Climategate: The Parliamentary Cover-Up Exposed

See also:

– Climategate: Two More Bricks Fall Out Of The IPCC Wall Of Deceit – Rainforests And Polar Bears

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Climategate exposed the greatest scandal in the history of modern science but you’re never going to hear this from any of the official investigations. Andrew Orlowski at The Register has uncovered why.

Turns out, that there’s this well-funded SPECTRE-like advocacy group called GLOBE (Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment) International which has co-opted leading parliamentarians from the main parties in both the Commons and the Lords into advancing the AGW agenda.

One of those is Lord Oxburgh, recently appointed – on the Royal Society’s recommendation – to lead one of the two official enquiries into Climategate. Mysteriously, Lord Oxburgh has failed to mention GLOBE in his register of interests.

Orlowski reports:

GLOBE may be too obscure to merit its own Wikipedia entry, but that belies its wealth and influence. It funds meetings for parliamentarians worldwide with an interest in climate change, and prior to the Copenhagen Summit GLOBE issued guidelines (pdf) for legislators. Little expense is spared: in one year alone, one peer – Lord Michael Jay of Ewelme – enjoyed seven club class flights and hotel accommodation, at GLOBE’s expense. There’s no greater love a Parliamentarian can give to the global warming cause. And in return, Globe lists Oxburgh as one of 23 key legislators.

One insider has described Oxburgh’s appointment to lead this supposedly neutral investigation into Climategate as “like putting Dracula in charge of a blood bank.” Here are just a few more of this scrupulously unbiased fellow’s interests, revealed by Orlowski:

In the House of Lords Register of Lords’ Interests, Oxburgh lists under remunerated directorships his chairmanship of Falck Renewables, and chairmanship of Blue NG, a renewable power company. (Oxburgh holds no shares in Falck Renewables, and serves as a non-exec chairman.) He also declares that he is an advisor to Climate Change Capital, to the Low Carbon Initiative, Evo-Electric, Fujitsu, and an environmental advisor to Deutsche Bank. For a year he was non-exec chairman of Shell.

GLOBE seems especially drawn to the kind of MP who likes sailing close to the wind. Its president is none other than Stephen Byers, recently exposed in the “cash for influence” scandal as offering his services as a lobbyist like a “cab for hire” for a small consideration of just £5,000 a day. And its leading lights have also included Elliott Morley, one of the MPs more heavily implicated in the Telegraph’s parliamentary expenses scandal.

As Bishop Hill notes its UK parliamentary group officers also include the redoubtable and incorruptible Labour MP Eric Joyce – “the first MP to claim more than £1m in expenses and on more than one occasion the most expensive MP in the house. He once famously claimed for three oil paintings on expenses “because they looked nice”.”

But then, to judge from the research done by Cumbrian Lad at Bishop Hill, GLOBE is very much the kind of body that likes to do things on the sly. Its Memorandum of Incorporation includes this revealing snippet about its purposes:

“To provide a forum for ideas and proposals to be floated in confidence and without the attention of an international spotlight“

Bishop Hill reports:

GLOBE’s corporate structure and funding are not clear from its website, but Cumbrian Lad has discovered that it is a private limited company. Interesting that  – an organisation of legislators,  run as a private company. He has also obtained copies of its accounts and other information from Companies House.

GLOBE was incorporated in 2006, the founding directors all being British legislators – Malcolm Bruce MP (LibDem), Joan Ruddock MP (Lab) and Nick Hurd (Con), with the last directorship being held by Lord Hunt. Since that time, Joan Ruddock has stood down and Lord Oxburgh and Eliot Morley MP (Lab) have been appointed to the board.

The current accounts are all abbreviated, which means there is very little detail about the income and expenditure of the company, but for some reason 2007 was filed in full, revealing an income of £820k, almost double that of the previous year, and all of which was spent on administrative expenses.

And where does this money come from? Its 2008 accounts note:

The Directors acknowledge the support of International Organisations, Governments, Parliamentary Bodies and Industry, both financially and politically, with paticular acknowledgement to United Nations, The Global Environment Facility, The World Bank, European Commission, the Governments of Canada and Great Britain, the Senate of Brazil and Globe Japan.

Bishop Hill smells a rat:

My reading of all this would be that GLOBE is a vehicle to enable legislators to avoid the scrutiny of their electorates – the date of incorporation is probably instructive, coming just after the introduction of the Freedom of Information Act.

It’s no wonder Lord Oxburgh didn’t want to mention it on his CV.

Here is the link listing the names of all the MPs in its parliamentary group. The ones I find particularly interesting are the Tories on the list. They are:

Gregory Barker
Kenneth Clarke
Lord Fowler
Charles Hendry
Nick Hurd
Graham Stuart
Tim Yeo

If any of these represent your constituency, I urge you not to vote for them. A Conservative who indulges in this kind of slippery green activism is no conservative at all.

By James Delingpole
Last updated: March 25th, 2010

Source: The Telegraph

Global warming is a scam:

– Leading Scientist Warns of Ice Age: ‘Most of Europe Will Be Under Ice’

– Met Office blocked role of leading scientist in ‘hockey stick’ climate change row

– Godfrey Bloom Exposes the Global Warming Scam (European Parliament, Strasbourg, 20.01.2010)

– Lord Christopher Monckton reports on Pachauri’s eye opening Copenhagen presentation

– Top Scientist: Rise of Sea Levels is ‘The Greatest Lie Ever Told’

– Prof. Ian Clark: ‘Rises in C02 lag 800 years behind temperature rises!’ – You will pay taxes for nothing!

