Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry to UK House of Lords: ‘Any impact of human caused global warming is lost in the noise of climate variability’

http://leftfootforward.org/2015/10/head-of-tory-eu-exit-group-is-climate-change-denier/

In June of this year the GWPF invited climate change sceptic Judith Curry to speak at the House of Lords about climate change, where she poured scorn on the idea of man-made climate change. “The punch line is this,” Curry told the House of Lords, “Any impact of human caused global warming is lost in the noise of climate variability.”…

Lefty PR Firm Pressing Media to Blame Climate Change for Hurricane Joaquin

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/julia-seymour/2015/10/01/lefty-pr-firm-pressing-media-blame-climate-change-hurricane

 

The  release also claimed “virtually every measure of hurricane activity in the Atlantic has increased substantially since the 1970s, due to the combination of human-caused climate change and natural variation.” – See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/julia-seymour/2015/10/01/lefty-pr-firm-pressing-media-blame-climate-change-hurricane#sthash.YfWVYqno.dpuf…

Newsweek Oped: ‘Should Climate Change Deniers Be Prosecuted?’

http://www.newsweek.com/should-climate-change-deniers-be-prosecuted-378652

It is certainly strange to see many supporters of the Whitehouse approach suggest that the speech they dislike is actionable because they find in it half-truths, selectively marshaled data, scientific studies that spring from agendas, arguments whose ultimate sincerity is open to question, evasion of telling points made by the other side and so forth. Those are the common currency of everyday debate in Washington (and not just in Washington).…

Tables turned: Climate profiteer who asked for RICO investigation of skeptics to be investigated by Congress

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House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and chair Lamar Smith . Some material obtained from George Mason University today via FOIA shed some light on the IGES/COLA organization and its founders and director.


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For Immediate Release |  October 1, 2015                                        

Media Contacts: Zachary Kurz, Laura Crist

Smith: Taxpayer-Funded Climate Org Allegedly Seeks Criminal Penalties for Skeptics

Washington, D.C. – Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Dr. Jagadish Shukla, a professor of climate dynamics at George Mason University who founded the Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES).  IGES is a non-profit organization that has received millions of dollars in federal grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA.

According to media reports, IGES is responsible for circulating a letter to the president and senior White House officials requesting a criminal investigation of organizations who question the risks of climate change. Specifically, the letter seeks a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) investigation that would allow the government to impose criminal penalties. The letter was posted to the IGES website and later removed and replaced with a note saying it had been “inadvertently posted.”

Chairman Smith: “IGES appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change. In fact, IGES has reportedly received $63 million from taxpayers since 2001, comprising over 98 percent of its total revenue during that time.”

In light of the non-profit’s decision to remove the controversial letter from its website, Smith directs IGES to preserve “all e-mail, electronic documents, and data created since January 1, 2009, that can be reasonably anticipated to be subject to a request for production by the Committee.”

The full letter can be found here.…

Professor Accused of ‘Getting Rich’ Off ‘Global Warming’ – Warmist Prof. Seeking RICO Prosecution of Skeptics ‘Pocketed $5.6 million’ from Taxpayers

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424875/climate-extremist-taxpayer-funded-ian-tuttle?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=560d441e04d3016129000001&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

 

Meet Jagadish Shukla, professor of climate dynamics at George Mason University. On September 1, Dr. Shukla and 19 other climate scientists sent a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and White House Office of Science and Technology policy director John Holdren calling for “a RICO investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change,” a (criminally irresponsible) tactic initially proposed by Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse in a Washington Post op-ed in May.

 

The letter could be found on the website of the Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) — the “non-profit, tax-exempt research institute” founded and headed by Dr. Shukla. ​And then it couldn’t. In late September, the “RICO20” letter vanished from the IGES website; in its place is a message explaining that “the letter was inadvertently posted on this web site [and] has been removed.”

 

 

 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424875/climate-extremist-taxpayer-funded-ian-tuttle?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=560d441e04d3016129000001&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter…

Global Cooling Discovery May Scupper UN Paris Climate Talks

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/01/global-cooling-discovery-may-scupper-paris-climate-talks/

GLOBAL COOLING DISCOVERY MAY SCUPPER PARIS CLIMATE TALKS

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by JAMES DELINGPOLE

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Scientists have discovered a hitherto unknown cooling process which may pose a serious threat to man-made global warming theory.

According to a study by the Institute of Catalysis and Environment in Lyon (IRCELYON, CNRS / University Lyon 1) and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), the oceans are producing unexpectedly large quantities of isoprene – a volatile organic compound (VOC) – which is known to have a cooling effect on climate.…