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Corruption of Bribery

Chapter 6 : Corruption in the “Carbon World”

7.2 PENETRATION OF ORGANISED CRIME ............................................................................... 28
7.3 RIDDLED WITH CONFLICTS OF INTEREST .......................................................................... 29
7.4 LOADING THE DICE .............................................................................................................. 30
7.4.1 POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS ............................................................................................ 30
7.4.2 RIGGING OF THE PEER REVIEW PROCESS ....................................................................... 31
7.4.3 SPINNING THE COMMENTARIAT ..................................................................................... 31
7.4.4 DODGY DOSSIERS ......................................................................................................... 31
7.4.5 EXTORTION TO COMPLY .............................................................................................. 31
7.5 DECISION PERVERSION ....................................................................................................... 32
7.6 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES .......................................................................................... 32
7.7 THE BOTTOM LINE ............................................................................................................... 33
8 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ................................................................................................................. 34
8.1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 34
8.2 PRINCIPAL PLAYERS IN “GLOBAL WARMING” RESEARCH .............................................. 34
8.2.1 WHO THEY ARE ................................................................................................................ 34
8.2.2 INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE ................................................. 35
8.2.3 UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE ................... 38
8.2.4 METEOROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE RESEARCHERS .................................................... 40
8.3 AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE AND CHANGES THERETO ......................................... 42
8.4 THE ATMOSPHERE AND GHG .............................................................................................. 46
8.5 CARBON MEASUREMENT ................................................................................................... 47
8.6 CALCULATIONS ON RADIATIVE FORCING AND FEEDBACK................................................ 51
8.7 TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ........................................................................................ 54
8.7.1 THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATE FIGURES ................................................................... 54
8.7.2 LAND AND OCEAN RECORDING ...................................................................................... 54
8.7.3 PROXY RECORDS ......................................................................................................... 56
8.7.4 SATELLITE TEMPERATURE RECORDING..................................................................... 57
8.8 COMPILATION AND HOMOGENISING ................................................................................ 58
8.9 CLIMATE MODELLING ......................................................................................................... 59
8.10 ALTERNATIVE THEORIES ..................................................................................................... 60
8.11 CONCLUSIONS ..................................................................................................................... 60
9 TARGETS AND METRICS .............................................................................................................. 60
9.1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 60
9.2 GHG INVENTORY REPORTING ............................................................................................. 61
9.3 NATIONAL ALLOCATION PLANS (NAP) AND ASSIGNED AMOUNT UNITS (KYOTO) ....... 62
9.4 CALCULATIONS ABATEMENT EFFICIENCY ......................................................................... 63
10 NATIONAL REGISTRIES & INTERNATIONAL LOGS ..................................................................... 63
11 MORE ON THE EUROPEAN TRADING SYSTEM .......................................................................... 65
12 OFFSET PROJECTS ....................................................................................................................... 66
12.1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 66
12.2 PROJECT FLOW .................................................................................................................... 66

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