– Climate crunch: David Bellamy on global warming fraud

– Study: CO2 levels remained constant since 1850! (University of Bristol)

– What happened to global warming? The warmest year recorded globally was 1998 (BBC News)

– Global Warming Expert Prof. Latif: Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.” (The Calgary Herald)

– Solar Physicist Predicts Ice Age: “SOLAR CYCLE 24 HAS NOW GONE CLEARLY BELOW DALTON LEVEL.” (The Examiner)

– The Great Global Warming Swindle (Documentary)

– Ron Paul: Global Warming Petition Signed by 31,478 Scientists (Lew Rockwell)

– NASA Study: Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Gobal Warming (DailyTech)

– Global warming alarmists out in cold (Herald Sun)

– Nobody listens to the real climate change experts (Telegraph)

– Climate ‘denial’ is now a mental disorder (Telegraph)

– Japan’s boffins: Global warming isn’t man-made (The Register)

– Al Gore sued by over 30.000 Scientists for fraud (Video)

– World is getting colder: It’s the sun, not CO2, that’s to blame (Washington Times)

– Global warning: We are actually heading towards a new Ice Age, claim scientists (Daily Mail)

– Scientists find greenhouse gas hysteria to be myth (World Net Daily)

– 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved (Telegraph)

– Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change (Wired)

– World might be heading towards Ice Age (Economic Times)

– Flashback: David Ballamy: ‘BBC shunned Me For Denying Man-Made Global Warming’ (Daily Express)

Climategate:

– Climategate: Michael Mann’s Very Unhappy ‘Whistleblower’ New Year (Telegraph)

– Climategate: Al Gore spews the usual utter nonsense but this time no one believes him (Telegraph)

– Climategate: Which part of ‘over’ don’t these people understand? – A quick idiot’s guide to why Climategate does matter (Telegraph)

– Climategate and the Tiger Woods Index; Al Gore cancels Copenhagen speaking event (Telegraph)

– Lord Christopher Monckton – Climategate: Caught Greenhanded! Cold Facts About The Hot Topic of Global Temperature Change After The Climategate Scandal

– Climategate: It’s all unravelling now! (Telegraph)

– Climategate: Follow the Money (The Wall Street Journal)

– Climategate scandal claims its first big political scalp (Telegraph)

– Climategate: Googlegate?! (Telegraph)

– Lord Cristopher Monckton on Climategate: Shut Down The UN, Arrest Al Gore

– Climategate: This is the worst scientific scandal of our generation (Telegraph)

– Climategate: The great climate change science scandal (The Times)

– Climategate Scandal: The Whitewash Begins (Telegraph)

– Climategate: Hacked emails include calls for ‘Earth Government’ as foundation of new world order, splitting of America

– Lord Christopher Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’

– Climategate: George Monbiot – aka the Great Moonbat – makes it all suddenly OK through medium of satire (Telegraph)

– Climategate: Scientists Would Rather Change Facts Than Their Theories (RT)

– Climategate on Lateline: Private climate documents hacked, published

– Climategate Bombshell: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails

– Climategate: The Day Science Died (TBR)

– Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science (Telegraph)

– Climategate: CRU director admits the emails flying all over the internet appear to be genuine (Herald Sun)

– Climategate: The Final Nail in The Coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?! (Telegraph)

Follow the money and the New World Order:

– EU President Herman Van Rompuy Announces 2009 as ‘First Year of Global Governance’

– Congressman Ron Paul on the Copenhagen Treaty and the Cyber Security Act: ‘They are doing everything in the world to control the internet.’

– Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire

– Lord Christopher Monckton: Is President Obama Poised to Surrender the Constitution and US Sovereignty to World Government? (!!!)

– EU Proposes €50bn Climate Change Deal Ahead of December’s Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

So global warming is really about the elite finding more ways to take away your freedom and your money!

Education:

– Build-A-Bear: The Sinister Green Plot to Turn Our Kids Into Eco-Fascist Manchurian Candidates

– Insane British Government Global Warming Ad: Panic, Little Ones, It’s The Carbon Monster

In the news:

– Beijing and Seoul Hit by Heaviest Snow in More Than Half Century

– Britain is facing one of the coldest winters in 100 years, experts predict

– NCDC: 250 Snowfall Records So Far In 2009; This December Shapes Up to be the Coldest on Record

– US Blizzard: Christmas Misery for Millions; Oklahoma State of Emergency (Video)

– Blizzard Blasts Eastern US: Hundreds of Thousands of Homes Without Power

– Snowing on Copenhagen’s Global Warmist Parade

– US East Coast faces severe winter storm

– US ‘Monster’ Winter Storm Resembles Wintery Hurricane With Blizzard Conditions

– US: Cheyenne records snowiest October on record

– Autumn record-setting snowstorm wallops Rockies, Plains

– US: Freak Summer Storm Dumps Snow in Yonkers

Nature knows exactly how to deal with CO2:

– Carbon Dioxide Air Fertilization Improves Plant Growth and Quality, Cuts Operating Costs While Increasing Production

If you really want to change the climate on this planet then:

– Environment: Solar plant yields water and crops from the desert

– Greening the Desert