Thursday 15 April 2010

Climategate

The report on the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia has been released and an insight comment on it is below. The inquiry was government sponsored and if like me you are suspicions, you will not be surprised about this report. Lord Oxburgh is very much an interested party in the whole politics and finance of this climate scam so I would suggest the report is treated with considerable scepticism. Notice the estimated world cost of $45trillion.

Disgraced MP Stephen Byers is the international president of Globe, a
powerful climate-change lobbymg body. Its directors include Lord
Oxburgh, head of an 'independent' inquiry into the controversial
Climatic Research Unit

Can we trust the 'Climategate' inquiry?

There has been a curious byproduct of the attempts being made by the
University of East Anglia to whitewash last November's embarrassing
leak of documents from its Climatic Research Unit. Since it set up not
one but two supposedly "independent" inquiries into the "Climategate"
affair, climate sceptics were intrigued but not entirely surprised to
find that almost all their members were committed, even fanatical
advocates of global warming, and hence unlikely to be over-critical of
the CRU's bizarre record.

Most recently, the sceptics have been particularly intrigued by the
background of the man chosen by the university to chair an assessment
of the CRU's scientific record. Lord Oxburgh declared on his
appointment that he is linked to major wind-farm and renewable-energy
companies. He admitted that he advises Climate Change Capital, which
manages funds worth $1.5 billion, hoping to cash in on the
"opportunities created by the transition to a low-carbon economy", in
a world market potentially worth - its website boasts - $45trilllion.

What Lord Oxburgh kept quiet about, however, is that he is also a
director and vice-chairman of a strange little private company few of
us had heard of known as Globe International. The name stands for
"Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment", and it
describes itself as a worldwide network to lobby governments to take
more drastic action on climate change. Globe is certainly
well-connected, as it showed just before last December's Copenhagen
conference by staging a seminar addressed by, among others, the
conference's chairman Yvo de Boer, as well as Nancy Pelosi and Ed
Markey, the leaders of the campaign to push a cap-and trade-scheme -
which could make a lot of people fabulously rich - through the US
Congress.

The international president of this lobbying organisation turns out to
be none other than Stephen Byers MP, now best known for his
description of himself on last week's Dispatches as "like a cab for
hire", happy to take £5,000 a day for using his influence as a
lobbyist.

Globe clearly knows how to pick its men. Its UK parliamentary team
also includes Elliot Morley MP, Globe's former president, and David
Chaytor MP, both of whom now face criminal charges for fraud in
connection with their expenses claims. Considering the record of some
of his colleagues, it is perhaps not surprising that Lord Oxburgh was
not too keen to declare his interest in this odd little outfit when he
was appointed to chair an inquiry as to whether the world can rely on
the evidence produced by the CRU to support its advocacy for global
warming. But I am sure we can all have every confidence as to which
way his inquiry's conclusions are likely to point.

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