re: #2 Varek Raith

Busted.

Over 11 million of British taxpayers’ cash has been paid or pledged to Dr Rajendra Pachauri’s institute, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), while he has been chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This comprises over 1 million in direct payments over the last five years and 10 million to come from DFID over the next five.

Yes… busted.

re: #1 windsagio

No! Shut up! Its not a political job, its a real serious investigation!

(The BBC’s Pension Fund has 11 billion inversted in… ) The IIGCC - The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) is a forum for collaboration on climate change for European investors. The group’s objective is to catalyse greater investment in a low carbon economy by bringing investors together to use their collective influence with companies, policymakers and investors. The group currently has over 50 members, including some of the largest pension funds and asset managers in Europe, and represents assets of around €4trillion. A full list of members is available on the membership page.

BBC Pension Accounting White Paper 2008

I concede your point, it’s all about politics.

re: #13 jamesfirecat

Yeah it’s funny how people only hand out research grants to people who end up showing off their ability to do something useful with the money like predict what the weather will be like in years to come…

And of course, NOAA’s direct funding of CRU doesn’t effect anything either.