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Climategate: Monckton and North spit-roast Pachauri

A couple of must-reads if you haven't seen them already. First, the splendid Christopher Monckton's thoroughgoing demolition of a speech given at Copenhagen yesterday by the IPCC's increasingly threadbare chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri. As I suggested the other day, there may be the odd conflict-of-interest issue between Pachauri's various directorships in the alternative energy industry and his position in charge of a body (the IPCC) with so much power to change global energy policy.

The...

Climategate: Green Agony Uncle 'Dear James' answers your Copenhagen questions

Dear James,

On the news I have seen footage of rank crusties in foetid polar bear costumes being sprayed with tear gas by Danish police. Isn't this bad for the environment?

Rob Stevely, Fla.

Dear James answers: No, it's good news, Rob! Though tear gas can indeed contribute to the greenhouse effect, this is offset by the dramatic CO2 reduction when a man in a polar bear costume stops breathing. Also you should quit worrying about the greenhouse effect: it's what makes our planet habitable.

Dear...

When Lego lost its head - and how this toy story got its' happy ending

Five years before we edged to financial catastrophe, an unlikely rehearsal was played out by toy giant Lego. In as long as it takes to develop a new model Star Wars range, it went from massive profit to near-fatal loss. The question is, how did it happen? And more to the point, how did this toy story get a happy ending?

Minifigure heads on the Lego production line in Billund, Denmark, where two million Lego pieces are made every hour. This machine, one of several similar ones in the factory, ...

Territorial imperative

Ever since I gave up watching TV over Christmas and New Year I have become much, much happier. The reason Yuletide TV is so depressing is that — as with those tantalising presents under the tree — it's fraught with a level of expectation it can never possibly fulfil. You think, 'At last: I'm free. Free to slob; free to watch without having to worry about going to bed and getting a good night's sleep so I can be fresh for work tomorrow. So, go on, TV: entertain me!'

I'm not even sure that it's ...

Watching the Climategate scandal explode makes me feel like a proud parent

It has been a weird, weird thing having a ringside seat at the messy unravelling of the greatest scientific scandal in the history of the world. The only experience in my life even vaguely similar was queuing outside the Wag club in the spring of 1988 watching all the straight people staring at us freaks, and thinking to myself: 'God, just imagine how totally awesome it would be if this Acid House craze ever caught on.'

From a tiny germ of a story on a few specialist blogs, Climategate has...

Climategate: Greenpeace hoist by its own petard

Unfurling ginormous protest banners: that's what your Greenpeace activist enjoys more than almost anything in the world (save, perhaps, unseasoned tofu burgers; starring in those ecovideos they show ad nauseam on the screens by the main stage at Glastonbury; and, of course, the cathartic, masochistic thrill of being hosed down by Japanese whale fishermen). So how jolly amusing it is to see their favourite technique being used against them at Copenhagen by eco activists of a somewhat...

Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming

Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world's leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages.

Feast your eyes on this news release from Rionovosta, via the Ria Novosti agency, posted on Icecap. (Hat Tip: Richard North)

A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as "Climategate,"...

Climategate: why David Cameron is going to be disastrous for Britain

Just in case you wondered why the Tories – up against the worst British government in living memory – are still doing so relatively badly in the opinion polls, David Cameron gives all the answers in today's Guardian.

As far as he's concerned, Climategate might never have happened. The IPCC is still wholly reliable and uncorrupt. And the 98 per cent of Express readers who believe Britain is being conned over man-made global warming theories are wrong.

He still speaks in facile soundbites which b...

Climategate: CRU scientists deserve Nobel Prizes – and very probably Knighthoods too – claims reasonable and unbiased New Scientist magazine

The Climategate scientists did nothing wrong. So says New Scientist magazine in its latest edition.

This New Scientist is, of course, absolutely no relation whatsoever to the New Scientist whose reporting was singled out for praise by the Climategate scientists in the following email:

From: "Michael E. Mann"

yep, I'm watching the changing of...

Climategate: the lawyers move in – those scientists are toast!

God bless America and – can I really be saying this? – God bless the legal profession! Despite the best efforts of the Obama administration, most of the world's other governments (save the plucky Canucks), the United Nations and the Mainstream Media (MSM) to sweep Climategate under the carpet, the lawyers are putting this shoddy scandal where it belongs: in the dock. (Hat tip: Platosays)

The US Department of Energy (DOE) – under pressure, most likely, from Senator Inhofe – has issued a...