To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (1280 ) 9/7/2011 8:02:13 PM From: Brumar89 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to Soon & Baliunas were working for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. There's nothing but innuendo to allege they faked their research to please the API or anyone else. Enron, joined by BP, invented the global warming industry. I know because I was in the room. This was during my storied three-week or so stint as Director of Federal Government Relations for Enron in the spring of 1997, back when Enron was everyone’s darling in Washington. .... The basic truth is that Enron, joined by other “rent-seeking” industries — making one’s fortune from policy favors from buddies in government, the cultivation of whom was a key business strategy — cobbled their business plan around “global warming.” Enron bought, on the cheap of course, the world’s largest windmill company (now GE Wind) and the world’s second-largest solar panel interest (now BP) to join Enron’s natural gas pipeline network , which was the second largest in the world. The former two can only make money under a system of massive mandates and subsidies (and taxes to pay for them); the latter would prosper spectacularly if the war on coal succeeded. Enron then engaged green groups to scare people toward accepting those policies. That is what is known as a Baptist and bootlegger coalition. I sat in on such meetings. dailycaller.com How Enron turned global warming into a Cash Cow! .... gather.com The Climatic Research Unit at the heart of the ClimateGate scandal sought funds from Shell Oil in the year 2000. Other e-mail messages obtained from the University of East Anglia's computers also showed officials at the school's CRU solicited support from ExxonMobil and BP Amoco, although the nature of this support was not identified. As climate alarmists and their media minions love to claim that global warming skeptics are all paid shills of Big Oil, it makes one wonder how the press will report these startling revelations discovered by Anthony Watts Friday:Earlier that same year, the recipient of this e-mail message, Mike Hulme, sent a message of his own concerning getting "support" from a number of entities (emphasis added): From: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> BP Fuel Options (possibly on the Assessment Panel. She is also on the ESRC Research Priorities Board), but someone Tim can easily talk with. There are others in BP Tim knows too. Shell International ..... Read more: newsbusters.org BP and Princeton Renew Partnership To Tackle Climate Problem Release date: 15 October 2008 BP has committed to a five-year renewal of a joint research partnership with Princeton University that identifies ways of tackling the world's climate problem. It will support Princeton to at least its current level of funding for the years 2011 to 2015. bp.com
