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ClimateGate 2.0: 5,000 New Emails Confirm Pattern of Deception and Collusion by Alarmists – Newsbusters
What these emails confirm is that the great man-made global warming scare is not about science but about political activism.

Insurance industry helped generate “greatest environmental scare success in history”
by Lawrence Solomon – National Post

Global warming runs out of gas by Rex Murphy – National Post
Gore’s meltdown might just be the moment when the people of the planet saw the carney show for what it was.

Arctic Ice Not Disappearing After All – Wesley J. Smith
From the BBC story: Writing in the journal Science, a scientific team found evidence that ice levels were about 50% lower 5,000 years ago.

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism – Yahoo News
The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted

Climate Witchcraft and Post-Normal Science By Norman Rogers
Post-normal scientists favor relaxing scientific rigor in order to better pursue political goals. Certain important climate scientists are very eager to reorganize society.  They proclaim, on weak evidence, that the Earth is doomed by global warming unless we follow a green plan to remake the economy and the social order. Implicit in all this is the idea that a central committee of Dr. Strangeloves should rule the world.

The moral climate by Peter Foster – National Post
Lord Andrew Turnbull, a former head of the British Civil Service, has become profoundly concerned about the corruption of climate science by moralism. “What is profoundly shocking is the way large parts of the scientific community have allowed themselves to be co-opted into this movement.”

The left’s climate moralism by Peter Foster – National Post
What Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit” of Marxist utopian rationalism came crashing with the fall of the Berlin Wall, but then made a comeback through the claim that carbon dioxide-spewing industrial capitalism was threatening life on Earth….the “Climategate 2” emails reveal that there was in fact a co-ordinated effort by the BBC and the University of East Anglia to marginalize skeptics

When You Really Need a Fact Checker by Susan E. Wills
Think overpopulation, poverty, climate change, and abortion can all be solved by more birth control? Think again.

Vancouver’s mystery Mayor – Financial Post
If nothing else, Canadians have seen the Mayor as a card-carrying leftist, a sympathizer with unfocused youths, radical activists and a potential mobilizer around a list of fashionable green and social causes. At the heart of this network is the cross-border Tides charitable operation, which has dispersed millions

Enlightened Activist Scientists Dim Society By Anthony J. Sadar
Ultimately, activism in the name of science takes its expensive toll on society.  Trillions of our dollars may soon be given away to the United Nations and others because of those who believe that, when it comes to the mysteries of nature, they are brilliant.

CERN Scientists Gagged On ‘Politically Incorrect’ Global Warming Data – Prison planet
Despite the sun’s obvious and significant impact on climate change, the IPCC refuses to include cosmic ray penetration as a factor in temperature change.
…the establishment is keen to use the threat of overpopulation, which amounts to little more than unscientific quackery

Federal Wildlife Biologist Investigated for Scientific Misconduct in Global Warming Debate By BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press

Vatican bishop calls for sustainable energy, Tobin Tax at Caritas meeting
He also urged the use of more sustainable energy sources rather than coal, oil or nuclear power.