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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. "
Scared silly over climate change | Björn Lomborg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
We are frightening children with exaggerations – they believe they don't have a future and that the world is going to end
The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice - Telegraph
A London employment tribunal has ruled that Tim Nicholson, right, was wrongly dismissed as a property firm’s “head of sustainability” because of his fervent commitment to “climate change”. Mr Nicholson had fallen out with his colleagues over his attempts to reduce the company’s “carbon footprint”. The tribunal chairman David Neath found the company guilty of discriminating against Mr Nicholson under the 2006 Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations, because his faith in global warming was a “philosophical belief”. Recalling how “eco-psychologists’’ at the University of the West of England are pressing for “climate denial” to be classified as a form of “mental disorder”, one doubts whether the same legal protection would be given to those who fail to share Mr Nicholson’s “philosophical belief”.
Is belief in climate change all in the mind or a fact of life? - Telegraph
Anyone who takes the view that environmentalism is a quasi-religion for people without the stamina to be Christians – all that talk about Gaia, the apocalyptic warnings, the ever-so-slight smugness – can feel vindicated by the case of Tom Nicholson. He is the former environmental policy officer who is claiming – under the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations 2003 – that he was dismissed from his job because of his "philosophical belief in climate change". Potentially, he's the first martyr for the Greens.
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly encapsulated by two recent items from The Daily Telegraph.
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