Global Warming Fraud

[Dennis Ruhl]

The good thing is we can go to Wiki and find the Truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Re...g_incident

WTF - BS excuses

Then I find this item:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs...octor.aspx

All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The fascist asses are rewriting history at all levels. This truly is Joseph Goebbel's stuff. The global warming lie was spread through 5,428 articles and the history of the medieval warm period was totally eliminated. While it would be hard to explain why 1,000 year old Greenland houses are appearing under receding glaciers, removing all references to them and the medieval warm period makes such explanation unnecessary.

Wiki truly is a useless piece of crap.

The other frightening thing is Google. When hits for "climategate" got to 55 million they started declining reaching a low of about 10.3 million yesterday. Today it was up to 95.1 million. I hope the person limiting the hits was fired. I suspect Google became aware that their credibility was at stake.

[DR ANATIDAE]

THIS HAS TO BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST CON-TRICK!

Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri

The head of the UN's climate change panel -- Dr Rajendra Pachauri -- is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write.

The Telegraph, UK
Sunday, December 20, 2009

No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007.

Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all.

What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.

These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’ and ‘sustainable technologies’, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.

Today, in addition to his role as chairman of the IPCC, Dr Pachauri occupies more than a score of such posts, acting as director or adviser to many of the bodies which play a leading role in what has become known as the international ‘climate industry’.

It is remarkable how only very recently has the staggering scale of Dr Pachauri’s links to so many of these concerns come to light, inevitably raising questions as to how the world’s leading ‘climate official’ can also be personally involved in so many organisations which stand to benefit from the IPCC’s recommendations.

The issue of Dr Pachauri’s potential conflict of interest was first publicly raised last Tuesday when, after giving a lecture at Copenhagen University, he was handed a letter by two eminent ‘climate sceptics’. One was the Stephen Fielding, the Australian Senator who sparked the revolt which recently led to the defeat of his government’s ‘cap and trade scheme’. The other, from Britain, was Lord Monckton, a longtime critic of the IPCC’s science, who has recently played a key part in stiffening opposition to a cap and trade bill in the US Senate.

Their open letter first challenged the scientific honesty of a graph prominently used in the IPCC’s 2007 report, and shown again by Pachauri in his lecture, demanding that he should withdraw it. But they went on to question why the report had not declared Pachauri’s personal interest in so many organisations which seemingly stood to profit from its findings.

The letter, which included information first disclosed in last week’s Sunday Telegraph, was circulated to all the 192 national conference delegations, calling on them to dismiss Dr Pachauri as IPCC chairman because of recent revelations of his conflicting interests.

The original power base from which Dr Pachauri has built up his worldwide network of influence over the past decade is the Delhi-based Tata Energy Research Institute, of which he became director in 1981 and director-general in 2001. Now renamed The Energy Research Institute, TERI was set up in 1974 by India’s largest privately-owned business empire, the Tata Group, with interests ranging from steel, cars and energy to chemicals, telecommunications and insurance (and now best-known in the UK as the owner of Jaguar, Land Rover, Tetley Tea and Corus, Britain’s largest steel company).

Although TERI has extended its sponsorship since the name change, the two concerns are still closely linked.

In India, Tata exercises enormous political power, shown not least in the way it has managed to displace hundreds of thousands of poor tribal villagers in the eastern states of Orissa and Jarkhand to make way for large-scale iron mining and steelmaking projects.

Initially, when Dr Pachauri took over the running of TERI in the 1980s, his interests centred on the oil and coal industries, which may now seem odd for a man who has since become best known for his opposition to fossil fuels. He was, for instance, a director until 2003 of India Oil, the country’s largest commercial enterprise, and until this year remained as a director of the National Thermal Power Generating Corporation, its largest electricity producer.

In 2005, he set up GloriOil, a Texas firm specialising in technology which allows the last remaining reserves to be extracted from oilfields otherwise at the end of their useful life.

