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Climate Council raises $1m through itObama-style fundraising drive | Environment | theguardian.com

The climate change expert Professor Tim Flannery's "Obama-style" campaign to raise cash for a new Climate Council has generated $1m.
Flannery was sacked as head of the federal government's Climate Commission when the prime minister, Tony Abbott, announced he was abolishing the body to save money.
It was set up two years ago by the former Labor government to increase public awareness of climate change science.
The commission once had $1.6m in annual taxpayer funding at its disposal but the new council is relying entirely on donations generated through an "Obama-style" online fundraising drive.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Oct 5th, 2013 at 05:51:33 AM EST
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Global warming sceptics using media campaign to discredit IPCC | Bob Ward | Environment | theguardian.com

Lord Lawson's campaign group for climate change sceptics, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, has been executing a carefully co-ordinated campaign with its media and political allies to discredit and misrepresent the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
...As leaked internal documents revealed last year, Heartland has been paying retired scientists to produce a campaign document for sceptics under the title of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change.
Two of its authors, Fred Singer and Robert Carter, were invited to London for the Civitas press conference and to exploit the practice by some editors to create a "false balance" by putting up a sceptic to counter the view of climate researchers.
The BBC jumped at the chance and Carter and Singer were soon touring the studios at Broadcasting House giving back-to-back interviews. Radio 4's The World At One even gave Carter more airtime than the IPCC.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Oct 5th, 2013 at 05:51:44 AM EST
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The BBC: Fair and Balanced coverage of climate change.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Oct 5th, 2013 at 09:11:51 AM EST
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Nongovernmental International Panel

Surely that should read "Nongovernmental Multinational Panel"?

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Sun Oct 6th, 2013 at 03:21:22 PM EST
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