Climate news from Lubos

Some critics of Al Gore's award:

• Claude Allegre, a Frenchman who is both an esteemed scientist and a new socialist (and a new skeptic), calls the Friday Nobel announcement "a political gimmick"
• Klaus, Lomborg, Gray
• Richard Lindzen: the award shows that the issue is now about fashions and politics and not science
• Manchester Union Leader: the award is a fraud on the people
• William Gray: the theory behind the prize is ridiculous and in 10-15 years, everyone will know it
• Tehran Times: the award is an attack of old Europe against the Bush team
• Anthony Watts: there are emerging calls initiated in New Zealand to rescind Gore's Oscar etc. because of the inaccuracies in the movie
• Republican American: Gore is as much a liar as he was before
• Business and Media Institute: Gore won thanks to the hysteria in the media

Let us abolish the IPCC:

• Vincent Gray, a fresh co-winner of the Nobel peace prize, proposes to abolish the IPCC because the whole process is a swindle
• David Henderson: scientists are not in charge of the IPCC (Wall Street Journal)

Maestro has grave doubts about carbon trading:

• Alan Greenspan thinks that the cap-and-trade carbon market either destroys the economy or won't work

About Osama's motivation:

• Timothy Ball recommends to be skeptical about Kyoto because Osama bin Laden has correctly figured out that it could seriously hurt the West

Amazon shaman fights green colonialism:

• Davi Kopenawa, a shaman, visits Britain and blames the anti-greenhouse religion for sickness, depression, suicide, obesity and drug addiction of the indigenous people

Snow:

• Colorado gets a foot of snow

Eco-hypocrisy admitted:

• Robert Redford and his lovely Porsche
• Clooney and private jets

Gore is jealous:

• Britney, OJ, Paris get more media attention than global warming (count news.google.com hits), a fact that drives the prophet up the wall