However, since Pachauri became a vice-chairman of the IPCC in 1997, TERI has vastly expanded its interest in every kind of renewable or sustainable technology, in many of which the various divisions of the Tata Group have also become heavily involved, such as its project to invest $1.5 billion (£930 million) in vast wind farms.

Dr Pachauri’s TERI empire has also extended worldwide, with branches in the US, the EU and several countries in Asia. TERI Europe, based in London, of which he is a trustee (along with Sir John Houghton, one of the key players in the early days of the IPCC and formerly head of the UK Met Office) is currently running a project on bio-energy, financed by the EU.

Another project, co-financed by our own Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the German insurance firm Munich Re, is studying how India’s insurance industry, including Tata, can benefit from exploiting the supposed risks of exposure to climate change. Quite why Defra and UK taxpayers should fund a project to increase the profits of Indian insurance firms is not explained.

Even odder is the role of TERI’s Washington-based North American offshoot, a non-profit organisation, of which Dr Pachauri is president. Conveniently sited on Pennsylvania Avenue, midway between the White House and the Capitol, this body unashamedly sets out its stall as a lobbying organisation, to “sensitise decision-makers in North America to developing countries’ concerns about energy and the environment”.

TERI-NA is funded by a galaxy of official and corporate sponsors, including four branches of the UN bureaucracy; four US government agencies; oil giants such as Amoco; two of the leading US defence contractors; Monsanto, the world’s largest GM producer; the WWF (the environmentalist campaigning group which derives much of its own funding from the EU) and two world leaders in the international ‘carbon market’, between them managing more than $1 trillion (£620 billion) worth of assets.

All of this is doubtless useful to the interests of Tata back in India, which is heavily involved not just in bio-energy, renewables and insurance but also in ‘carbon trading’, the worldwide market in buying and selling the right to emit CO2. Much of this is administered at a profit by the UN under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) set up under the Kyoto Protocol, which the Copenhagen treaty was designed to replace with an even more lucrative successor.

Under the CDM, firms and consumers in the developed world pay for the right to exceed their ‘carbon limits’ by buying certificates from those firms in countries such as India and China which rack up ‘carbon credits’ for every renewable energy source they develop – or by showing that they have in some way reduced their own ‘carbon emissions’.

It is one of these deals, reported in last week’s Sunday Telegraph, which is enabling Tata to transfer three million tonnes of steel production from its Corus plant in Redcar to a new plant in Orissa, thus gaining a potential £1.2 billion in ‘carbon credits’ (and putting 1,700 people on Teesside out of work).

More than three-quarters of the world ‘carbon’ market benefits India and China in this way. India alone has 1,455 CDM projects in operation, worth $33 billion (£20 billion), many of them facilitated by Tata – and it is perhaps unsurprising that Dr Pachauri also serves on the advisory board of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the largest and most lucrative carbon-trading exchange in the world, which was also assisted by TERI in setting up India’s own carbon exchange.

But this is peanuts compared to the numerous other posts to which Dr Pachauri has been appointed in the years since the UN chose him to become the world’s top ‘climate-change official’.

In 2007, for instance, he was appointed to the advisory board of Siderian, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specialising in ‘sustainable technologies’, where he was expected to provide the Fund with ‘access, standing and industrial exposure at the highest level’,

In 2008 he was made an adviser on renewable and sustainable energy to the Credit Suisse bank and the Rockefeller Foundation. He joined the board of the Nordic Glitnir Bank, as it launched its Sustainable Future Fund, looking to raise funding of £4 billion. He became chairman of the Indochina Sustainable Infrastructure Fund, whose CEO was confident it could soon raise £100 billion.

In the same year he became a director of the International Risk Governance Council in Geneva, set up by EDF and E.On, two of Europe’s largest electricity firms, to promote ‘bio-energy’. This year Dr Pachauri joined the New York investment fund Pegasus as a ‘strategic adviser’, and was made chairman of the advisory board to the Asian Development Bank, strongly supportive of CDM trading, whose CEO warned that failure to agree a treaty at Copenhagen would lead to a collapse of the carbon market.

