Climate Chief Knew of False Glacier Claims Before Copenhagen

FOXNews.com (via London Times), 1/29/2010 - Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. Read more at Fox...

Sheesh! This, Climategate and the less than honest Rainforest claim! What's next? --bc Read More......

U.N.'s Global Warming Report Under Fresh Attack for Rainforest Claims

FOXNews.com, 1/28/2010 by Gene J. Koprowski - [EXCERPT] The [4th] IPCC report states that "up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation" -- highlighting the threat climate change poses to the Earth. The report goes on to say that "it is more probable that forests will be replaced by ecosystems ... such as tropical savannas." ∴ But it has now been revealed that the claim was based on a WWF [World Wildlife Federation] study titled "Global Review of Forest Fires," a paper barely related to the Amazon rainforest that was written "to secure essential policy reform at national and international level to provide a legislative and economic base for controlling harmful anthropogenic forest fires." Read more at FOX... Read More......

The President's comments about the Supreme Court decision

(Via email) 1/27/2010 by J. Sinclair - Last week the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibited all corporate political spending. ∴ The Court did not touch 2 U.S.C. Section 441e - note the "e" - which prohibits foreign corporations from making contributions or donations of money or anything else of value to any federal, state, or local election or any political party, or any campaign ad. That part of the Code is still valid. ∴ But in the State of the Union address tonight, the president ridiculed the Supreme Court's decision, saying it "open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities." ∴ That is NOT what the Supreme Court did, and the president surely knew better. When this *&!# happens, we must call it for what it is, or the people will continue to be deceived (as they were in yesterday's vote in Oregon). ∴ Here, then, is my response: if he didn't know, he's incompetent. If he did know, he's a liar. Read More......