation of possible fraud by the professor.

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U.N. Climate Panel Urged to Reform, Stick to Science

Written by Reuters | 30 August 2010

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The U.N. climate panel should only make predictions when it has solid scientific evidence and avoid straying into policy advocacy, a group of national science academies said in a report on Monday.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was hit with a wave of criticism after acknowledging in January that its 2007 global warming report had exaggerated the pace of Himalayan glaciers melting. It had previously said the report had overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level.

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The Green Swindle - Cap-and-Trade Charade - Part 2

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 29 August 2010

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Pachauri likely to get away with mild rap

Written by Yashwant Raj, Hindustan Times | 29 August 2010

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chief Rajendra Pachauri’s fate will be known Monday with the release of the findings of an investigation into charges that the panel grossly inflated the impact of global warming. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon had in March asked Inter Academy Council (IAC), a body of top scientists and engineers from around the world, to investigate IPCC’s blunders.

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UN climate change panel to be warned over reports

Written by Richard Gray, Telegraph | 29 August 2010

The United Nation's climate change organisation faces a warning over how it uses scientific facts in its influential reports.

A review of the practices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been conducted in response to intense criticism of the body, whose reports are used by governments to inform policy decisions on global warming.

The findings of the review are due to be handed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon tomorrow.

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The Green Swindle - Intro - Part 1

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 29 August 2010

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Sorry GW Alarmists: There's a rational reason alligators spotted in northern U.S.

Written by BBC News | 25 August 2010

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At least four alligators have been seen in northern US cities in recent weeks, far from their usual southern habitat.

Analysts said the beasts were abandoned pets, not global warming refugees.

"People buy them as pets and then they get too big and at some point they decide they just can't deal with it," said Kent Vliet, a University of Florida alligator expert.

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Study Finds No Link Tying Disaster Losses to Human-Driven Warming

Written by Andrew Revkin, NY Times | 23 August 2010

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The pull of the “ front-page thought” and the eagerness of climate campaigners to jog the public have sometimes created a tendency to tie mounting losses from weather-related disasters to human-driven global warming.

But finding a statistically robust link between such disasters and the building human climate influence remains a daunting task. A new analysis of nearly two dozen papers assessing trends in disaster losses in light of climate change finds no convincing link. The author concludes that, so far, the rise in disaster losses is mainly a function of more investments getting in harm’s way as communities in places vulnerable to natural hazards grow.

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The Apocalypse as Ego Trip

Written by New York Times | 23 August 2010

Waiting for doomsday

Today’s idea: We’re suckers for stories of our own demise because they make us feel special, an article says.

Science | In an issue of Scientific American devoted to “the end,” Michael Moyer looks at apocalyptic dread, from Mayan and Malthusian doom-saying to the more recent sort inspired by global warming and the Great Recession. Some researchers think it “feeds off our collective anxiety about events that lie outside our individual control,” Mr. Moyer writes. But our pattern-seeking brains aren’t the only explanation:

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New national poll of green consumers finds belief in global warming is declining

Written by Business Wire | 05 August 2010

Even greens aren't too worried about those nightmare scenarios.

A new national poll of green consumers found that belief in global warming is declining, and even the worst nightmare scenarios would not change people’s minds or behaviors.

The poll, one of four annual surveys conducted by Shelton Group, surveyed 1,098 Americans who at least occasionally buy green products and found only about half believe climate change is occurring and caused by human beings.

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Judge rules Proposition 23 ballot language must be reworded

Written by Paul Rogers, Mercury News | 04 August 2010

Jerry Brown gets smacked down by judge.

A state judge Tuesday ordered the ballot language of Proposition 23 -- a November measure that would suspend California's landmark global warming law -- to be rewritten, handing a victory to supporters of the measure who said Attorney General Jerry Brown wrote misleading and biased wording.

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Al Gore Questioned by Police in Sex Assault Case, Says Report

Written by Naimah Jabali-Nash, CBS News | 27 July 2010

Poor Gore

Portland police questioned former U.S. Vice President Al Gore in San Francisco Thursday regarding renewed allegations that he sexually assaulted massage therapist Molly Hagerty in 2006, according to t-v station KATU.

On July 1, Portland police re-opened their investigation into the red-haired masseuse's claims that Gore, who was in Portland as part of a global warming speaking tour, attempted to sexually assault her during a massage at the posh downtown Hotel Lucia on Oct. 24, 2006.

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