The list of posts now held by Dr Pachauri as a result of his new-found world status goes on and on. He has become head of Yale University’s Climate and Energy Institute, which enjoys millions of dollars of US state and corporate funding. He is on the climate change advisory board of Deutsche Bank. He is Director of the Japanese Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and was until recently an adviser to Toyota Motors. Recalling his origins as a railway engineer, he is even a policy adviser to SNCF, France’s state-owned railway company.

Meanwhile, back home in India, he serves on an array of influential government bodies, including the Economic Advisory Committee to the prime minister, holds various academic posts and has somehow found time in his busy life to publish 22 books.

Dr Pachauri never shrinks from giving the world frank advice on all matters relating to the menace of global warming. The latest edition of TERI News quotes him as telling the US Environmental Protection Agency that it must go ahead with regulating US carbon emissions without waiting for Congress to pass its cap and trade bill.

It reports how, in the days before Copenhagen, he called on the developing nations which had been historically responsible for the global warming crisis to make ‘concrete commitments’ to aiding developing countries such as India with funding and technology – while insisting that India could not agree to binding emissions targets. India, he said, must bargain for large-scale subsidies from the West for developing solar power, and Western funds must be made available for geo-engineering projects to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.

As a vegetarian Hindu, Dr Pachauri repeated his call for the world to eat less meat to cut down on methane emissions (as usual he made no mention of what was to be done about India’s 400 million sacred cows). He further called for a ban on serving ice in restaurants and for meters to be fitted to all hotel rooms, so that guests could be charged a carbon tax on their use of heating and air-conditioning.

One subject the talkative Dr Pachauri remains silent on, however, is how much money he is paid for all these important posts, which must run into millions of dollars. Not one of the bodies for which he works publishes his salary or fees, and this notably includes the UN, which refuses to reveal how much we all pay him as one of its most senior officials.

As for TERI itself, Dr Pachauri’s main job for nearly 30 years, it is so coy about money that it does not even publish its accounts – the financial statement amounts to two income and expenditure pie charts which contain no detailed figures.

Dr Pachauri is equally coy about TERI’s links with Tata, the company which set it up in the 1970s and whose name it continued to bear until 2002, when it was changed to just The Energy Research Institute. A spokesman at the time said ‘we have not severed our past relationship with the Tatas, the change is only for convenience’.

But the real question mark over TERI’s director-general remains over the relationship between his highly lucrative commercial jobs and his role as chairman of the IPCC.

TERI have, for example, become a preferred bidder for Kuwaiti contracts to clean up the mess left by Saddam Hussein in their oilfields in 1991. The $3 billion (£1.9 billion) cost of the contracts has been provided by the UN. If successful, this would be tenth time TERI have benefited from a contract financed by the UN.

Certainly no one values the services of TERI more than the EU, which has included Dr Pachauri’s institute as a partner in no fewer than 12 projects designed to assist in devising the EU’s policies on mitigating the effects of the global warming predicted by the IPCC.

But whether those 1,700 Corus workers on Teesside will next month be so happy to lose their jobs to India, thanks to the workings of that international ‘carbon market’ about which Dr Pachauri is so enthusiastic, is quite another matter.

[ham]

Oh?!
So this one is a Hindu who's vegetarian & wears a turban?
Nice change...
I guess he can still have quail eggs, champagne and beluga caviar?

[Albert Hidel]

THIS HAS TO BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST CON-TRICK!

Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri

Similar story from back in June, 2009, exposing Al Gore and his curry-consuming comrades:

Reuters Exposes Gore's Global Warming Profit Motive

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
June 3, 2009 - 14:13 ET  



For years, NewsBusters has asked the question: when will media report Nobel Laureate Al Gore's global warming profit motive?

On Monday, Reuters did.

