A new, first-of-its-kind comprehensive scientific analysis has shown that there is little to fear from rising sea levels driven by global warming. The likelihood is that the 21st century will see rises much like those of the 20th, and even in the worst possible case sea levels in 2100 will be far below those foreseen by alarmists. --Lewis Page,
The Register, 3 October 2012
It was supposed to be a clever way of neutralising greenhouse gas pollution in rich countries and boosting green investment in poorer nations. But seven years after the first credit was issued in the world’s only global carbon market – the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism – prices have plunged to record lows and a panel set up by the UN itself to assess the CDM says it has “essentially collapsed”. --Pilita Clark,
Financial Times[Registration Required], 2 October 2012
For the last 5 years, Deutsche Bank has published an annual climate report, discussing investment opportunities in the field of climate change. The latest report, titled “Investing in Climate Change 2012″ was published in May 2012. If you want, you can inform yourself on 104 pages about how you can make money with climate change. But now the end has come for the seven-member team of the climate change analyst department in New York. On 30 September, Deutsche Bank shut down their climate department. Is Deutsche Bank chairman Anshu Jain having doubts in light of the global warming standstill now in its 14th year? --
Die Kalte Sonne, 3 October 2012
Global warming was frozen out of the first debate between President Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney Wednesday night. Green groups, including the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club, had delivered what activists said was more than 160,000 signatures on a petition urging moderator Jim Lehrer to ask about the topic during the match-up in Denver. But he didn’t. And while Obama and Romney traded punches on energy policy, neither mentioned climate change or carbon emissions. --
The Hill, 4 October
The muesli cake milieu of green high earners is courted by all German parties – but many ordinary people no longer feel represented. The Social Democrats (SPD) in particular often try to be greener than the greens. But the comrades can only win elections if they get rid of their green obsession. Manfred Güllner, head of the polling institute Forsa and long-time adviser to ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, believes it is a political error to pay tribute to the supposedly green Zeitgeist: “The greener the entire political class becomes and the more unilaterally the vested interests of the green movement are implemented, the more the great majority of non-green, ordinary people feel neglected.” Güllner’s advice to the SPD is to fight the greens, rather than to chase them. --Alexander Neubacher,
Spiegel Online, 30 September 2012