In an article titled "Gore-backed Hara Sees Profit from Low-carbon Economy," author David Lawsky went where most climate change obsessed media members dare not (h/t Steven Milloy):

An environmental start-up backed by Al Gore's venture capital firm aims to take advantage of coming U.S. climate change legislation by helping companies like Coca Cola and even cities cut pollution.

Hara, a 25-employee company that debuted in 2008, provides online software to help companies reduce their carbon footprint -- a $2.5 billion market that will grow 10-fold if the proposed energy bill, which will require companies to get permits for emissions, becomes law, Chief Executive Amit Chatterjee said.

At the heart of the legislation is a "cap-and-trade" system that will gradually reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by industry, by requiring them to have permits to spew their emissions.

"Then companies will be forced to act, as opposed to seeing the business benefit of acting," he said in an interview, "The debate alone of 'cap and trade' is a driver for our product."

After the set-up, Lawsky fingered Gore:

Positioning itself for the new market, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins last year invested $6 million in Hara -- which counts the city of Palo Alto as a client -- with the endorsement of former U.S. Vice President Gore, who is a partner.

Yes, he is a partner, and as NewsBusters reported in November 2007, the fact that Gore claims to be contributing his salary from Kleiner Perkins to his non-profit Alliance for Climate Protection is irrelevant, for he not only gets these wages free and clear from taxes while being able to control them, he's also in position to REALLY benefit from the upside in equity values when any of the holdings of this firm go public.

That is, after all, how venture capitalists make money, for typically very little of their income is salary-based.

With this in mind, the British Register pointed out just how much Hara and Gore would benefit from currently proposed cap-and-trade legislation passing on Capitol Hill:

As the US House of Representatives mulls The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 - which would put restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions - Hara is poised to reap the benefits.

Readers should recall Gore testifying before the House Commerce & Energy Committee in April strongly in support of this legislation.

At the time, Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn marvelously questioned Gore about his connections to Kleiner Perkins, as well as his financial gain if cap-and-trade was enacted. Although Blackburn was from Gore's home state of Tennessee, media showed little interest in this fiesty exchange.

Of course, that's not at all surprising, for the New York Times on Sunday also reported how Kleiner Perkins and Hara are situated to benefit from such legislation:

If Congress passes legislation that puts a price on carbon emissions, companies will need to track and report the waste from their operations.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, is betting that such a cap-and-trade law or carbon tax will open the door for a new kind of software company.

Since 2007, it has been quietly incubating Hara, a start-up that on Monday will start selling software to help businesses measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

“This is not ‘greenwash.’ It’s dollars to the bottom line,” said John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, which invested $6 million in Hara.

Dollars to the bottom line indeed. Yet, nowhere in the Times piece was Gore's name mentioned as a partner of Kleiner Perkins.

I'm sure that was just an oversight on the part of the author.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.

[Albert Hidel]

The other frightening thing is Google.  When hits for "climategate" got to 55 million they started declining reaching a low of about 10.3 million yesterday.  Today it was up to 95.1 million.  I hope the person limiting the hits was fired.  I suspect Google became aware that their credibility was at stake.

One for you too, Dennis.  Another sickening AlGore connection:

The Gore-Google Connection

Mon, Apr 4, 2005 at 9:16:11 pm PDT

Loony Al Gore is teaming up with Google to launch another reactionary leftist media outlet aimed at America’s youth: Gore TV Network to Launch in August, Google Tie-In. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Monday unveiled his new television network, “Current,” which aims to attract younger viewers with short videos and a tie-in with the popular Google Inc. search engine.

The network plans to debut on Aug. 1 and be available to 19 million subscription television viewers, Gore said at a news conference at the cable industry’s annual convention. Gore led an investment group that last May bought the network from Vivendi Universal for an undisclosed sum.

The channel will show professionally produced segments as well as viewer-produced videos mostly short in length, running from a few seconds to up to 15 minutes.

“We are about empowering this generation of young people in their 20s, the 18-34 population, to engage in a dialogue of democracy and to tell their stories about what’s going in their lives in the dominant media of our time,” he said. ...

“We’re starting something new and we’re trying to bring about a change in the way the television medium is used,” said Gore. “We know it’s hard, but we’re excited about trying.”

In addition to the videos, the new network reached a pact with the search firm to include Google data on the most popular Web searches.

The deal came despite early skepticism from Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, the No. 1 Web search engine that earlier this year stepped into the realm of entertainment by releasing a test video search service that pulls up still shots from such content providers as Fox News, PBS and the NBA. When first approached, “I thought it would be an extraordinarily challenging endeavor,” Brin said. “Having seen some of the work they’ve now put together, I think it’s an extraordinary opportunity.”

Google did not disclose the terms of the deal. Brin said the company is providing specialized data from its Zeitgeist service, which tracks search patterns and trends.

[Albert Hidel]

Al Gore's Connection With Google

Sunday, October 18, 2009

I'm pretty sure many of you remember Al Gore. He's the one who made a lot of money off of talking about global warming and how we would all be doomed if we didn't make some effort to clean up the planet. Well, Al Gore has recently talked about his connection with Google with New Yorker. You can become a subscriber in order to read the entire article :O

Al Gore has taken a hand in becoming part of Google's search quality team. In other words, Gore will be putting in his two cents about what should be censored on the Internet. Google's weird attachment with politics doesn't seem to fit well with a lot of Internet readers and marketers, including myself.

I don't think it is a good thing for politics to stick their noses into Google's business because that mean it will start effecting all of us! How long will it take before the politicians will start "censoring" what we can and cannot publish about our own opinions and whether we agree with a certain law or not?

To add fuel to the unquenched fire, Google's CEO, Eric adds hiw two cents about Obama's administration. I have not read what the CEO of Google had to say, but either way, I'm a little uncomfortable with Google getting involved in politics. A blogger named, Jeremy from "Shoe Money" explains how Google's involvement with the Obama campaign has allowed them to turn a blind eye to some of their unethical deceptive advertising. You can read more here about that at Jeremy's blog here.

Why would Google want to have ties with the "white house"? Some have theorized that Google is trying to make good with the politicians in the big house so they can keep on with their unethical business ventures including their advertising methods. In other words, everyone should be prepared for a 'regulated internet'. This means less freedom of speech, and before you know it, they will be hitting us where it hurts, "our pockets".

A large sum of people earn their money working online. Well, I wouldn't say a large sum because many people still don't know how to get traffic online to their products to earn money, but for those that are computer literate and earn their living on the Internet, this can cause some issues. Before long, the Internet will start deciding who makes money and who doesn't.

P.S. Did you know that 98% of Google revenue is from Google's adsense accounts? Just an interesting fact.

[Armando Ramos]

[ham]

For years, NewsBusters has asked the question: when will media report Nobel Laureate Al Gore's global warming profit motive?

No, no, don't say that...it's not nice.
Remember that when they invade a country is to free oppressed peasants overseeing their stuff for a while and to keep peace...invasion and looting are words so impolite...
Hell, you can't tell little hulksters that Hulk Hogan wrestled the Iron Sheik because he had a financial interest in doing so...remember they have to believe he did so out of patriotic duty...

[Dennis Ruhl]

The other frightening thing is Google.  When hits for "climategate" got to 55 million they started declining reaching a low of about 10.3 million yesterday.  Today it was up to 95.1 million.  I hope the person limiting the hits was fired. 

So it was Gore. Just because he invented the internet doesn't mean he owns it.

Gore is/was on the faculty of 4 universities with a Harvard BA. He dropped out of divinity school and law school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore

In addition, he is on the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University as a visiting professor, and was a visiting professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles

An interesting thing about the Wiki article is scant mention of his military service. I remember a lot of stuff a couple elections ago.

[Little Arminius]

Hell, you can't tell little hulksters that Hulk Hogan wrestled the Iron Sheik because he had a financial interest in doing so...remember they have to believe he did so out of patriotic duty...

Say it ain't so ...